Mountain Biking - *Hucking thread*. Pics of hucking, Drops, and stunts. Whoo!

To all the droppers, gappers, and huckers out there... I figured I'd *attempt* to bring us a nice collection of our own photos.

I'll start us out with a little action from today....

I'd love to see what you guys do.. and what all you've got on film & pulled off.

A nice little roller we found over towards one side of the Quarry. Makes for a fun little drop if you pull up...

My friend cought this picture of me rolling it right after we dug out the line. :beer:

Here's a nice shot of my friend J.T pullin a Gap & Drop on a BMX bike. It measures out about 6.5-7 feet... not bad for a no-suspension 20" bike. Props.

All these pics were taken BEFORE we started to do actual footage and some are not great in quality so here goes ;

1) back in XC days

2) my first jump on my Stab

3) this was the first 6' drop I ever did.

4) this is a buddy of mine at Sea Otter last year

5) And finally another friend on a local trail

Sense of accomplishment! Definitely...just ONE year ago I wouldn't have even considered this one, from the lip to the ground is about 4.5 feet. With a very slow approach it's 5 ft plus. I still get a huge adrenaline rush when I drop this one.

You've got to love digital video...vids - less than 1mb each:

Ben BROKE a tree when he endo'd!
http://www.donaldsonclan.net/Vids/PalmerDrop2003-01-09-ben.mpeg
http://www.donaldsonclan.net/Vids/PalmerDrop2003-01-09-tree.mpeg

http://www.donaldsonclan.net/Vids/PalmerDrop2003-01-09-DaveN.mpeg

These two are me:
http://www.donaldsonclan.net/Vids/PalmerDrop2003-01-09-keith2.mpeg
http://www.donaldsonclan.net/Vids/PalmerDrop2003-01-09-keith3.mpeg

It actually took me forever to do this....lol.

Awesome pics Wait!

:p

I forgot I had a few more to post...

here's a few more of mine......

a few more.. these next few aren't very big. Just fun stuff

one more for now!

Well it aint much but here is a little vid from todays ride. It will take about 8 min. to download if you have a high speed connection.

Small Jumps (http://www.descenders-on-dirt.com/AlittleDJing.mpg)

Hey Wait, ever thought of trying to ride over the arch?:p

hey lot of cool pics guys!

bikeCOLORADO, nice shots of that drop. but a question: wouldn't it be "better" to do a wheelie drop and land more on the rear wheel?

i'm still working on my wheelie-drops. i have no problem doing small stuff like curbs and up to 2 ft and all, but for whatever reason (uh, fear) the bigger it gets, the flatter i do it so i've landed a few flat (front and rear at the same time) which sucks.

anyway, i've got a little motitvation: i found a drop on my local trial that is unrideable without a wheelie-drop (about 3 ft but with sloping backside up to about 4.5 feet - if you tried to ride it front-wheel-first the crank would hit and with only 80mm in front i would flip if i tried to ride it front-wheel first)... and the real motivation: it looks like my x-girlfriend whom i haven't seen in 2 years is coming to Europe to visit me 5 weeks from now and ride (she's single again too!)) and she has been getting way into freeriding and downhill... so i'd like to be at least near her level and, well, it would be cool to be able to do a few "impressive" things (not that i have to, but well, would be cool) - so i've set my goal as a solid, confident wheelie-drop...

any of you guys got any tips for going to bigger wheellie drops? and to fight the fear factor, what typically happens when you screw up? one possiblity is landing the front first which is bad... can you as screw up by leaning too far back and go over backward? (hitting your head). when learning and going bigger is it better to go mid-speed, slow or really fast?

BigHit: for those stair gaps, are you landing on the flat part after the stairs? or on the bottom steps? i only have an XC bike (Specialized FSR) so i think i would kill my bike (i've already worn out the rear shock spacers twice in 1 year)

wait: i wish my wheelies looked that good... my flat "hopping" (with both wheels on the ground) is almost flawless now - i can hop backwards and turn around or go sideways... i've been trying to practice the rear-wheel only hopping - by finding either logs or a drop and placing the front wheel on it for balance... but i'm not really getting very far - also i have clipless pedals w/o platforms so i am clipped in for everything which makes it a little more risky... anyway here's one of my wheelies - but not really that impressive:

A huck is moving more outwards than downwards, a drop is moving more downwards than outwards, a jump is.....well anything that shoots you upwards and outwards I guess.

This little guy can huck of a rear cog!:D

Hmmmm... I figured I'd add a little bike porn in the mix for the day. Just got the new tires installed, and haven't had a chance to ride them yet.. my front brake line just broke... and now I have to go get a new line, and then bleed the brakes... so.. I'm out of huckin for a little while.

Here's a yummie picture I took yesterday afternoon.

:beer:

It's Quiet Waters. Never been to Markham Park but I've seen pics on www.TredHed.com of people hucking. Not sure how recent the photos are though.

Whoa, havent posted here in a while. Here's a pic of me at a local jump spot.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/thisisdil/huck.jpg

And the bike was JUST FINE!

stole the pic from mtbkanata.com :o

http://mtbottawa.com/cgi-bin/media.pl?p=2&show=830&start=0&ds=1&search=thisweek&by=posted
http://mtbottawa.com/cgi-bin/media.pl?p=2&show=831&start=0&ds=1&search=thisweek&by=posted
http://mtbottawa.com/cgi-bin/media.pl?p=2&show=832&start=0&ds=1&search=thisweek&by=posted
Just a small stairset. Couldn't find anything bigger close while borrowing friend's camera.

Originally posted by DiL
http://members.lycos.co.uk/thisisdil/huck.jpg

And the bike was JUST FINE!

stole the pic from mtbkanata.com :o

This is not even funny, nor a rite thing to do. People jumped out of the windows when buildings were on fire. Pay the respect dude.

Me doing a road gap on a video at my mates sight:www.freewebs.com/mtbw_files/XMTB- Road Gap.wmv (http://www.freewebs.com/mtbw_files/XMTB - Road Gap.wmv)

and a freeze frame from that:

Bad quality in the first place, then having to save it on an even lower quality to post it here made it pretty bad. But its me finally...!

Friend jason....pic was taken by me which is why its so good:D

Me going off the same huck.....I always seem to turn my bars to the left.

There is a bunch of these little hucks on the trail, too bad the only pic that jason got of me on one of these was really bad, and the other one was about 2 seconds after I landed:D They all had long landings....pick how big you want to go sort of except most of the run ins were short. I had to hit one of them 3 times too, just for nothing:(

The start of another new ride in my yard.....gunna have a ramp on each side, whole thing is going to be supported on a pipe, ride up onto it jam on brakes and roll over to the other ramp....should be cool.

a pic of a mate doing a drop at a local quarry. I have rolled down the drop (avatar pic) but I need more confidence to get some air. I'll have to work up to it.

Here is one of our club riders at a local spot

Yeeee haw!

Just got back from a pretty *****in' session with my brother and a few friends of ours. (Kevin & Shane).

Here's some pics of us.

Shane's the one on the Giant AC-Air & wearing the red shirt

Kevin's on the BigHit Single-Pivot with the Giro Helmet

and of course, I'm the bucket-head wearing the black shirt, Azonic shorts, and riding the BigHit Comp.


Enjoy. :D

:beer:

Here's Kevin.


;)

Here's me.

:D

Nutha' of muah'.

:D

1 more of me.

;)

Here's Shane.


:beer:

Shane kickin' it

Shane goin big again. :D

And... the 3 of us chattin it up.

:beer:

Here's one last one.

My bro decided to hit the infamous "Drury Inn Drop" ..

while it was dark. He was riding the Trek 4300 ... hardtail.. with a beater RST no-travel fork.

At any rate, it turned out pretty cool.

I think we need to get this thread put at the top as a "READ" thread.

Anyways, here is a pic from our ride this weekend. The quality is not all that great because it was taken off a video clip:beer:

And another:beer:

And yet another one. Notice the nice pink basket and blue tassels?:beer:

Here is a close up of him. Last week they were joking and said he should ride with this stuff on his bike. Well he did.:roflmao: :beer:

Doods!!!

Reel the topic back to the discussion- any further political discussion, and I'll split the thread and move the political stuff over to the political forum.

Thanks,

Koffee Brown

Forum Moderator

Worked on my new ride today more, PROGRESS!!>>

Tha wheeeeel

Oh well I tried to find pics on the web. Here is one of my favorite trails. Only one stunt though. The log going over the rapids (the pic must be early spring cause now the water just touches the log and just looks nasty...hard to concentrate for 20metres...

http://bikemag.com/heavypedaltour/whistler/

ordered my 661 Pressure Suit today!!! plus a Salsa Chainrig Guard -- ALL my big rng below my right foot (b/c i ride fight forward) are GONE!

anyway, i should be totally ready for Lake Garda the first weekend of October! i am stoked already!

here's one photo from my Freeride yesterday... there were a few bigger drops, but no potos.

see a few more of my photos from my Freeride tour yesterday at http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36956