Rear Wheel Hop on a Bike
Well, to rear wheel hop on your bike, the first step is to be able to stop your bike without having your legs leave the pedal, you need relatively good balance in order to perform this movement.
Its assumed you can Trackstand your bike for at least 3 seconds.
Steps
Simple Weight Transfer
- Know where the center of gravity of you and the bike combined. Throw your body weight backward as you hold both brakes and push the handlebar and extend your arms afterward immediately.
- Don't fear from landing on your back, it is completely normal to fail in the first few hours.
- Throw your weight backward, and in doing so, your front wheel will leave the ground as the center of gravity of you and the bike is going backward. If you feel your front wheel heavy, you are just not synchronizing the movement enough, then there is something you can do.
- Do a endo, after a endo, immediately throw your weight backward, Momentum will surely give you a hand. (shown in the pic)
Pedal Kick.
- Kick the pedal in order to lift your front wheel up. Look at the photos first...
Wheelie
Wheelie is keep pedaling to keep your front wheel up. But in rear wheel hop, you cannot keep rotating the pedals to lift your front wheel. The Pedal Kick is a Kick, which means more violence and more strength.
- Just kick it, pull the bars
Rear Wheel Hop.
- Learn the right technique. It has the following advantages:
- More stable
- Less energy consuming
- Cooler
- Jump higher
- Turn smoother.
- Keep your weight low.
- Don't stand too straight.
- Bend your arms, Your forearms should almost form a 90 degrees angle with your upper arms and form a perpendicular line with the handlebar, dont bend your elbow outward to the side, bend it backward.
