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sxtrailrider95
February 04-2009, 11:03 PM
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StiofÁn
February 04-2009, 11:11 PM
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Nice 1 ;)
Dee205
February 05-2009, 12:18 AM
Nice one! Keeping that front wheel up on take off is the key.
sxtrailrider95
February 05-2009, 09:40 AM
lol i always chickened out just before the drop
sxtrailrider95
February 05-2009, 11:29 AM
did i do it rite
baz
February 05-2009, 02:13 PM
did i do it riteIf you cycled away, you did it right.
Conor
February 05-2009, 02:17 PM
Better off practicing drops onto sloped landings, or transitions. You can go bigger, faster and will be a smoother landing. You will do damage to you bike dropping to flat!!
Lwatson
February 05-2009, 03:09 PM
Wouldn't fancy that myself.
StiofÁn
February 05-2009, 03:26 PM
did i do it rite

Well, given that we cant see you land the drop its hard to say if you done it right.

When your dropping onto flat from whatever hight, land on your back wheel first and as you do so, compress your legs to soak up some of the impact, then push your front wheel down. This will take alot of pressure away from your wheels etc.

Ive dropped onto flat bigger than what your doing and have had no problems, no problems because i compressed my legs to take most of the impact.

Watch how Trials riders drop onto to flat, that should give you an idea as to how to do it.

Hope this helps ;)
Kona Rab
February 05-2009, 03:50 PM
IMO your bike won't last if your going to be doing things like that.
jimjam
February 05-2009, 03:55 PM
IMO your bike won't last if your going to be doing things like that.


Meh, I dunno. I'm 13 odd stone and I regularly did bigger drops to flat than that on my old coiler. In fact I basically did little more than that for a whole winter, the frame seemed as good as new when I sold it a year later. This kid probably weighs less than ten stone? It'll be alright. Maybe not clever mind.
thetrailbuilder
February 05-2009, 04:02 PM
IMO your bike won't last if your going to be doing things like that.

boys do 20ft drops to flat on rigid trials bikes, its no worry
StiofÁn
February 05-2009, 05:54 PM
Here's Ryan Leech giving a good demo on dropping, both to flat and tranny ->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlKk6kocsfY&feature=PlayList&p=9D20638B789D6ABD&playnext=1&index=16


:)