For me it would be wheelies. No matter how hard I try I just can’t the balance point right.
This is a tough one, torn between barely getting out of breath going up hill like those XC guys do, being able to do massive gap jumps or being a manual master.
jumping! like large jumps, gaps, being able to whip
Balls.
manuals or backflips. I can get the front end up easily enough, but i can't hold it more than 4 or 5 seconds. Flips would just be awesome
Being able to bunnyhop over a gate or fence would be my skill of choice.
corners
High speed manuals down hills
manual, so I can cross ditches with ease like my mate does.
He pulls the front wheel up, drops into the ditch on his back wheel, gently puts the front down on the other side of the ditch and then pedals out. It's like magic!
Jumps, but consistently.
Went to FoD last week and on a few runs of the jump skills line went like this:
Nope
Nope
Nope
Ohh there's my mate taking photos, nailed the jump perfeclty.
Nope
Same with the blue DH lines and their fairly large rollers/doubles, every so often I'll double one up and it's all fine, then the fear immediately returns.
Sometimes I think I should just throw myself down a similar line with actual gaps and just get over it.
No-handed. Can't do them, wheelies, manuals or jump. Bloody roadie at heart.
Manuals because they're super handy all the time and endos for awkward mountain switchbacks. Oh, and the ability to ride alpine switchbacks well, like Steveo from White Room.
Big gap jumps. I really want to do something like the old Vision Line at Revs or Full Moto at Dirt Farm. Just once before I'm too old would be nice, a full speed, balls out, full commitment jump line. I imagine the adrenaline rush is amazing!
And be betterer at steep stuff.
And manuals. Manuals just look cool.
Endo turn.
Transitioning from sofa to couch without so much faff that I immediately go off the idea.
Wheelies for me, after 40 years of riding (a good 30 of those on a bmx) and i still cant wheelie very far, really struggle with the balance point, yet a manual roll or peg manual on a ramp is no problem
Riding no handed im very good at! my record is 10 miles including bumping up and down kerbs on a bmx, even off road i can ride no handed through bumps, pot holes and even climbing and descending trails to a certain degree
Im in awe of this guy though!
Jumps. I really want to improve my wheelies and cornering, and it bothers me that I can’t manual at all, but my mid-life crisis fantasy is a perfect a jump line run. As a 51 year old and parent I’m almost certainly too fragile to make this fantasy come true 😆
A double cash roll, which would then be followed by fame and fortune 😁
Stupidly fast corners. Or tailwhips. But I think cornering would be more useful
Leaving the house to go riding.
Big jumps, tabletops etc. Have gravitated more towards the XC side of things in recent years but would love to start upping my airtime game.
Also, never been able to do a wheelie.
Bunny hops.
Stupidly fast corners. Or tailwhips. But I think cornering would be more useful
Being amazing at cornering would absolutely be the most-useful skill.
But I feel my most prominent weakness is steep switchbacks, especially if rocky. Partly due to a rubbish sense of balance. So maybe I'd like to have great balance for stuff like that.
Jumps/drops (and landing them), I’m happy that I’m good enough at the rest and it’s only airtime that’s holding me back.
Jump to manual landing or those stoppie landings Bernard kerr does, literally impossible for me. It's totally baffling how they do it.
A bit more courage wouldn't go amiss when jumping comes into the mix when there's anything more than a small gap. That's not really a skill, it's more self preservation.
For actual bike skill I'd like to be able to back wheel hop so I could channel my inner Macaskill and get over insurmountable obstacles, just for fun.
For the ego probably pulling endless wheelies.
For practicality it would be cornering like a pro - the way they change direction defies physics .
Jump to manual landing or those stoppie landings Bernard kerr does, literally impossible for me. It’s totally baffling how they do it.
You may be a great rider already - but for me as a mediocre one bimbling around most of the time - but being able to do lanuals and stoppie landings from my little jumps would be hilarious
Manual
Unicycle. As good as this guy...
Those Mathieu van der Poel wheelspins on the cx bike would be a nice skill/talent to have.
A proper American bunny hop.
Being good on skinny boardwalks would probably be the most useful skill I could learn, I am better than I once was but they're still my nemesis.
I can jump. Well, I can if I practice enough, or go somewhere where I can do it. But I really wonder where my gumption to do techy stuff has gone. I can ride it, but more often that not I'll do a 'safety dab' or stop and have a 'check-look' at stuff that I can do, have done in the past, and really shouldn't be bothered about now. It winds me up.
Oh and get around Alpine corners, Not necessarily endo turns, but just get around a tight 180 without wobbling around it, or dabbing...
Manual for me. I can do them a bit to get over little things but would love to be able to hold one for a while.
and mentaly being able to do gaps. I could clear a table top 100 times but if you took the middle out i'd fall apart....
and mentaly being able to do gaps. I could clear a table top 100 times but if you took the middle out i’d fall apart….
Yep. That's me. The only gaps I've done are the ones where you don't realise it's a gap until you're committed...
Wheelie, which I assume would lead to manuals fairly quickly.
Jumps/gaps. Shit myself when there’s a hole after any kind of take off. The bigger the gap, the bigger the shit.
Manuals, never not cool!
Wheelies. Jumps, drops, techy stuff etc I'm more than happy with my abilities but I'd love to be able to learn to wheelie/manual.
Carrying speed better through jank. Largely a confidence issue and the jankier the trail, the more I ride with just enough speed not to come to a dead stop. But mastering that so I could float over stuff faster would be nice!
I have a 130/140 trail bike which is generally fine and not what is holding me back at all...but I did have a go of my mate's big 170 enduro bike once at inners and the difference was pretty stark I won't lie. But I was still relatively slow.
All these people who desperately want to wheelie. You could crack it in a couple of hours if you went somewhere and focussed on just that. Especially with someone who knows how to do it.
Should we organise a wheelie camp?
I bet I could get a few people doing a good few pedal strokes at least. Once you learn to sit in the right spot you can go as far as you like.
