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Just been watching some vids of street riding (far better than anything I could do) and it got me really keen to be able to manual (again :( - tried for a while last year and never really got anywhere). So what things can you not do on your bike, or wish you could do better?
(oh and if anyone has any tips on manuals, post 'em here please!)
One footed back-flip off a wall, to a manual 360 thing, i can already do that Then Will suddenly wakes up from a deep sleep
I would like to get some awsome manuals but appart from that i'm just into speed rather than tricks. A table top one footer would be ok though i guess
i got the table top one footers sorted at chicksands on the last double of the big set on the cruz, although it feels odd at high speeds on a full bouncer.
To manual i guess its about finding the point in which your bike is perfectly wieght distrobuted, when your learning this point (the place to hold the manual) can feel very sketchy and almost as if your going to over rotate leading you to slam on your rear brake and send the front wheel down with a bang, once you have that centre point its just keeping it there really without going all tense, feathering the brake instead of the on/off action usually used is best. A lot of people make the mistake of getting this point, feeling a sinking sensation in there stomach and thinking, 'i aint pulling up that far again!' and then try to manual always never being quite balanced, but under balanced.
moto whips.... 'nuff said :)
wish i could bring a motowhip back to staight, its all well and good doing it, but landing sideways just aint cool!
Got 360 tyre taps on the floor back yesterday, havent been able to do them on the cruz, an old bmx trick i used to do, basically a 180 bunnyhop, land on the back tyre then hop or pivot round the next 180 depending on the speed your travelling
learnt 1 foot tables on my big bike today over flintstones, not exactly super flat yet but something to work on at the weekend!
Awesome, will you be there sat and sun looks like me and my dad might be, my mum is visiting her mum so lads weekend all the way!!!
I'd like to take some credit for bens one foot tables. well not really, but i did spend about an hour at the park shouting encouragement lol.
Hatchleader
02-04-06, 21:20
would love to be able to hold a manual!! can get a few meters but then i poo myself and it all goes downhill from there!! i know its simple but they look SO Good!! plus they might enable me to lead onto bigger tricks!!
Bet Ben can do em:grml:
yeh i'd love to be able to manual good bunny hop higher, 180, 360. and ride street well. Any tips from anyone???
he can aswell. doesnt he just make u sick sometimes! lol
he can aswell. doesn't he just make u sick sometimes! lol
Yeah especially the one footed tables tops lol :p
It'd be good to have consistently solid basic skills, i.e. being able to do them in real terrain on a full-susser....manuals, bunny hops, wheelies, stoppies - the basics that make all riding that bit more fun.
Hatchleader
03-04-06, 21:22
yeah would be nice!! got bunnyhops nailed just trying to go bigger now!! manuals getting there!! they just make it easier to piss about!!
i can bunnyhop in a big sort of way. well i could, havnt tried since the illness.
I'd like to be able to clear some doubles, so that I can even begin to try something flashier. Went to gyppo trails in Cleethorpes the other weekend but don't really know where to start!
Jim
Oh. and riding the run in ramp without someone else breaking their collarbone before you ould be nice too ji_
Barrel roll would be awsome :o
actually i just want to see one lol.
Id love to be able to manual as well as ben, but other than that i just think rotational tricks look most impressive and fun.
i love the look of trials inspired tech tricks (think aaron chase and geoff lenosky) theyre just soo cool and those guys make em look sooo easy!
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