what is everyones most valuable skill on a bike, or what trick helped you progress the most?
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Learning tables began a huge progression for me, I started to get more stylish over hips and I could pull them almost anywhere. Learning tuck no-handers was probably the biggest gateway trick I'd learned all of last year. Suddenly I had more confidence for everything. But as far as the most valuable skill on a bike.. I'd say you can never get TOO good at pumping, it is probably one of the single most important skills to have. And like I said I don't think you can ever become perfect at pumping, there will always be progression to be had. Faster and faster.
yeah pumping is the big one for me aswell, people are allways shocked wen they see you just shoot though stuff with out pedaling at all, you got any tips for tuck no-handers? i was trying them before xmas then and mix of snow, ice and rain stopped me from any riding at all for the last 3 mouths at least
I have been working on perfecting tuck no handers for a few months now. And it really depends on what variation I am doing but for kind of an original tuck no hander: They are easiest to learn flying out of a ~5ft quarter. Right as you are about to level off, Pull the bars in fast towards your waist, right when you feel the bar hit your waist lean your head forward just a bit. Imagine your axle has really long pegs on it (like a foot long) and pretend you are reaching for those pegs, then hold for as long as you like. When you want to bring them back, just lean your head back a little bit and bring your hands back to your bars and push them forward to land.
The easiest ones for me to do, your bike does the work for you. Throw your bars to your waist and then throw your hands straight down like you are reaching down at your crankset. For some reason once I am getting ready to land for this one, just pulling my hands back to the position they'd be when I land, the bars seem to meet my hands there. That might just be me though...
One thing that helped me learning to get comfortable with them: it may be scary.. but learn forward heavily, try to get your face close to the front wheel. For some reason once I learned to be comfortable with that, I felt more confidence in holding the tucks longer and going higher.
The easiest ones for me to do, your bike does the work for you. Throw your bars to your waist and then throw your hands straight down like you are reaching down at your crankset. For some reason once I am getting ready to land for this one, just pulling my hands back to the position they'd be when I land, the bars seem to meet my hands there. That might just be me though...
One thing that helped me learning to get comfortable with them: it may be scary.. but learn forward heavily, try to get your face close to the front wheel. For some reason once I learned to be comfortable with that, I felt more confidence in holding the tucks longer and going higher.
thanks for the advice mate
hopefully the weather will clear up soon and i can go out and get them down.
hopefully the weather will clear up soon and i can go out and get them down.
Bunnyhops
Aside from all the basics, learning hop 3's made riding sooo much more fun. I spin too much now haha.
I'd say the griz... you never know when one of your buds is just too close to you in a train and you need to kick them in the face...
Hahahaha
you never know.
I'd say that when my brakes stopped working, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I go much faster in teh park. I learned cutties, inward table out of the quarters, and I learned tons more bike control.
I fukkin rule bike ditching.
What is your record for the highest bike ditch?
No... hops are the base for most tricks, stupid.
ok since i guess bunnyhops werent the best thing i learned, maybe manuals?
I'd rather have hops than manuals if I had to choose....
I still can't hop onto a picnic table. WTF. I did once but I cased.
ill never understand you
Ankle breaking height.
My best trick or accomplishment is that I'm 40 and still getting better at riding trails.
I still suck though. . . .
I still suck though. . . .
No way bunnyhopping is by far the most useful thing I have ever learned. I have ridden with guys for years who have never really mastered hopping and it holds them back.
It took me a long while til I could hop that high. It will come eventually, so don't worry.
Must not have been a very good ditch then...
Or a really gnarly one... dude, you have that Dartmoor yet?
Clean as shlt actually.
Just nowhere near a landing........which is why I bailed in the first place
Looking hip it the best trick I know. I am also good at color coordinationg my girl pants with a sick belt and my girlfriends shirt, then I can text one person and nine show up to ride. I do all of this with no brakes, because I fvcking rule and look rad. The hipper I look, the less I have to dig, or ride for that matter. The hippest kats dont even ride, they just show up and tell everyone how f'in rad the flyout 3's they do in the park are. All that tuck no hander/bunnyhop crap is for fags anyway. Lemme see you do a backflip into the foam pit! Then you can come talk to me. I'll post some vids on pinkbike once I'm done on xbox. Did I mention I can footjam a boxxer wc? Yea, so there.
Ya can footjam a boxxer world cup. Just not a manitou circus DJ Fork!
manuals, feels like nothing else
HAHA!
ps- gotta agree the brakes post by truth. When I had a bmx bike I was at trails and snapped my brake cable. I was freaked out to ride but did anyway cuz I was so pissed and it was sketchy at first since the jumps were big but it really helped out trying to smooth out lines and get dialed.
also got decent at ditching over the years aha
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Yo seth-is that the back side of the step up at highland? IIRC that dirt had rocks in it that would saw your skin right off!!
nose pivots all day long...short manuals in the hizzie too!
yup! That area took some skin off my forearms/elbows for sure.