......sidehops..... the way i do them is get the bike on rear wheel...pause....one hop shoot down to your rear wheel......kick them dam pedals hard and chuck the bike in front of your face recently my sidehops have sufferd....now getting maybe 40 inches so im having to learn my tech all over again.........grrrrrrr should have writen it all down haha just give it beans young man....lots of preload...commit then tuck dave