Further to the "what do you wish you could do on a bike" thread where many people have said "tabletops and whips" myself included, can you post pictures of people on bikes doing tabletops/whips? Preferably all-mountain bikes off natural features (that's what does it for me) but anything's good.
Not a pic, and not really natural, but if you haven't seen it before it's worth watching
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Heinrick from switchbacks dh
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Nice moto-down there davidtaylforth and some good flat tables. I have real trouble taking bmx stuff I used to be able to do and applying it to mtbs. The bike is so big and the jumps tend to be less poppy. I determined to get it though.
Thanks, that last one of the superman is very nice but is not a tabletop or a whip. Sweet move though! The one at Woburn above I really like, because it appears to be an improvised launch off an undulation in the trail rather than off a "jump" as such. And in the wet too.
The one of Voreis is sweet too. 6" off the ground!
I've often wondered whether yoghurt pots on Holmbury could be resculpted a bit for more launch potential, but I doubt the authorities in the area would be keen.
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That first video has some great riding. Pitty it's ruined by the start that shows them all like complete plebs!
awesome!
Bonus points for leggyblonde.
Respect for crossing up a cross bike, in facepaint.
Cheers but that's not facepaint, I'm SPIDERMAN! ๐
That is really quite considerable air on a 700c bike!
leggyblonde, those pictures are worthy of http://www.bigringriding.com/
Night time cross racing gnarly big ringing air awesomeness with face paint and bright lycra? What's not to love?
Leggy, love them pics. Must be tricky landing them on a cross bike as well ๐
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Aw, thanks guys! It concentrated the mind landing in the dark, on tubs with the saddle up and a CX race heart rate. I didn't fancy crashing much in front of a few hundred spectators and loads of photogs!
I think that wall ride of Jedi is more inspiring than just normal air.
Cancans are good (but not whips or tabletops!).
The berm/wallride is great though I can't make out, did you hit the wall, or is your wheel just above it?
Daryl Brown was the most stylish rider at that King of Dirt comp at Bike Radar, massively tweaking everything
hideous white jeans though
wallride to table out
And just to fulfil stw pedantry, that can can isn't a can can it's an Indian air... ๐
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Now that's a whip! (or maybe a scrub?)
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It's a whip this is a scrub...
Ah, now, see I initally wrote whip but then thought about it too much and edited my post. My reasoning was that in my mind a whip has the head tube vertical, front wheel pointing in direction of travel and the back end swung around.
A scrub on the other hand tends to have the head tube horizontal, front wheel parallel with the ground and the back end swung away from or towards the ground.
As such it could maybe be a whip or a scrub... probably more correctly its an off-axis whip...
Like I said I thought about it too much...
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