DISCLAIMER: Do these tricks at your own risk, make sure you wear safety gear.
TAIL WHIP-- This version does not require the front brakes. Move your right foot across the top tube to the left side of the bike. Stick that foot on the tire, against the fork. Swing the rear of the bike around, using your right foot, and take your left foot off the pedal(at the same time). Keep your left foot high, aim it at the top tube, and use it to catch the rear of the bike when it whips around. When the bike comes back around, plant your left foot on the top tube. With your left foot still on the top tube, take your right foot off the tire and put it back on the right pedal. Balance yourself out and then put your left foot back on the left pedal and RIDE AWAY!
INFINITY ROLLS-- Start with one foot on a back peg. (either left foot on left peg or right foot on right peg). Push off backwards with the other foot and use that foot to scuff the tire backwards in circles. Continue in circles by having your handlebars turned at 45 degrees and a finger on the rear brake lever. Have your peg foot on the on outside of your circle you make. You may find this trick easier to do if you start out with a small endo.
ROCKWALK-- After carving a small arc, lock your front brakes and lift the back of your bike up and around 180 degrees, like an endo, only with a turn. After the back wheel comes down, use your momentum to spin another 180 degrees on the back wheel. With practice you can do this using no brakes.
BUNNYHOP-- The bunnyhop is one of the more fundemental tricks that is used for a lot of harder tricks.It is basically like a wheelie and an endo at the same time. Basically, you pull the front of the bike up, like doing a wheelie, and then while the front is going up you lean forward on the handlebars and pull up the back. This takes a lot of practice, but it is worth knowing how to do!
BARHOP-- You start by going slowly forward, with your pedals and crank horizontal to the ground. Then you push your body up with your arms, tuck your feet up in a cannonball, and push yourself over the handlebar. Once over the handlebar, land on the front pegs and sit on the bars and scuff the front tire for a while. When your done, put your right foot over the bars and back on the pedal, grab the seat, and do the same for your left foot. The hardest part to this trick is the fear of hooking up in the brake cables!
FIRE HYDRANT-- To do do this trick, get going slowly, and put your right foot on the left back peg, and your left foot on the left front peg. Quickly hit the front brake and push off the peg, and swing out in front or the bike, staying on the peg. Let go of the brake, and swing your right leg out behind you. Pull on the handlebars so the back of the bike goes up, then use the bars to swing the bike around. Put your foot on the top tube as it comes around, then put your left fot on the pedal and RIDE AWAY!!
360 DEGREE BAR TURN-- This is an easy one: Going slow, turn the bars 180 degrees, and then another 180 degrees to get them back where you were started. With practice you will be able to go the full 360 degrees in one motion. HINT: The faster you turn the bars, the easier it will be!
BACKWARDS STEAMROLLER-- Start with bars backward with yourself at the front of the bike facing the seat. Have one hand holding the seat and one foot on a front peg. Push off backwards steering the bars to balance. Once you have this, lift the back wheel off the ground a few inches rolling just on the front wheel, using your free foot to balance. This is the first one wheel rolling trick you should be able to learn as you don't need to scuff the tire or "feather" the brake.
DECADE-- Have your left foot on the back left peg, your right foot on the on the top tube of your frame. After a small endo, put your back brake on hard, rock back onto the back wheel bringing the front wheel up high, and jump around the head tube clockwise landing with a foot on the top tube or a pedal.
FRONTYARD-- While rolling slowly put your right foot over the bars, ready to scuff the tire. With a jab of the front brake do a small endo while shifting your weight forward and moving your left foot onto the front peg. At the same time start scuffing on the front tire while modulating the front brake to balanced on the front wheel. Some prefer to have the righr hand off the bars to keep balance. A frontyard can also be done with both feet in front of the bars.
BACKYARD-- Start facing backward on your bike holding the bars. With the back brake on hard, lift the front of the bike up. Put one foot on the back pegand after pushing off use the other foot to scuff the tire. At the sametime let go of the bars with one hand using it to balance the other feathering the the back brake.
FUNKY CHICKEN-- Scuffing in the same position as the frontyard, only with the reat of the bike in front of you and holding the seat with your right hand.
SQUEAKER-- Put your left foot on the front left peg, and do a small endo. Then use your right foot to scuff the front tire backward. You need to use your front brakes as you scuff on and off the tire.
LARDYARD-- Your feet my be in the same position as a Backyard only you are holding the bars with one hand, letting the bike hang on an angle with the ground. This makes you in circles. This takes a lot of practice.
DUMPTRUCK-- Start with a back peg wheelie, left foot on left rear peg, tap the front brakes to stop the wheel from spinning. As you bring the front wheel up higher let go of your right grip and reach to grab the left fork blade. As you grab the forks, bring your right foot through to scuff the back tire and let go of the left grip. You then continue to scuff in circles on the back wheel holding the forks or peg with your hand.
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