memorable skids

[pavement]

We used to live on a hill, grass verge outside every house. Coming down on my raleigh chipper, six years old and did my first proper skid (speedway style not the straight line one) spent the rest of the afternoon doing them until my dad came home and told me off for turning the verge into mud.

Last week picking up my daughter from gymnastics on my bmx the old memories came back. The pavement was wet I even had a small audience of waiting mums got it nicely sideways the tyre then gripped and over I went. Went home and got a plaster on my elbow.

 

[moffyr72]

Speedway skids are always satisfying.. when you manage to do them without binning it..

 

[FST4RD]

My parents still live in the house I grew up in up the hill on one of the most well known MTB tracks here...
I remember coming down off the track on the road flat out and a car pulled out in front of me, I slammed on the brakes, locked the rear wheel up and was sliding sideways. I managed to stop nicely. I looked back and there was a long black smoking strip of rubber on the road Pity my tyre was a write off :x

 

[Kentphil]

My very first bike was called a Mayfair. I remember doing skids on it until the tyres were worn through. Good times

 

[cyfa2809]

My tyres squeal and slide quite controllably through subways so many many of my skids are memorable. Makes people jump!

 

[IWish]

My last proper skid was memorable. Going through the town centre maybe a little too fast in the wet. Woman walks from around the corner and I have to skid to avoid her. I went pretty far out on the back without taking my feet off the pedals. Let go of the brake and it did a proverbial tank slapper on me and tried to throw me over the bars. Caught it and these old women walking on the other side i heard say Jesus Christ.

I carried on down the road with a big grin on my face.

 

[saltyman]

Skids are for kids

 

[REKIBorter]

I think you will find that the skid in question is called a broadside skid. Near where I lived as a kid was 'The Alley'. The Alley was a gentle downhill path without a paved surface until the last 50 yds just before the old style chicane barriers. Race along the alley and finish with a lovely long broadside skid, laying the bike over with one foot sliding on the floor, then flicking the bike through the chicane. The height of cool bike control. All done on a 1950's Dawes Dalesman road bike.

 

[IWish]

Skids are for kids

I think you're just jealous because your bikes don't skid.

I assume skidding a fat bike has to be like doing a burnout with marshmallows for tyres.

 

[poweredbypies]

Skids are for kids

I think you're just jealous because your bikes don't skid.

I assume skidding a fat bike has to be like doing a burnout with marshmallows for tyres.

Its not that they cant skid but with tyres at £80+ a pop he darent skid em through