tricks only work on NJS frames, you have to ditch the masi

/end thread. hahahah

he needs more spokecards. and needs to fit them in the aerospokes.

this one's better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibAwLTd7KlI @ 50 seconds

Y'all are postin' in a troll thread.

If you want to do tricks, buy a flatland bike.

Funny you learned to skid before trackstand ... I always thought trackstands were easier.

Wheelie while skidding? um...somehow that's just not going to work. at least you can't sustain a skid for more than a foot. Think about it... you take the weight off the rear wheel to skid. When you do a wheelie, all the weight goes back on the rear wheel. Ain't gonna happen..sorry.

Get some time in the saddle before you do much else.

+1

wow. Tricks like that on fixed gear bikes looks so ****ing lame, haha. Everything is kinda slow and shaky looking.

I mean, those guys can all out ride the hell out of me, but it's still pretty stupid...

You watch a halfway decent BMX flatland vid and you'll never wanna see 'fixie tricks' again.

Prolly just took this and posted it on his blog. Haha!

+1.

and i wanted to see nose manuals with pedalling the rear wheel in the air.

That's trivial.

lets see it then, hoor

What is the deal with all the animosity here? So the guy comes here asking for advice on how to do tricks on a fixed gear. Why all the beef about it?

If you are a cook, would you not take a moment to gently tease some one who informed you that they too were a cook, who just purchased the most expensive pan on the market (despite your knowledge that the pan is silly and impractical) and wanted your advice on various pancake flipping techniques?

Really it's just a rights of passage thing--everyone comes to this forum with sort of a stale question and gets burned once. They key is not to let your feelings get hurt by people who spend their time in online forums.

most of the people in this forum are purists who believe a fixed gear bicycle's sole purpose is to be an instrument of speed and the bike is being abused if you do tricks on it and to ride it in any other way than was originally intended is blasphemy...

This is a joke, yes?

i doubt you were kidding, and that's ridiculous. i'd say 85-90% of us on here have tried or do try tricks and ****. purists? 99.99% of us ride our track bikes on the street for christsake. its when the focus becomes something trivial that people on this forum get irritated. bending a fork by stomping on it or running it over, just to do barspins...then asking if its ok? i bet theres a ride in two weeks or the OP's friends are getting together and he wants to show up like karate kid and show them up. when the focus is on winning cool points, somethings wrong. if you're focusing on tricks and you're a solid solid rider, people dont think twice, because you know your ish, and won't be asking silly questions. theres no magic trick to riding backwards, theres no button combo for trackstands. all that stuff is really obvious to anyone who actually spent some time on a fixed gear. if he was asking how to pop a no handed wheelie, thats a little different. but read the op....its just got naive in spades.

Ok, I get it. :) This is a boy's club kinda thing. ;)

I guess so, which is sad. I think a lot of us would prefer it not be a "boys club," that basically being another way of saying "frat." But yes, this is a frat club for bike snobs. You show up on the door step with perfectly reasonable, albeit somewhat novice questions, you get hazed.

That's interesting. I ride a multitude of disciplines, even flatland BMX (see avatar) and fixed gear riders in my area are WAY snobby towards me - probably the snobbiest group of riders (in my area) when it comes to the bicycles I ride; BMX'ers and MTB'ers seem to be the coolest.

I don't give in to the fashion side of fixed gear riding, and I wear real cycling clothes and road shoes when I ride, saving trick riding for the bike that it's supposed to be done on - a real 20" flatland bike with pegs.

It almost feels like "Yeah, you ride a fixed gear, but you're not a fixed gear rider".

I really hope we don't start seeing pegs on track bikes in the future.

the end is near...
http://velospace.org/files/180002925_597078623_0.jpeg

I've yet to see anyone perfect the one-handed, umbrella holding, inverted manual:

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h1.../fail/FAIL.jpg

Wow yeah you might want to find a diff forum hahah. Look at all these haters!

I don't think anyone is serious about Aerospoke helping tricks, yet the OP agreeing with the advice? Nice and confusing, correct me if I'm wrong, please! At least his is mounted on the rear instead of adding weight to the front and making wheelies harder to learn.

Track stand took me at least a week, two to master. After you master the track stand with each foot forward and are able to rock back and forth a foot or two, then it will be simple to progress past the fear of riding backwards and be able to maintain your balance throughout a complete pedal stroke and further. Note you will probably be riding extremely curvy, turning side to side quite a bit more than you would going forward in order to maintain balance, or even doing circles at first instead.

Ouch! I read that article about dangerous chinese roads that the government didnt want to fix which featured these photos by a concerned photographer. That looks so painful!

all these tricks and more are nothing new, old school vaudville and circus type stuff check this Edison moving picture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZjd9...eature=related