BMX - learning 180's

ive been trying 180's for about 2 months and still cant get them i bunny hop about 2 feet and i only get about 90 degrees so can sum1 give me some tips

okay. this i know. it took me about 4 months to hop 180. you must just do what your doing to get 90s, but kick the back out more. you must just twist with more force. give yourself time. goodluck

thanks ill try

(say you grind to the left) Just wind up for it mentally, just before you take off slam your head around to the right lean to the right and turn, the split second you start to turn HOP!! Kick out your tail to the left and land backwards. Try to keep it level but let the back wheel stray slightly down to the ground. If you grind to the right just do the opposite.

Hope this helps you, it took me about a week trying it solid :)

oh and its all about the HEAD!! forget anything else, if your head dont spin then nor do you. It should be a natural reaction when your head is turn'd back and you hop :D

try them down steps, you'll have to get it or eat it, so it will help you.

try to lern kick outs and g-turns . get used to whipping the back in the air .bunnyhop and keep your head rotating the way you are spinning and whip the back to finish your spin

try them down steps, you'll have to get it or eat it, so it will help you.

i like this method the best

ahh ill try that i never used my head at all before

Thats probly your problem. when i was learning them, every one around me that i asked said "TURN YOUR FUKING HEAD!! MOOHHAHAAHHA!!!!" just like that

i grind wit my right side so i would 180 to my left

try them down steps, you'll have to get it or eat it, so it will help you.

are you fooking crazy, he'l completely feck himself up. i mean c'mon, 180's down a set of stairs is 10 times harder than 180's on flat!!! + he can only 90, that means when he lands he will fall sideways and it wont be pretty! :eek:

if your going to go that extravagant and try a set, DONT! do it of a curb not a flight of stairs

ok ok, the computer screen is him, and the hammer is the floor, OBSERVE :crash:

ive been tryin 180s recently too. the head thing might work, but i dont use it. I use a halfpipe or a really steep incline. Try fufanus. Im still trying those with no success.

The head definatly DOES work. using inclines's does work to a certain degree but only works for incline's. On flat is a completely different concept. use incline's at first its alot easyer, but some time you will need to transfer that skill onto flat. Thats when you have to start using your head.

try to lern kick outs and g-turns

laugh if you like mate, but wats a g-turn?

its when you have your front wheel on the ground and you whip your back wheel around 180 degrees, and you ride fakie.without brakes

oh. like half a rockwalk, yeah? look, about riding fakie, does anyone have tips on perfecting it, or is it one of those things where you just have to practise?

practice practice practice. it just like riding a bike realy, just backwards. but do try to pedal backwards faster than you are travaling. if you let the hub grip your cranks, you pedal backwards with the bike real slow and lose your balance.

oh. okay. i was doing the s-l-o-w backward pedalling. as in s--s--l--s--o--o--w--w

yea riding backwards needs a lot of balance, put u need to pedal fast...i still cant doo it more than 5 feet

lol, try abit faster but not franticly fast or you will just look silly

ill try to balance the franticness

how are the woman in SA? I saw some white models there and they were bangin! Minki Vansomething...

i can rollback about 20 ft now,my freecoaster helps me alot

180s must be easy on a freecoaster... can they take the abuse of streetriding or any they mostly for flatland?

Ive never rode on a freecoster, what they like?

the freecoaster takes out the click click click when u pedal backwards rite?

the freecoaster takes out the click click click when u pedal backwards rite?

nope, i dont entirely understand them myself but all i know is that you dont have to pedal backwards while going backwards, you can just keep you feet level. The thing i dont get is that you can pedal forwards aswell :eek:

Freecoasters have a clutch mechanism that allow you to rollback without having to backpedal if you disengage them (by backpedaling a tiny, tiny amount); they reengage when you start to pedal forwards again.

when doing a rollback, when you pedal foward it doesn't engage right away. the crank moves about15 degrees before it engages.

Why do people even waste there time with freecoasters? Does it make riding fakie easier for them, or is it just a preferance?

Why do people even waste there time with freecoasters? Does it make riding fakie easier for them, or is it just a preferance?


mainly they are used by flatlanders who often spend a lot of time on their rear wheel.

for street/park, they don't make rollbacks easier, just different. most people that use a freecoaster have a hard time getting used to a freewheel but after a short time (five minutes, give or take) they can rollback with a freewheel just fine. the same goes for those that are used to pedaling backwards, it takes a few minutes to get used to NOT pedal while rolling backwards. what am I trying to say? if you can rollback, you can rollback. to use one hub over the other is just personal choice.

However, freecoasters can help out when doing really technical stuff where you want your pedals to be in a given place. such as, on a mini ramp, abubaca to fakie, to nosepick to 180 to fakie to ice pick to fakie, etc.

It was super hard for me to do a roll back on my friends freecoaster because when I roll back I never realy pedal forward I just keep them straight after I turned more than half way around. So when I tryed on a freecoaster it was realy hard for me to actualy pedal forward when I turned around.

Is there any difference between a flip flop hub and a left side drive compatible hub? Is F/F mean it can be left or right and does left side drive means only left side? On the acs 888 freewheel it says you don't need a f/f hub to run it left side, so that means that I can take my right side only hub and put that on there? If so, does this make it very weak or could I still ride street, park, and dirt with it?

how high do you have to bunny hop to be able to do a 180

how high do you have to bunny hop to be able to do a 180
Theres not realy a exact height. It all depends on how fast you can whip your back tire around.

Is there any difference between a flip flop hub and a left side drive compatible hub? Is F/F mean it can be left or right and does left side drive means only left side? On the acs 888 freewheel it says you don't need a f/f hub to run it left side, so that means that I can take my right side only hub and put that on there?

A flip-flop hub is a hub that can accept 13-15-tooth freewheels, rather than the 16-20+-tooth freewheels (and the 15-tooth AC Racing freewheel), not a hub that has left-hand drive. And, no, you can't take a right-hand drive freewheel and put it on the left.

my friend has a freecoast hub, and i couldnt do a crankflip on em

Theres not realy a exact height. It all depends on how fast you can whip your back tire around.

yeah, its basicaly rider dependant. i und up about a foot high with a 180.

how are the woman in SA? I saw some white models there and they were bangin! Minki Vansomething...

same as anywhere mate.