Observed Trials Tricks &

Observed Trials Tricks & Terminology

Publication Date: March 2001

Bunny Hop - Jumping into the air while coasting forward.

Bunny Hop-Up - Using a bunnyhop to get up an obstacle. You can land on bashguard, rear wheel, front wheel, or both wheels and still call it a bunny hop-up.

Bronco - While balancing on either your bashguard or both wheels, you throw your bike forward all the way over an obstacle, usually lunging at least a bike length away. This is used when it's too slippery or technical to go to rear wheel. You can also use it to drop off of something.

Clean Section - No errors, or dabs.

Correction Hop - Any time you hop to correct a previous hop.

Dab - Any contact which provides support for the rider (other than pedal or skid plate).

Drop-Off or Drop-In - Any manner in which you come off an obstacle and become airborne.

Endo - The endo is simply locking up the front brake, while rolling forward and thrusting your weight forward onto the front wheel. This is how you get yourself into the correct position for front wheel hops.

Gap - The space between two obstacles; also used as a verb meaning to clear (or cross) a gap.

Helicopter (Nosepick 360) - When you spin on your front tire off of a drop off and land rear tire after spinning 360 degrees.

Lunge - With or without the use of a pedal-kick, from a standstill and using exaggerated body language, you lunge forward.

Nosepick - The nosepick involves locking up the front brake and moving your weight forward so that only the front wheel is on the ground (similar to an endo). It can be used for sidehopping onto or off of objects. Can also be used to mean that you sidehopped, landed your front tire on the object, then came back down to where you took off without touching your rear tire on the object.

Pedal-Kick - Quick stroke of the pedal making a quarter revolution or less; release of the power of the stroke usually controlled by the rear brake. Pressure is applied to the pedal while the rear brake is locked, then the rear brake is released and the quick stroke begins. You can pedal-kick a gap, which usually means you were rear-wheel hopping on one side, then pedal-kicked and landed either rear-wheel bashguard, or both wheels on the other side. If you landed rear-wheel, you could say you tocked across the gap. If you had both wheels on the start side of the gap, then launched across the gap with a pedal-kick, this would be called a lunge.

Pedal-Up (two-pedal or three-pedal, or a surge) - Getting up an obstacle while driving the rear wheel with the pedals. Two-pedal uses two pedal strokes (one with each foot) together to launch oneself onto an object or across a gap.

Pivot - Front wheel pivot is where you lock the front brake and move the rear wheel to either side (pivot on the front wheel), rear is the opposite.

Pogoing - Small hops made with both tires for balance.

Side Hop - Jumping with the bike sideways. Side hop onto an obstacle. Side hop off. Side hop a gap.

Static Hop - 1. Large jump in the air that looks just like a side hop, except without the sideways part. Just for show. 2. Little hops on both wheels to maintain balance in situations where the trackstand is impractical.

Surge - (see Pedal-Up)

Toc - Hopping on the rear wheel. 2. Pedal-kicking while on rear wheel.

Trackstand - Balancing in place with little movement of the wheels.

Wheelbase - Axle-to-axle, or a little longer, depending on what you're talking about. If you're talking about a "wheelbase" gap, then this is a gap in which you can just barely comfortably fit the rear wheel on one side and the front wheel on the other.