binder929rr

ok, so again i go out to my park and start practicing my 12's with my foot in the bar....no luck. i've tried nad tried and tried. I can snap them up high and smash the tail on the ground but i can't bring them up and ride it out for nothing. it's very unstable and i don't know how to control it. I'm 5'9" and have short legs so when i put my left foot back in the bar i'm laying flat on the bike, which sucks cause i can't get away from the biek, i have a windscreen up in my face and everything.

I want to learn these so i can do one handers and stuff. Also it seems like it would be easier to balance and rock slow stuff. Every time i get it up, the thing pulls hard left or right or i get it strait up and it just wants to fall over. It's freakin me out. any tips would be appreciated.

CRAZY DAN

practice practice practice.......then all of a sudden one day, you will pop it up and it will feel like you ve been doing it for years!

until then, ***** frustrating as hell. just keep working with it, you'll get it!!!

binder929rr

thanks dan...i'll keep at it.

are you heading to wetpavements show on the 20th? I think i'm bringing my crew.

Sillyneck

do you have any problems going straight forever w/ just staggered footing on the pegs?

I spent a while getting those all straight and now it doesn't seem to matter where or how I stand or sit on the bike it just goes straight.

Like Dan says it just happens.

I feel more comfortable on the 12 bar because there's no load on my arms and it's like standing on the sidewalk I'm 5'10"

binder929rr

ya, that's why i want to do them, no load on my hands and stuff.

I don't really have a problem, i'm still working on getting my 12's for long periods.....i can't ride a 12 forever or anything.

Scott@STUNTERS

Binder
I was in your same boat about a month ago..........

I was trying no throttle hand, etc. on the rear peg.... but there was too much pressure on my hands to let go....

The first couple of days practicing foot in the bar, was very unstable to the left and right..... felt like I was gonna wreck everyhtime I tried it.

then one day like Dan Said, it just clicked, and now I am rockin no throttle hand, and working on no handeds.

Mkae sure your left foot is in the the very left of the bar, that may help, if you are not already doing it like that.

Keep workin on it, you'll get it.

twist~ROC

put your foot all the way to the left inside of the bar, be easy with the brake pushing hard sents you one way.

binder929rr

ok, i keep my foot all the way left and try to dig my knee into the left side of my rear seat (seems to help some).

i haven't gotten to the part where i'm using a lot of brake just yet. Most i've done is bring it back and almost drag tail but i was on the brake to set it down quick cause it felt like it was goign to just slam down hard on the right side.

KrazyWhite Tony

I think you are on the right track..... It is frustrating though. I'm in the middle of trying to master the no handers myself. It is just going to take a little practice. I don't have the leaning problem though. Suggestion - when it starts to lean right or left, do circles!!! (lol)

Good luck bro - Don't give up.

Tony

binder929rr

thanks for the advice.

see on tony's avatar how there is distance between his stomach and the tank? my legs are so short there isn't distance, my stomach is damn near on the tank....it sucks.

KrazyWhite Tony

Sound like a problem bro .......... "Wheaties" haha

Tony

Codydme

hopefully someday i can be a pimp like that, workin on quads now

binder929rr

if you are refering to me (and i don't think you are) i'm not that pimp...i'm still learning.

cbo is the one who helped me start on 12's....go watch him practice...he was tearing it up on my 929 back in june.

DSOG Thomas

whenever you go to pop up make sure you are looking straight ahead..... it helps you pop up straight

binder929rr

thanks, i never thought about that but i see how it could cause a problem. Most of the time i'm looking about 3 feet in front of me strait down at hte ground (all the further my head will bend upwards to look forward)

DLISH

hell ya, ka was the first time i trird/did standing (lf passpeg) 12z

Kyle_PBZ

Mine were wobbly at first. You just gotta get used to switching all your weight from the right peg(both wheels on ground) to the bar(up in the air). Just try to keep all your weight on your left foot once it's up. I had a problem with always drifting right because of that. Just like everything else, just gotta get used to it.

binder929rr

that and you're like 7 foot tall kyle!!

but ya, that's my hard part, i go right cause when it snaps up all my weight shifts and it comes up fast and all that crap.