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does anyone else have this happen.you get something you want to learn on a bike and it occupies your mind 24/7?
on tuesday i decided to try and learn 540 tyre taps on my bmx.i tried for 8hrs tuesday solid and 4 hours solid yesterday.im soooo close to it but come up 30/40 degrees short.
i couldnt sleep for thinking about it.
my body is ruined from it too 🙂 🙂
Learn hurricanes instead!Somehow I find em easier!
180 to coping then 360 back in is easier??
they are on my to do list too by the way
Getting a BMX is definitely on my list..
do it!!
how far from corby are you? we go there once a week
how far from corby are you? we go there once a week
My son said he seen some old buggers on BMX's getting in the way when he's been there Skatin' 😆
getting in the way???? lol
Always end up manualing round the deck when I do tyre tap 5's.Learnt hop 3's ,so 180 then hop 3.Admitedly I do them on mellow transitions and jump box landings but i'll get there (and 3 tyre taps over spines and turn downs and 180 backwards manual half cab in and g-turns and.........).
You're only too old when you learn to play golf!
I know you're going to get them this Tuesday - just gutted I won't be there to see them! 🙁
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Forget all that easy stuff; check out these rad skilz dem!
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Jedi; seriously though, I'd love to be able to do a fraction of the kind of stuff you do. Me and HackneyRider are thinking of coming up to your Herts Shore sometime; hope you can teach us a thing or two!
yeah no worries rudeboy!
gibbon, i want to pivot on back wheel in one spot not bitch pedal. 🙂 🙂
Well I am hoping to have a few weeks free in June/July and if I can meet up a few STWorlders in the Borders region hopefully I may be able to pick up a few skills or techniques.
But I think I have been getting a bit more confident, and actually made it down what we locals call "The JanetStreetPorter descent" without too much dabbing. Just that final 100 metres got me last time!
In the making of my Gib Descent video, it was the third time I had ridden that route and did actually clean a section that previously I had walked down (it looks lame as heck in the video mind).
So yeah, maybe unlike Jedi though I don't lose sleep over these things, but yeah, would love to actually get something approaching "skills" on a bike.
Oh, and maybe I shouldn't admit to this but one day I'd like to actually get 2 wheels off the ground at the same time. I haven't actually done that yet in something like 4 years of mountain biking.
bmx is on the list for this summer.
soooooooooo many places to ride bmx and its so transferable to mtb skillz
woop woop
finally got 540taps last night......buzzing now 🙂
What on earth are you on about? any chance of some of your video skills to show what the ferk a 540 tap is?
Yes I am really old..
no video of me doing it.
ride out of bowl 180,land on back tyre and spin 360 and drop back in.
nice one!!
😀
14hours practice!!!! 🙂 🙂
dedication!... dedication's what ya neeeed!
paarrrppp!!!
😉
heh heh
never too old to learn 🙂
yeah after 3 days of wondering what it could be I have learnt what a danger w@nk was...
Most happy with it now 😉
jaun, thats done with your front door open and you got to finish before the postman turns up
Well someone on here told me what it was 😉
I did practice a lot recently (living at mums) just didn't knew the name of it 😉
lol
Hey Tony, check out this BMX movie, it'll blow you away
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kid can do it[/url], how hard can it be? I mean.. he's only a kid. 😯
So... 26" jump bike or BMX for summer?
flamejob, yeah but the kid hopped it round! 🙂 🙂
bmx for summer!