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After lurking on the last couple of threads about manuals I went out to start practicing last night.
Total skillz failure, on about the 5th or 6th attempt the bike went over the top, I failed to step off, and landed flat on my back... It was so quick, and then I couldn't get up for a good 5 minutes. I've since consumed many many mg's of every painkiller I could get my hands on, and had a GP consultation to check me out.
I'm just glad I was on grass and not concrete !
LittleNose,
Flats or clipped in?
Flats or clipped in?
flats... I think probably I'm just to old and slow
When I take the dog for a cycle ride, or my son, or both, I practise my wheelies.
My plan is to master the wheelie before moving onto the manual. I'd like to learn to bunnyhop properly after that, I can manage about 3 inches at the moment which isn't particularly impressive
am seriously considering buying of of these to learn safely :
https://sender-ramps.com/collections/toys/products/sender-manual-master-machine
i wonder about rim damage on the back wheel though..
But you need to be moving to learn to manual, that's just hoiking the bike up and balancing on the back wheel for a bit while the bits of wood hold you vertical. You don't even have to learn to balance left and right! That's stabilisers for adults, right there 😉
Iainc, There is no danger to the wheel, I made one and it is really easy to balance on it, pretty pointless compared to actually trying to manual.
I know you won't believe me and order one any way, so enjoy your new bike stand.
^^^^^ yeah, I do suspect it could be a bulky dust gatherer 🙂
Before this thread I actually thinking the same of having a manual machine but the cons outweighs the pros so finally decided not to do it at this time.
From the majority of suggestions I slowly started putting hours in to practice more and I think I am making progress. I started from zero and I am now able to lift my front wheel but only a very short distance and sometimes looping out.
I am also doing wheelie a bit to aid my learning to get used to balancing but still rubbish and very inconsistent. Sometimes very short and sometimes maybe a couple of meters. It is no where near a controlled wheelie. I am within that region which is a mix of everything, slamming the front wheel hard, looping out and good short ones in between. But I am happy with what I am now able to do at this stage and I think if I persevere I will finally learn to manual even a short one but in controlled manner. Maybe just a question of when:)