urban freeride help
 

hello everyone...i have been riding XC for a number of years now, and i have decided to get in to some urban freeride...now i am trying to get the 180 bunnyhop down but i can only get half of the rotation (consistantly anyway, once and a while the tail of my bike will swing a lil further)
here is what i am doing (pavement to grass)

1.ride up at a jogging pace
2.cut hard right leading with shoulders and eyes
3.hop
4.land 90 degrees and a little more frustrated from were a started

now i have noticed that when i land my body is parallel with the bike meaning maybe i need to twist more?

does anyone have any tips to learn this trick?
o and my bike is a 2006 cindercone...it is a XC bike so the stem is pretty long, would that affect my street riding? should i invest in a DH style stubby stem?


thanks very much!!
scott

o yes and if anyone has any tips on parts to covert an xc frame to a street worthy bike post em up!(ie chain stays,bb and such)

Dont huck and XC bike, it isnt made for that.

I would like to see someone do that on a XC bike.

Look where you want to go, lead with your head and the rest of your body/bike will follow. Height doesn't matter at this point.

thanks very much, and as for hucking i dont huck anything higher than what i would find on some single track

anyway.....any tips on buying bottom brackets....so far all i really know about them is you get what you pay for (ive honestly never busted one..yet anyway)

i do it all the time. very simple

some tips

1.turn the bars a little bit to the side u wanna go in
2.learn back kind of do a crooked wheelie and then in 1 swift motion twist your body and then level out.

start practicing on a hill or incline, and work up to a 180.

I beat the crap out of an old steel Hardrock riding street on it. It was an XC frame and it held up fine.