Yeah you want to keep the front wheel up more via moving body weight back and less by pushing down on the bars.
Not that you can’t use the technique in this video, it just means you have to get timing of the pop perfect, with moving weight back you have a larger time window plus it’s harder for a rock or root hitting your front wheel at the wrong instant to mess things up.
Guilty_Pizza5408 on
Honestly looks fine, maybe just move your body backwards a tiny bit
Antpitta on
That’s a good drop size to practice. As the other guy said, the “push the bike out in front” is sort of the safest / first drop technique taught. But at some point having the whole bag of tricks is also nice. Can you drop it with a lot of speed and doing little? Can you drop it fast with a pop? Can you drop it fast with a front wheel lift (like initiating a bunny hop / manual)? Can you actually bunny hop down it? Can you drop it slow with a pedal kick? Can you drop it slow or fast by pushing the bike out? Can you actually manual off it? Sort of a ton of things to practice that just give you eventually more options / more muscle memory when you encounter stuff on a trail, though the push the bike out in front is a good default first option particularly for things you encounter when going at trail speed and maybe it’s a bit steep or bouncy. As mentioned a pop or bunny hop or the like can get trickier, depending.
utterly_baffledly on
Apparently the trendy thing is to combine a pop with a push and it’s way too much for my little brain.
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Yeah you want to keep the front wheel up more via moving body weight back and less by pushing down on the bars.
Not that you can’t use the technique in this video, it just means you have to get timing of the pop perfect, with moving weight back you have a larger time window plus it’s harder for a rock or root hitting your front wheel at the wrong instant to mess things up.
Honestly looks fine, maybe just move your body backwards a tiny bit
That’s a good drop size to practice. As the other guy said, the “push the bike out in front” is sort of the safest / first drop technique taught. But at some point having the whole bag of tricks is also nice. Can you drop it with a lot of speed and doing little? Can you drop it fast with a pop? Can you drop it fast with a front wheel lift (like initiating a bunny hop / manual)? Can you actually bunny hop down it? Can you drop it slow with a pedal kick? Can you drop it slow or fast by pushing the bike out? Can you actually manual off it? Sort of a ton of things to practice that just give you eventually more options / more muscle memory when you encounter stuff on a trail, though the push the bike out in front is a good default first option particularly for things you encounter when going at trail speed and maybe it’s a bit steep or bouncy. As mentioned a pop or bunny hop or the like can get trickier, depending.
Apparently the trendy thing is to combine a pop with a push and it’s way too much for my little brain.