What is the Double Peg BMX Bike Trick?

Video Transcript

"The double peg stall is another one of those really elementary building block tricks that's pretty important if you're going to learn to do a lot of the more complicated lip tricks that you can do on a quarter pipe. As the name suggests, you're basically going to ride up the quarter pipe and turn about ninety degrees and put your pegs right here up on the coping and you rest on that. It's one of the first lip tricks that a lot of people ever learn, it's up there with disasters in fact I would say, however I think it's personally a little bit trickier because depending on the pitch of the quarter pipe, you actually sometimes have to lean in pretty far up over the deck of the quarter pipe which could actually make not tipping over pretty difficult. So actually it's usually a little bit easier to learn on a steeper quarter pipe because you can keep your weight positioned out over the transition. That's going to be a pretty important thing to do but at the same time, you don't want to be too far out over the transition because essentially, if the quarter pipe isn't completely vertical, the farther out you lean, you're actually pulling your pegs out away from the coping and if you go up to do a double peg stall and you missed your pegs, you're just going to slide right back down. It's something that you'll have to deal with when you're first learning it most likely. A really important key to make sure that you don't get too much speed and basically stalling and going over onto the deck, try to go a little bit too slow. It may be a little bit of a strange suggestion, but you will feel like you're going too slow when you have the proper amount of speed to do that. Basically you're just going to need a pretty gentle hop and you almost pick your front wheel up and you start looking down at the coping and look at your peg and you try to place your peg on the coping. If you do that, and you make sure to get a good little hop forward, your back peg is going to come down right on the coping so the important thing is to get your front peg there for sure. Even if you miss the back peg, it's not really going to be too bad you can step off and it's usually a little bit less scary than if you miss a front peg. So essentially, make sure that you just don't go too fast and make sure that your body stays at least directly above your bike, if not a little bit farther over the transition because that will allow you to just kind of lean in and gently pull in rather than having to swing all of your weight back over the transition to get the roll in. Basically when it comes time to do the roll in once you've gotten this far, you lean back into the transition just a little bit, and you'll kind of feel yourself sliding off the coping. What you want to do is you want to turn your front wheel down into the transition just a little bit and keep leaning in and your weight will kind of transfer over and you'll roll right out and it should be pretty much fine. Again, it's another really elementary trick and it's a pretty necessary building block, so it's definitely a good one to work on."