Post by Thlayli on Aug 8, 2004 9:29:17 GMT -5
(I posted this last night at VBMX. I figured I'd post it here as well, and attach a postscript about what I did after I posted it. Moo!
I'm sitting here inside the lab, resting up after a couple hours of riding... I'll go home later on, this is just a break. I decided to work on some new stuff again.
I determined earlier that, after yesterday night's riding, my calves are just too bruised up at the moment to work on squeakers anymore. Not sure what I'm hitting them on when I do them (riding out regularly, btw) but I've got a huge bruise on the inside of my left calf. It's possibly hitting the gyro, not sure.
So I started working on... other things. I'm a lost cause with basic infinity rolls for the moment... but I'm not a lost cause on my 180 rollbacks. I'm trying to get those going with as much speed as possible. Since I'm inside in a slightly confined area, that translates into fairly tight circles right out of the 180 pivot. I'm weird, though... I go into the pivot with my left pedal forward (my comfortable way to ride) and then, when the rollback starts, I backpedal half a rotation so the right foot's "forward"... I started doing the backpedal before I really thought about it, but it seems like a good way to engage the freecoaster. Then I just keep kinda spinning in a backwards circle until I slow down enough to push my right foot down and pedal away.
I also somehow got into a kick where I was trying a backwards peg wheelie to a kinda infinity roll thing for a circle to a decade. Second attempt, I came within inches of it, but then I started missing it.
Then I stuck a couple decades just to make sure I could still do them by themselves, and started dorking around with barspins for a while, finally getting into a groove where I'd put my right foot on the right pedal, my left foot on the left back peg, pinch the seat with my knees, grab the nose of my seat with my right hand (breathe, breathe), carve into a tight circle, and then just chuck my bars as hard as I could, spin 'em five or six times in a small circle. Rode out of that one several times, which ain't bad for the first few attempts for me. I also did it a few times without grabbing the nose of the seat, but it was a little unstable. Is there a name for that one, or is it just one of those things?
Somehow that morphed into trying megaspins, but I ain't spinnin' those very much. Couple kicks, fall over. Then, in the process of wiping the sweat off my glasses, I sat down here at the desk and hopped into the boards here for a minute. It's only ten o'clock, I still have at least an hour if I decide to screw up my sleep schedule again this weekend.
Yup... I still have something left in me tonight.
Wait, before I go, check this out: I weighed myself again today. Since I took this stuff up in earnest back in... March? Yeah, March... I've dropped from about 195lbs+ to about 168. I say BOLLOCKS to the low-carb diet fad.
Postscript: I rode for another hour and a half after I posted this last night, finishing up almost precisely at 11:35pm. I was bound and determined to link something together, but it wasn't quite happening. I came really close to hitting the backwards wheelie-infinity thing-decade, and then cut out the part where I put the front wheel down and rolled in a circle first before trying the decade part... came even closer to that one, but still never rode out of it. Then I did some more 180 rollback circles and that barspin thing before resolving that I was still trying to get a link... any link... close to down before I was through. Therefore, I tried about fifty fire hydrant-to-decades. Much like the other link I was trying, I came close a few times, by way of getting my left foot on the frame after the decade and then losing it, when I was successful in actually getting the front wheel off the ground. To conclude the session, I did three decades in a row, just to remind myself that I could still do them on their own. Then I stopped riding and took a roundabout way home so's I could go through a particular late night drive-thru (Cook-Out) and grab a Cook-Out style burger (chili, slaw, mustard, cheese... onions left off) some onion rings (I only like onions when they're barely recognizable for what they are) and one of Cook-Out's absolutely kick-ass milkshakes. I usually get peanut butter/chocolate malt, but I just went for a regular peanut butter fudge that time.
Oh, and I drove all the way home before I remembered to take off my shin pads.
d**n... now I'll have to go to Cook-Out again today.
I'm sitting here inside the lab, resting up after a couple hours of riding... I'll go home later on, this is just a break. I decided to work on some new stuff again.
I determined earlier that, after yesterday night's riding, my calves are just too bruised up at the moment to work on squeakers anymore. Not sure what I'm hitting them on when I do them (riding out regularly, btw) but I've got a huge bruise on the inside of my left calf. It's possibly hitting the gyro, not sure.
So I started working on... other things. I'm a lost cause with basic infinity rolls for the moment... but I'm not a lost cause on my 180 rollbacks. I'm trying to get those going with as much speed as possible. Since I'm inside in a slightly confined area, that translates into fairly tight circles right out of the 180 pivot. I'm weird, though... I go into the pivot with my left pedal forward (my comfortable way to ride) and then, when the rollback starts, I backpedal half a rotation so the right foot's "forward"... I started doing the backpedal before I really thought about it, but it seems like a good way to engage the freecoaster. Then I just keep kinda spinning in a backwards circle until I slow down enough to push my right foot down and pedal away.
I also somehow got into a kick where I was trying a backwards peg wheelie to a kinda infinity roll thing for a circle to a decade. Second attempt, I came within inches of it, but then I started missing it.
Then I stuck a couple decades just to make sure I could still do them by themselves, and started dorking around with barspins for a while, finally getting into a groove where I'd put my right foot on the right pedal, my left foot on the left back peg, pinch the seat with my knees, grab the nose of my seat with my right hand (breathe, breathe), carve into a tight circle, and then just chuck my bars as hard as I could, spin 'em five or six times in a small circle. Rode out of that one several times, which ain't bad for the first few attempts for me. I also did it a few times without grabbing the nose of the seat, but it was a little unstable. Is there a name for that one, or is it just one of those things?
Somehow that morphed into trying megaspins, but I ain't spinnin' those very much. Couple kicks, fall over. Then, in the process of wiping the sweat off my glasses, I sat down here at the desk and hopped into the boards here for a minute. It's only ten o'clock, I still have at least an hour if I decide to screw up my sleep schedule again this weekend.
Yup... I still have something left in me tonight.
Wait, before I go, check this out: I weighed myself again today. Since I took this stuff up in earnest back in... March? Yeah, March... I've dropped from about 195lbs+ to about 168. I say BOLLOCKS to the low-carb diet fad.
Postscript: I rode for another hour and a half after I posted this last night, finishing up almost precisely at 11:35pm. I was bound and determined to link something together, but it wasn't quite happening. I came really close to hitting the backwards wheelie-infinity thing-decade, and then cut out the part where I put the front wheel down and rolled in a circle first before trying the decade part... came even closer to that one, but still never rode out of it. Then I did some more 180 rollback circles and that barspin thing before resolving that I was still trying to get a link... any link... close to down before I was through. Therefore, I tried about fifty fire hydrant-to-decades. Much like the other link I was trying, I came close a few times, by way of getting my left foot on the frame after the decade and then losing it, when I was successful in actually getting the front wheel off the ground. To conclude the session, I did three decades in a row, just to remind myself that I could still do them on their own. Then I stopped riding and took a roundabout way home so's I could go through a particular late night drive-thru (Cook-Out) and grab a Cook-Out style burger (chili, slaw, mustard, cheese... onions left off) some onion rings (I only like onions when they're barely recognizable for what they are) and one of Cook-Out's absolutely kick-ass milkshakes. I usually get peanut butter/chocolate malt, but I just went for a regular peanut butter fudge that time.
Oh, and I drove all the way home before I remembered to take off my shin pads.
d**n... now I'll have to go to Cook-Out again today.