i did a pretty good one that involved a large object on the ground, my bike, and my face ending up on the pavement. was that really a cool trick? i thought i fell.

you win.

anyone see the vid of the sf dude pulling a manual on a tandem down a monster ***** hill? he = god.

genericbikedude... real nice, trueschooler.

uuuuuuuh, yeah. sometimes i don't finish stuf

but i did see this video once with some nose wheelies in it...
I meant to post this animal video.
it's BMX, but i imagine one could do the same on a 700c wheel bike and enough forward lean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_uXPfSAVE

but what i really meant to say was... **** tricks on track bikes.
they look so much better on a bmx.

Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Bjt5NvfUE

f'real. i see a lot (if not all) of philly in that video. sweet.

Tricks on BMX bikes always look so slick and smooth. Always boggles my mind how good someone who knows what they are doing makes it look.

some of that video was definitely shot in columbus

oh, def. i saw 15th and high on there. maybe some osu campus? i avoid that place though (especially on saturdays), so....not an expert.

hmmmm.... was it downtown vancouver? did he/she look like a messenger? i've only seen one messenger do nose manuals but he never did it on his road-style bike and i never see any of the roadies around here do anything even remotely dangerous/fun/illegal on the streets.

curious.

Motorcycle types call 'em "stoppies". Doing it on a bike would be cool, and slightly less intimidating. At least, it would be nice not to have a 300+lb bike land on you if you screw it up.

There appears to be an endless supply of humorous videos of people trying stoppies and crashing their fancy crotch-rockets on the YouTubes. That wobbly bit right before the fall gets me every time.

hilariously, the trick at 1:54 is done against the north end of thebuilding that i live in.

oh, yeah, hilarious....cough.

10th and Main. The guy was wearing hipster clothes not roadie gear.

^If it was a tall blonde guy on a red Colnago conversion, its James Weeks. Great all around rider. I've seen him do a nose manual Gturn to fakie ride down 3 steps fixed.

I've been working on mt footjam nosepicks lately.. still not dialed.
(on bmx, not tracky)

i cannot imagine that it'd be so funny to anyone other than me.

I have spent most of my riding life working to make sure I don't find myself in that position that most often precedes an otb experience but do work on them in case I find I actually need that skill... and they can be fun when you don't crash.

I was hit by a truck (caught a mirror) while riding my fixed road bike this summer and did a nose wheelie down, through, and up the other side of a fairly massive pothole at some serious speed... there weren't any chicks to impress and I was just happy I wasn't killed.

yeah, not so funny to me, but i can see how it'd be funny to you. "hey, there's my house!"

i'd laugh if i saw mine on there.

edit: oh, and if you know brett at the 15th house, he says a lot of bmx videos get made here, he says over the past few years columbus has become one of the biggest bmx spots in the country.

wow thats an impressive video. I have been known to bust out manuals and wheelies on my road bike while wearing full kit on group rides, (that will break a pace line up quick as hell). but I prefer to only do it when I am running my old wheel set.


maybe we should start a trick thread in the road bike section and see what they say.

Sweet jesus, people are just killing it these days. The riding in that video would have looked like something from Mars a decade ago.

Yes. But i dont know what your doing wrong because when i lived in Portland all the pretty girls use to lineup around the block to watch me skid. Haha

holy crap, that horseshoe brick wall sh*t was awesome.

That just made me do this weird loud laugh and my dog got up and left.

Yeah, no **** huh?

Check out the other videos of that dude on there, he does the wall to 360 nose tap out!

pretty much seems to be the case