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edit: I also buzz my front tire on my forward (left) foot. Wack.
PS: The whole point of this exercise is to start doing cool things on my bike instead of super weak stuff. Plus my friends can abubaca and I can't so I need to beat them over the head with my awesomeness in other areas.
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Re: 180 bunnyhops is wicked hard
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 1:37 am
grommet
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Shibby wrote:
I can get 90, and I can't rollback.
What about you?
edit: I also buzz my front tire on my forward (left) foot. Wack.
PS: The whole point of this exercise is to start doing cool things on my bike instead of super weak stuff. Plus my friends can abubaca and I can't so I need to beat them over the head with my awesomeness in other areas.
I can't do squat on my HT bike..but in my defence I've now ridden it twice maybe three times.
I've been trying fakies for the 2 times I've been out..did about 5 of them out of 30 tries. But I can only get better. I really need to learn how to manual and to bunny hop higher. Once I lose the Comp 32 in the front it might help. That thing is F'n heavy.
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 2:04 am
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Word.
I'm thinking of doing the little plastic cassette spacer mod so I don't have to pedal backwards to ride fakie...
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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 2:51 am
Peter
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Shibby wrote:
180 bunnyhops is wicked hard
No...
Shibby wrote:
I'm thinking of doing the little plastic cassette spacer mod so I don't have to pedal backwards to ride fakie...
Cheater... You just really have to pull up and turn around hard. Let your upper-body do the job, and the rest will follow. I still have a few problems with rollbacks from 180's... It's easier to learn roll backs on a little banks or something.
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 3:26 am
Shibby
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Well they're wicked hard if that was the first time I tried em. And it was. I figure I'll get it...
Rolling back with a 9spd drivetrain = sucky.
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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 3:34 am
M.W.
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Shibby wrote:
Well they're wicked hard if that was the first time I tried em. And it was. I figure I'll get it...
Rolling back with a 9spd drivetrain = sucky.
That's why 1 speed is the shit.
Since I went 1speed, doing anything w/ a 9spd drivetrain = sucky... All that clanking and whipping and such...
Practice practice practice. First time I tried 180s, I got nowhere with them. The next time, I got a very small distance from nowhere. Now I still don't get them around, but they're actually starting to feel like something and I just need to whip myself around more. (I've only ever really gone and worked on them 3 times)
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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 5:52 am
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I've been doing them forever... even on my old pink scooter... that's actually where I started doing them.
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 7:08 am
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I was practising riding fakie again tonight, Im pretty sure my bike has been ridden backwards more than forwards now. I got a bunch of fakie/180 out or whatever done quite nice in a row, but I kept trying them to make them better, I guess I rode the same QP for an hour or so of constant air to fakies.
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 8:55 am
don
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I don't know 180s aren't too bad for me on flat. Once I try to do them off a curb I blow up. SamB makes 'em look soo f**king easy to do off of drops but it's hard as shit.
one tip is to put a ton of air in your back tire. I've pinchflatted more times from incomplete 180 attempts then anything else.
Anther tip - coil up the oppisite direction you are going to turn then just whip it. like PGR said the upper body/head leads and the rest will follow.
Just learn to ride fakie first. Find a bank or lip of a jump or something, ride up and hop and roll back. When u wanna spin out, align ur cranks ( i ride left foot foward), so that right when u turn the bars in the direction u wanna spin (i go to the right ), in my case my right left foot is down vertically. So when u spin the bars, keep rotating ur feet and right when ur tire feels like its gonna break traction give ur pedal alittle kick. Usin the brake to pivot back around here and there is key too.
Once uve learned those, just start trying them out of a flyout (bank to flat). Then from there its learnin them on flat ground. I still cant ride backwards for more than 15ft, its mad hard to keep ur balance goin.
I used to go up and practice on this one damn flyout for hours upon hours and try to get them. I tried and focused so hard i think i got fucked up. I started getting them when i didnt care anymore and just fooled around. Just have fun
And Don ur totally right, doin them off curbs is wayyy harder than on flat.
It's tough, I've figured out that making most of the rotation in manual is the easiest. You pick up the front and rotate your body, to your left or right, I prefer left, you want to get the front around about 120-130 degrees, and then go into bunnyhop and keep the rotation going. I can get it once out of like 5 tries. Trying to rotate all the way from a straight bunnyhop is wicked hard, and it always throws me to one side or the other, and I only can get about 90 degrees most of the time. Good luck.
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 11:11 am
grommet
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I'll be practicing tonight..paractice, practice, practice.
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 1:08 pm
proglife
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October 2002 issue of BMX Plus! has this as the trick of the month. I used to be able to do these no problem on a p.o.s. BMX bike when I was young, but I would never think of trying them on my 19" Stiffee FR.
I'm sure no one here rides a 19" Stiffee dirt jumping. If you do, youre the man.
James
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 1:23 pm
Pip3r
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grommet wrote:
I'll be practicing tonight..paractice, practice, practice.
dude really, dont sweat it. THe harder you make it on urself the harder itll be. If ur jsut out ridin with freinds goofin around thats when ull ease up and pull somethin like this.
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That thing is F'n heavy.
