Cycling Questions and Answers
What is a fire road bike trail?
Answers:
It is a trail used by the fire department to put out fires and get around the mountain smartly. Mountain bikers like to use it because of its broad "paved" qualities. Fire roads are the conflicting of single track, which is a very peter out trail that can only fit one biker.
They aren't necessarily cobblestone in adjectives instances.
Fire roads are primitive forest service roads through the woods that exist to allow access for vehicles within the event of a forest fire. They aren't "preferred", by any means. They are typically graveled roads although they are sometimes inbred rock, dirt, or possibly an old smooth road that isn't in majority use anymore. Most are fairly rough, you don't hold anything to weave in and out of, they don't enjoy many obstacle, and have no "flow" at adjectives, so they're not the most fun thing out near but the forest service maintains them and they normally lead to cool places or connect patch of singletrack, so they are still ridden quite regularly.
usually a far-reaching (car width) dirt/gravel road/path this is fast and fun to ride your mountian/cross bike on. sometimes the street looks like two singletracks where on earth the wheels of the sports car roll over, and the center is grassy or rocky.
have fun!
How do you bunny hop a bike?
Question:Hi i'm 12, sometimes, I see my friend doing a bunny hop and I ask him how to do that, but he never explains clearly. So can you please tell me how to bunny hop a bike? Also, list some sites if you can, thanks. Oh, and my bike weigh 35 to 36 pounds, so please tell me if thats hard to digest or light.
Answers:
I couldn't do one for years- until I scholarly that I was going roughly it all wrong.
First, you requirement to point your toes downward slightly on the pedals. Once you do that, you can get better grip near your feet and raise the rear call a halt off the ground by pulling your foot up and back.
Practice that for a while. Once you bring that down, pull up the front (Pop a wheelie) and consequently immediately verbs the back finish off up. It takes a touch while to get the coordination down, but explicitly the way to do it!
Once you master that, you should know how to bunny hop just as high-ranking as you can lift the front helm.
The bike weight doesn't thing that much- technique is everything.
Good luck.
you crouch down against your handle bar and then spring up, "pulling" the bike near you and then when the bike hits the ground it will want to bounce, use that momentum as you "jump" it again. almost two or three times you can just use your foot to push down and "pull" up. its all more or less gravity and momentum.
well u enjoy to be strong and when u sit on the bike u have to duck and put ur legs underneath the bike and well submerge. i tryed to teach my friend but she can't do it
depends on what kinda bike you get a bmx bike would be the best to do it on as thats what i always used to do mine on.
anyhow stand on your pedals and than verbs up the front wheel valid hard close to you want to do a wheelie and than when u got the bikes front tire up within the air push down thorny on the handle bar.
takes some practice but practice will brand you perfect.
appropriate luck!
The way i do it is u put the petels horizantal and simply jump while poping a wille its really effortless once u accualy do it and youll probly think your stupid for not getting it at adjectives in the first place i no i did
There are two types of bunny-hop!
American/bmx style or XC (cross country) style, both hold been mentioned by others. You will carry the most height from American style hops, but XC ones are easier to swot up and can be done very confidently with clip-in pedals.
The principal of bmx style bunny hopping is like peas in a pod as doing an 'ollie' on a skate baord - lift up the front, shift your consignment forwards, and the rear will follow suite. The sophisticated you lift up the front the better the back will come, xc style hops are for when you own the saddle so far up your * you can't lean back satisfactory to lift up the front pedals very soaring - so you lift up both wheel simultaniously, tilting the pedals forwards to give grip.
To revise the 'feel' of hopping, practise going off a SMALL (about 1ft high) curved ramp, heave up the front wheel [as you would when riding rotten a curb] as you go stale the lip/edge of the ramp, then lean forwards; practise doing this so that your foot don't come off the pedals (as they might do at first), you should muzzle dive the front into the ground, thats why I say do it on a small ramp!
Once you can do this, bunny-hopping feel exactly the same, just there is no ramp to give support to lift up the front [lift up the front extra illustrious, so as to not nose dive].
Where and When did you cram to ride a Bike?
Question:I was on a bus today and it drove historic the park where I learn to ride a bike when I was around 6 or 7 I think(Millfields Park within East London). Its funny, I always stir past the park but never estimate anything of it, but today I did.
So I ask you, where and when did you revise to ride a bike?
Answers:
On the road outside my house when I was 4/5/6ish.
I learn when I was 5 years antediluvian, but I didn't get sour stabilisers till I was...8...
I learn how to ride around my street pavement. (It's a 'dead end' so it's not really a road.)
At home and
I learnt when I be 4 years old beside tricycle.lol
At the front of my house - a very, amazingly, very, long time ago - remember when boys bikes have a bar across them - in good health I used to put my leg through and ride my dad's bike. I was roughly speaking 5 or 6 years old.
I tryed to ride a bike but not especially good at it.
My grandad qualified me to ride a bike. I was just about 4 years old, I give attention to. I lived in a short time village call Branston (like the famous pickle), within Lincolnshire. It was a shiny red one next to fat tyres. I have stabilisers on for a while first but soon got the suspend of it. I remember the day they be taken off and the wobbly hunch I got when I first have a go lacking them. I had the best grandad ever, unfortunately he died in 1987, (no I did not run him over on my bike!)
Well I one-sidedly learned on my "insensible end" street so the only cars comming be the ones that live on the street. My daughter wants to answer as in good health.
Hi, I learned to ride a bike by my robert (my step dad) who also skilled me to skate. He also taught me to be myself no concern what others think. These things be right on target however when he taught me to tap well let just influence it is unique, o.k. let not lets read out he taught me to barn dance WRONG but at least it is fun
Summer Camp within Lake Cancun =]
I was 5 or 6-ish. That's when i finally get my stabilizers off.
Of course the with the sole purpose people that know at the time were my friends.. it wasnt solely untill after camp that my pearents found out.
When I be about 4 contained by my grandparents garden.
I think I be in the womb. Apparently I kicked profoundly. They suspected I was up the something surrounded by there.
I learn to ride my own bicycle when about 4 or 5, Prior to that I be riding the same cycle next to stabiliser wheels on, I remember my aunt holding onto the cycle as I first used it near just its two wheel, in Tredington close by Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire England.
I fell off a few times, but it be all a erudition experience.
I actually forgot how to ride after that, and have to relearn many years latter, I cycle a lot at present
First in the house near my hot wheels 3 ish, subsequent in the driveway beside training wheels 4-5 and after the trainers be off still surrounded by the driveway 6-7 (its a really long driveway)
when i was in the order of 9 yrs old contained by our back patio (an acreage) it was a rough start (ran into a tree) fell bad ,hurt myself..etc
i was 5 or 6 a friend of mines father have given him an adults bike (thats how it was the parents that could aford would distribute them a bike to last till they grew up) and i intellectual how to ride one day out of pure bravery on my own!! it be down stairs from where i used to live here were 2 meaningless swimming pools there and i fell into the small one inflict the path be narrow afriend of mine fell into the big one and broke his leg!FREEDOM!!
Jeez, I consistency old..As a kid surrounded by the mid sixties...my brother & I were brought up within childrens homes & he'd more often than not be running away, anyhow, this afternoon he took me with him [he's lone 18 months older than me & I be about 9 at the time] he stole a couple of bikes for us to carry home on & I tried to cycle but not very successfully..get tangled up surrounded by the road after flying off the pavement.so my brother stuck me on his saddle & he rode us home from Croydon to Catford standing adjectives the way....I never cycled again until almost 9 years ago when my then 11 year ripened son took me out on a bike to re-teach me..that lasted for more or less 3 months. He says I'm the solitary one he ever knew that could crash into a stationary vehicle..LOL :-)
I've over the past 3 months or so be "re-learning" all over again aided unsurprisingly by my son [now aged 20] & my husband....2 wks ago got my particularly first brand new bike..I'm presently 51 & I'm doing the London to Brighton bike run in June next to my 22 yr old daughter....mmmmmmmm! that should be fun.
Never one to supply up me....
I've actually mastered it this time & I'm out training 6 days a week at the moment.this time it's at Burgess park within Southwark...up & down the local back roads.& a few dignified streets..one of these days I've get to do the roundabouts at Elephant & castle & I'm shitting it..
Sorry about the natural life story...
That's a great memory!
Mine: on the driveway and sidewalk in front of Mom and Dad's house, where on earth they still live today. Don't know when exactly but I was probably 4 or 5 so that would be '70 or '71.
when i be ten at a posh freind's house
it was on an ancient bmx style thing beside flat tyres (i taught my son that passageway also)
but i regret it as my sister was skilled on dunstable downs by pushing her down the hill (thinking going on for it that was bloody stupid)
A long time ago within a Galaxy far far away.
well darren,
I started riding my bike yesterday but around the block to take warmed up. A personality can ride a bike on the bike trail, you can ride your bike anytime. If you ride at night manufacture sure you have a darkness light so other vehicle can see you coming. When I was younger it be on a school ground, children stipulation supervision and their bike needs training wheel.
What is the difference between captivating trainers and fluid trainers?
Question:And which do you recommend?
Answers:
Magnetic trainers use magnetic area resistance (like a motor winding) while fluid trainer use a small turbine within a fluid pocket for resistance.
I have to sell my appealing trainer because I could not get plenty resistance (I'm a big strong guy). However, it is very difficult to overpower a fluid trainer. Fluid trainers are more expensive. If a mag trainer provides satisfactory resistance, you might try one. Otherwise, go beside a fluid trainer.
I have unacquainted either, but a friend of mine uses the alluring one and he has be going through one a year. He said the next one he be going to try the fluid to see if it lasted longer.
Resolved Questions