There are some essential riding techniques
It will help you out on the trail in a moment of need then there's a staple diet of skills like
cornering or climbing for example
Then there's some totally unnecessary skills that are only really good for one thing [and] that's showing off to your mates
The [backup] is one of those
backups will definitely test your skills and your patience, but
With a bit of perseverance [they] should bring your riding on in leaps and bounds
literally
All joking aside backups are actually quite useful
Definitely in trials when you're going up and down obstacles [our] backup very helpful, but out on the trail
This is more of a slow speed
controlled aggressive move
Possibly used for getting across streams and will make lines possible that you couldn't ride before
Before you attempt to back off. [it's] really good to practice your track stance
[so] you've got some slow speed control also wheelies and manuals
We'll put the links to those videos in the [description] down below so practice those first
So let's start it off nice and small get up in your ready position sit nice and tall on the bike
Your favourite foot forward and now we're going to use the pedals to lift the front wheel
So you don't want to spin a circle like that I?
actually want to
Ride with my favorite foot forward and pull it back up a little bit so it's almost
the Top the stroke
And I'm just going to shop at the pedal
And that chop rather than a spin should pick the front wheel up you need to have it in a relatively hard gear
Otherwise if you're in to lower gear you'll chop and your cranks will Spin too fast, and you won't get that front wheel lift
So now I'm going to move on and make it bigger, and this is where it does help if you're good with a manual
So starting to [uses] some of the same techniques
So I'm going to use that chop again, but I'm also bringing my hips back my arms are going straight
And that's lifting wiill you've got to cover the bat-ray because in a second
I'm [gonna] start using that as part [of] the backup if you're not covering it
You're not gonna be able to do it so get your finger on that [back] break
So now we're going to make it slightly bigger, and this is where it's really important
You know how to manual because I'm gonna start using some of that technique
So I'm still doing the same chop with my pedals. I'm covering the brakes
Which is really important especially the back brake so when I do the chop
I'm also going back on the bike and [so] my arms straighten
That's really important to get the front wheel up nice and straight
I'm covering the back brake so that if that front wheel goes too high I can grab it [and]
[down] it comes again
So now I'm stepping it up another level and this where the back brake actually comes into play
So I'm using my chop on the pedals my manual maneuver to get the front wheel up really high and it's actually coming
Slightly behind that balance point that if I was doing a normal manual I've risked coming off the back [to] boy
So I've done my chop and now I'm bringing my hips into play. I'm actually banks in the back wheel up and into the air
front wheels coming behind that balance point and then I'm grabbing [that] bat brake
That's bringing the front wheel back down, and then I'm chopping on the pedals again. I'm
pumping with my hips again to hop that boy and that's when the backup starts happening, so it becomes a
chop and a bunny hop and then a bat brake repeat
So the real techniques of this is pedal and hips then brake pedal and hips then brake
Pedal and hips then brake and keep doing that
So [there's] how to back off. It's definitely not an easy trick [to] Master and in fairness
I'd say it's more of a trials move that something you can use out on the trails, but I'm sure you've seen riders like
standing with [cass] [school] Chris [Act] big and our very own Martin Ashton use them in their videos [a] very good [effect] and
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Always you click down there for How-to manual which should help you with house back on
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