how 2's

hey riderz...... this is quite obviously the section which tells you how to do stuff. There are a few bits here already but I need you all to send in things for me to waffle on about on how to do it so it would be nice if you'd ask me how to do anything to do with trials because I'm very experienced and could probably tell you everything you need to know.

so.. you want to know how to do 180' endos... this trick is not hard to master at all but is one of those tricks that just takes a lot of practice to get right start by rolling at walking/jogging pace, if you're back end is spinning out to the left, turn your bars a couple of degrees to the left and then sharply snap them about 90' to the right. Jam the front brake on and swing your whole body to the left

so you want to forward backhop or pedal hop or whatever else anyone calls it. Anyway for a start you need to pull up the front wheel... pull it up and slightly back while you have to give about a quarter pedal stroke forwards to place yourself on a balance point on your back wheel It's not quite that simple and you will take anywhere from 1 day to 6 months to be comfortable with the timing...(my mate still can't do it after 2 years) once on your back wheel you need to drop your front wheel a little or a lot depending on how far forward you want to go and then pedal and pull the bars up again but you need to hop aswell to actually break the confines of gravity (sorry... you should have hopped when getting onto your back wheel also) once in the air put your back brake back on and land and do again and again and again...the pedalhop os hard to instruct so this may not work for your riding style but just practice a lot and if you still can't do it then E-mail for a much more detailed explanation.

pedal gap jumps are fairly hard to learn but they get alot easier as long as you practice...it helps if you can backhop to enable you to do the right sort of hop. You have to be rolling towards the edge of what ever you're about to gap and make sure you're rolling slowly... now you have to have your pedals the wrong way round to get the biggest hop possible (I must confess that when I do pedal gaps longer than my bike I always kick with my bad foot but that's because I ride weird) Anyway you have to pull up and pedal (with your bad foot) sort of doing a wheelie towards the edge so when your back wheel reaches the edge your good foot is on it's way round ready to kick as hard as it can over the gap but that's not all....you're obviously going to have to hop...you start the move in quite a low position and then stand and jump up with a hop ready to explode over the gap.

People think that this is an easy trick to learn and in many ways it is. All you have to do is practice endos lots until you are fully confident when judging how far forward you can go without going ass over tit. When this is firmly in your head and you can do endo's that are right on their balance point, every time, with a blindfold on and no arms you are ready for the stoppie. Basically you have to use your brakes to control the back wheel while in the air. Roll along at a fast jogging pace or slowly down a hill and then, using two fingers for more modulation control, put your front brake on so it is not locked but not slipping too much. There must be enough friction on the rims from you brake pulling power to keep your back wheel in the air for as long as possible. Because your brakes will never have the same effect all the way around the rim you will need to modulate the pressure on the brake lever to compensate. WARNING: somthing that does happen many a time to the more unexperienced riders is putting the brake on too hard and just falling flat on their faces.... while it is funny to watch you don't want it to happen to you so start slowly and small...... when you get better and turn into a superb rider like me (haha hmmmm?) you can go faster and longer.

try to beat my record of 38 metres...... I promise that you will need a hill for this because I did. When you get better try combining the stoppie and the 180 endo to form a twisted stoppie...... more on this next month.