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placidfemme
22nd June 2006, 10:21
I've noticed that on KB we have a new-ish stunt section. We also have an Off-Road section...

So how come we don't get a lot of talk or picture of our own KBer's doing motoX stunts?
Motu
22nd June 2006, 10:30
What are considered ''stunts'' to road riders are just a part of off road riding...but the MX guys garnish on the jumps.Wheelstanding sideways action is an essential part of off road - you have to do it.Some of the best stunters have a trials background - this gives them balance and low speed machine control.

I certainly don't get into stunts,even if I could those days are gone.
sAsLEX
22nd June 2006, 10:31
I thinks she means back flipping supermanning knack knacking 80 feet in the air crazys
placidfemme
22nd June 2006, 10:31
What are considered ''stunts'' to road riders are just a part of off road riding...but the MX guys garnish on the jumps.Wheelstanding sideways action is an essential part of off road - you have to do it.Some of the best stunters have a trials background - this gives them balance and low speed machine control.

I certainly don't get into stunts,even if I could those days are gone.

I mean those kids of stunts they have at X-Air... backflips and supermans and the like... do no KBer's do that sort of stunting?
WRT
22nd June 2006, 10:52
I would sorely love to (actually, "sorely" probably is a good word to use here), but dont have the skills. Power slides, wheelies - even both at the same time I can do. As Motu said, its part and parcel of off road riding. Jumps I'm starting to get the hang of, but it'll be a while before you see me doing a superman!
Motu
22nd June 2006, 11:07
If you went to an MX meeting you might see some young guns strutting their stuff,but I don't think there is really a venue for this type of action,I wouldn't know as I don't go to MX meetings these days.I don't think there are any full out MX riders on this forum,if they were that good they wouldn't be wasting time on a computer,they'd be out practising and training.
WRT
22nd June 2006, 11:47
. . . if they were that good they wouldn't be wasting time on a computer,they'd be out practising and training.

Actually, most people dont waste their time on this forum (they waste their work's time . . .)
placidfemme
22nd June 2006, 12:04
I would sorely love to (actually, "sorely" probably is a good word to use here), but dont have the skills. Power slides, wheelies - even both at the same time I can do. As Motu said, its part and parcel of off road riding. Jumps I'm starting to get the hang of, but it'll be a while before you see me doing a superman!

Still kewl that you are practising... and soon you never know :)

By the way, where was that picture taken? In Auckland somewhere?
placidfemme
22nd June 2006, 12:04
Actually, most people dont waste their time on this forum (they waste their work's time . . .)

Hey if they didn't want us on KB they wouldn't give us internet access :)
WRT
22nd June 2006, 12:07
By the way, where was that picture taken? In Auckland somewhere?

Waterford MX Track (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=28974), in Onehunga.
placidfemme
22nd June 2006, 12:09
Waterford MX Track (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=28974), in Onehunga.

kewl :)

I wouldn't mind giving motoX a try... not the stunting side obviously, but just to ride in the dirt lol

I've only ever ridden road bikes and one road legal dirt bike, that pretty much was a road bike anyway...