Any one here BMX????

Are you talking about freestyle on a BMX bike Zupra? Go get yourself some pegs for the front and back wheels so you can start doing some tricks on those first. Then move up to some harder tricks. I see you can't do a bunny hop. All you need to do is after you lift up on your front wheels right when you come to the top of pulling your handlebars up slightly jump with your feet and pull the back end up at the same time. Does that make any sense to you? I'll check back after while to see how you are doing

 

then get a gyro and i'll try to describe how to do a cherry picker. but don't assume you won't get banged up! do you have elbow pads and a helmet?

Zupra, what ever happened to Haro Bicycles? they still around?

 

make sure you get a decent pair of elbow and knee pads. a pair of racing gloves work too, they'll ave your palms. you're learning, young padowan. even the pros still wipe out.

 

Try jumping up a curb on the side of the street. pop your front wheel up over the curb and then right before your back wheel hits jump it up and there you have a bunny hop. What about SkyWay bikes are they still around. I think Haro is still around.

 

a gyro is a device that sits uder your handlebar and your frame. it's a device that allows you to spin or rotate your handlebars 360 degrees without tearing your brake cables off. its really cool.

if you only have feet brakes, and not hand brakes, then you don't need this yet.

 

omg skyway! those bikes were sick.. weren't they one of the earliest to introduce the mag wheels?!? so cool.

Zupra- you're right. i wasn't sure how to spell Padawan. thx!

 

never heard of them before.. but i've been out of the loop, since you can see i wasnt even sure if Haro was still around LOL.

I do know that you can never go wrong with GT or Haro. I used to race GTs, their bikes are built to last.

 

Yep Skyway were the standard among mag wheels beside paragrind (sp) remember those were the mag spokes that were slanted?

Oh the memories of freestyling.

 

keep praticing. Try to do a bunny hop over a piece of wood or something like that. All of this requires practice and you will get a few bumps and scapes along the way just becareful and do not try anything that you are not comfortable doing.

 

hi Zupra

 

Yes Yes! Peregrine i think. oh man i wish i was a kid again lol.

Zupra, u know how you scrunch down almost to the ground when you want to jump real high off the ground? well think like that when you're on your bike, BUT always think of your feet being glued to your pedals and your hands to your grips.

Front wheel up first, and as you do that, pull your legs up with your knees bent.

it helps if you try to have the inside of your sneakers (your instep) pushing against the crank (the metal bar attached to the pedal)

if you do that, you can pull the middle of the bike up with your feet.


Rob