Global Sports: How to Perform Basic Trials Tricks

Monday, November 22, 2010

How to Perform Basic Trials Tricks

By Lakeshia Eubanks


Front Wheel Pivot

A front wheel pivot is an essential basic trick that and trial riders should learn. To pivot on your front wheel, lock the front brakes and push your rear wheel with your body. Keep your handlebars facing the right way when landing is essential. If the handle bars are at the wrong angle, the wheel will roll and the bike may fall from under you. Making sure to turn the handle bars in the opposite direction will ensure that you land safely.

When the brake is locked, push your weight down on the bike to make sure you build momentum when popping the bike up. When you push down, lean forward and move the back of the bike up with your hips towards your landing spot. The hips are extremely powerful and they will help you get distance in your hop so that you can traverse from one object to the next easily.

Hopping In Place

An essential skill to learn for trial riders is hopping in place. Hopping in place will allow you to keep your balance before you traverse obstacles. When staying in a static position for a length of time while on a bike your balance may begin to fail, hoping the bike in place allows you to move with the momentum of the bike and then land in balance.

Hopping in place is also a stepping to stone to learning some basic tricks. Once you can safely hop in place you can apply the same principles to climbing stairs with your bike. To climb a set of stairs simply raise the front wheel on to the step which you want to end up on. Once you are in position, press down on to the back wheel to build tension in the tyre, then lift explosively and lean to the front wheel. Using your body you will be able to land the wheel onto the step. To climb the full set simply repeat this motion.




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