My BMX Stunts, Tips, Tricks
#76
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Explaination on Bunnyhopping,J-hoping/Nollie,The reverse J-hop/Reverse Nollie.
Bunnyhopping is the most important trick in BMX, if you can't bunny hop, then you suck ****ing ass. I learned how to bunny hop last year on my Hoop-D(a 40 pound bike). I took my about 1 hour of crouching and pulling up to get the motion down. The techinuque i use is have your dominent foot back on your crank, and you other front, crouch on the bike benching your knees until the handlebars com to your chest, and quickly pull up. J-hoping, or Nollieing, is easy, once you get the bunny hop down, you pull your front end in the air first then pull up the back end of your bike. I even know a kid who can nollie about 4 feet in the air. Reverse Nollie is the exact oposit of that you pull you back tire up then your front. I and another kid I know are the only people that I ride with that can do this.
Bunnyhopping is the most important trick in BMX, if you can't bunny hop, then you suck ****ing ass. I learned how to bunny hop last year on my Hoop-D(a 40 pound bike). I took my about 1 hour of crouching and pulling up to get the motion down. The techinuque i use is have your dominent foot back on your crank, and you other front, crouch on the bike benching your knees until the handlebars com to your chest, and quickly pull up. J-hoping, or Nollieing, is easy, once you get the bunny hop down, you pull your front end in the air first then pull up the back end of your bike. I even know a kid who can nollie about 4 feet in the air. Reverse Nollie is the exact oposit of that you pull you back tire up then your front. I and another kid I know are the only people that I ride with that can do this.
#79
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Originally Posted by Beerman
You're ********.
A bunnyhop is when you pull the front tire up, and then the back.
A nollie is when you pull up the back, and then the front.
Where the hell do you come up with this sh1t?
A bunnyhop is when you pull the front tire up, and then the back.
A nollie is when you pull up the back, and then the front.
Where the hell do you come up with this sh1t?
#82
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Originally Posted by FireTeamCharlie
Im pretty sure a bunny hop is when you pull both tires up at once.
#84
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Considering that that video was released on VHS at least five years ago, it doesn't really matter what kind of connection you have to the net.
Anyway, that is nothing more than an improperly performed bunnyhop; I do that all the time when I have ride switch.
Anyway, that is nothing more than an improperly performed bunnyhop; I do that all the time when I have ride switch.
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Pay attention Chuck, this is where you start to learn more things. It will be some time before you have to worry about the new stuff pushing the old stuff out.
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Originally Posted by FireTeamCharlie
Well atleast Im learning crap...
#88
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why did you even bother teaching him...he still disagrees with you guys, even know both of you have more experence and have been riding probly twice as long as he has and are probly twice as good...
#90
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Originally Posted by Beerman
I've been riding 11 times longer than he has, and Expat is probably three times his age.
#91
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dont know but i do know what it stands for...
"Bicycle Motocross" (the "x" comes from cross get it..) just like the "x-up" its also called the "cross-up" clever aint it...
"Bicycle Motocross" (the "x" comes from cross get it..) just like the "x-up" its also called the "cross-up" clever aint it...
#94
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I'm going to assume sometime in the late '70s. I've been meaning to see Joe Kid as well, but none of the local theaters, even the indie theaters, have shown it.
And that kid's what, eleven or twelve? That's about three times his age.
And that kid's what, eleven or twelve? That's about three times his age.
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Originally Posted by Beerman
I'm going to assume sometime in the late '70s. I've been meaning to see Joe Kid as well, but none of the local theaters, even the indie theaters, have shown it.
And that kid's what, eleven or twelve? That's about three times his age.
And that kid's what, eleven or twelve? That's about three times his age.
#98
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From: South Barre, MA
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I know how I could make that bike too. A motor. Its genious. I could do it to. I got a grinder, and know how to weld. It don't even matter to me anyway, I got the pelasure of hitting jumps with a roadbike yesterday. It held up pretty good for a bike with little rims.
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Originally Posted by FireTeamCharlie
I know how I could make that bike too. A motor. Its genious. I could do it to. I got a grinder, and know how to weld. It don't even matter to me anyway, I got the pelasure of hitting jumps with a roadbike yesterday. It held up pretty good for a bike with little rims.




