When you were cool

[johnny]

We've all been there (I still am), you've got your bike and your getting into it pulling monos, dropping off two steps thinking that you were the new crusty demon. What's something that you first pulled and made you feel hardcore that you now look back on and laugh?

For me it's being able to ride up (2) stairs and bunny hop off my Mum's front porch (8-10 inches!) :oops: I thought I was so cool, I had my mate take photos on his kodak brownie!! :lol:

[S.]

I used to think I was cool when I could wheelie all the way up my street. Now I just think I'm cool full stop.

[BiG BirD]

definatly the time when i droped my first 4 stair drop on my ridged apollo. man that was so cool. :P

[Fat_Ride]

being able to bunny hop up a gutter still gets me thinking i'm madc0re.

[LTR]

barshpins.

[Simo]

i've never felt cool because all the people I ride with are about 20 times better than me :lol:

[steamfrog]

Dropping of a walkway wall at bondi, scared me for ages then one night i just rode off it, its all of 5 foot but before i did it i was like NO way.

Ended up breaking some shit RST shocks from doing it.

Now it even looks lame.

[lotec]

being able to get up a gutter by riding straight into it on my $80 rigid dunlop when i was 10 man i thought i was sooooooo cool, no more having to lift the bike up gutters anymore :D

[Dane]

when i first dropped of a train platform (hampton station) onto the tracks (between the rails). almost 4 foot to flat. :shock:

oh yeah... and i still think i'm pretty cool 8)

[toodles]

Once I could bunny-hop gutters on my Malvern Star BMX I thought was pro.

[junior]

when i jumped 10 stairs and folded my back wheel on my good old trek BMX. or when i used to race BMX and do the rythms and first jump at terry hills 8)

[Superman]

back when i started being cool i was dropping of a step at the telstra place on the corner of my street.

i was trying to be like grant allen



i reckon i was closer than ever.
i remember riding home and telling my older brother "oh come look theres a big drop"

lol

[danv]

hahaha yeah bach when I was like 8. Hitting gutters head on on my kiddies rigid MTB.

[riderigid]

when i got my repco intrepid!! i thought i was totally madcore when i could ride off the 10cm hight retaining wall in my backyard. (when i say RIDE, i mean front wheel down, backwheel down after. you know, not a wheelie drop!)

man, i loved that bike, then i broke it :cry: did anyone else have one?

[parallax]

It was always mdacore to pop the curvy bit where a gutter slides down into a driveway. You know - the little ramp bit.

Popping phat air off that across the natire strip into the next driveway. Without being collected by a car.

Still my favourite thing to do.

back when i started being cool i was dropping of a step at the telstra place on the corner of my street.

i was trying to be like grant donald

*puffs out chest* Keep trying man - you'll get there.




(note: name edited from grant allen to grant donald, in poor attempt at a joke.)

[matty_2004]

I once dropped off 12 stairs huck to splat style...i jarred my neck but damn it was hardcore.

[johnny]

It was always mdacore to pop the curvy bit where a gutter slides down into a driveway. You know - the little ramp bit.

Popping phat air off that across the natire strip into the next driveway. Without being collected by a car.

Still my favourite thing to do.

Hahaha! Yeah man, me too :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Mahoney_007]

It was always mdacore to pop the curvy bit where a gutter slides down into a driveway. You know - the little ramp bit.

Popping phat air off that across the natire strip into the next driveway. Without being collected by a car.

Still my favourite thing to do.

Hahaha! Yeah man, me too :lol: :lol: :lol:

I 3rd that. There is a driveway along my "dog walk route" that has that creamy garden curbing either side, very cool to gap. Oh yeah and wheeling the length of the soccer pitch, going past the goal and into the bushes just because there was no more grass left made me feel cool as. <That was just this morning.

[big_pete]

One day i was at terry hills with a mate watching him do the rythems, then i decided id give them ago and i did them all, i felt so cool, later on that day i saw kids younger then me doing them and i felt like a loser :P

Pete

[Bonnet]

the thing that made me feel cool...when i was in the US my mate and i showed our biking video (got milk- check out the phat vids section) to a bunch of people who we worked with at the resort...next thing we knew they wanted to keep on watching and even played it on the BIG screen downstairs in the foyer for everyone to see. its good to now be know internationaly for my riding antics.

[Carlin]

I felt pretty cool when I did my first side hops 8)

They were not real sidehops, more horizontal lifts, but I could do them off gutters though.

Like the move at the start of this video:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/adlidasi/cranky1.mov

Yep I thought i was pretty damn cool then. (Hope the vid still works)

[shauno]

im still cool, always will be, always have been! aah jks....thing that made me feel cool was first doing no footers 8)

[Jordy]

I thought I was cool when I got a good bike but couldnt ride.....not much has changed really

[jays_5000]

im still cool, always will be, always have been! aah jks....thing that made me feel cool was first doing no footers 8)

What he said...

[naz]

back in the day, bunnyhoppin up gutters was the be all end all :D

[cheese]

Poppin' gnarlys off 2 foot gaps made from a brick and a piece of plywood.

[dylma]

yeh, bunny hopping up gutters, and launching off the edge of my old driveway (18inches, just under 2 ft) on my old mongoose. ahhhh, those were the days

[man]

i thought i was soooo madcore when i could ride up the side of a halfpipe and freak out when i realised what the fuck i was gonna do when i started comin down backwards...... ended up in what i expressed to my friends the day after, twas a "crazy moment" :shock:

came home later that day and told mum that i hammered the bowl (yesterday....jks):lol:

[spuddy]

There is a driveway along my "dog walk route" that has that creamy garden curbing either side, very cool to gap.

poor dog :)

[zac]

i was cool for about a week when i did a 2 foot drop on my massive gt palomar before my mate worked up the guts to do it on his dually. then he got into trials and i wasn't cool till i dropped the last flight of stairs at the local council chambers - don't know anyone else who's done that... they are shit stairs, four flights, steep as with 8 steps to a flight and about a wheelbase between each flight. when i can launch from the top and land use the last set as a landing, then i'll be paralysed...

[Joel O]

i was pretty cool a few years ago when i could do my massive new jumps that my friends couldn't do. it was about 1 foot high and two long, fuck it was scary, but i did it and no one else did :P [/quote]

[dazonic]

Hahah nice thread. Rear wheel hops for me. I thought i was some kind of trials master

[Rik]

On the road my workplace is on, it has fairly tall gutters, 2 driveways fairly close to each other, and then a road... so you can come accross the road with a bit of speed, and launch up one footpath ramp, and land on the downramp. There's about 5-6 foot gap between the up and the down, and 3 of them, so it's heaps of fun belting to work on the rigid commuter, and "tripleing" the gutter ramps. It took me a few weeks to get it right, but I can jump the smoothly now. I felt pretty hardcore when I cleared them all the first time 8) (and that was only a few months ago!) It's a good way to have fun before the boredom that is work.

[Carlin]

On that note, riding down the ramps on the Milson's Point end of the Harbour Bridge commute 8) You get to show the other commuters your concrete "North Shore" Style. :lol:

Except for the couriers who do it on road bikes :shock: Yikes!

[Ride_Guy]

When me and some mates of mine used to set up NS ramps of his letter box and all around his front garden using wheely bins :D I felt so madcore then LOL. Generally hucking to flat was the hardest of core.

[RCOH]

On that note, riding down the ramps on the Milson's Point end of the Harbour Bridge commute 8) You get to show the other commuters your concrete "North Shore" Style. :lol:

Except for the couriers who do it on road bikes :shock: Yikes!

or the ones that ride UP them!!!

[dhthreat]

I thought i was fully sick when i would ride at a gutter and get my front wheel above the gutter and grind with my back wheel along the gutter, and skids where the go aswell...
Hey look mum i can do a snake skidd...yeay!!!!!!!!

[Dicky]

dropping 3 stairs at my old primary school on a 24" rigid apollo - and bending a cheapo chinese steel crankset in the process (twice).

even before that, a friend of mine got into racing motorbikes at a fairly early age, so we'd cruise the streets on 16" BMXs wearing full face helmets...

[Griz]

Jumpin over the good old fallin down tree while all me m8s had to get off and jump over it! :lol:

[SPOON]

When i was 10 and i managed to do my first 180 degree skid.

Also powersliding round corners when there is a little dirt or some sand.
It's still quite fun these days, especially when i am in a rush to get somewhere....not so gd for the tyres tho :(
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[supa jb]

wen i held the worlds longest skid record for our driveway. and wen me n my frends were shit scared to ride down 10 stairs

[danv]

Now I just think I'm cool full stop.
S.
Haha it would seem that way yes.

being the only rider with gloves, :oops:

Getting that new bike and have everyone batt over it is good too

[RCOH]

Getting that new bike and have everyone batt over it is good too

I hope that is just a figure of speech :wink:

[dugfast]

when i first got v's after having horseshoes, and being able to skid. I remember when skidding was cool, how times have changed.

[Disco]

lol skidding became uncool when decent tyres began to cost $50+
My most pimping moments id passing cars on the road with your feet resting on the crowns of your forks! :lol:

Little Mike

Getting that new bike and have everyone batt over it is good too

I hope that is just a figure of speech :wink:

:oops: :wink:

[roffle]

I was always cool.. :roll:

[danv]

Oooooh I forgot one major one - riding with no hands. I remember feeling like an absolute pimp cruising down the road with my hand in my pockets, even better, sparking up a durrie!
I still do it to. It can be useful to have your hands free while riding.

[bazza]

being able to wheelie drop stuff. and being the first out of my group of have an xt rear deraliur. that was hardcore.