Having Trouble Drop-Gapping! - Help Me Please.

[Laurence--Trials]

As the title says I'm having trouble drop-gapping and I don't know what I'm doing wrong..

1. I'm going up onto rear wheel

2. having my rear axle over the drop as if I'm actually going to do the drop,

3. lowering my front wheel then bringing it up while kicking on the pedals hard.

Anyone help me? I'm not 100% sure with stage 2, 'having the rear axle over the drop'

It just annoys me because i can gap farther like on flat than i can doing a drop gap?

Help please!

[stya_bear]

Have you tried not dropping the front as far, and launching from abit further back, not so off the edge?

Abit more like a flat to flat gap but obviously allowing for the drop in the air?

[Matt Vandart]

Have you tried not dropping the front as far, and launching from abit further back, not so off the edge?

Abit more like a flat to flat gap but obviously allowing for the drop in the air?

Danger Will Robinson! Danger! Eating shit can result. Danger!

Edited August 14, 2010 by Matt Vandart

[ogre]

your blatently being a pussy. your gap technique should be the same, flat or drop, sit on the lip of the wall/object lower the front end and power off it. you'll be holding back cause of the increased chance of pain and death.

[Matt Vandart]

your blatently being a pussy. your gap technique should be the same, flat or drop, sit on the lip of the wall/object lower the front end and power off it. you'll be holding back cause of the increased chance of pain and death.

Chuckle.

[liam n]

take off a bit further back

[Matt Vandart]

Danger Will Robinson! Danger! Eating shit can result. Danger!

[ogre]

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[Matt Vandart]

Here is why you should not take off further back Laurence:

If your wheel hooks up when you Kick off, you will nose dive and loose your teeth.

This is especially for mod bikes.

[monkeyseemonkeydo]

If your wheel hooks up when you Kick off, you will nose dive and loose your teeth.

This is especially for mod bikes.

Only if you start like 18" from the edge, which would be stupid. You want your rear axle line to be maybe 4" from the edge to give the wheel a chance to accelerate before takeoff. That's probably the simplest way to begin with, you can try pinch gaps later. However, as has been said you should just be replicating your flat gapping technique so just do what you usually do.

[mr ailsbury]

Gap like your doing a flat gap but try to land like you'd land a drop if you know what I mean lol

Sounds like your just being a bit of a mardarse about gapping over a drop though

[Laurence--Trials]

your blatently being a pussy. your gap technique should be the same, flat or drop, sit on the lip of the wall/object lower the front end and power off it. you'll be holding back cause of the increased chance of pain and death.

Okay, ill try and man up a bit, however when im on rear wheel or up there i don't feel nervous atall?

Here is why you should not take off further back Laurence:

If your wheel hooks up when you Kick off, you will nose dive and loose your teeth.

This is especially for mod bikes.

Thankyou for that I would like to keep my teeth

Only if you start like 18" from the edge, which would be stupid. You want your rear axle line to be maybe 4" from the edge to give the wheel a chance to accelerate before takeoff. That's probably the simplest way to begin with, you can try pinch gaps later. However, as has been said you should just be replicating your flat gapping technique so just do what you usually do.

Not really convinced i mean as said i dont want to loose my teeth just from taking off too far.

Gap like your doing a flat gap but try to land like you'd land a drop if you know what I mean lol

Sounds like your just being a bit of a mardarse about gapping over a drop though

I do try this i put like all my power into going as far as i can..

what you mean by this?

Not Sure if this is holding me back (chances are it is) But my freewheel is nearly dead getting a new one next week, its got like 2 pawls left so less engagements so i'm loosing power on my kick, fingers crossed this is my problem

[Matt Vandart]

Only if you start like 18" from the edge, which would be stupid. You want your rear axle line to be maybe 4" from the edge to give the wheel a chance to accelerate before takeoff. That's probably the simplest way to begin with, you can try pinch gaps later. However, as has been said you should just be replicating your flat gapping technique so just do what you usually do.

Au Naturaelle?

[monkeyseemonkeydo]

Au Naturaelle?

So you won't lose your teeth by starting 4" from the edge?

[Matt Vandart]

I'm saying that starting 4" from the edge increases your chances of loosing your teeth. On natural, where those annoying wee lips and lumps can catch you real bad if you start behind them, by learning to push off the corner (wall) or edge (rock) from the start he would be decreasing his chances of this happening.

On nice flat walls, starting from behind the edge, this probably wont happen, but on natural u can easily get caught out.

If one starts with the axle as said 4" behind the edge and drop the front end low enough, as if just dropping off the wall then the preload part of the tyre would naturally be on the corner I suppose (on stock).

I'm only warning him because I f**ked up a good few times on a mod (Which Laurence rides) by getting caught out by the little wee nazi lips on rocks, luckily I did not lose my teeth because they were not from much height.

Also I had getting it to the edge before gapping drummed into my head one evening by Kerr and Savage so I now have a fear of starting behind the edge

Besides he will gap further by bouncing off the edge.

[ant]

I think not being right on the edge is better on flat areas, i say this because when your right on the edge when you kick hard on the pedals it shoots you down a bit, so on flat areas start a bit further back, on natural get right on the edge but dont kick down as hard on the pedals you need to be getting your ass down as far as possible and then explode up as you kick down, as if you were trying to jump the gap without the bike?

Edited August 17, 2010 by ant

[Laurence--Trials]

I think not being right on the edge is better on flat areas, i say this because when your right on the edge when you kick hard on the pedals it shoots you down a bit, so on flat areas start a bit further back, on natural get right on the edge but dont kick down as hard on the pedals you need to be getting your ass down as far as possible and then explode up as you kick down, as if you were trying to jump the gap without the bike?

I get you thank you very much for than ant

I'll try this later.

[chimpanzyyyy]

I think not being right on the edge is better on flat areas, i say this because when your right on the edge when you kick hard on the pedals it shoots you down a bit, so on flat areas start a bit further back, on natural get right on the edge but dont kick down as hard on the pedals you need to be getting your ass down as far as possible and then explode up as you kick down, as if you were trying to jump the gap without the bike?

goodlooking technique but it seems to me you jump pretty high but not that far from the wall.

I struggle at dropgap myself, and i ve noticed that I have the same trouble whem I push my self... I tend to jump high but not far, which is pretty unefficient