…and said, “aww that looks easy! Tomorrow I’m for sure sending it!”
Well… it was in fact not as easy as I thought, or I was overconfident.
I was so focused on finding the drop and making sure I had enough speed coming into it that I forgot about positioning my body weight. I think that was my problem…
Any experts care to give me some advice about how to successfully ride off of this?
by TwistedAirline
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Were you still sitting down?
Is the drop in the room with us now?
Looks like something you can roll, or with a little more speed it’s a stepdown. Think you did just about everything wrong to be able to do this lol.
Dude you have to lower the Seat post for Stuff like this
Bro dived head first off a tiny little roll
Your front tire turned because all your weight was on your front tire when you came down. It’s like riding a unicycle for a second when youre just on your front tire, don’t do that.
When you go down drops you need to lift up your front tire. Kinda like holding the front tire up by positioning your body back more over the rear tire to keep your front tire up. Practice doing some manuals(not wheelies) to get better at this.
Keep at it! Youve got it next time
Light hands heavy feet
Your front end is weak. You pushed beyond it like a wet paper bag.
Stand up, get weight off front tire.
If that is a dropper post, use it!
Lot of shade being thrown in the comments, people must have forgotten what it was like when they were new to the sport.
Anyway, from what I can see, yeah, your weight wasn’t back enough and you were maybe going too slow. It kind of looks totally rollable but maybe not.
You can hit drops a little slow, but if you do you need to pop your front wheel a bit to prevent the nose dive you experienced. If you hit it faster you don’t need to pop the wheel, just push the bars forward a bit as you leave the drop so that your weight shifts back
Lastly it doesn’t look like there is much of a sloped landing so it might almost be a huck to flat situation which for sure needs a little more speed and/or front wheel pop.
If you have a buddy who cleans it, try standing to the side and watch their speed and motion. Otherwise try checking out Ben Cathro’s videos on YT. He has some good ones on drops.
Stand up, drop your seat, some wider bars will give you better control, move your body weight back. Easy send on the next try
practice dropping off sidewalks(or other smaller obstacles) while landing both wheels at the same time. The technique varies based on your speed. You’re better off, for safety, going faster and simply unweighting the bike rather than slower and pulling your weight back which is a bit more technical and increases risks of losing balance/control
Got to balance out your weight homie, your centre of gravity changes constantly so work on that.
Hey crashing is how you learn. It’s better than walking it for the rest of your life.
Next time hit it standing up get your weight further back. You washed the front because you had too much weight on the front wheel. Keep at it you got this.
Yea I’m not an expert but on camera this looks as simple as
Lower the seat
Stand up
Put your ass behind the seat
And roll down it without pulling on your front brake
Just wondering if you farted on the way down?
Always the Jerry’s with the go pros.
That’ll happen. That’ll happen
Dude….were you sitting?
I’d recommend watching at least the first season of How to Bike with Ben Cathro, it is excellent for learning.
This video on body position will help you a lot: [https://youtu.be/iVLJIuYwW_g?si=M0gG1dKSiaJ-8iPu](https://youtu.be/iVLJIuYwW_g?si=M0gG1dKSiaJ-8iPu)
The next one on absorbing trail features is also what you need here. This is a pretty easy feature to roll over at slow speed, but you need to put that post all the way down, and please stand up all the time when descending if you aren’t already. With those two things done, what happens is you come up to this roll, extend your front wheel down into the steeper bit, keep your body position more forward to have weight on the front tire so it doesn’t wash out, and get low with those elbows out to be stable on the bike. A lot of the time you can ride more upright (still forward, roughly chin over stem) to save energy with a slight hip hinge, but when it gets to whatever is technical/challenging to you, slightly more knee bend, and lean towards the bike a bit more. Use those legs and arms as suspension too.
Looks like and easy roll on the left side
When those handlebars drop….oooo yeah, wipeout!
Lift the front and ass above rear wheel and your good
That’s the thing, you just rode off it. Zero intent. You either hinge your hips and lift the front to drop it or roll it by keeping weight over the bb and pushing the bars down. “Just sending it” ends in sadness without a plan.
Und immer mehr die Ellenbogen einsetzen federn einknicken,, nicht so steif versuchen deine aufrechte Position zu halten, mach mehr Rodeo und geh die Bewegungen mit, und wie oben schon gesagt, Sattel runter, Bauchnabel überm Sattel etwa bei so ner Strecke, dein starkes Bein nach hinten, und Pedale waagerecht, guck dir mal BMX an ohne Federgabel fahren, oder Profis ne Treppe runter, da rumpelt nix, bike auf und ab, körper trotzdem relativ ruhig, das Rad bewegt sich anders als du, du fliegst über dem rad und passt nur auf das es unter dir bleibt, sorry fürs labern versuch (mein) feeling dabei zu beschreiben
Now I remember why my helmet is scraped and dented on one side.
You need lessons from a coach.
Stand up, weight back at the lip. Or a little bounce to get the front up. Or stand up and drop your body into it at the lip to roll down.
Lots of ways to go about it. Letting the bike take you with it is about the one way you can’t do it.
Look at the landing not the lip and push the bars out in front of you like you’re offering the bike to someone