Nose Manuals

[aener]

So... I've managed to get the flipping over part of a G-Turn to work. Inconsistantley - but it's there...

Trouble is, I can't keep the fakie nose manual out of it.

Should I try and learn a regular nose manual first, or should I get learning squeakers, and stick 'em on the end after I've learnt it?

I keep trying them - but am struggling, so wondering what you street boys reckon is the easiest way into them.

Ta.

[Revolver]

Learn both squeakers and nose-manuals... Nose-manuals down slopes, squeakers for flat stuff.

It's the nose-manual technique that you use for a g-turn, but if you can learn to nose-manual and scuff the wheel occasionally, you can do it for longer.

[aener]

K... I more meant - being that I'll be going fakie - would it be easier to just stick it out and learn them in the G-Turn, or should I start off by learning normal ones, then adapting it.

Cheers though,

[bikeperson45]

Probably not going to get amazing advice from because of the lack of people that can do them, Macaskill instructional DVD please.

I'd have thought that you should practise normal fakie nose manuals first to get use to the feeling of it, then apply it to the other things. I've tried a few times, really need to work on keeping it up.

Correct me if I'm wrong...

[IanJohnstone]

To nose manual you really need to push down hard on the bars while in your endo position. Obviously more weight needs to over the bars than the normal side of the bars so the steeper the slope, the easier it is to get your weight over.. and also the more likely it is that your gonna go too far and land on your face.. lol so be carefull!

Hope that helps a bit

there's a little nose manual in my vid TRACK06 (link in my signiture).. about 37 seconds in

I find it easiest to use squeekers to get it going.. never learned the g-turn but if you get a fast g-turn you don't seem to have to be so far over the front as you've got speed on your side

All the best,

Ian

[Matt Burrows]

Yeah what Ian said . Its all about holding your weight on your arms and over the bars. I find it pretty hard work on my arms, so it may take a lot of practice to build the strength up. I learnt squeakers first, they're certainly the easiest trick to learn. Then went on to learn nose wheelies by riding forwards, popping an endo, and pulling back as the rear wheel came down to start moving backwards, doing a quick reverse pedal stroke and then flicking the rear end up and hey presto your nose wheeling. I find this is the easiest way into them, and is better than doing a squeaker and then trying to get your feet back on the pedals. Doing a 180 endo and then rolling backwards into them is good for the extra speed. Doing a g-turn into nose wheelie is a much harder move requiring either a decent slope or high speed and big balls. I'd say that was the hardest out of all of them to do properly.

Also I'd recommend to practice going over the bars and jumping off onto grass for the extra confidence and bailing ability. Oh and it will be much easier to learn any of the above on a nice downhill slope

[aener]

Apologies... I guess I'm not very good at saying what I mean.

Helpful though it was - most of that I know.

I was after this bit:

I find this is the easiest way into them, and is better than doing a squeaker and then trying to get your feet back on the pedals. Doing a 180 endo and then rolling backwards into them is good for the extra speed. Doing a g-turn into nose wheelie is a much harder move requiring either a decent slope or high speed and big balls. I'd say that was the hardest out of all of them to do properly.

I was just after the easiest way to get into the balance point motion.

Like... if you want to manual, there's no point trying to learn to fakie manual, and then apply it - they're too different (in my opinion). I was wondering if it was the same for nose manuals.

Upon reflection, I realise it was a pretty stupid question :$

My bad.