it's just progression. it's alot easier to try something on a bike that weighs a few pounds than a bike that weighs a couple hundred. try it on a bicycle, get comfortable with it (cuz it hurts less when you don't make it) then step it up a notch, and move up to a motorcycle. i wouldn't consider it "copying". if it was as easy to do the things on a motorcycle as it is on a bicycle, people would have been doing stuff like that on motorcycles a looong time ago.

not saying that it's easy on a bicycle, but in comparison to a motorcycle, it is easier.

 

Not necessarily, on a motorcycle you can play with your throttle and brakes to level yourself off or give you more push around. On a BMX bike once your up in the air Its just your body controlling the bike. Unless your doing ledge/coping tricks.

 

Travis Pastrana had a 360 head on his dirtbike at X-Games-he was doing bar spins then landed a jump and lost the whole front end.

 

[QUOTE=djgrom]Not necessarily, on a motorcycle you can play with your throttle and brakes to level yourself off or give you more push around. QUOTE]

I all B.S. on that! Have you ever stunted a full size sportbike? It takes brake throttle and BODY CONTROL. Shifting weight on pegs, always correcting and steering. If you did'nt counter weight in a wheelie it would just fall over on its side and circle wheelies would be impossible.

 

[QUOTE=Armenian]
I just kinda assumed that everyone knew body control was part of it. I was simply making the comparison that in addition to body control on the MX bike you can use your throttle and brake [edit: fixed break to brake] as opposed to the BMX bike which is all body control except on ledge/coping tricks and flatland. It would be retarded to say that you did not use your body on an MX bike sorry about the confusion though.

 

oh ok

 

I used to be a pretty wild flatlander, but now I don't know if I could pull off any of the old tricks.. I used to have a ridiculous amount of endurance and not get winded, but it's been hard trying to build that back up.

 

what about wheelies...you can pedal the shit outta a wheelie...kinda like a throttle

 

yeah, i got pretty good for a while, but then i got 8 metal plates in my head, and my balance isn't what it used to be.

 

Regardless which is the harder sport ....

that fuckin timemachine(?!no spin?!) to the backpacker was the balls !!