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Summary: Learn how to ride backwards and perform a fakie on a bmx bike in this free instructional video about BMX freestyle bike riding.
Garson Fields is 20 years old. He has been riding BMX and mountain bikes for seven years. Garson is an avid BMX rider. He has taught others various tricks and techniques as well.read more
"Riding backwards or riding fakie is another very basic step in learning BMX freestyle tricks. For me it's one of the things that I enjoy the most about riding although it is very perplexing to a lot of people you know it's just not a very natural motion especially once you spent so many years learning how to ride a bike forward. A lot of people just don't understand the whole concept of riding backwards and there is a couple of things you should keep in mind when you are doing that. You want to make sure that your weight distribution is center and you also want to make sure that you keep in mind that essentially when you are rolling backwards all of sudden your bike is stirring very differently because rather then stirring from the front and having the front wheel lead in the back wheel around all of sudden you are steering from essentially your back wheel. So as you turn you are not only turning basically the opposite of the way that you do when you rolling forward but any sort of motion that come through the front end is going to effect the way that your bike turns much faster. For example if you watch and you are rolling if you turn your bike turns very gently where if you are riding backwards you do that and all of sudden your bike is sideways and you have to make sure that you are not making any sudden movements and that you have a nice center weight distribution over the bike. Basically riding fakie is one of the most necessary tricks or I guess types of maneuvers that you can learn how to BMX bike. Once you have fakie skills mastered it opens up a whole new roam of tricks that you can start experimenting with. Here I will show you how it works right no. "
eHow Article: Tips for Riding Backwards on a BMX Bike