Idle 29 or 36"

I have a 26 and 36. I can idle the 26 but I am just starting to come to
a complete stop on the 36. I would practice it if mounting wasn't so
tiring. When I get onthe 36 I take off and am thankful!


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Not that I disagree, but still-standing has all those same benefits!

Not only that, but bystanders are VERY impressed with it.


Mikefule wrote:
If you can idle, it improves your mounting, your controlled stopping,
your slow speed manouevring, and your general confidence. And it's a
beautiful movement too, dancing with Newton.


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Mikefule wrote:
And it's a beautiful movement too, dancing with Newton.



I bet Morris gets envious.


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Does anyone have video or link to video of a 36" idling


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i remember seeing one on youtube awhile ago but i can't seem to find it,
and diling a bigger wheel takes some time to master, it took me about
10 min of practicing(i learn easily)it's p[retty squirrly


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I'm sorry, I have no link but I have seen a video of Harper idling a
coker. Perhaps you could look in his galleryl


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http://tinyurl.com/2am4un


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Idling on a coker doesn't look fun.

My 29" is starting to look small and simple for idling


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It won't work on this computer. It looked a bit scary when I saw it, if
it's the same that I saw about a year ago. Definately looked more like
riding forward then backward than idling.

legtod2 wrote:
Idling on a coker doesn't look fun.

My 29" is starting to look small and simple for idling


Practicing w/ really short cranks on your 29, or really long on your 36
would prob help.


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I can idle my 36, and I have to say that it's really not easy enough to
be useful at all. It's too difficult and error prone (like if you hit
the teensiest bump, you're down or flailing to stay up) to be practical
at stop lights and intersections, etc, and at the rear, sometimes it
takes so much force to accelerate forwards that I find myself pulling
up on my T7 to mash my front foot harder on its pedal. I have 125
cranks; with 150s I imagine it'd be much easier, but I still think it's
easier to do slight hops, if only because of the fact that you don't
roll anywhere in order to stay upright. Whenever I come to an
intersection, I just hope once every few seconds before I start to
fall, and I always stay within a 6-inch to 1-foot square, whereas,
idling, I'd take up loads of front/back room, and corrections would
probably send me sprawling into traffic to the left or right. :P


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