litte help?

can you give me tips on how to learn to idle and how to hop, now i
have a old old 29 inch oxford, but soon im getting a 24 inch schwinn
with kenda kenetic and nice pedels


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I assume you haven't tried to hop before?

When I tried hopping first I looked at it like riding. I balanced on
something solid, stood up, grabbed under my seat, and began to hop with
one hand holding a post and the other holding the seat. From there I
just learned to do it without holding anything. If you are going for a
no seated hop, just hold a post, slip the seat out from under you, grab
the seat with the other hand, and start hopping (keep in mind this is
the way I did it, and it probably isn't the best)

On the idling aspect, I can't help you. I'm still learning that myself!


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thanks and good luck with the idle


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If you can't freemount, practicing hopping is pretty useless.
That said, simply freemount into a standstill and then hop.

The difficult part will be keeping the pressure on your feet even.
If you hop forward, this will be easier because it gives you momentum to
counter-act. Put more pressure on the back foot for take-offs and
landing.
Kindof - you'll see what I mean.


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digitalattrition wrote:
*When I tried hopping first I looked at it like riding. I balanced on
something solid, stood up, grabbed under my seat, and began to hop
with one hand holding a post and the other holding the seat. From
there I just learned to do it without holding anything. *


This is also they way i did it, and i found it worked very well, once i
was able to hop i tried hopping about and then trying to ride out,
finally once i could ride out then i just learnt to ride stop pedals
level and hop, it dosnt take long at all.

idling im still getting smoother at and it seemed to take me quite a
while, but i find being able to ride backwards help ALOT and i would
recommend learning this first as you can then regain your balance by
riding out either way hen you start to fall. ( i dont know if that made
any sense) it was beneficial for me to be able to hop to regain my
balance and then try and idle again, rather than attempt to idle ,fall
off, attept ,fall off, etc...


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Hopping is easier than it looks. Be confident when you hop. Only use one
hand to grab the front of the seat. (I learned by using one hand to hold
the back and one to hold the front, and now i am trying to unlearn
that).

Idling is possibly the most important skill behind riding forwards and
freemounting, in my opinion. I dont know how to teach you to do it,
except that there are tons of videos in the gallery that show people
doing it. This will just ensure you that you are practicing the right
form. Other than that, just choose whichever foot feels most comfortable
and start practicing. dont rush it either, it shouldn't be short and
jerky. smooth and flowing, back and forth, back and forth

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Yeah hoping is easier than it looks, I thought it would be hard, but now
I can do it. If you can ride then stop with your pedals both at the same
height and then ride off again thats good. Do that for a little, then
try and stand up on the pedals. Then maybe work on holding the set and
jumping up, from there just keep jumping and adjust by hoping around.

hope that helps,

Andrew


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I never think something is hard because then it gets harder.I learned
both, hopping an idling, first, holding on the wall and always took my
hand of the wall for a short time. I learned hopping on place for 30
secs. in 2 days, idling took me about half a week.


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In article st.com,
IowaKid m wrote:
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)can you give me tips on how to learn to idle and how to hop, now i
)have a old old 29 inch oxford, but soon im getting a 24 inch schwinn
)with kenda kenetic and nice pedels

For most people, hopping is pretty easy. You might want to let some air out
of your tire to make things happen slower. Think of it like a pogo stick;
it's mostly in your ankles. The trick that makes it different from a pogo
stick is that you have to worry about keeping equal pressure on each pedal.

Hopping took me maybe 15 minutes to get. Idling, I worked on for months
before I got it. I don't think there's much you can do with idling other
than work on it a lot.
-Tom

"tom_edmonds" . com writes:

This is also they way i did it, and i found it worked very well, once i
was able to hop i tried hopping about and then trying to ride out,
finally once i could ride out then i just learnt to ride stop pedals
level and hop, it dosnt take long at all.

What he said.

I expected hopping to be hard because it is a level 3 skill, but I'd
say doing 5 hops in a row is much easier than dismounting gracefully
with seat in front, a level 1 skill. I taught my self to do small
hops one day while riding for exercise on a paved trail. The workout
was too easy, so I would slow down and hop. After a few tries (and a
few falls), I could hop forward for 20 or 30 feet before my heart was
racing and I took off pedalling again to cool down. As with other
skills, practice makes hopping much more efficient. Which reminds me,
I really need to practice my hopping onto objects...

It probably doesn't matter if you start hopping in place or hopping
forward. Forward hopping just happened to work well for me.

Idling is another story altogether. It took me 10 minutes of hopping
in the course of an hour long ride to hop consistently. Idling has
taken more like 3 months. Not only do you need to get much more
precise at forward/back balance, but you have to shift your sideways
balance point and learn to integrate alternating forwards and
backwards steering corrections into your riding. If is sounds like a
lot, it is.

I just started doing single idles (stop, pedal backwards, stop,
continue forwards) until I could do 50 a day on each side. I fell a
lot acheiving this goal. Then, I'd do double idles, working up to 50
a day on each side. More falling. From there, my goal was to so the
50 in sets as large as I could accomplish without falling, working up
to. You get the idea. Practice, practice, practice.

Good luck.

Ken