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Bunny hop.
+1 for wheelies and manuals.
Anybody up for a mass wheelie training day?
Manual for me as well. Also, whips and proper tabletops.
rAdical SKIdS wot make orl teh GUrlS luv me
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.
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.
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
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 🙂
Just a wheelie to make me feel good
To just be able to ride what's ahead without worrying about snapping myself.
yodagoat - Member
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 😆
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.
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.
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.
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.
This too
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.
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 😉
lol @ amphill 🙂 🙂
big fat rolling stoppies ... Big ones 😀
Jump by the time I'm 30 (8 months)
Possibly with the addition of the skill of manuals.
manual
drop in vert ramp (too chicken)
a proper road gap (too chicken)
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Not particularly interested in kimbers 1st 3, but . . . .
^ What, have a basket?
Pull women.
Sadly I just look like an idiot on a bike, a clumsy idiot at that.
please don't tell the misses ! 👿 but i'd love to find a woman who can ride as good as my favourite trail beast ! 😆
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Clear a box
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...!
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.
Jon - Steve Geal?