How can you skid / How to do skids / skidding

Doing a Skid is a bit like masturbation. Sensible people find it wasteful & embarassing but do it when necessary.

The weird kids are dead proud and sometimes make a game out of it/practice with friends

when i try to skid it feels like my kneecaps are going to shatter. I hate skidding for this sole reason. and i am sure it is a myth.

HTFU.

Doing a Skid is a bit like masturbation. Sensible people find it wasteful & embarassing but do it when necessary.

The weird kids are dead proud and sometimes make a game out of it/practice with friends

Good.

Doing a Skid is a bit like masturbation. Sensible people find it wasteful & embarassing but do it when necessary.

The weird kids are dead proud and sometimes make a game out of it/practice with friends

You are a poet, sir.

Remove & rotate your wheel often, thus extending the range of skid patches.
Watch where your skidding, some surfaces will cut up tyres quicker, obvious i know but important to note, easy to get carried away.

If you use a gear ratio that isn't easily divisible then I think you get more even tyre wear? For example 16:48 will mean you always wear the same bit of tyre but the more decimals in your ratio when divided will spread the wear more? Does that make sense?

eh?
what?

Dreamed I could skid the other night. But alas, still cannot.

Dreamed I could skid the other night. But alas, still cannot.

Go find some gravel or even grass and skid on that, then apply the same technique on the road, this is how i learnt, also remember to pull up with your leading leg.

Or have a taxi randomly u turn in front of you. Skid or Crash. I chose the skid option, nothing like a bit of motivation. Even got a "Well done" from the cabbie. If i hadn't been so excited by the skid would have told him to get fucked and use his wing mirrors in future. However, black cab driver, i thank you!

did my 1st skid :)
i just wonder if im doing it right:
1) push with my right leg (back) down, my left leg(front) up
2) lean forward
only oner problem i ride on 42/18 so 3 skid patches :( need to change to 42/19

That's a very low gear inch, you probably don't need to lean forward much.

i been skidding for a bit but today i fucking whipped the side out and i was like "FUCK YEAH!"

If your bike is too small for you is it harder to skid? I can do a shit little skid but find I can't lock my leg early enough to do a skid worthy off showing off because I'm too big for my bike. Do this make sense?

PS I'm getting a new large frame anyway but really hope it helps with the skidding.

i been skidding for a bit but today i fucking whipped the side out and i was like "FUCK YEAH!"

Is this our fault? is this the product of a lazy and selfish society, drawing greedily on the teat of misguided benevolence? suckling at the wasted dug of freedom which it's forefathers toiled, fought and died to create?

If your bike is too small for you is it harder to skid? I can do a shit little skid but find I can't lock my leg early enough to do a skid worthy off showing off because I'm too big for my bike. Do this make sense?

PS I'm getting a new large frame anyway but really hope it helps with the skidding.

It doesn't make it any easier or more difficult I'm afraid. Its just technique and practise.

Is this our fault? is this the product of a lazy and selfish society, drawing greedily on the teat of misguided benevolence? suckling at the wasted dug of freedom which it's forefathers toiled, fought and died to create?

Leave the kid alone.

Leave the kid alone.

He has so much to offer, so much.

leave the skid alone.

bwahahaaaar!

but in capitals

as its Sweet Baby Jesus Time.

If your bike is too small for you is it harder to skid?

sometime yes, find it impossible to skid on the missus' bike (49cm), fine on mine (57cm).

But Ed, I thought your missus had a coaster brake?

Two bike - town bike, and fixed wheel bike.

Oh ok, ha!

sometime yes, find it impossible to skid on the missus' bike (49cm), fine on mine (57cm).

Cheers mate I thought it was defo making some difference because I can't get my leg locked early enough.

been riding a "fixie" for more than year and a half, i dont know how to skid... HELL YEAH!!!!!

been riding a "fixie" for more than year and a half, i dont know how to skid... HELL YEAH!!!!!

Hell yeah. Another anti-Skidda here!

Controlled resistance is rad to the power of sick!