Bmx Questions

[Barbra]

That washer is in right....nothing f**king works on this stupid piece of shit. It keeps doing it, i try it slack, it does it, i try it tight, it does it!!!!!! aaarggghhhh!!!!!

EDIT: It was me being a complete retard, there were two size washers, one was thicker than the other...i put the wrong one in...tis done now though. Head over the the bmx bike pics thread!

Edited June 2, 2007 by Barber

[Barbra]

Need help with rollbacks guys...

I've been practicing 180's did about 100 lol i landed most, but i only managed to rollback out of 4!

any tips/techniques would be gratefull

fell into the 17ft bowl as well. Went too slow and the front tyre decided to stay on the coping.

[poopipe]

Need help with rollbacks guys...

I've been practicing 180's did about 100 lol i landed most, but i only managed to rollback out of 4!

any tips/techniques would be gratefull

fell into the 17ft bowl as well. Went too slow and the front tyre decided to stay on the coping.

assuming you're making pretty much exactly 180 degrees - not over or under by much

land on both wheels at the same time - landing on the back makes it way harder

as soon as you land be ready to pedal back

keep arse low and hanging back a fair bit - not enough to raise the front but getting that way, make sure your legs are nice n loose

don't turn your head - keep looking in the direction you came from, i find looking at my stem helps

if you're tipping over sideways you're probably going too slow or you're not landing quite vertical which you can solve by going a bit faster into it and turning your head to face the way you came about halfway through the spin - so you're not spotting the landing.

if you're going too fast, use pedal pressure to slow yourself down .

it might be worth taking it to a quarter to get the hang of rolling fakie at speed cos it takes the 180 out of the equation

[Thom]

I can understand the pegless, brake less trend, but wtf is with running no chain ?

possibly picking up my bmx tomorrow

[poopipe]

I can understand the pegless, brake less trend, but wtf is with running no chain ?

possibly picking up my bmx tomorrow

cheap alternative to a freecoaster

or maybe they just hate their kneecaps

[Thom]

cheap alternative to a freecoaster

or maybe they just hate their kneecaps

ah yeah make sense, but its not even a bike any more ! more like a scooter...

[eskimo]

I can understand the pegless, brake less trend, but wtf is with running no chain ?

possibly picking up my bmx tomorrow

Are you talking about me?

[Dan Clark]

The way I roll out of 180's is to land with your front wheel slightly off, then you land and the bike and momentum do the roll back for you mostly.

[nickyw]

anyone know the code to fakie back real far? I heard it was something like X,down,left,up,circle,r1,l2 ?

[Mark W]

Why that order? The Collapse last, how come?

So where can i get one of these 410HX ones from?

The 510HX has some bad reviews and i don't like snapping chains.

The Collapse, both on my trials bike and my BMX, has been the worst chain I've ever used. I didn't even join my BMX one (used the split-link), and it developed 5-10 stiff links within a month. It also rusted instantly, despite my bike not going near water of any kind, and felt like shit. If I was going to be gay I could say they're heavier too (at least I think they are?). On my trials bike, it was the same again - loads of rust and stiff links, and I seem to remember snapping mine, although it could be I took it off before that happened just because I hated it so much.

Anyways, the 510HX is the only chain I haven't snapped yet, so I rate them pretty highly. It's the only chain my brother Dan hasn't snapped too, and he ran his last one for 2 years. Mine was about a year old when I changed it too, I think. They're just super good, and just over a fiver, which is pretty frickin' good.

Mr. Pipe - kudos for you to providing comedy at the DJ ride yesterday when DJ's mum Sue had to shout out your name when she was looking for people who pre-ordered t-shirts. I laughed. Anyway, regarding pacey rollbacks, if you're going too fast, just put some pressure on the pedals and get ready for the hub to re-engage. Do one full pedalstroke back with you using it to slow down, then just dis-engage the hub again? If you do stuff along the lines of that you can control your speed pretty well, and if you go with it, you don't get flung off the back when you have to backpedal again. Think: Mike Aitken.

To the other guy asking about rollbacks, contrarily to Mr.Pipe, I find that keeping my weight fairly centred (or slightly forward) on my bike works best. It means you're most in control, whereas if you're hanging off the back you've got to work more to preload for a half- or full-cab, manual, hop or switch out. If you keep your upper body in the same place and just let your bike go where it wants to (to some extent, obviously), then it usually works itself out. By keeping your balance, you make the bike stay balanced

[poopipe]

oh, right.

I'll have to learn to react a bit quicker when the engagement comes on those speedy rollbacks - I'm still a bit panicky at that sort of speed cos I can't really turn to see where I'm going yet.

I might give the weight further forward thing a rag, my snapouts can get a little wild at times and that probably goes some way to explaining it.

people keep mentioning this balance thing - I don't have that, I can do momentum combined with blind hope, are they similar in any way?

I do want one of the t-shirts, I didn't realise you had to go to the ride to get one - maybe I should pm Sue and pay postages.

[Mark W]

You didn't have to go to the ride, it was just that they had a list of people who'd ordered online and wanted to get the t-shirts to whoever was at the ride, it was just that no-one went forward when she asked so she had to stand on a skip and shout out usernames. I hope someone was recording it

[Barbra]

assuming you're making pretty much exactly 180 degrees - not over or under by much

land on both wheels at the same time - landing on the back makes it way harder

as soon as you land be ready to pedal back

keep arse low and hanging back a fair bit - not enough to raise the front but getting that way, make sure your legs are nice n loose

don't turn your head - keep looking in the direction you came from, i find looking at my stem helps

if you're tipping over sideways you're probably going too slow or you're not landing quite vertical which you can solve by going a bit faster into it and turning your head to face the way you came about halfway through the spin - so you're not spotting the landing.

if you're going too fast, use pedal pressure to slow yourself down .

it might be worth taking it to a quarter to get the hang of rolling fakie at speed cos it takes the 180 out of the equation

cheers love! someone told me the same today...and i can get it nearly every go now!

Learnt feeble grinds today...and tables out of the bowl!

EDIT: pics are up!

Edited June 5, 2007 by Barber

[poopipe]

cheers love! someone told me the same today...and i can get it nearly every go now!

going backwards was the one thing I was fairly good at.

It's all screwed now I've got the freecoaster of course - I can either roll back for miles or I fall off as soon as I hit the ground, there doesn't seem to be anything in between.

sod it though - going backwards is cool but going backwards really f**king fast is so much cooler I don't care if I only manage it half the time

oh - get those smiths on, it's the only truly manly grind you can do away from a handrail (except toothpicks but they're just dangerous)

Edited June 5, 2007 by poopipe

[Barbra]

I'll try them tomorrow! Its weird...with trials i was scared to do alot of the stuff but now i'm on bmx for 4 days i'll just go at stuff wanna try 3 the bowl...double peg the small rail...and smith a ledge tomorrow!

doubt i'll get any of them...maybe the small rail..cos it is small!

Edited June 5, 2007 by Barber

[Mark W]

2 lines from a pretty productive day in Richmond. All shits 'n' giggles.

[poopipe]

fakie wallride 180 thing = tasty like a fine hair(less)pie

[eskimo]

2 lines from a pretty productive day in Richmond. All shits 'n' giggles.

Whos the naugty boy posting in bmx questions

Good stuff, perhaps 180 to fakie hop down the other set? Or was it just not on the vid.

[Mark W]

It was just that I got that first go, 'cos it wasn't hard, whereas the half-cab to opposite wallride shenanigans took me a few goes, and was a harder trick. Got loads more shit done too that didn't go in the video, but apparently we're making a Style43 video with a bunch of sections from different people, so I'll probably go back and get some more stuff then when it's filmed properly...

[Fixed Pants™]

Are Hoffmans any good? (I think they're fairly good, but when i first got into trials i thought missions were good) I think the geezer said Hoffman Pro?

It's black, pretty decent condition, not sure about it though, saw it a couple of months ago as his daughter was on it, then yesterday he offered me it for 50 quid... I don't think it's stolen, even though he has just come out of prison and looks pretty dodgy, lol.

Might get into BMXing, dunno if i have the strength/skill to do all the shit that the decent people do though.

Edited June 6, 2007 by Fat Pants

[poopipe]

they're not shite bikes at all. depends on the model really but if its relatively recent and works you can't go wrong for £50

you dont need strength or skill if you go fast

[Fixed Pants™]

Well, i had a quick go on it when his daughter had it, wasn't too bad, don't think the brakes were too good though.

I dunno if i'll be getting it though, depends if i can get the dorrah together, if i manage to get a job in the next couple of weeks i'll deffo get it (as long as i can afford it).

My worry is that i can barely pick up a trials bike (trying to bunny hop or w/e).

I'll have to come to poopipe land and learn the way!

[poopipe]

brakes can be improved (read removed), bmxs are easier and more fun to ride than trials bikes if you ask me.

if you actually want to get good you're better off visiting eskimo or OBM (bongo's still knackered but he can probably outride me one legged so that might be worth a go).

[Fixed Pants™]

OBM I can do, he's in London most of the time (I think)

OBM will be my bitch.

Thanks for help.

[eskimo]

It was just that I got that first go, 'cos it wasn't hard, whereas the half-cab to opposite wallride shenanigans took me a few goes, and was a harder trick. Got loads more shit done too that didn't go in the video, but apparently we're making a Style43 video with a bunch of sections from different people, so I'll probably go back and get some more stuff then when it's filmed properly...

Sweet, looking forward to it. As for my camera situation, i haven't got a fisheye/wide angle lens yet so some of the stuff doesn't look very good. I mean the filming is too close up to the rider. But i've got some alright stuff, pretty much things that i can go back and do which is alright.