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| Chris Moeller, aggrorag #10, summer 1989 : Bicycle Street Riding is kind of an industry thing. The people at General started it, and then Hammer came along and they were really the ones who got it moving. They got the ball rolling. Hammer got it rolling, General started it and Fred Blood helped it out, with a lot of help from Hugo Gonzales 'cause he's in the circus. It's kind of an industry thing. They made it up. It's really fake. It sells a lot of bikes for General and Ozone. |
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| 180° to handrail | Ian Morris 1993. Autumn 1994, Standard's renowned flatlander Bobby Fisher is now pulling 180 hop to backwards peg-grind down an 8 steeper handrail on regular basis. |
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| 50/50 grind | From the skater lingo, grinding an obstacle (ledge, rail or lip) with pegs from the same side. More accurately called Double peg grind by bikers. | |
| backflip treeride | Treeride Backflip by Mark “The Gonz” Gonzalez in Ride US #28, 1996. | |
| bomb drop backflip | Dave Mirra, 2004 | |
| bunny hop | Daniel Mini, Cream march 2003 : Je n'aime pas trop parler de "bunny-hop" (saut de lapin), ce terme inventé par Woody Itson au début du freestyle fluo/flash/fun californien est à mon goût vraiment ridicule. Very essential basic bike trick involving riding along and lifting both wheels of your bike off the ground pulling up on the front end of the bike and with the legs pulling the back end up. Useful for getting on or over various objects. |
Bob Haro drawing 1982. Dave Vanderspek 1983. Cream #20 march 2003 |
| crooked grinds | Mike rooftop Escamilla was the first person to do a crooked grind in 1993 and the footage can be scene in the crdits of Dirty Deeds. It's a double peg grind using opposing pegs, either the left front with the rear right or the right front with rear left. The bike stands over the rail in a slightly crooked position, hence the name. |
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| curved wallride | Double wallride. John Wold, june 2005 : I saw the curved wallride trick mention and thought I'd pass one on... I called it the double wall ride "bank to elbow wall ride" and did it back in 1988 or 89. There was this crazy pyramid thing at MIT in Minneapolis and across the courtyard from it was this cool little bank to wall tucked in behind this little row of bushes. We would try to leave it for a "last thing of the night " cuz' at least one of us if not several would blow out a tube riding it. It was crazy you had to get hauling @$& then bunnyhop just a little bit to clear the top lip of this manhole like cover, then land in the grass, then another light bunnyhop onto the bank or you'd blow your tube on the edge (bricks!!!), then hit the wall and pull off. Well I had been staying on longer and as I'd come off slide into the other wall (it was at about a 15 to 39 degree angle from the main wall) thus scraping my elbow and shoulder and even the cheek a few times. so one day I think I might have said " I'm going onto the otherwall" or I just thought it and did it. I remember I did all the norm, but went faster right from the start, then as I came to the bank I went at it a little more to the right and at a little more angle. I hit the bank, pulled up for the wall and just let it ride. As I neared the point where we normally would pull off I stayed tucked into my bike and the wall and almost immediately pulled back a bit to basically do a quick tiny manual on the first wall, which let my front wheel almost smoothly transition onto the other wall. As I felt my weight pulling more back to the ground as the G-force mellowed out I pulled off and landed HARD with my front wheel landing in the grass and my back wheel barlely hitting any othe the brick on the bottom of the bank. MAN!!! I remember the looks from the other guys like " what the hell" and then we moved on. |
Ruben Alcantara 1999 |
| fakie wallride | No Handed Fakie Wallrides Stefan Heilek 1988 Anthony Cico pulled a fakie wallride to tailwhip at the Baco Halloween jam in october 2005. |
Smith wall ride to fakie BMX Now 1992 |
| flair | Leigh also has landed a flair off a tree as of 2004. | |
handplant |
Todd Lyons 1991. Alistair Whitton 2002. |
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| handrail | Mat Hoffman 1989. 1990, Matt Hoffman blew minds in San Diego by doing double peg grinds down an easy 15-stepper. |
Matt Hoffman 1990. Ian Morris 1992 Ride BMX US august 2000. |
| icepick | Rich Hansen was doing them before Mat Hoffman invented them on vert. | |
| icepick grinds | Rick Moliterno is doing back peg grinds (icepick) down hanrails 7 stairs long. Danny Hickerson has done ice pick grinds up a rail to tailwhip out in 2004. |
Laurent Bizet 1999 |
| manual to handrail | Jay Miron june 1993 | |
| pedal grinds | Jean Somsois 1989 | |
| pipe | Eddie Fiola 1986. | |
| really wallride | Ruben Alcantara 2000 At the 2004 worlds in Cologne, Gary Young did a downside whip to really wallride. |
Ruben X-Games 2000. Gary Young 2004. |
| rodeo grind | Rodeo Grind in 2001 by Ruben Alcantara. | |
| smith grind | A Smith grind is where your front peg is grinding and your rear tire is on the object you're grinding. Leigh Ramsdell has done a backflip landing in a smith grind on a funbox. |
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| tailwhip | Danny Hickerson has done bunnyhop opposite tailwhips. | |
| tailwhip foot plant | Vic Murphy 1988. | One handed in Go august 1990 |
| toothpick grind | Rick Moliterno is doing front peg grinds (toothpick) down hanrails 7 stairs long. | |
| uprail | Ben Snowden's Up-Rail to Frontflip at Woodward, april 2008. www.vitalbmx.com, april 2008 : Everyone's into doing up-rails these days, but Ben Snowden just did one that's flat out nuts. |
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| wall ride | 1985 : Hugo Gonzales pulls a fence spring at Upland...the first wallride? Flat bunny hop to wallride by Nick Phillip in BMX Action 1985. |
Hugo Gonzales 1985. Pete Kearney 1989. |
| wall ride nosepick | Ron Kimler ? | Rob Ridge using his front brake on the cover of BMX Rider february 2004 |
| wall ride to 540 | Wallride to 540 out by Craig Campbell in 1989. | Craig Campbell 1989. |
| wall ride to bikeflip | Morgan Wade pulled a wallride to bikeflip in 2005. | |
| wall ride to flair | Wallride to flair Chad Kagy attempt 2002. Flair to wallride by Matt Beringer in 2002 Dave Mirra was pulling them in 2003. |
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| wall tap | Walltap by Marcus Dheirten in 1992. | Niels Thanild 2001 |
| whopper | Bill Nitschke invented the bunny hop tailwhip in 1990. | |
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