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I did this about a month ago after just watching the tarty bike tutorial, never done it before either so was worried about wrecking my wheel. Turns out was pretty easy and got some solid grip on back wheel. I used a dtone grinder disk and did it at an angle of 22 degrees (half of 45). Just go lightly, you can always go back over it and grind more if its too light, cant do that if you tearvthrough your rim! If you want practice why dont you just get a bit of scrap metal and try a grind on that? Oh, defo take wheel off bike and tyre off rim, one less thing to worry about.

Is that the weekend of the 6th? Think I'll be ok to ride then, free weekend 13-14th too as missus is taking kids away and leaving me to my own devices (i.e throwing bikes at stuff, to paraphase dman).

Ok, i know the place. See you there.

Just PM me on here, ill pick it up. United are playing Saturday as was gonna head out myself but parking will be a bitch on the quays. Where were you gonna ride? Not sure about town sat afternoon as parking prob just as bad.

Paperclip, let me also know next time you are riding this way, like i said to tom, be good to meet other riders. Me, I've not been riding trials long so still a beginner, got an inspired element but also just talked myself into an echo 24 inch which has just arrived, had idea it may be easier to progress on comp bike, need to get out on it, despite the weather! Like paperclip says, salford quays is good for a regular spot, plenty of features and you dont get kicked off the IWM or ITV side, been moved on from the bbc side a few times. Also know a few places round ancoats and northern quarter, yet to venture into heart of city centre yet, thought id leave that for summer when its light till later.

Ok, nice one. Be good to meet another rider, think we are few and far between.

Where by in cheshire? Im manchester which isnt to far from some bits of cheshire.....!

I'm manchester way, tend to ride salford quays with mate of mine from eccles. Let me know when you are out, try and arrange a ride.

Havent seen that vid before, cheers. Was spending time working on side hops a little while ago and sacked it off in favour of focus on rear wheel stuff, think I'll prob reinvest sometime in them again, oh and my wheelies and manuals suck too, also need to spend time doing them!. Figured out the pedal punch bit from messing around with pedal kicks a while ago. Thanks for the tips, now you mention it all the Ali C etc stuff ive seen is two wheeled rolling focused and very little static orientated stuff, gonna get back to that kind of trials for a bit..... now... if only it'll stop pissing it down for a few hours!

Right o, thanks. My thinking was drill core skills first to get solid grounding in basics. Been getting hung up on it though, want to move on but back wheel balance sucks and its affecting pedal hop control.

Top tip ooo, thanks mate. Must admit, my mate who i ride with has tiny back wheel hops, hes almost just compressing the tyre rather than leaving the floor. Will give it a go. One thing for me though that would mind an answer on, when i back wheel hop ive found it easier to keep arms straight, lean back and then adjust weight purely through hip position, that sound about right?

Ha! Yeah, i can guess that would be a head wreck, get used to how one thing feels then in moment of needing to pull something off intuitively it all goes horribly wrong. Heard something about the ideal number of bikes is the number you own plus one or the number that will result in divorce minus one! May have to flog my dirt jumper which makes me sad but not using it anyway right now. Had same thought on riding to get more practice, do it with the kids about, my elder boy has just got going on his pedal bike now so gonna start taking him to a few spots in local park where i can get some practice in. Keeps me, wife and kids happy! Never know, he may even get into trials himself that way.

Quality.

Nice one, just down road from my work that, will check it out.

Aye up, where by in bury is that? Looks good for tiding, i work in bury but live south manchester so easily do able for me.

Ha, reckon there might be a few folks take up trials for that reason. Got the inspired element, think its the one up from the flow but not sure as they dont do it anymore, but was looking at the flow for same reason as you. Got the element on ebay as a starter bike as wasnt sure at time whether I'd take to trials and its a nice rounded bike, fun for bunny hop orientated tricks etc, was virtually brand new and picked it up for fraction of price. And yes, also have an idea the trials will feed back into my trails. Seen chris akriggs videos where he is trial riding his mtb, pretty good stuff. Got a mate who has a 26 inch competition trial bike, thinking of getting one of them aswell but reckon wife might divorce me if buy any more bikes!

You and me both mate! About 6 months since i got my inspired so still a beginner too but found it hard to practice at times as have young kids. In fact one of the reason for taking up trials is it fits in better around the kids than the mtb. Mtb is 6 hours out the house, mostly due to the driving involved whereas trials, i can be in a good riding area within 10mins, especially with living in Manchester. Finding i ride trials more than mtb these days, but dont let my lack of progress put you off!

Like this; https://youtu.be/6nbMspsG-xY

Just stack about 4 ontop of each other then place your front wheel on top, set your pedals level then get on the bike. Start with just hopping the bike on both wheels and feel the balance then start to gently lift the front wheel while hopping by leaning back till it lifts and you are back wheel hopping. You'll prob find you go backwards but try to shift your hip position till you can hold steady or even hop forward. If you watch that first peter brandon vid ooo posted above i think he explains it on there. Keep plugging away at it, getting back wheel balance dialled in is frustrating as hell!

Yeah, wont be popping down there for couple of hours! Never mind. As for back hops, I've got a stack of pallets in my back garden I've been using to get the balance dialled in, found it useful as turns out i needed to be leaning much further back than i thought i needed to be. Give it a go, its helped me get my hops up to circa 15 and getting better. Good luck with the riding. D

Here it is, found this useful to explain the bridge between single pedal hops and multiple, i still cant do it mind you! Where you riding by the way, dont suppose you are manchester area?

See if you can chain a few pedal hops together with back hops between, that peter brandon dude that ooo sent a link for has done a tutorial on them, ill try and find the link, think he calls them wheelie stops, personnally im still struggling to get it nailed but im blaming bad weather interfering with play!. Its a real buzz getting something nailed for first time, i first managed to pedal hop up a kerb and down again about 3 months ago, it was like id just scored the winning goal at world cup!

Have you come across trash zen website yet? There are alot of how too's on there. I've found it really useful getting started, that and meeting another rider for practical tips. Defo grind your back wheel like Ooo says, looping out from a pedal assisted fromt wheel lift really blows your confidence. Just done mine, really wish I'd done it sooner!

Tried riding trials on a dirt jump bike, found it to hard but didnt know why at the time. Started doing some reading round and figured may be best to get a trials bike so got a street trials bike. Found it miles easier to start to pick up skills and understand techniques using the trials bike than i ever did the DJ bike pimarily due to the lighter bike with better suited geometry. Not saying you cant ride trials on a DJ or mtb but from my own experiences you may save yourself alot of headache and frustration getting something like an inspired flow or an onza zoot which are relatively cheap but may allow you to learn in a less hindered way. If you do buy a trials bike, do plenty of research to ensure it suits what you want from it.

Been looking at news articles for street light sessions in manchester back in 2011 and was wondering when it was coming round again, started looking but cant find anything after 2011. Did this never take off and did red bull knock it on the head?