How To Do Tire Slides On Bmx Bikes Video

Learn how to do a BMX tire slide move and the proper tips on sliding smoothly in this free instructional video lesson on BMX riding, tricks, and stunts.

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Garson Fields has been riding BMX and mountain bikes for 7 years. His first introduction to BMX riding was racing at the Whip City track in Westfield, MA. He then made the jump into freestyle riding. Garson has a full length part in the video Chaos Theory, produced by Quarter Productions and Dan Bowhers.

That right there might not be the best tire slide ever but it gives you the right idea. Essentially what I did was came up over it a little bit faster than I would to air up over it and I kicked my back wheel up over the coping just enough to get it up over that lip and then what you want to do is once your back tire is over the coping and kind of sliding a little bit you want to pull back in and it is a little difficult because you can't pull back in off your front wheel if you're doing it right because your front wheel should still be off in the middle of nowhere. Instead it is kind of like doing a bunny hop where you pull up and push forward with your arms and tuck it in and what that does is it pulls your back tire up over the coping and it allows you to get a nice smooth roll in. From there it takes a little bit of time. I find that it is easier to learn or to do in general on a wider quarter pipe where you can come in at an angle because it allows you more distance that you can slide before you have to drop back in. I am kind of limited on this particular quarter pipe set up because you don't have a lot of angle to come up and really push the slide far. If you can find a nice five foot quarter pipe that is not too steep and not too long, that's going to be the perfect obstacle to learn it on and then once you have figured it out you can take it to all sorts of different obstacles.

How to Do Tire Slides on BMX Bikes Video

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