.Stair Gaps.

[jayboy882003]

I haven't tried a stair gap yet but can you give me some tips on doing them. I got a hardtail so would it be harder or less comfy? Where are some good stair gaps?

thanks!

[Adi]

The faster you go the smoother it is.

Don't pull up too much or you will land in a wheelie position like I almost did.

Definately go fast enough.

[CHEWY]

and dont stack! lots of hard sharp edges to hit ur noggin on! :x

[peachy]

there was a topic posted about stair gaps a while back - look for it :D heaps of good tips

[shmity]

Theres a few good beginers ones at melbourne uni, oz-freerider hit them on his ht for a first time stair gap.

[Rik]

http://brembo.ugbox.net/pics/smilies/bigugh.gif (http://www.farkin.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2125&highlight=stair+gaps)

[schwing]

wots wid dat.
Holding your breath and looking guilty ???

[Simo]

ask shmity all your questions, he's good at them, :lol: no seriously, he is.

[Agent Orange]

stair gaps are exactly like any other jump or gap, dont even think about the stairs, at sped you wont even notice them, pick your landing spot, get your front wheel down heaps, I would personally land slightly front wheel first to get a better pump from it, but landing rea wheel first is safer and more comfortable. Just keep your front wheel low, as with anything like this lean back, if you have to much weight on a low front wheel postition any slight mishap will send you head over bike, if you get more confident and want to star doing 'stair gap packs' then get forward like any rythym sectiona dn pump down on the landing ready for the next launch. Yeh hardtails may be a lil bit unconfortable, but if you land it right you'll be fine. Try riding down stairs fast, or better still ride up to a large set of stairs and 'drop in', this means ride up to them and just jump the fist couple of stairs.

[curtisrider]

The faster you go the smoother it is.

Don't pull up too much or you will land in a wheelie position like I almost did.

Definately go fast enough.

imagine your bike shooting out from underneath you,
that would be ugly. :?


i wanna do one too, but the only one i could find was the fed square one and i was scared to do it without knowing what speed to carry in to it.

[Chilli]

im comin out of my leg cast in three days and im ready to start stair gaps, ive been pretty stoked about doin it reading about you guys doin it, only problem is my other ht is out of commision (also how the cast came to be) so ill be trying it on my full rigid norco one hun any tips for that? im sure it could be done. (not wanting to steal the thread or anything)

[oz-freerider]

The faster you go the smoother it is.

Don't pull up too much or you will land in a wheelie position like I almost did.

Definately go fast enough.

imagine your bike shooting out from underneath you,
that would be ugly. :?


i wanna do one too, but the only one i could find was the fed square one and i was scared to do it without knowing what speed to carry in to it. come on a city ride one time then you can follow some one in (if your doing the fed squar one it damn well wont be me!) but yeah theres lotsa good gaps to learn on in the city

[Agent Orange]

ahh i get it your all from melb.....dont you guys have many stairs??

There are heaps of em in sydney, if you look hard enough........ small ones to giant killer ones....tis all god around here.....

[shmity]

Was that the one in the middle of the week? if so i was there, but muddling around on my 250. Let me know when your good to go again 01_250 and we'll organise a city ride, ill show you some of the smaller gaps.
Oz, your a pussy, fed square is an sinch.


mmmmmmm, melbourne city council tripple set. :D

[curtisrider]

sick it'l probaly be after hursty 28th

how bout the 4th of sept?

[shmity]

4th of sept or 4th of oct? 4th of oct is my birthday, so ill be drunk as a skunk, and 5th of oct is state 4x champs, so ill be there trying to ride with a hangover. :) Maybe sometime during the week before the 4th since thats school hols and im on break from uni.

[curtisrider]

whoops got mixed up

some time during the holidays sounds good

[stinkydan]

Mmmmm much to learn me thinks! Love this Urban sh*t ! Big steps of stairs full hammer , go on! Fall off! Laugh and do it all again!

Stinkydan

[jayboy882003]

GUESS WHAT? lol, i tried one today. it was a 4 gap 4 i think down it Port Melb (end of the 109 tram line) and it was pretty cool. I think the city is the best place to go. Anyone got any good places?

[curtisrider]

haha i did a 4 flat 3 in eltham,

the city is the best place, obviously.

fed square,

telestra dome,

near the exibition centre,

melbourne uni,

arts center,

ummmm, there is another one i cant think of, shit

[Simo]

there's tonnes in the city even afew double gaps and afew HUGE double, triple and quad gaps that i'm trying to convince shmity to do near the tennis stadium. :lol:

I suck at riding so i just film them. btw, there should be a vid up that has afew shots of shmity gapping some city stuff once the kraan server's p again. (ill put a link in phat vids when i put the vid up)

[shmity]

Simo, i hear you talking, and it sounds like:
Bitch bitch bitch, whinge whinge whinge, why cant i ride my bike, i suck, shmity you're my god, hit that stair gap. blah blah blah

:lol:

[curtisrider]

yeah there are some massive triple and quad sets i didnt bother mentioning, theres one about 200m from fed square im pretty sure

[shmity]

Theres a tripple set just accross the river from fed square thats just being finished off by melbourne city council....it has my name written alllllllllllll over it. And probably my face when i dont make the distance and stack.

[curtisrider]

Theres a tripple set just accross the river from fed square thats just being finished off by melbourne city council....it has my name written alllllllllllll over it. And probably my face when i dont make the distance and stack.

haha, is that the one going down towards the skate park?

[jayboy882003]

Mark: where is the one near the Exhibition Center? do u mean the exhibition center next to crown?

[shmity]

Thats the one 01_250

[jayboy882003]

Theres a tripple set just accross the river from fed square thats just being finished off by melbourne city council....it has my name written alllllllllllll over it. And probably my face when i dont make the distance and stack.

haha, is that the one going down towards the skate park? OOOOHHH yess that looks fully sick. i ride past it everyday, hoping it will be done!!!! sweeet!!!!

[curtisrider]

Thats the one 01_250

yeah thats not too big...i wanna hit it too...you can go first though

[curtisrider]

Mark: where is the one near the Exhibition Center? do u mean the exhibition center next to crown?

ahh shit ill have to look and find it next time i go on a city ride...im pretty sure of where it is and its pretty big

[jayboy882003]

hhmm i live close, i might check it out 2morrow or somthing. if its around there i will find it!

[trenta23]

me and jay did some stair gaps today, HUGE!!!!

[dazonic]

I did my first one a while back on a hardtail. I only really did it cos it was the first set of decent stairs i'd seen around our parts. The problem was, there was a handrail down the middle, so i only had about 4 foot width to work with, it was pretty freaky, but once you nail it's the BEST feeling, especially when you do one that's a little bit bigger than you think you can do.

[dick]

hs anyone seen the timo pritzel vid thats somewhere on farkin??
on a bmx, he is clearing entire double sets and landing flat...sets of like 12 and 12.
its so crazy.

[Rik]

After seeing that, my knees wept in sympathy for his :shock:

[curtisrider]

hs anyone seen the timo pritzel vid thats somewhere on farkin??
on a bmx, he is clearing entire double sets and landing flat...sets of like 12 and 12.
its so crazy.

dont you mean, its so stupid?

[Rik]

Gotta give him credit though!

[dazonic]

Check out that vid JIB!!! Best stair gaps ever. Some radical stacks too. These guys are mental

[dick]

its not really stupid.... well it is but he lands it without fcking himself so no harm done.
u gotta admit its pretty impressive. not many hardtails would do it i dont think.

[curtisrider]

cos they have got brains,

im noty arguing, ill give give him credit, well done.

but its just stupid in my opinion

[naz]

cook n phillip park stair gap! im on right 03 one25...awesome set..11 stairs flat then land on 13
http://www.farkin.net/forums/album_pic.php?pic_id=684

[Ty]

if any of you guys have watched alot of BMX vids (forward, any props video, etc) you'll see the BMXers don't give a damn about landing to flat.

7 foot 360 drops, landing backflips out of a bowl and landing manual on the flat, thats sick, who cares if it's to flat, your on a 35 pound cromo ridge bike with 48 spoke wheels, it's not going to wreck your bike and it does take a shit load of skill. so get over it, people can ride how ever the hell they want, if you don't like shut up.

[Rik]

Their bikes are indestructable, that's damn right, so the riders must be strong enough to avoid things like copping a mouthful of handlebar when they endure impacts such as flat landings.
Silly silly boys on little clown bikes :lol: Not that I can say much, considering what I ride ;)

[ELX]

I'v been getting more and more into stair drops and riding down staris they are so much fun. I have found an awsome stair drop at my school it's about 6 stairs high or about 3 foot. Although thats not much it's got a really wierd run up and the stars are only about 1m wide with handrails on either side and theres a garden bed in the way of the run up so you have to go around it and turn back in to not hit the rails. Schools are the best places to ride. There's another set of stairs that are about 11 stairs then about a 2 foot flat and then another 11 stairs. I really wanna jump from the top and land on the bottum set. They are made of smooth tile as well so the landing wouldn't be that bad. Someday i'll try it.

[wombat]

Silly silly boys on little clown bikes :lol: Not that I can say much, considering what I ride ;)

That would be a clown bike with an identity crisis?

[wombat]

Silly silly boys on little clown bikes :lol: Not that I can say much, considering what I ride ;)

That would be a clown bike with an identity crisis?

[jays_5000]

ive never done a stair gap either, only because the only one i have ever found is in the middle of a college n i think its a tad big for a first attempt... i will do it when i get my new bike tho

[jays_5000]

ive never done a stair gap either, only because the only one i have ever found is in the middle of a college n i think its a tad big for a first attempt... i will do it when i get my new bike tho

[Simo]

they aren't clown bikes, they are monkey bikes!
gotta give em creidt for what they have done/do though.

as for stairgaps, well, im not quite stair gappin simo yet :lol:

[Simo]

they aren't clown bikes, they are monkey bikes!
gotta give em creidt for what they have done/do though.

as for stairgaps, well, im not quite stair gappin simo yet :lol:

[bazza]

that dude looks like he is going to hit the rail... its that in sydney because i think i saw that set of stairs.... and realy wanted a bike sooo bad, saw a couple of guys riding dh rigs around....a crafty 208 and some other bike.. this was ages ago though, like last september holidays.

[Rik]

Silly silly boys on little clown bikes :lol: Not that I can say much, considering what I ride ;)

That would be a clown bike with an identity crisis?

Well... hrm, probably, I am a circus freak so it'd make sense :?

[naz]

that dude looks like he is going to hit the rail... its that in sydney because i think i saw that set of stairs.... and realy wanted a bike sooo bad, saw a couple of guys riding dh rigs around....a crafty 208 and some other bike.. this was ages ago though, like last september holidays.
nope just bad angle

[mr whippy]

the future is esculators! nah i'm not shitting you. last time i was in sydney had met some 2 guys on duallys who were doing central station escualtors( near light rail) i did it twice, bloody weird...... :)

[real]

Escalators are old news - they're actually very easy, especially if you ride down the up escalator.

I would like to see someone ride down the railing of an escalator though. That would be cool.

[david]

i jumped the fed square stairgap on my bmx (it hurt a bit)
but i pulled it clean

so if you are scared of doing stairgaps on you're ht
dont be!

coz they're a lot smoother than a bmx!!!

[Link]

we have like.... 2 decent stair gaps in canberra

but it takes me 5mins to ride to trails, and 15 to ride to city....i know where i'd rather go, forget street, its all about DH!

[norco_nono]

yeah stairs on a hardtail are fine. but just know that stairs on anything too much can fuck up you bike in the end. good luck. start small and get big.