FMX Riding tips.

If anyone needs help with any freestyle bike setup or riding tips feel free to ask. BUT, be ready to post pics to show if you are ready for the reply. Please don't ask me about things that are over your head. Like how to do a heart attack over a 35 ft ramp gap at your grandma's house.

i need tips on barhops. i cant get my feet through the bars. i cant do canybars either i bring my foot up and i cant seem to be able to get it over the bar. my feet are only size ten so that shouldnt be a problem...i dont know what the deal is. my bar bend is cr high, i dont know if that matters but whatever. thanks

Ok first off what tricks can you do? Like nothings, heelclickers, cans, nacs? Barhop tricks are NOT beginner tricks. I'll skip to the answer and tell you some ideas. KEEP IN MIND I'M IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING BAD THAT HAPPENS. (but I take full credit if you do it. LOL) Push your bars further forward. It helped me. I can do a bar hop with a crossbar. Start by trying to put your toes over. Keep doing that untill you can get half of your feet over and hold them for a few seconds. Take a pic and post it of you doing that and I'll see what else I can suggest. Before you try STRETCH!!

yeah ill get pictures when i ride. i havent been able to ride lately because there is like 8 inches of snow on the ground right now

and i can do weak extended can cans, heelclickers, and a couple other wierd tricks nobody does that i do just messing aroung...stupid stuff like cross my hands on the bars and do a no-footer...just dumb stuff like that. ive been trying nacs for a while but i cant seem to be able to get them straight.
thanks for the tip though ill try it when the snow melts

I know how you feel my KTM has been broken for a while and the Suzuki's are in Cali, I fyy out monday to help bring the rig back. I'll be gone for 3 weeks. As far as I know we don't have any shows untill we get to fla, That sucks I don't know if I'll get to ride much.

I have a question: what is the ideal size jump to learn a decent whip? I have the form and all, and have had it out enough to have people say "your almost there" but I always land sideways. I have been riding for about 19 years now, can huck some decent gaps, such as all size tables, doubles, tripples @ local tracks, etc. but I'm timid to let it loose off one of those big 70' jumps at my local track. plus, people watching doesn't help!lol. I live across the street from an abandoned sand and gravel yard(about 130acres of undeveloped sandy loam) and my friends and I build jumps in there all the time. what would be the best one to try and make? thanks alot.

Thats kid sort of a tough question everyone is diferant and you may need a big jump or a good sized jump with a good lip. The probubal reason you are landing sideways is you whip once you take off, You need to start on the face of the jump. I would need to see some pics or vid and I'll try to help out. But I'm leaving for California today and won't be back for about 3 weeks.

Ive been seriously riding for like 2 weeks now and i want to know which trick is easiest to start with...

oh and any tips before i start jumping?

u said in ur 1st post about the set up of a FMX bike ,, got ne set up tips?

What was that one trick, that like it looks like it would be hard to do, but it is safe because if you mess up you will still land it or something.... I remember reading that a long time ago

I think maybe a heelclicker? they arent too hard and you can usually land them if you mess up. wher is utah do you live?

Yeah it is a heelclicker.

I live in Bountiful. Where do you live?

A heelclicker is easy but if you mess up you don't ALWAYS land. Most of the time you will though.

Nephi is where im from. Im living in Ephraim right now going to college for my first year.

I always wondered, if people ever have a problem with the throttle while in the air. I mean, you are holding onto the bars for dear life, doesn't the throttle ever slide back or anything causing you to fall off backwards?