[SirChomps-a-Lot]

It's a beautiful sunny day.

In one hour I am leaving work for my lunch break and going to the skatepark.

I am not coming back from the skatepark until I pull a tailtap.

Teh suck has gone on long enough. It's time to end it.

Feel free to provide me moral support.

 

[ThePriceSeliger]

What do you consider a tailtap? I've learned 360 tailtaps if that is what you are talking about.

 

[SirChomps-a-Lot]

Out of quarter, tap, back in. In a properly steep 5 foot quarter. It's easier to do a 360 tap over a volcano or a wide spine for some reason. I used to do them at alameda all the time.

 

[ThePriceSeliger]

Ah, in a quarter. I really don't have any useful words, but they can hurt if you mess up. Good luck.

 

[SirChomps-a-Lot]

I am leaving work now. There are many questions rushing through my brain:

Will I have the moral strength to stand by my principles?

Will the cruel, hard concrete make a mockery of my glorious endeavour?

Was there any botulism in that can of ravoli I just ate?

Stay tuned for answers...

 

[Bicyclist]

What's a tailtap? Just a stall on your back wheel? I thought those were abuicantspells or fufunafunus.

 

[SirChomps-a-Lot]

What's a tailtap? Just a stall on your back wheel? I thought those were abuicantspells or fufunafunus.

Abubacas and fufanus are when you stall on the coping. A fufanu is coming back in normal-wise, and an abubaca is coming out backwards.

A tailtap is when you come all the way out and tap the rear wheel on the deck.

PS: after a 2 hour, 45 min. lunch break I pulled it exactly once. SUCCESS!

 

[Bicyclist]

Ah, so you have to hop way back into the bowl after, right? Sounds difficult.

 

[Changleen]

We call those tyre taps. Tomahto tomato.

 

[monkeyboy424]

my rear wheel trick world has just been tilted.

i thought a tail/tire tap was when you like rotated a little; say 90 degrees, landed on your rear wheel, then rotated the rest of the way back into the quarter or bank.

if thats not a tail tap, what is that trick called?

cool that you got it though

 

[SirChomps-a-Lot]

my rear wheel trick world has just been tilted.

i thought a tail/tire tap was when you like rotated a little; say 90 degrees, landed on your rear wheel, then rotated the rest of the way back into the quarter or bank.

if thats not a tail tap, what is that trick called?

cool that you got it though

Yep, that's a tailtap. You can rotate as much as you want and it would still be a tailtap variation. I am hard at work on a variation where I turn a little more than 180 degrees. I plan on calling it an "alley-op tailtap" In fact, I put the ETA for me doing a 540 tailtap at less than 3 months.

These hard parts are, in order of difficulty:
1) making yourself drop back in
2) making sure you stall the rear wheel close enough to the coping.
3) not getting fired for taking a 2.75 hour lunch break.

 

[Changleen]

The rotaty ones are way easier with thiner higher pressure slicks (obviously). I tried one recently after switching to Holy Rollers (which I was running at 45-50ish) having last done them with Primo Vs at 80ish and it's way harder to make the bike turn.

I also have on days and off days for this trick. Some days it's easy, some days it's impossible to get back round into the ramp.

 

[SirChomps-a-Lot]

The rotaty ones are way easier with thiner higher pressure slicks (obviously). I tried one recently after switching to Holy Rollers (which I was running at 45-50ish) having last done them with Primo Vs at 80ish and it's way harder to make the bike turn.

I also have on days and off days for this trick. Some days it's easy, some days it's impossible to get back round into the ramp.

I am running holy rollers. They were at less than 40 yesterday cause the air hose at the petrol station was broke. I'm scared to try a park only tire.

I remember the one ride I did with a hookworm on the rear of my MTB, I hit ONE LEAF while turning and fell the f*** over in front of the art building. That was the last time I went without knobs.

 

[monkeyboy424]

thank you for bringing clarity to my jib world. i, on the other hand, suck at tail taps and can really only do them on the top of a bank.

ok.