- You've been riding your bike all summer,
enjoying your local trails,
but deep down inside,
there's something missing.
The urge to bust a move, do a trick,
do something stylish on a bit of trail
that you love to ride.
Well, I'm here to show you a few tricks
on how to do or what to learn on your trail bike.
Winter's coming up and it's a great time
to start learning those tricks.
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Right, great place to start learning these tricks
is on a jump just like this.
This is what you call a step-up.
So you're coming in with enough speed and enough height
to execute those tricks, but, if it does go wrong,
you haven't got far to fall,
because you're stepping up onto a platform,
and the landing is not very big anyway.
Also, if you don't have the means to riding a step-up,
then just think of this dirt lump gone,
and the same level, from the top of that kicker,
same level, just a flat top.
That's called a fly-out.
That's another great place to learn these tricks as well.
So this trick can be done on any size jump
from big to small.
It's all getting that bar turned
all in a nice motion but, the smaller the jump,
you don't want to be so quick with it,
because it can send you off track
and you're gonna land a little bit sideways,
and knock your confidence
when trying to learn this trick,
but it's all about getting comfortable
with turning the bars, lean your hips,
move around.
Getting that bike to move underneath you
and bringing it back.
It's a super cool trick and, done right,
it's super stylish, but done wrong,
it's horrible.
Keep those knees in, don't let them bow out.
Right, you've seen this in the movies out there.
It's a cool trick to do.
It's called the power wheelie.
It's a super easy one to learn
and a fun one to do so as well.
What you want to do is come into a turn,
push your front wheel into the turn
and, whilst it rebounds out, lean back,
put the power down, start pedalling out the turn.
Push your body into the inside of the turn,
lean back over your saddle, keep the weight there.
Turn your bars, look ahead and power out.
This turn right here is a pretty cool one,
because you can power wheelie out of it
and drop your front wheel into that roller
and then into the next bit of trail.
Right, the next trick is the one-hander.
Super simple trick,
but it's a big mind block for people.
Taking your hand off your bars
where you control your bike in the air
is a bit daunting, but here's an easy way
of learning this trick.
It's basically going out and coming in.
You don't have to just go straight out
to the biggest one-hander ever in the entire world.
You can start off small, just letting your hand
and your palm come off the grip, and then get it back on.
But I've seen a lot of people learning this trick,
like this, going up and coming down.
For me, I've always learned how to do one-handers
going out and coming in, because,
advantage of that is when you're going out,
you're coming straight back into your bar.
You're not gonna go like this.
Whereas if you're learning like this,
you're going to go up into the air,
you take your hand off and you're coming down,
as well as your hand coming down,
you could miss that bar like that.
Second reason is that it's a gateway trick
to the suicide one-hander.
Basically, it's when your arms stretch right behind you,
like a suicide, and you come in and you grab it.
But, when you get used to that,
you can do the suicide in full,
which is the suicide no-hander
and you get both hands behind you,
but that's a progressive trick.
You've got to start learning that
and a little tip there for you.
When you take both hands off,
you wanna clamp that saddle between your legs
and your thigh, between your knees,
where that saddle curves in, that's where your knees dig in
to stop that bike from dropping down
and going away from you when you take your arms off.
Right, the manual bonk.
It's stylish, it's fun, it's cool to do,
it's style with ease, it's steezy,
but you're going to have to start the manual super far away
to hit a jump like I did then.
That's a personal challenge of myself.
I like to manual as far as I can into a jump
and bonk over it.
But you can start about here.
You don't have to be so far away to do it.
You can do three or four bike lengths,
or three bike lengths, two maybe.
Get that front wheel up, get into the manual position.
Manual all the way to the take-off.
Slap your tyre on that take-off, basically bonking,
and sending you over the jump.
But you don't want to start off doing it
on a big gap just like this one,
'cause it can go horribly wrong.
That's not nice.
So you can do it on such a small thing, like this roller.
You can start there, get used to it,
get used to all that, getting used to that bonk,
because when you're hitting it,
it's gonna send you into funny positions,
so you wanna keep back on it.
You wanna keep the weight over the back wheel,
so you don't get flung over the bars
or bonked over the bars.
Just start off small and work your way up,
but you wanna come into the manual
with a little bit of speed, because,
if it does go horribly wrong,
or you're gonna feel like you're gonna go over the back,
you're gonna hit the back brake
and you're still gonna have commitment towards that jump,
and you're not gonna have enough speed to clear that gap,
so just make sure you're comfortable with doing the manual
and then bonking that jump.
All right, moving on from the one-hander.
You've learned the one-hander, or you're learning it.
The next step is the tyre grab.
Basically, you're going up
and you're rubbing your hand on the tyre.
What you mustn't do is grab that tyre
till that front tyre stops,
because it could end horribly wrong.
What you want to do is go down, grab it
and let the wheel rub through your hand.
Don't grab it, 'cause it's not good.
It's called a tyre grab, but you're just letting
the tyre run through your fingers and your hand.
But a little few tips on how to do this
is what you want to do is bring the bike to you.
You don't want to go to the tyre.
You want to bring the bike into your lap
and then let off your hand, either hand,
and run your hand on that tyre,
and then straight back.
But what you don't want to do is go to the tyre
whilst you're in the air to grab it,
because that can send you over the bars
and that's never good.
That ends up in an OTB, Over the Bars,
and you could be in Fails and Bails,
every Friday, on the Dirt Shed Show.
So there you go.
There are five basic tricks
that you can learn on your trail bike,
out there on the trail.
They're good ones to start learning on,
and basic ones as well,
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