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Re: peg stall posted on 2006-08-22 15:45:14

A good tip you can use without using tape...

make sure u lean away from the obstacle as u do the stall. If u lean into it, you will teeter into it, making you want to put your foot down.

Re: Jersey Shore, Wildwood NJ Flatland Scene!!!??? posted on 2006-08-20 02:19:20

Smithville is only about 20 minutes from my actual hometown, Mays Landing.

Re: cops posted on 2006-08-19 12:58:54

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y6rtHC2QuI[/url]

haha. thats at a bmx track in NJ.

I get chased off the boardwalk in Ocean City, NJ everyday. becasue were not allowed to ride on there, But I love riding at 5th st. everyday. basically they OC cops daily agenda is to catch me.

They caught my one friend and said "TICKET TIME!!!!" bahahaha.

Cops are fun, because they often have nothing to do but waste their time catching a fast as hell bike with an able rider.

Re: Manual Problem posted on 2006-08-19 12:44:06

that leaning back and snapping wrist thing is actually a good tip. You more or less snap back to manual position, you don't pedal or yank it up. I manual just by placing my weight in the right spot. But I've been doing manuals for 7 years. :lol: It comes with time though. How I learned it was just doing wheelies and then stop pedalling and coast. i was like...12 then? I practiced them while I rode 'to town' everyday. soon after I could do them one-footed and throw in x-ups or barspin out. they're also easier and mellow downward slopes. So don't stress yourself out! just pedal around and jump off stuff, grind a bench, rip some wheelies, and try manuals. easy stuff is fun.

When you try tailwhips on street down stairs...riding won't be as fun anymore, it's more like a job. You either do it or you feel like your wasting your own time! So have fun with your beginnings and cruise around.

Re: standing/riding on front pegs posted on 2006-08-19 12:35:05

Newbie forums! LolZ0rz!1!!!11

fork glides? or just standing on the pegs in a forward riding position.

Re: ill be in wildwood posted on 2006-08-17 22:54:28

Come down to Ocean City if you have a car! it's like a 25 minute drive, and you won't pop your tires every block on frat guy's broken coronas.

Re: Jersey Shore, Wildwood NJ Flatland Scene!!!??? posted on 2006-08-17 22:53:02

Wildwood.....no-offense to anyone, Is now the minority shore-town/slum of Jersey, much like Seaside heights.

Ocean City is still alive and kicking. And while there isn't really a flatland 'scene' there is Myself, Kevin, and Harrison. We're out basically every night. We all live in the surrounding towns (Linwood and Mays Landing) a few other riders come out every now and then like Paul (FunctionBMX) Ron Baker, Mark Harris, and a few others.

TONS of street riders though. there's really alot of riders in NJ, it's huge. Our friend Ricci (RIP) was hit by a drunk driver, while pedalling over a bridge...In the shoulder. He was on his way to ride with us. We did a few things to honor him. The Dirt jumps at the new PATMOS park (www.PatmosPark.com) are being named after him. check that site for pictures from their jams and contests (one's coming up soon!)
We also rode to his roadside memoral with 200+ riders, the cops had to shut down the road to traffic! and we made the infamous Ricci boardwalk pile (you throw your bikes in a pile and lock em together, because u cant fit em all onto the rail) check it out!

But yeah anyone is welcome to come down and ride. PM me for my cell phone. Paul calls me 'the go to guy' for a reason! I've got the connections! the spots! the secrets! :wink:

[img]http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i120/SNJFlat/bikestackbw1.jpg[/img]
R.I.P.

Re: A video of me riding, my first on PedalBMX! posted on 2006-08-17 15:17:36

I ride a Federal Hamilton frame, 19" tt. Suelo low bars cut to 21", Odyssey '05 flat forks, Function pegs!

Like I said, I'll post some of my 'good' links up some time. In the video, you see links you do when a 17yr. old girl shows up and starts taping... :lol:

Thanks for the positive comments. Flat-Ashura, I can link the hiker back into a switch-handed steam...which looks alot cooler. but I figured the drop to double footed steam is just smoooother.

Re: I want to Locate the Mag Haters! LOL posted on 2006-08-17 01:22:57

I could only imagine grabbing for the peg in a Stick-B or something, and weighting it wrong, and falling forward with my arm through the gap in the mag wheel, and like, snapping my elbow.

I ride flatland, But we found a beater GT with blown everything on the side of the road near a bus station. I threw a 180 on it and it basically just blew up. the mag cracked and I ate blacktop. :(

A video of me riding, my first on PedalBMX! posted on 2006-08-17 00:04:44

yeaah just a short little clip. Nothing that really pushes the envelope for flatland (haha) or myself. A girl I know just showed up at my riding spot and filmed this little video on her camera. being that she doesn't ride, she didn't know what to edit out, what to keep, or what to put where. That might explain how my first trick is a hiker and my last is peg wheelie variations...haha. And I didn't pick the music.

Don't tear me apart, lol :lol: I'll post a video with my new stuff and some harder stuff I can actually do In a newer video under this thread.

[glow=red,2,300][url]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1050654392&n=2[/url][/glow]

Re: Todays Riding posted on 2006-08-12 01:37:19

I landed a bunch of hitchikers and this entirely switch footed link while riding these B-ball courts with around 10 others riders. 3 flatlanders, rest street riders. Paul (FunctionBMX co-owner guy/cool dude) made an appearance.

I did a nosepick no footer on this ledge, and then rode down the bank fakie, half-cabbed the curb, it was very street of me.

we pedalled around looking for slutty drunk sorrority girls on balconys with no success. this girl I know was doing reverse donuts in her nissan altima she borrowed from her dad. then we made an obstacle course we weaved flatland tricks through.

and then on my ride back to the car I tried to beat my personal best for barspins in a peg wheelie (done individually, caught back and continuing to balance, not spinning the bars real fast mad times) I did 9 and then I lost speed. I need to find a good hill.

After that, my friend I havent seen in ages pulls up with their friend from their hometown who is learn is "mildly retarded" he has trouble speaking and is real bizarre, almost in a radio-show guest personality way. we try to convince him to leap frog a parking pole for like...30 minutes. he then decides he's gonna stay up all night, and called his boss at mcdonalds saying he cant come in to work because his Cats, dog, niece, and brother died of carbon monoxide person (his friends idea) the McD's manager believes it.

I then work on Tomahawks in front of Dunkin Donuts.

thats a normal day in Jersey. 8-)

Re: I am shook posted on 2006-08-11 11:24:50

This reminds me of the time some old lady died because she was outside looking for her cat and she froze to death or something? someone posted up pics.

we are weird people. :-o

Re: FUNCTION BMX posted on 2006-08-08 09:59:54

I can vouch for the quality of the pegs. top notch!

Paul sends me UPS boxes of stickers to put all over south jersey. I still have alot to stick.

Re: History of peg size posted on 2006-08-08 09:57:13

Alot of the smaller pegs help for todays riding (or at least my riding)

being as they are smaller in length (only by a little) and diameter, they hit the ground less when doing agressive carving tricks like circle-k's, time machines, etc.

Also a peg acts as a lever, the further away from the center the more force you are exerting. Ever do a switch-handed steam on a bike with 5"x2" pegs and 27" bars? I have. defintely ridiculous. If you barflip and catch the lip or the outside of the peg, It really throws things off as well.

and last but not least, for tricks like stick-b's I grab the peg. a 2" diameter peg I more or less stub my fingers on, but a smaller peg (Like FunctionBMX or Sequence) is much more comfortable.

there are reasons.

Re: What's the most enjoyable trick? posted on 2006-08-08 09:50:33

Lol, us flatlanders are like caged lions.

but anyways...I love peg wheelies because I can do them without any effort! one-handed, switch-handed, barpspins, no-handed, double-footed, and then as I lose speed just get into a megaspin. I just love that trick because I'm totally in control of it.

favorite feeling trick I'd say are hitchikers. the trick itself feels good, but i especially like dropping back to the seat and spinning halfhikers. good feeling.

Re: New BMX tattoo... woo posted on 2006-08-06 14:39:43

as does London, graveyard, mountain top fabrications....etc. 8-pc. bars we're a flatland staple.

anyways, cool tattoo. I'm 19, I plan on getting a bike related tattoo, and then a coffee one. 8-)

Re: Ozzfest hurts. posted on 2006-08-06 13:21:29

I wouldn't go to Ozzfest.

And I saw Bad Luck 13 Riot Extravaganza play, and I saw them play as Necktie at the trocadero!
amen on death/black metal shows at the TLA.

Re: Jesse Macaluso Mini Video 3 posted on 2006-08-06 00:31:11

I was figuring if i heard of crazy scootering, Incline Club would be included.

theres like a razor scooter scene there, lol.

where do u even get one of those things nowadays? i broke mine like 2 years ago. :-(

Re: flatland frames posted on 2006-08-05 10:39:28

you probably 'almost killed yourself' because of a steeper HT angle, taller bars, and a shorter overall bike.

Re: flatland frames posted on 2006-08-04 23:32:15

You ride the bike, not the other way around. You balance it.

And it's really up to the parts you run. You could just have a heavy back end on a bike and it would make a difference in a negative way (In some aspects)

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