Endos

[Tyler88]

Whos rolling fairly long endos? Are you letting the suspension compress and then just giving it more brake or what? Bouncing it up maybe? I have been messing around a little bit and just cant seem to get the technique right!

[Ryan Moore]

Whos rolling fairly long endos? Are you letting the suspension compress and then just giving it more brake or what? Bouncing it up maybe? I have been messing around a little bit and just cant seem to get the technique right!

Carry more speed and give it more brake, but do it in stages that you feel comfortable with. To roll long, you have to bring the wheel up with some speed, like 70mph. You don't need to slide forward, or bounce, supermotos come right up. Take your time, or it could get ugly. It takes practice for sure.

[r6mace]

Man you lucked out Tyler! Very cool to have someone as talented as Ryan Moore on here actually answering questions like this...on a somewhat related note Ryan, how do you do stoppie 180's? :lol:

[Tyler88]

Sick guys thanks for the quick responses! Ill just have to give it more time!

[raider9170]

When I was learning them I definitely rolled in fast then did like emergency type stops.... giving it more and more each time and feeling how it wanted to come up. Then at some point you have to commit a little more and start bringing it up higher and higher until you're not really slowing down a bunch anymore. I can't roll them very far (like 60-70 feet) but my roommate does them like 400ft and its crazy. How fast he snaps up the rear definitely playes a roll. And I was lucky enough to have a relationship with world record stoppie holder Matt Gorka before he was famous and I asked him the same question and he answered, "You have to sack up and just snap the rear right up to balance point." Then he went on to tell me that he doesn't even use the brake anymore once they are up to balance point.... its all body really. Scary stuff

[Ryan Moore]

Man you lucked out Tyler! Very cool to have someone as talented as Ryan Moore on here actually answering questions like this...on a somewhat related note Ryan, how do you do stoppie 180's? :lol:


The guys at SMJ actually started up a forum for me to come in and answer questions for this type of stuff

http://supermotojunkie.com/forumdisplay.php?f=81

But I see q's still poppin up in here, so I fugured I would jump in and give 2 cents. 180's are alot tougher to learn, and definetly take a while to get it down, but they feel sweet when you bust them out. I do mine best to the right, so I lean my body to the right and turn the bars to the left pushing most of my wight on the right grip. You have to start the turn early with plenty of speed to whip it all the way around, but if you chicken out in half rotation, there might be some road rash involved. The best way to learn is to start getting the feel for the turn towards the end of your endo, when you start slowing down almost when you stop, then gradually start the turn earlier and earlier. If you whip the tail around with lots of speed, you can actually carry momentom and roll backwards out of it, wich feels super sick!

[matt]

WHEN you crash what do you do? try to jump off? i roll up to 20-30 feet

[sakke83]

it really heps to look far enough forward, easyer to keep bike in the bp. when i crash i always try to jump so that the bike dont land on me.

[Ryan Moore]

WHEN you crash what do you do? try to jump off? i roll up to 20-30 feet


I get smooshed by my bike!! Comin off a 180 I can get away clean usually, just jump off and roll.

[NINER]

I roll about 100-120'. I roll on the brakes to let the forks compress and the weight trasfer forward, than increase the brake pressure to get the back end to come up. I'm dragging the brake through the whole stoppie though, pure plowing style. :lol:

[flames3891]

is the lever action like a hard grab at first and then a "feather" thru the rest of the rolling? honestly haven't even tried but was just wondering, I kinda do it that way on my mountain bike but it's light enough that I can get the back tire off the ground w/o the front brake so figured it would be different.

[r6mace]

I'm a sissy so i usually grab a solid hand-full at around 60 and then squeeze it up from there.... that's usually good for about a 35' rolling stoppie. I'm sure stunting purists will tell you different, I'm just a lowly motocross flunky :rofl: