This post doesn't have anything to do with trials but it's something that has been bugging me for quite a while now.

As a bike messenger (have been doing this for 8 years now) I come around a lot and see many pedestrians with smart phones at the ready. As soon as they hear the whistle sound of WhatsApp and the like they draw their phone faster than Billy the Kid and begin swiping away, not paying any attention to their surroundings. I cannot count how many times I've almost hit a pedestrian crossing the street mesmerized by his new Facebook entries and whatnot. The worst thing about it is that mothers push their baby strollers into the traffic without looking. Why the fu** do they do that?

The other day I went to a playground with my daughter and saw a mother with, as you might have guessed already, her smart phone in her hand. Her son was calling out to her: "Mommy, look what I can do!" Unfortunately, mommy was so drawn into the internet that she never even lifted her head and just said, "thats great" in a monotone voice as she kept swiping away... 

Am I that old that the immanent generation conflict has me in its hands already? I can't stand this development. Needless to say that I don't own a smart phone.

Quite frankly I'm too lazy to write many things. In short, I still missed the Bunny Hop in the beginning after many attempts. I tried Up To Fronts on an obstacle that was way too low. I just couldn't finish the gap (around 2m). I'm still satisfied with my progress. I went away from only practicing Pedal Ups. :D

I finally overcame my fear to do a jump onto the front wheel and will now be practicing hard to get my amateurish Up To Fronts better. The actual jump isn't very hard do perform as it's almost a Pedal Up but landing on the front wheel and then leaning forward to tilt the bike is.

As you can see in the video, I still have to work on the "leaning over the bars" part a lot.

Also, as I have been practicing on my Pedal Ups, I can now get up to 75cm w/o a problem.

Pedal Up Slomotion 3

Two days ago I practiced my Pedal Ups again as I had been kinda stuck at one height and couldn't go higher anymore. I played around with the technique and I think I have managed to get better. What I focused on was to not lift the front wheel with my weak foot that high anymore so that my strong foot has more leverage when performing the actual kick. The wall I'm getting onto in this video is between 75 and 80cm high. With a Front Wheel Tap this isn't hard anymore but without the tap it's still some height...

Unfortunately, I have to go back to rim brake on the rear as my zee caliper cracked on the last attempt.