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Yep, most important thing is to shift your weight back. When I switched from street to trials, everytime I bunnyhop, I would always end up landing the front wheel first, which creeps me out because many times I almost flew over the bar! I kept forgeting that I have a longer stem, a rather a very long stem. Alternately, you could do a pedal up. This move purely rely on the drivetrain. You go into starting position, back-foot forward, give the cranks a 3/4 turn to raise the front wheel, and then pull up on the rear wheel and level out. When done correctly, it should feel like a bunnyhop.

For me now it would be 1) trackstand to manual to drop/ or hop up. 2) 180 front pivot to fakie to half cab and then hop up something (I can't 180 so I pivot) 3) still trying to add in the classic x-up just before the drop.

I'm a fan of Harrison Ford, and of course Indiana Jones. But I find this rather funny! Youtube Video -> ">" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350">

It's wiser to remain silent and be thought a fool, rather than to speak up and remove all doubts. Light travels faster than the speed of sound, some people appear brighter until we hear them speak. and check out my sig too!

Got this off my friend's blog... In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death. (Like THAT makes sense.) In Bahrain , a male doctor may legally examine a woman's genitals, but is prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror. (Do they look different reversed?) Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers. The sex organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times. (A brick?) The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation. (Much worse than "going blind!")! There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry. (Let's just think for a minute; is there any job anywhere else in the world that even comes close to this?) In Hong Kong , a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband's illicit lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired. (Ah! Justice!) Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores. (Is that really true?) In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens, her mother must be in the room to witness the act. (Makes one shudder at the thought.) In Santa Cruz , Bolivia, it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time. (I presume this was a big enough problem that they had to pass this law?) In Maryland , it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: Prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises." (Is this a great country or what? Well, not as great as Guam!) Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Who volunteers for this stuff?) Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (Is that why Flipper was always smiling?) The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (From drinking little bottles of???) (Did the government pay for this research??) Butterflies taste with their feet. (Ah, geez.) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.) Starfish don't have brains. (I know some people like that, too. ) And, the best for last? Turtles can breathe through their butts. (And I thought I had bad Breath in the morning)

Haha! It's morning at my side now, and it sure made my day! Edit: Do you think Deng would be reading this? lol!

Wow, you don't have to go through all the hassle of rebleeding and all? Just good old wd40?

When I read this thread 2 days ago, I posted in my local bike forum where to get my frame heli-coiled in the event I stripped one of the threads. Today, I stripped the thread off one of the brake mounts. I was about to give it a final tightening and it just stripped. Shame as I only got it barely a month ago! (At least now I know where to go to heli-coil it) And guess what? I was using Deng bolts! Does that testify that Deng bolts really suck? lol.

I know everyone would get pissed when they stripped the threads off their frame. Just stripped one of the brake mounts on my 24uk, gonna get it heli-coiled!

It's a good thing that 24'' are short enough for street, and long enough for trialsy moves. Stem length do play a part I guess.

I get your point

I listen to mostly Green Day (their older albums), pop rock and new wave. I second that. I have friends who aren't riders - they cracked their nano screens, that's the first gen nano. Some of my rider friends carry the nano second gen, so far so good. But I would get the shuffle 2gb if I were you. In fact I'm saving up for one right now. Currently I'm using my 5th gen ipod, a bit bulky in my pocket, but the plus point is that I could watch loads of riding videos to get some inspiration! (especially Ryan Leech's mastering the art of trials)

I second that. But it's your mindset at the end of the day. If cloud your mind with all the disadvantages of a 24'' (everything sure has a disadvantage right?), then you wouldn't find the feel of it good.

Besides that, imagine you just hopped up say 30 inches after a few attempts. You are happy for the day, and tomorrow you would try to hop up higher, so you increase it by an inch or two. Now imagine it's in cm. Increasing the hop by a cm is ridiculous. I rather increase the hops by an inch, which is 2.54cm, the increment is more, and makes you improve more. lol. It's all nonsense actually.

Actually the egg came first, because those dinosaurs evolved to grow wings and feathers. So in time, the egg which they lay would produce the creature we all call chicken. This sounds racist. A black chicken has white feathers, but it's meat is all black. Nobody really eats them, the Chinese use them to boil herbal chicken soup, which tastes great! Speaking of chickens, what's the best fried chicken restaurant? At my side it would be Popeye's because the KFC here is crap.

Very nice! I like the song, it was used in the movie A Night at the Roxbury. Gone are the days of those funny "clown" suits.

Is that in Shanghai?

For disc, you can't go wrong with Hope.

Disc for the rear scares me, slipping I mean (not enough bite). Besides working great in wet, are there any other advantages for rear disc?

My friend from Slovenia is also getting a TA26 with 24'' wheels!

Oh, so you're from the Philippines. Cool, there's sure many trials riders in your country! They keep adding me on friendster, lol. Anyway, your shiny frame is very nice. Is it mandatory for the rear brake lever to be on the left side in the UK? Is it because of the right hand drive (for cars I mean)? I'm right handed so my rear brake lever is on the right, and my country is right-hand drive too. Most of the riders at my side put the rear brake lever on the right.

I'm the only trials rider in my area, so I ride alone, with my mp3 of course. Yesterday I was practising pedal kick to manual then to pedal kick and back to manual on some ledges. This chav and his friends happened to walk pass and stopped and watch me. Everytime I was up in the rear wheel hop position, getting ready to execute my moves, the chav would shout: "FALL FALL FALL!". Really pissed me off. Thank goodness I didn't fall, lol, else he would be laughing. He's like 6 years younger than me though, cos of his school uniform. One bad thing is I look young, so people tend to do stupid things on me. Once I was side hopping over a tape, and this chav wanted to cut the tape. Have any of you whacked of them up because they keep annoying you? I could control myself, but sometimes one whack would teach them a lesson.

Youtube Video -> Original Video Take note from 00:54 to 01:04 You should be able to find your sweet spot as you try out how far the front wheel is from you. If your pedals keep ratcheting back/up, during the up hop give it a kick, this should level them out. (of course you must release the brake in order to kick) In time you could even hang on the rear wheel, and you don't have to hop so much. I usually practise the hanging before I pedal kick down a drop. This improves your balance, and makes your riding look nicer. Don't forget to move your entire body - knees, hips, shoulders!

Why did Ed go over to bmx? Is he still riding now?

How about Deity?