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[Closed] what have you always wanted to be able to do on a bike?

 jedi
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ride moab
climb jacobs ladder dab free
540 air on my bmx


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:08 pm
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I've done no 1 on your list

I'd love to be able to do a proper wheelie and manual. Was out in the Alps once riding down a road descent with some other guys on MTBs and one of them manualled the whole thing, no pedalling, no dabs. Git!


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:13 pm
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Manual


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:13 pm
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Keep up with you, t0sser! 😉


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:14 pm
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^^ +1

Add holding a wheely to that also!

Kev


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:15 pm
 jedi
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i cant manual on the flat but can through doubles or a table top 🙂


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:15 pm
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360, manual, backflip, in fact i'd be happy to be able to do anything cool!


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:17 pm
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Yes wheelie/manual with ease would do me.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:18 pm
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Jump, Wheelie, Manual any one or preferably all 3


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:19 pm
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360 & manual.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:22 pm
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flare, got about as much chance of that as shagging Kylie tho.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:22 pm
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Decent bunny hops, wheelies and manuals would be good 🙂


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:22 pm
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Another vote for big manuals,can do small pump track manuals,on the trail etc but would love to be able to hold a manual.
360's would be nice too.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:22 pm
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stay on the bloody thing 😳


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:24 pm
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Clicked table tops and manuals, thankfully I can do them both (but I havent for what seems like forever)

I think I could give up cycling now and I be happy I've achieved what I always wanted to do.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:24 pm
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Ride continuously for 24 hours, after a couple of failed attempts this year will be the year.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:24 pm
 jedi
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lol@saladdodger 🙂


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:32 pm
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Opposite turndown 3's.Can oppo turndown,can do 3's,can do 180 ones.Not happening :0(


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:32 pm
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Ride up a hill without feeling knackered.

One footed table, Timmy Judge style. 🙂


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:34 pm
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Jump...
Actually, anything that looks cool would be pretty good!


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:35 pm
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That thing in that film where that little kid's pet alien thing in that basket thingy let's him fly over the moon.

Can you teach me that, Jedi? 😉


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:35 pm
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I would give pretty much anything to do a 360 tail whip


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:37 pm
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my mate wanted to do that trick for 15years. he's the 1st in the uk to whip and he can 3 anything. i helped him stitch the 2 together in 7 tries 🙂 he was so happy he had tears in his eyes


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:39 pm
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I'm happy with my manuals, wheelies, endos, stopies, jumping and bunnyhops. The only thing that I've really failed to learn having really put some time and effort into it over the years is the goddamn Switzerland Squeaker!
Endo, foot-jam, leapfrog the bars, repeat.......


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:42 pm
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MTFU.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:44 pm
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A half decent bunny hop would be a very very useful tool.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:45 pm
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eat a sandwich and drink a beer
that would be heaven
eating sandwiches
drinking beer
riding bikes
heaven


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:46 pm
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A no footed, no handed manual round a corner - oh, which I have done but could never repeat.

didn't even realise I was doing it till my mate shouted, wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:48 pm
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I would love to be able to do proper big casual whips...
Also to be able to hit berms like Nathan Rennie such that the berm gets scared 😀


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:51 pm
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Manual.
Jump...in style.
Ride naked just for the hell of it.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:53 pm
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Not saying I have any chance ever, but I would definitely sell a kidney if I thought it would help me do one.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:57 pm
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Have sex.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 10:58 pm
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I'd like to be able to do manuals, wheelies, proper bunnyhops and all that.

But what I *really* want to do is the 180 degree endo spin thingy (technical term) and ride straight back the way I came. I think I saw someone do it when I was a teenager and it's stuck with me ever since.

I think I've managed to do about 10 degrees. Only 170 to go.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 11:02 pm
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wheelies are gay

I'd like to be able to do a proper long floaty stoppie untill my rear deemax squelches back down onto the dirt


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 11:04 pm
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Tail whip or a bubba scrub!!!!


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 11:06 pm
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Ride in a straight line, and not get scared.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 11:06 pm
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Win a TdF mountain stage and wear the KotM jersey.
Manual for as long as I like comfortably.
Win a BMX race, with style.


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 11:07 pm
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Doubles are my nemesis.

I can jump/clear a long tabletop, but a double, say with the same overall end to end length as a tabletop......no chance !

The 'gap' in the centre pysches me out. It's the fear of stacking it into the face of the 2nd lip, as I did on one a few years ago.

😕


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 11:08 pm
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1 - Ride to the top of the hill at the local trails without stopping, then find a bigger hill.
2 - Manual for 10 seconds +
3 - Land a set of doubles
4 - Rail a berm, really rail a berm


 
Posted : 18/01/2011 11:13 pm
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Wheelie here for me oh and to ride big drop offs and live


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 12:34 am
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nose wheelie and motocross style whips. mmm.


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 12:54 am
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Pretty much what everyone else has said. Just built up my hardtail again to work on some skillz, may even put a 24" back wheel into it to see if that'll help with manualing.


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 1:05 am
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Balance 😯


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 1:10 am
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wheelie like Bruce and Gary.


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 1:18 am
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360, that is on my 'to do' list


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 1:40 am
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cherrypicker 🙂


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 1:48 am
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Bunny hop.


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 2:00 am
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+1 for wheelies and manuals.
Anybody up for a mass wheelie training day?


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 8:42 am
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Manual for me as well. Also, whips and proper tabletops.


 
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rAdical SKIdS wot make orl teh GUrlS luv me


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 9:01 am
 jedi
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lol@duntmatter 🙂


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 9:16 am
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Years ago I had a bmx and all the time in the world to ride it. Pretty much 8 hours a day every day of the week. For over 10 years. At the time I could do every trick in the book. Freestyle, street, ramp and dirt. But my trusty bike was stolen just as I was heading of to university and not having the money to get a new one I was bike-less for a few years. During that time bmx evolved drastically. Backflips seemed to be the new kid on the block. In my head I knew I could do them, but didn't have the tools to.

As time passed I got some cash and got into motorbikes. This new passion took over and any notion of cycling was forgotten. Then 4 years ago I had to sell my motorbike. I'd felt too grown up to get a bmx again (being a 36 year old parent) but mountain biking seemed like a pretty mature way to have fun. With more money to spend (but far less time) I graduated from a xc hartail to a FS mini downhill bike and finally to a 26" jump bike. I still had the basic skills but felt no need to try to pull of some the moves from my youth.

Recently an indoor ramp park has opened over here and I understand there are plans to get a foam pit installed. The passing years have mellowed my 'stuntman' attitude and my riding now mostly involves being a smooth as possible and not binning it. However,this spring/summer I feel a backflip coming on.


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 10:00 am
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A vander roll.

I have managed to do a couple on my old BMX, but I reckon doing one on a MTB would be quite a different proposition.


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 11:35 am
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bmx:
hop bars
whip
360
decent rail/ledge
one foot tables would be pleasant, I can get pretty good inverts on the ole fit

mtb:
whistler
clicked x ups
clicked tables, so much harder on the big bike ..
rail berms
drift lots


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 11:50 am
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If we are talking stuff I could realistically learn, then manuals and endos

If we are in fantasy mode then 180 back flips off of trees would be awesome 🙂


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 11:58 am
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Just a wheelie to make me feel good


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 12:02 pm
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To just be able to ride what's ahead without worrying about snapping myself.


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 12:06 pm
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wheelie like Bruce and Gary.

I can teach you in an afternoon 😉

BTW - Bruce doesn't wheelie like me and I don't manual like him. (v. subtle differences in technique)

360s for me, still go all squint at 270 and my dab foot comes off.. need a foam pit to sort out my comitment me thinks.
oh.. shoulder buzzers would be nice too but I'm so uncoordinated and so unsupple it hurts 😆


 
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However,this spring/summer I feel a backflip coming on.

That was a brilliant story actually, and I really hope you manage it. You will have to let us know if you do pull it off.


 
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Nice flat tables and one foot tables are the only thing I've ever really wanted to do on a mountain bike. I was getting better, but haven't ridden jumps for a while.

If I could 180 rollback on my BMX I would be so happy. Spent probably 4 weeks trying that constantly and got so close. No chance now though.


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 12:35 pm
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id like to be able to do an endo into a 180 turn, then ride off the opposite way.
for no reason at all, except it looks cool.
and ride up hills without feeling cream crackered.


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 12:42 pm
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Tabletops, and BIG whips, so big you turn the bars so they point back at the ground. Preferably the two in combination. How do you do this. Please describe.


 
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This too


 
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I'd love to be able to do really slow, hippity-hoppity trials type stuff; that would be useful for my normal riding, I think. Not massive jumps and flips or anything, just trackstands and little steps and that, so I could get through the more rutted and rocky bits of my local loops without having to put a foot down. A decent length trackstand would be a start, I suppose. But there's something about getting the bike out and then practising not moving on it that feels like a waste of precious time, something I don't have a right lot of.


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 1:15 pm
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I need to investigate this "air " business. So yes learning to jump and drop off.

Place and fitness I'd love to do the three countries round mont blanc thing

I've been to Moab it was FAB

Jedi I'm suprised you can't ride down Jacobs lader it didn't seem that hard to me 😉


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 2:18 pm
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lol @ amphill 🙂 🙂


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 6:13 pm
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big fat rolling stoppies ... Big ones 😀


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 6:28 pm
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Jump by the time I'm 30 (8 months)
Possibly with the addition of the skill of manuals.


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 6:46 pm
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manual
drop in vert ramp (too chicken)
a proper road gap (too chicken)
and
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Posted : 19/01/2011 6:59 pm
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Not particularly interested in kimbers 1st 3, but . . . .


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 7:50 pm
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^ What, have a basket?


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 8:05 pm
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Pull women.

Sadly I just look like an idiot on a bike, a clumsy idiot at that.


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 9:00 pm
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please don't tell the misses ! 👿 but i'd love to find a woman who can ride as good as my favourite trail beast ! 😆


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 9:19 pm
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🙂


 
Posted : 19/01/2011 10:59 pm
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Clear a box


 
Posted : 23/01/2011 8:03 pm
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Hop to manual. Can hop fine, manuals are a bit ropy, but absolutely no idea how to hop and land the back wheel first.

Motowhips I think I've sussed the technique, just need more practice. Long way to go before I worry Vanderham though.

Tabletops - like the guy (forget his name) from the ooold Animal/Giant team back in the late 90s used to pull. Not Robin Kitchin, but that era.

Nosewheelies

...and you can always be better at cornering...!


 
Posted : 23/01/2011 8:52 pm
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Ride technical stuff as well as some of my friends. They always seem to clean stuff I didn't think was possible.

Manual for more than 2 seconds without crashing afterwards.


 
Posted : 23/01/2011 9:48 pm
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Jon - Steve Geal?


 
Posted : 23/01/2011 10:18 pm