- Welcome to our five steps on how to fakie.
- Hello! - Yes,
we're gonna teach you how to
roll backwards on your mountain bike, the fakie.
As y'all know, recently, in our Curb video,
we discovered that Blakie can't fakie.
Go, go. (Blake chuckles)
Wait, can you not roll backwards?
- No, I can't. - Blakie can't fakie.
(Martyn laughs)
And we're gonna try and fix it.
He's gonna be my dummy pilot today
to show you these skills that are gonna hopefully
help you progress to rolling backwards.
It's gonna teach you great balance on your bike
and just make ya a sick rider.
Let me explain why the fakie's a little bit tricky.
You can see Blake's pushing the bike backwards
and you can see what it wants to do is pedal backwards,
because the chain is pushing the cranks around.
That's an element of the bike moving
you've gotta master.
Basically, you gotta get ahead of the roll of the bike,
so let's look at that.
If I've got my weight on this pedal
and Blake tries to push the bike backwards,
of course, my weight is fighting it and stopping it,
but the moment I take my weight off that pedal,
the bikes wants to go backwards.
What you need to do is get ahead of that roll,
and then the bike will roll freely.
That's where you'll find a really smooth fakie.
The bike will roll backwards,
and it'll look like you're peddling it backwards,
but you're just ahead of the roll, the tension on the chain,
which allows you to roll freely.
Right, let's get to the knitty gritty
and teach Blake how to fakie.
Blakie fakie time, ready? - Blakie
hopefully can fakie after this.
- Yeah, now, we've all seen balance bikes.
- Balance bikes.
- It's the easy way to teach kids to ride bikes now,
you don't have to use stabilizers or anything.
Get a balance bike, give 'em 20 minutes, they've learned it.
That's what you have to do with a fakie.
Start rolling the bike backwards,
sat on your seat, feet out, - Yeah.
- And just fakie. - Backwards.
- Just roll it backwards.
Waddle it back.
And repeat.
(music)
Yes.
Yeah.
Now, let's do it, let's do it.
(music)
(Martyn chuckles triumphantly)
- Whoa. - It's comin'.
- It is coming, slowly.
Slowly. - It's coming slowly.
- Need a little bit more practice on the balance back.
Now I know why the kids love the balancing bike.
- Yeah, that's all it is. - And how much it helps.
- Take your feet off the pedals,
and you've got yourself a balance bike.
It's great. - The one thing
I did find weird is my steering,
'cause that's what actually I struggle with
when I'm doing some fakies. - Yeah.
- [Blake] It's like I gotta counter react,
it's so weird. - You've gotta be
very subtle with that steering because,
obviously, you're almost doing opposite steering
to what you do when going forwards.
What you need to do is gently
snake your way backwards.
If you think about that
when you're doing your balance bike backwards,
just snake back with real subtle corrections
with your heels. - Subtle corrections.
- Go on, off you go.
- I'll try that again, subtle corrections, anyone?
- Snake it's way back.
Go on, left and right, that's it.
Snake your way back.
Snakie, Blakie,
on his fakie.
Okay, Blake, this is where you're gonna learn it.
We're gonna give you some assistance.
- Ooh! - Right,
'cause I want ya to get that feeling,
- I wanna feel that feeling.
- And we wanna make sure you don't
start using corrective hops. - Okay.
- Right, which I do that a lot,
actually. - Tom,
if you give me that camera a second,
thank you, you assist Blake.
You're gonna hold the front end
and then just walk him backwards, Tom.
Walk him backwards, that's it.
That's it.
God, this camera work's amazing.
There we go.
You can just see that Tom's helping him go back,
- You actually holding on? - But Blake
is actually doing a lot more than he thinks.
- Tom's not even holding me. - That's it.
Go on, Blake, keep correcting it.
That's it.
- [Tom] I'm just pushing you back really,
I'm not really-- - That's it.
Keep him going. - Ah, there you go, ah nah.
And dropping in backwards.
(music)
Oh my God.
- Now it's worth thinking about
what gear you're using when you're trying the fakie,
'cause as you can see,
as Blake comes back past the screen here,
he's in a high gear and that chain is
forcing the pedals back at quite a rate,
and you've got to get ahead of that.
If you start using a bigger gear, a heavier gear,
you'll find as Blake comes backwards now,
if you'll drop it right down in the biggest gear, Blake,
that's perfect,
as he comes back now,
look how much slower the pedals are moving.
That means your roll that you've got to get ahead of
isn't quite so quick.
That might make it easier,
it's definitely worth thinking about that gear
when you're trying a fakie.
Now you're thinking, how do I even start the fakie?
You wanna be using a bit of front brake.
Come in, do a nice endo,
and then you got the inertia to roll away,
or you can use a wall just like this one here.
I quite like doing this actually,
come in, use the wall to stop you, and roll away.
(music)
- Right, I can back flip tail whip,
I can do big 360 tail whips,
I can do everything stunt-wise,
but I really struggle, and I can't do it really, the fakie.
I struggle so much with it,
and I always try and do it with the corrective hop,
and I can fakie that way,
but I'm trying to eliminate that hop.
I gotta practice, practice,
and practice and practice, and practice,
but I've got a good teacher.
Mister Ashton.
So I'm gonna get back to practicin'.
(music)
Don't hop.
(laughing)
- Great news, you're faking,
but how do you get out of the fakie?
That's all about timing your pedals.
You wanna leave the fakie with your front foot forward,
facing the way you wanna ride off so--
- I'm right foot forward. - Blake's right foot forward.
He would start steering out of it about now,
and then as he comes around, look, front foot is high.
Perfect.
Let's see that one more time, Blake.
Right foot's coming 'round and suddenly it's high,
and you can ride away.
(music)
- Whoa-ho!
You see that?
- Absolutely. - I've been practicing
over the weekend that one.
- Weekend's gone by,
Blakie's been practicing his fakie,
he's definitely improving.
- [Blake] It has actually definitely improved a lot,
but I still need more practice.
Us pro's, we, you know, we can do a lot of things,
but we still do practice.
- Yeah, you gotta practice, that's what its all about.
It's the same for everyone,
and I like how you're trying it on a different bike.
- I know, I thought trying on the fattie,
I got more surface area for me to balance on (laughing).
- There you go, Blakie's taking on a fakie,
can't say that enough, and he's definitely gettin' better,
improving tons.
Why don't you click just here
where you can see the orignal curb video where we found out
Blakie couldn't fakie. - I couldn't fakie but,
can I still fakie?
I don't know, let me know in the comments down below.
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