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i've been getting quite good at nose wheelies over the past weeks. on thier own they aren't much use for riding, but i like doing them....

i suppose the wheelie is also fairly non-essential.

anything else?


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 6:09 pm
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Rockwalk


 
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Spontaneous bleeding - no use but amuses the people I am with.


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 6:19 pm
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nose wheelies (as opposed to stoppies) on a mountainbike is pretty impressive.

disagree that wheelies are useless for riding tho (or stoppies for that matter).


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 6:52 pm
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Wheelies are useful for getting your front wheel onto things.


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 6:56 pm
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i can nose wheelie some hair pins, but that's just showing off...

what is a rockwalk?


 
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I can spin a pen around my thumb


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 7:19 pm
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jumping off really high stuff..............why?


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 7:25 pm
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I thought this would be to do with being able to fit a whole banana in your mouth, sideways.


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 7:26 pm
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behind the ear[/url]


 
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Makes note never to ask ton for change for the parking machine.


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 7:35 pm
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Onzadog you beat me to it ๐Ÿ˜‰

Watched him do this live, i was cracked up.


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 7:39 pm
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Makes note never to ask ton for change for the parking machine.

๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 7:40 pm
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You can't beat seeing it live.

Or there's this
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Hockey stick behind the ear[/url]


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 7:45 pm
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of course, if he got the pen behind the ear on the first attempt it wouldn't be comedy.


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 7:48 pm
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which make me smile[/url] (it's the "Amazing Synchronized Cycling Girls")


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 7:54 pm
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@ molgrips....

re. wheelie...

agreed, but isn't that more popping the front wheel? i mean long wheelies that go on for 10'+...


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 8:05 pm
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wwaswas, have a look at hockey stick behind the ear.


 
Posted : 03/08/2010 8:30 pm
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trackstand is a track and commuting trick ๐Ÿ™‚
i can do them no handed on high ladders = circus trick


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 12:35 am
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does it make you smile?


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 1:17 am
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I'm pretty good with a pair of flails and it makes me smile but I've never found a real use for it.


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 7:53 am
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I can juggle.


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 8:02 am
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I was sitting at a coffee shop on Buchanan St in Glasgow on Saturday morning and a young guy went flying down the street pulling the best most stable manual I have ever seen. I so want to learn that!


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 8:22 am
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Riding no-handed. It can be useful for a quick rest or to adjust your clothes etc, but I do it becasue I CAN, and it's fun. I can even steer round corners.
Yay for me! 8)


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 8:28 am
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Track stands are not useless for the trail. I use them all the time.


 
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Trail stands


 
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of hand...[/url]

Saw this live ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 9:36 am
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I knew a girl who was mighty impressed that her dad could bunny hop over a bucket... I have yet to encounter a bucket in the middle of any trail i have ever rode. So i guess it fits the question.

Mine is standing up no handed whilst peddling. Pretty pointless and very childish..but very awkward.


 
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@alpin

Rockwalk...


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 10:44 am
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Quite good at endos but they aren't very handy.

Otherwise, juggling, various gymnastic handstand "stunts" and a rather stupidly mobile face - keeps kid entertained for hours.


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 10:56 am
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I feel really low now. The only skill I have is being able to grow chillis really well.

Rubbish at juggling and quite bad at all bike tricks too.


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 11:52 am
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I was always impressed by that woman on the Graham Norton show that could fire ping pong balls from her wotsit.


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 11:57 am
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I used to be able to get my leg behind my head but stopped when I attracted the wrong sort of man.


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 12:02 pm
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I can crash on a corner even my 2 year old son could get round


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 12:23 pm
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I can spend too much money on bike parts even when my extension roof is clearly leaking and goes unfixed because I am swapping stems, growing wheels, going 3x9, going 1x9,buying guides, buying tensioners, buying frames, going singlespeed, buying , more stems, BIG WHEELS, forks, (now I want [i]suspension forks[/i], tubeless stuff, tyres, more tyres, saddles, brake pads, spokes, hubs, chains...

and countless other stuff which results in me still riding once a week and still being s**t.

sorry got carried away there. I like to belch the word "belch" at the dinner table. My wife loves it


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 12:27 pm
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rockwalls are awesome... thanks xiphon.

i can complete front pivot 180 and about 90 on the back wheel.... best get practicing!

did see a vid where some german guy was get around very tight hairpins using a similar method to the rockwall...

i thought of another. no-handed wheelies. not much use on the trail


 
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I'm getting better at doing big manuals - not like the short, useful-on-the-trail kind but the massive, leaning-off-the-back-for-ages kind. Inherently useless but awesome.


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 9:45 pm
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makes me smile yeah as its not hard but people think it is ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 9:55 pm
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Nose wheelies

Been trying backwards manuals for ages-sooo hard.


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 10:05 pm
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being able to beat almost anybody in a Car racing games on PS2 and Xbox 360's.

(I am not a nerd They are just easy)


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 10:08 pm
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Ive not tried it for a while, but I used to be able to put a four inch nail up my nose


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 11:04 pm
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I can roll my tongue into a sort of straw and blow through it...


 
Posted : 04/08/2010 11:23 pm
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Coaster wheelies are shite (keeping the front end simply by cranking, wheelies for people who can't manual) seem to see an awful lot of Chavs doing these when they see me trundle by with "All the gear"....

Endos/Stoppies can actually be useful on some stuff, I have used them to cheat a line in tight corners before...


 
Posted : 05/08/2010 12:07 am
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can't do any bike tricks ๐Ÿ™ not even a 'rubbish wheelie' ๐Ÿ™

I'm quite good at staying on my feet when going over the handlebars though


 
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im going to try a rock walk i think....been watching it on you tube, looks gud in practice, however im prep :wink:ared for alot of skidding off...why do they always make these things look so easy on the videos...


 
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Cutties.

Mostly pretty pointless but love doing them!


 
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I can slackline. Pointless but ace fun.


 
Posted : 05/08/2010 11:12 am
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Mat = Jim Carey.

I can make my belly go in really big ripples. And I don't just mean Homer Simpson style fat ripples.


 
Posted : 05/08/2010 11:16 am
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...get a grip molegrip lol ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
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I can do a pretty convincing impression of a singing kettle coming to the boil


 
Posted : 05/08/2010 12:31 pm
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I saw a woman flicking 4 plates at a time from her foot to land on her head whilst riding a 6 foot unicycle on top of a 3 foot high ball.


 
Posted : 05/08/2010 12:56 pm