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Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 973 Location: gettysburg |
Date: 2005-10-10 19:55:14 Direct Link: uh, tricks? |
how did all you guys begin to start learning back/halfpackers and hitchhikers, i mean your FIRST sucsesful(sp?) attempts. and also whats the name of this trick i learned while just messing around with steamrollers- i am in a steamroller left foot on the front left peg and im NOT in a switched steam. i take my left hand of the bars and grab the back peg and my front peg on my non foot side is on the ground and im spinning like a crazy man? it was awsome and not at all as hard as i expected. thanks, PEACE boobs are pretty gnar | |
Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 1334 Location: MaysLanding, NJ |
Date: 2005-10-10 20:10:31 Direct Link: uh, tricks? |
what you described is like the beginning of that front-wheel stubbleduck type thing martti/viki do. (bike pivot thing...)It's not really that hard...the pivot jump thing is...but just peg on the ground spinning steams is one of those gag-bag tricks to bust out when your bored.
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Date: 2005-10-10 23:29:42 Direct Link: uh, tricks? |
I learned and practiced elephant glides and rolling wheelchairs (wahtever there called)and was comfortable with tem,so it was easy to drop into a halfpacker from an elephant glide .I think I was comfortably rolling halfpackers in like 3 days.I just leaned forward pulled up on the seat and i could roll them till i ran out of speed.I was just scared of falling backwards that was the hardest part.Backpackers are a breeze once you can do halfpackers.
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Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 565 Location: clifton park NY |
Date: 2005-10-11 15:25:11 Direct Link: uh, tricks? |
I basically learned elephant glides and halfpackers and after I got those down, every other double footed rolling trick was not difficult to learn at all. Just ride for yourself and for fun. | |
Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 3344 Location: Winnipeg º Manitoba º Canada |
Date: 2005-10-11 15:41:11 Direct Link: uh, tricks? |
I basically learned elephant glides and halfpackers and after I got those down, every other double footed rolling trick was not difficult to learn at all. BAM.. all two footed tricks feel the same to me.. after i learned hikers, everything came like nothing when it came to two footed (cept back wheel 2 foot i cant do for shit). Easiest way for hikers was to learn elbow glides and drop it into a hiker.. but some find some ways easier.. try a variety, one one session, another the next session, and so on.. it'll come eventually  TEAM WINNIPEG | |
Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 250 Location: BC canada |
Date: 2005-10-11 19:15:26 Direct Link: uh, tricks? |
never tried a half packer.put you can learn them from just stepping into them. hikers are weird, i laernt them on my right side, and just recently got comfortable bringing them up the left side, they take alot of practice. you want to almost throw the seat forward when you go to grab the rim or peg, keeps from the cranks hitting your thigh (some of us have larger thighs than others, cause maybe we used to work them out at iron works gym, which will make cross-footed tricks impossible which may be easy for really tall men's).
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Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 387 Location: Campbell, CA |
Date: 2005-10-12 21:18:09 Direct Link: uh, tricks? |
A buddy of mine and I used to put Brick house bikes everlasting nob jobbers (the old style ones... big mushroom shaped) on our handlebars, and then go to a semi step hill, put the bike in a hitchhiker position, get on, lift up and roll. Scrapes the hell out of your bar ends and brake levers until you learn em... or you can get into a hitchiker position and then sorta push the bike forward and jump so that your tire comes off the ground a bit, and then when you come down, lift up and roll backwards (backwards hitchhiker).
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Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 554 Location: Arlington, Texas |
Date: 2005-10-12 23:49:14 Direct Link: uh, tricks? |
the trick you described at first sounds like the beginings of a Taz spin. normally its done by a steam steam holding the tire and seat with no peg touching the ground.
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Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 3011 Location: somewherenearcleveland |
Date: 2005-10-13 17:26:42 Direct Link: uh, tricks? |
I dunno.. When I first started trying hikers and back packers I kinda skimped out on the half-versions of those tricks... like I learned hikers by pulling in from a steam roller very quickly.. never really focused on half hikers until after I had dialed hikers...the half hikers came very quickly after I started riding out of hitch hikers... Backpackers were pretty much the same.. I did an elephant glide then stepped my foot down and dropped the bike back.. didn't really try to coast the half packer very long... after dialing back packers, half packers came very easily...
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Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 973 Location: gettysburg |
Date: 2005-10-13 19:19:51 Direct Link: uh, tricks? |
yea the hiker position isnt foreign to me for i have recently dialed bw hitch hikers...im gonna get to work on all these tips once it gets dry out...thanks all boobs are pretty gnar | |
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