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Old September 21st 03, 11:17 PM
m_extreme_uni
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Well, after spending a bit of time learning bike trials, i thought to
myself, there are way to little trials techniques, and that i should
change that! well anyways, i have thought of two techniques that i use,
but i've never heard anyone describe.

The first, i call the "Bounce-up" and it's when you doing a gap, and an
up at the same time, and it's slightly further than what you can hop, so
you turn 90 degrees in the air, and then slam your tire into the
obstacle, head on. you use your momentum to litterally bounce up the
obstacle, and get right on top. the furthest you can hit your tire, is
usually a couple inches down on the tread from the furthest point
foreward. This is very useful while doing natural trials.

The second i have dubbed the "mondo grab" and this is a pedal grab on an
obsacle, where only your pedal fits, but there's somehting up to 12
inches higher above the pedal hold. What you do is land your pedal, and
then do to rubber on the higher obstacle. This isn't as useful as the
bounce-up but certainly is used, and again handy in natural trials
situations, that are otherwise undoable.

If anyone else has some trials techniques that they would like to
mention, this is the thread to do it! Also, i'll post some videos once i
have some of these techniques.

-Ryan


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Old September 22nd 03, 02:49 AM
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Seat bounce. You jump up and go into a seat drag position at the same
time. Then you use your seat to help catapult you onto an obstacle.
Completely conceptual, and probably useless, just interesting. Also, the
saddle grab. You jump up seat out, and grab the obstacle with the front
of the saddle, then do a 180 up onto the pedal, and then to rubber, also
completely conceptual and probably impossible or useless. Later


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Old September 22nd 03, 03:49 AM
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Pedal kicks are sometimes usefull, where you set up for a gap or
something from the edge of an object.

I dont know if they really work too well for me but I've played arround
with them in the past and can see how they could be used if the
technique was better.

Chex


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Old September 22nd 03, 04:07 AM
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What are peal kicks?


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Old September 22nd 03, 04:34 AM
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James_Potter wrote:
*didn't someone invent a 'seat grab?' Where you hop and get the seat
on an obstacle? *

I am curious James, do you read threads before replying? That's just
what gerblefranklin was talking about. The reason I ask is because you
asked the same question as me on another thread (it doesn't matter). I
think UNiVERsE has an example of some pedal kicks, when those bikers are
hopping between gaps on ledges, they stand on one wheel and kick the
pedals a bit, hopping forwards. I've heard the bounce up technique
described before too, I can't remember where. Sorry I don't have any
techniques to add, I suck at trials.


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Old June 29th 04, 06:09 AM
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When gapping to rails, i find it a big help to SLIGHTLY try to over
shoot your landing, so when you land on the rail you are sort of on the
back end of your tire. So if you do fall, you will fall over the rail
instead of onto it

-Sabin


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Old June 29th 04, 09:00 AM
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I tried the pedal kick thing after watching this Echo bike trials vid
(they have a couple 15-20min vids that you can download for free from
echobike.com) but I can't really do much with it, though I guess some of
you good/awesome riders would be able to. Could it be applied to side
hops at all? (I mean side hops that are at 45 degrees to the obstacle
not perpendicular!) as well as forward hops?


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Old June 29th 04, 03:55 PM
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I find pedal kicks to be usefull when trying to gap to a higher object
and you can only get your wheel on the ledge of the object. You would
then transfer all your weight infront of you and on the forward pedal in
order to pedal-kick/hop-climb the object.

Oh, and here's a trick I find pretty usefull for pedal grabbing onto
tall objects: put yourself into a seat-out side-hop position, bend your
knees to get ready for the jump and then do just that. Jump as high as
you can but not in the same way as if you were gonna hop onto something,
just jump as high as you can and your feet should be leaving the pedals
for a moment. As you do this, prepare your foot to plant on the side of
the object you are trying to pedal grab and then lift the unicycle from
under you and use your other leg to slide the pedal under your
foot-planting foot.

I find you can get more pedal-grabbing height this way than you could
with an ordinary side-hop but it is very inpractical for hopping onto
something.


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Old June 29th 04, 05:32 PM
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ive been doing biketrials for a while and pedal kicks are the basis of
all trials moves, you cant do anything without a pedal kick. ive been
trying to include pedal kicks into my uni trials but none of it seems to
work, even with the pedal kick you dont really go that far. i think it
actually hurts your jump more than anything. i would like to see someone
master the pedal kick in uni trials, i just find it impossible.


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Old July 1st 04, 11:45 PM
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I was thinking of another technique that I'm sure a lot people use when
gapping off the edge of something. When you are setting up for a jump
that is pretty far away, get to the very edge of what you are jumping
off of. (Example: picnic table) Get so that your tire is right on the
edge and use the edge of the (table) or whatever you are jumping off of
as a spring. For this to work, you would want your tire inflated a
little more. So you can get more spring without bottoming out.
I'm sure a lot of people use this technique, but haven't written
about it.

-Sabin


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