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"why is your youtube name craigleescott ?" is quite different to "er blud ur not fukin cls init bum bum bum" ;)

Just take everything on here with a pinch of salt if you're not quite sure, and if you still can't work it out, don't decide to get all aggressive about it

Think special olympics...

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because people have a go at you for things, all of which are trials related, so stop trials (Y)

and i dont like your name.

Ok :S

Im progressing far to much to just "quit". Besides it's only a select few on here who don't like me. I can live with that :).

If you don't like my name you don't like my name. End of. It's only a name.

Anyway people. Back to the topic.

Danny.

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Ok :S

Im progressing far to much to just "quit". Besides it's only a select few on here who don't like me. I can live with that :).

If you don't like my name you don't like my name. End of. It's only a name.

Anyway people. Back to the topic.

Danny.

i was taking the piss about the name thing.

if you can live with it then stfu

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I come here to look at some tuckage pics with all the new posts.. Only to be fronted by an argument.

''The bigger man walks away''

Danny is a good guy, On msn he seams sound. So i dont see what the huge ass deal about it is.

We all have a bad day and are snappy at one another its nothing to judge a man on.

Chizz xx

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Ok :S

Im progressing far to much to just "quit". Besides it's only a select few on here who don't like me. I can live with that :).

If you don't like my name you don't like my name. End of. It's only a name.

Anyway people. Back to the topic.

Danny.

I like you

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Danny is a good guy, On msn he seams sound. So i dont see what the huge ass deal about it is.

He's an arrogant little shit and next time i see him i'm going to batter him!

"its a joke muthaf**ka, don't quote me on that shit!!!!"

No really, i jest

:angry:

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Obviously the wall is big for them as they arnt good enough to just piss it with out tucking. But how you sidehop can be a big reason why people tuck so much. If you land front wheel first generally you dont tuck much, but more people these days are sidehoping so both wheels land at same time so to do that they suck the back wheel up and doing so tuck so much.

I'm left foot forward.

When I side hop to my right, no matter how hard I try, I always end up landing front wheel first and I barely tuck. I level out by pushing my arms forward and my arse down a bit, but certainly not much of a tuck. I take off close to parallel to the wall, and it feels very much like the way I first learnt to sidehop, from the Ashton Tricks & Stunts era. This technique you rely on the front wheel to pivot the back wheel round slightly to get on to the wall. Trying to force a tuck on this technique as I see some people do, is pointless. If your front wheel is on and your back wheel is high enough, it's clean sailing.

Now, when I go to my left, which is technically my wrong direction, I can get pretty much the same height, but things are very different. I don't land on front wheel, I land accurately on a brick width wall consistently and I do tuck more naturally. I take off at more like 45 degrees. Instead of relying on the front wheel to pivot me round, as I'm hopping, I'm pushing the bike with my feet sideways - BECAUSE of that fact, your body naturally ends up on the right hand side of the bike, allowing you to tuck. With this method, I can also side hop to pedal with ease - which I can't do when going the other way as I just end up pivoting my frame into the wall. So certainly if I was in a competition, I would choose to sidehop to my "incorrect" direction, because I have less chance of losing traction when my front wheel hits the object, and because I can land on pedal if things go wrong.

I consider them both to be valid techniques, esp as the first technique is closer to a wheel swap (or smoke as I like to call them) and so I can smoke about as high as I can side hop to my right. But as hard as I try, I can't go to front wheel on my left, and I can't do the two wheels technique to my right.

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