Nose Manual on a Bike
Riding on just your front tire, with the back tire in the air. This trick is seriously cool, but difficult.
Steps
- Ride at a slow-medium speed.
- DO NOT! **Pull on your front brake as hard as possible** If you use your brakes, you will end up face-planting the floor. To get this trick right, rather than braking, you need to Bunny hop onto your front wheel - It doesn't require a big hop, just enough for you to land on your front wheel at the Bikes balance point ( This is the point at which the bike is perfectly balanced, it won't flip over forwards on you or just fall back onto both wheels)
- To find the balance point of your bike takes time, but once you have found it, the nose manual become pretty easy.
- Once you are up on the front wheel ( hopefully on that balance point =D) try to keep your balance for as long as possible, do this by shifting your weight back and forth over the balance point.
Tips
- Once you can ride with it for a second or two, make marks on the ground to practice riding farther in the manual. Parking lines in a parking lot are perfect.
- Don't get to frustrated if you can't find your balance point, it takes time - and some nasty face injuries.
Warnings
- If you own a full-face helmet - wear it. Your face will thank me.
- It's hard to overdo it, but if you feel like your about to do a face-plant, take your feet off the pedals and put them on the ground asap, or you may find your face ruined.
Things You'll Need
- Safety gear(helmet, pads)
- Some bike riding experience
- A bike!
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