How can you skid / How to do skids / skidding

You can quite easily skid whilst sitting to trim speed.
Just lock the legs and push them and the bike round to which ever side is most comfortable whilst pushing your upper body weight in the opposing direction.
Don't try in a gear greater than 46 x 16 (75ish) or you'll damage your knees.

F. ITS SO HARD!!
As everyone else has said you should be able to without shifting all your weight forward. What gear are you running?

Try front wheel skids

I find that after a while of being used to skidding, you get used to where to position yourself in order to slow down/stop/show off in a certain distance. And yeah, if you wanna stop quick then just keep your weight back.
Oh, but if it's super wet (as on a certain recent monopoly ride) then skidding sitting down is practically necessary, unless you wanna skid for a mile or so, depending on what tyres you're running of course!

TheBrick(Tommy) Skidding without leaning well forward is alot like making love to a beautiful woman.

You mean you can only do it with your lights off???

you need the lights on if it's a beautiful woman..... geeeez!!!

skids aren't that cool

No they are warm and sticky.

lpg cos if you can't do this

you ain't shit.

A few seconds later... face brake!

Stupidpony

Looks like the QR needs sorting here

Then you could slacken off the adjuster a bit ;)

use polo gear ;)

31t®um you need the lights on if it's a beautiful woman..... geeeez!!!

What, you mean play hide the sausage with the lights on? That's immoral! Everytime someone does that God kills more puppies and kittens.

stupidpony

If you run a brake it makes more sense to run it like this. As the pads, wear down and the cable slackens you can rotate the lever downwards incrementally and retain the same quality of breaking. The only reason you'd ever need to set the brake up "properly" is if you had 28s in there or some weird fucking Cyclocross tyres.

|³|MA3K Yeah thats exactly what I was doing, retaining top quality breaking. Tis tru, you get a lot more bang for your bucks with the big arse leaver than you do with fiddly screw ting. Anyways up, when the tyre pops it's a piece of piss to yank it out from between the calipers, if you know what I mean.

You can also dial in a fair amount of fine adjustment from the break leaver. But hey ho different horses, different courses. Or in this case ponies.

lpg cos if you can't do this

you ain't shit.

hipster birth control ;)

I'm fat. Tried a skid stop;blew 3 spokes, cone came loose along with the locknut. Oh how I wish there'd been an effective government obesity policy in my youth. I can't jump either.

it's nothing to do with being fat, that happened because your wheel and bike must have been put together by a careless, lazy ,workshy dosser. on a friday afternoon.

I feel better now :)

it's easy. just use a sensible gear ratio and a bike that wasn't built by morons and get to it.

plenty of people on here are really fat, and they can all skid

plenty of people on here are really fat

it's something like that episode of the family guy with all the fat people, plus the fixies?

hippy can skid !

Its not skidding Murt he just displaces his weight and the world slows under him

the earth's axis slows and people in africa experience a slight feeling of weightlessness when hippy uses back pressure on the pedals

One day I'm going to smother you all to death in your sleep using nothing but my stomach.. not one by one either.. all of you.. at once..