Getting On To Objects

[earsy104]

Hey people i was wondering if you could help me and give me some guidance on getting on to objects i.e. walls and stuff as i can pedal hop of them its just getting on to them though, which for me is the tricky part ive got a stock bike if its any help people

cheers

:P

[Simpson]

always start further back than you think you need if you want to get higher dolphin up and hold the bike pulled up. or thats what i do :P

[Dan6061]

"Dolphin up" What the hell is that? :- :P

It depends on how you want to get onto it,

One way you could do is either wheelie, or (sort of) manuel the front wheel on top of the 'object', then push the bars forwards and de-weight the back wheel.

Or you could try backwheeling it...

Start off a bit far back off the object with you "good foot, chocolate foot" etc, back, then do a half crank rotation and as your good foot comes forwards, pedal kick and push the bars upwards, and tuck.

You wont always get backwheeling first time, it takes alot of practise, just keep trying and you'll soon get it.

B)

[Simpson]

"Dolphin up" What the hell is that? :- :P

Might be my own slangy but just when you pull up you arms and squish your legs??

[dozza]

find something small to learn on, say a foot tall or so, preferably with out a drop the other side so you dont worry about messing t up.

you could consider options with two approaches in mind:

1. that the bike is stationary before you make the move to get up

2. that the bike is in motion

Which you choose depends on confidence, skill and obviously which one is more appropriate.

Generally speaking, it is easier to be moving to get up sopmething becayse you use the momentum to your advantage, eg rolling towards ledge head on, front wheel up, then throw your weight over the bars and allow the back to come up.

Theres many ways to get up however theyll be deifned by either starting stationary or when youre rolling.

Rolling may not be easiest though.

Try getting the front wheel up, and using little side hops to shift the bike around so your almost horizontal to the ledge, with the front wheel up it, then with the brakes on throw your weight forwards again and let the back come up and sideways a bit.

[lankyri]

i love static ups they are the best, theres so many ways that you can do it now

1. if a wall is to high to get up from straight on angle urself and go at it at a slight angle

2. is to do a wheeliehop just before the object and using the foward momemtum hop as you land the wheeliehpop and you go flying up the wall

3. is more of a power surdge, one hop to the back wheel then up the wall caution as you may snap your chain doing this as i have :)

hope this helps you mate

[rickyb]

Might be my own slangy but just when you pull up you arms and squish your legs??

do you mean backwheel things?if so they are hard so he won't be able to do those just yet. :)

try riding up to the object get ur front wheel on and as soon as it hits the top of the object pull ur front brake and then lift ur backend up and nose it in so pritty much endo onto it thats the easyest mate :) :(

hoep this helps buddie :P

rickyb

[trialridertom]

Try and go to bash plate if you cant go to two wheels that was what i got learnt or tyre tap it :) :)

Tom...............

[poopipe]

tada! - trashzen as always

http://www.trashzen.com/climbing6.html

thats your basic 'pedal-hop up something' technique right there. for crap rider technique see the slowmo one of me getting on a rail.

it's just a bunnyhop with a quick pedal as you leave the ground to get you going forwards - the hard bit is the timing. Learn it up high kerbs to start with because you'll actually make it up them. Everything else (sidehops, gaps etc) kind of stems from this technique so it's kind of essential learning.

[Mark W]

tada! - trashzen as always

http://www.trashzen.com/climbing6.html

thats your basic 'pedal-hop up something' technique right there. for crap rider technique see the slowmo one of me getting on a rail.

it's just a bunnyhop with a quick pedal as you leave the ground to get you going forwards - the hard bit is the timing. Learn it up high kerbs to start with because you'll actually make it up them. Everything else (sidehops, gaps etc) kind of stems from this technique so it's kind of essential learning.

I wouldn't say it was like a bunnyhop with a quick pedal, to be honest.

When you're doing it, you end up doing the sorta first half-pedal-stroke (starting with your bad foot just above horizontal, at the front) to lift the front, and the second half-pedal-stroke to launch you up, ending up with your good foot in front, like in this (or in this video if that one didn't work) video.

I'd say the easiest way to learn how to up stuff is just to do half a pedal-stroke (starting with your bad foot foward) to lift the front up onto an object, then unweight the rear end and push the bars forwards to bring the back up. That'll start getting you used to the timing of pedal strokes and so on, and you can gradually refine the technique.

Don't make the mistake a load of beginners make which is to learn to do it just using a stab on the pedals, starting with your good foot at the top. Loads of new riders seem to make the mistake of rolling at something with their good foot at the top of the stroke, just putting a 1/4-stroke in, and then just trying to throw the bike up there. It's going to limit your technique, and it's just better to learn to do it with a 1/2-stroke first, then maybe move onto the full pedal-stroke.

But yeah, I'd start with the way I described up there first. Getting up stuff forwards first is easier than trying to learn to sidehop up stuff and so on.