Counting the pedal strokes...with acceleration
1° Pedal slowly and use the bad foot (left pedal) to lift the front wheel towards the obstacle.
2° Accelerate with a kick in the good foot pedal (right-foot) while extending the legs like for an extension upward.
3° The impulsion sends you off the ground, pull on the bars and fold up the knees to let the bike take off.
Start about one full crank turn from the obstacle on your good pedal (Fred is right-foot). See this move in a video or with a mod bike
Front wheel up on reverse-foot
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The same way the bunny hop could be seen as a backhop launched while riding along, climbing
with a pedal up is like launching a pedal hop while rolling along. It is important to get your distance marks, so that you
know when to start lifting the front wheel with the goofy pedal, following up with the good-foot pedal kick and extension.
The pure move
Rather than just a kick in the pedal, from a static position, you are already doing some smooth crank turns to move
forward the obstacle when the pedal kick comes in (acceleration).
With some practice, you can even launch a pedal hop without room for a complete crank turn. You need to have enough balance
to prepare for the impulsion without the bike moving. Then, an optimised pedal kick combined with an extension will let you
climb on obstacles. This pedal hop climbing technique is more realistic for use in biketrials competitions.
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