Can a “Tramp Bike” really teach you MTB tricks?
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- čas přidán 21. 01. 2023
- When I was 15, I modified an old BMX bike for use on a trampoline. We called these trampoline bikes, or “tramp bikes".
Today, we'll build a tramp bike of our own, and attempt to bust some tricks on it.
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Seth: let’s get a trampoline for our daughter!
Seth’s wife: yeah that’s a great idea!
Seth: 😈
No wAY I won!?!? 😦
@@theradrider675 its scam
@@theradrider675 Yeah definitely a scam 😒
I guess they don’t teach sarcasm in school anymore 😂
@@theradrider675word right you even put the emoji😂
Seth : I’m so out of shape Also Seth: Proceeds to do a backflip
Scam alert
❤😂🎉
Me with an arthritic hip: …”Hard pass.”
3 backflips*
He is out of shape. Doing a flip doesn't mean you're in shape
It's amazing how Seth continues to be so creative and consistent. I can't think of anyone else in the MTB genre with more original content, and it's very beginner/intermediate friendly unlike most other channels. And most of them just do POV which Seth has never relied on. Such a terrific storyteller!
Sam pilgrim
I agree! Great to have someone who is creative with the type of content. And not just a pro rider doing silly stuff on the side.
Matt jones
A trampoline now he’s a genius relax
Back in my BMX days, my buddy had a trampoline bike, but we left the cranks on with no chainring and some crappy plastic pedals. That way you got used to having to get your feet back to the pedals too
Same i think it's the best to make it actually useful. You need the cranks
We left the crank arms on ours, just covered by towels and foam and zip ties and shirts and all sorts of stuff to keep from busting through. Helped a lot more to get the true feel for tricks and body positioning.
I like the wireless braking on this new bike! (trampolines are a super fast way for me to mess up my back and wind up laying on the floor for a week, getting old sucks :D )
I look forward to seeing Seth and Kevin doing synchronized trampoline in the Paris 2024 summer Olympics.
always impressed by the amount of effort seth + team puts into these videos. great vid
☝️dont trust this.
@@nzo_6543 scammers be lurking
I can’t tell if this is a joke because the bike fell apart and this video seems pretty low end for Seth but usually yeah I agree 😂
@@macgraves8260 it’s not just that, it’s the overall quality of the vids / b-roll etc
@@macgraves8260 if by low end you mean "second channel idea, lets not exhaust ourselves with this" then yeah its low end, but its also not because as always they put a lot of effort into vids
We need some bmx content like some OG Seth videos!!
I want to add some tips of mine: The biggest two factors are from my experience: The weight of the bike and the quality of the trampoline(how good it sends you in the air, and a big saftey thing is having a net. I crashed in the net many times). I would pick up a used BMX for cheap, but pay attention, that its not as heavy as a semi truck...
Also if you want to have the feeling of pedals, you can take the pegs of a BMX, put a threaded bar through them and put that through your bottom bracket and put some nuts on the threaded bar with some washers and now you can stand on it. But also wrap the pegs in something soft, so you can a) better stand on it and b) to protect the trampoline. Its complicated to describe and if you dont put enough thinking into it, it might break some stuff, but for me it worked.
It's amazing how much energy you exert on a trampoline.
You are a great guy who explains and understands people how to do the jumping exercise, well done
Best dip for those wanting to do this at home is go to a swimming pool shop and use a pool cover over the frame, its basically a super heavy-duty, thick and hard-wearing bubble wrap. the frame won't pierce through it and it won't hurt if it wacks into you
When I made my trampoline bike I cut tennis balls in half and duct taped them over the ends of the fork and the rear dropouts. It’s able to take a lot more abuse than just pool noodles. It was cool to see you make one of these! 🤟
Learnt a lot of trick on a tramp bike. The took them to flyout, then box jump then to dirt, no foam pits around when I rode BMX! Even when I got back into BMX and MTB, still made a teamp bike (I was over 30 by this stage) and still kept the same progression, except threw in a foam pit before fly outs. Now in my 40s, I need my grandson to grow up a bit so Pop can "buy him a trampoline" just like Seth did for his daughter haha
Hey seth probably been watching for around a year now and I love your content, you were the first mtb CZcams creator I ever watched lol. Thanks for the inspiration to go out and ride and thanks for teaching me so I could catch up to my friends haha
The trampoline bike helped me so much with Barspins. It builds your muscle memory so good and the first one I tried to dirt went flawless because of it.
I used tennis balls for the drop outs and forks. Biggest take away I had from mine was just body position and and bike position under me. Really helped with gaining confidence to let go of the bars.
I love this all for the fact that I learned nearly all of my aggressive in-line tricks on a trampoline. This is also 20+ years ago and while I can’t do those tricks on actual blades I can still do nearly all of them on a trampoline. This makes my heart happy
Trampoline= misty flip!
Fantastic video. So entertaining and informative.
Seths channel is so amazing bc his content is so accessible for newer riders. Probably the first MTB channel I watched and inspired me.
He's great cause he's consistent, creative, original and like you said, is great for new riders or older ones ... I'm sure a lot of people don't even ride and watch him, cause he puts together such high quality content.
LOVED this video! Watched it with my two boys. I know this may not be the most clickable video, but I really appreciate your creativity with this video. Thanks for all that you do!
Answering the question beforehand- yeas it can!
Helped me a lot with opposite rotations and tricks to get comfortable enough to try safe on dirt.
Absolutely helped me and my friends learn tricks and get the confidence to try them.
I had one of these as a kid!! Converted my old dyno BMX into one. We had so much fun on that thing
Tramp bikes help with aerial awareness on flips. Doing a flip on a tramp without one is easy enough, but once you’ve put a tramp bike between your legs you’ve gotta use the correct form to get it around. A great learning tool.
Awesome video Seth!
I always wanted to try this!
I used to take my snowboard on my trampoline. It was a blast.
Woah I had a similar Asset 24 that got me back into biking a couple years ago. As always, love the videos!
One of the worst feelings in the world… getting old😅 props to Seth for giving it a go. I would be in the hospital 🥴
No it's not mate. I'm 63 and still feel as though I'm 25, just a little slower. But not so slow that I can't beat my 11 year old son in a sprint when he challenges when we are out for a ride. Though he is closing the distance.
@@Frombie_01 you’re right because I sad feeling and not getting 😉
Mind blowing is that Seth is only 5'4. Dude was made for this sport.
Thats pretty cool, I never even thought of something like that, which is funny cause being such a big fan of skateboarding, I always knew of people practicing skateboard tricks on a trampoline with just a board without wheels or trucks. Cool that its do-able with bmx too though!
Love the vids Seth keep it up
Shut up
i love these trampoline freestyle vehicles and i made trampoline unicycle. it was fun
Your videos make my Sunday
Me and my buddy made one of these back in highschool, it actually helped us with some simpler tricks but we mostly used it to do ridiculous tricks we were never going to do on dirt haha. Good times though
Great video! All I want now is a trampoline! Keep doing what you're doing so you can stay in shape for the little one! I'm 44 and still try to bounce around with my kids while they still allow me to play! Trampoline indoor parks are amazing but I definitely don't have your skills and the next day is always a day of rest and ice!😁😂🤕✌️🧗♂️🤸
I'm 45 and have a blast on the tramp with my kids. A tramp like the one Seth has are only $250. Probably find a used one for a hundred bucks.
Tramp? Lol is writing trampoline too hard???
Man you make fantastic videos. Can't wait to see you in Office Christmas Party 2!
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Grew up skating (15 years or so) and switch anything is a monster at first. Sometimes you get more comfortable doing switch tricks than regular
Tramp bikes are soooo fun!
Trampoline*
Big difference
Great vid, but I’d like to see you back on the trails, exploring a new park or even working on the trails on berm peak lol. Much love
The actual music in this video seems to be a remix of a song by macroblank. It was not properly credited, so I thought I would mention it.
At least the first song is.
Macroblank is a great band, please go and listen to them.
Growing up riding trails, street and park bmx. The trampoline bike with my brother is one of my fondest childhood memories. Old t shirts, jeans and duct take seem to last the longest. Can make up for lost of the wheels to give the bike a more realistic weight.
A pool noodle on the crossbar maybe necessary to protect your teeth/face depending how crazy you want to get.
All those trick names bring me back to being a motocross fan as a little kid. I was obsessed with Brian Deegan.
I was at my local Walmart yesterday and they had a new mountain bike there with adjustable front shock and disk brakes but I couldn't find a price. It was called the Huffy Ridgeline like the Honda pickup.
Looks like fun...and only moderately dangerous. Time to take those tricks to the air bag!
You could have 3d printed some fork end covers that gave a less pointed surface for the foam to cover! :)
I cut open tennis balls to put around the sharp portions of my tramp bike and its been running for 3 years now. Love the videos!
I got into mountain biking and love it so far hah just need help with the maintenance
love this seth
I went to a trampoline park with my kids not to long ago. I was so soar the next several days. Now when I take them, I just watch :D
Seth, hope you rested up after making this video.
If you'd do this kind of regularly, you wouldn't feel your whole body ache afterwards. At least not from the muscles. You probably felt all the muscles you never knew you had 🫠
@@sp00n Yep, I admit. I do not go to the trampoline park regularly.
We use to have flat bar through the bb for your feet. And pegs at rear triangle for feet .
im really just impressed with the backfilps
It most definitely does help real biking. Used to ride scooters, but hadnt in a year, had trampoline scooted tho. I borrow my friends scooter and do a fingerwhip first T, for the first time ever.
Small note on the technicality of switch being harder, at least in the professional skiing world, it’s not usually that judges remember which way is everyone’s natural direction of spin, (although they will have that in their notes usually) it’s that you get points for doing tricks in both directions. On skis that might be if you spin clockwise off the first jump, they want to see you spin counter clockwise off the second.
You do this in the snowboarding in other sports as well. One thing it does do, it gives a since of reference while moving in the air.
I was entertained by this!
Seth. Sometimes when you dream something you can let it go and not do it 🤔. Amazing. Thanks for sharing this with us.
They helped me with 360 combo tricks but i left the cranks and pedals on mine to make it more realistic for foot placement and body positioning
Hey, I too had one of these when I was young.
One little segue for oppo/switch:
Switch is always stance, the term likely migrated from SB.
Opposite is always spins/grinds (barspins whips 360s)
And then there's goofy
This will probably be a problem for the ages but just for standardisations sake lol.
If you're into tricks, i have some knowledge to share. Your stance means everything with tricks.
If you're goofy with barspins theyre very unstable to throw, if you're goofy with tailwhips theyre also weird to do. Never mind when you start throwing truckdrivers or 360whips.
If you're left foot forward, you want to 360 clockwise and barspin anti clockwise, but tailwhip clockwise. Cancans are always done with the front foot over toptube, not the back foot.
If you do ignore this all and learn it 'your own way' you'll find (like me) that things like doing nice Nofoot cans, or doing truckdrivers off stuff is going to be really hard. I learnt cancans with the back foot, so now when i do NFCCs, they look more like indian air type deals.
Stance is everything, it dictates how you ride, the tricks you can do and how/where you do them. It's the first development you build from, so get it right. Ive had lots of awesome years in bmx but always regretted not properly learning or re-learning my favorite tricks. At least tailwhips were okay for me 😆 ✌ great episode Seth you're a G doing flips on a trampo lol
I love that it was an older biker who showed you how to make your first tramp bike. Wholesome
Tennis balls on all dropouts filled with silicon. Like the kind you use for fish tanks or bathrooms. It stick them on really good
Trampoline bikes are awesome! We built our first one in 98 after seeing TJ Lavin on one in a Video.
Heck yeah! I used to have a tramp skateboard and tramp snowboard also to work on tricks with
I always like Seth’s videos before I watch.
Those weren't excuses, they wee explanations! (cool video!)
Funny stuff. Wish I had thought of that when I was younger. How many of those tricks do you still take to dirt?
I appreciate how you go, whoo I'm so out of shape, haha. I know the feeling
Tramp bikes are fun, but be safe. Bar ends are a must. I nearly lost my pinky 25 years ago when a tailwhip to tabletop that ended with my pinky in the bar end and me landing sideways on the trampoline.
perfect time to make a 3d printed covers for the sharp bits. use pla plus and they wont shatter.
Good video man
Hearing all those names remind me of my time on Dave Mirra BMX on the Ps1 some of my friends were into BMX but I was always into not breaking my bones haha 😂
Anytime I hear "Maxwell Murders" I instantly remember the fun times of that game!
Ride on forever Dave M x
never thought seeing a man on a trampoline with a bike could make my day xD
We needed to see the Griz Air. Classic dirt jump trick
We used to do this with a skateboard deck. I gotta say sometimes it was more fun than real skateboarding!
Love the fact that you mentionned "Suey" instead of suicide,. Nice to see that Scotty Cranmer inspiration 💙🤟
looking for advice here, if i’m
looking to do urban mtb is a slope style or dj bike better?
I need that thing on the helmet. I just cant find any gopro mount that would fit my tectal race and this one looks really good
We need to test this on the air bag
5:59 Worth point out that oppo and switch are different things, oppo would be spinning the opposite way to normal, switch is with your feet the wrong way round (for you) Left foot forward would spin to the right, so spinning left would be oppo, but spinning with your non dominant foot forward would be switch
Foam?! What a game changer, we just used t-shirts and duct tape back in the day. Might build another one for the summer, it was so much fun
Seth you should make a video about ski bikes some times!
I don't know what you weighed at 15, but I was like 65 pounds lighter and flexibility was still something I thought everyone had.
I have a similar story as Seth but I'd actually say the tramp bike practice does help off-tramp. In my own experience I can say, at the very least, the tramp bike practice let me try things that I was too scared to try on my actual BMX. After "perfecting" them on the tramp bike I could go hit an actual dirt jump and start to learn with atleast some idea of what was about to happen: how the bike was gonna feel as it spun, how the weight shifted, how much time it was gonna take etc... I still had to learn how to do the trick with a full bike and on a jump but I had metaphorically watched the trailer by then so I wasnt eating as much sh*t on the dirt thanks to having already kinda tried it on the tramp. Again though I was only trying alot of those tricks on dirt cause I was able to conquer my fears on the much softer tramp first so the tramp bike really enabled me as much as gave me coaching for the real thing.
We used carpet and towels. We also covered the bottom bracket since it was sharp.
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Seth you gotta try this bike out called the ortovox mountain skyver. It’s kinda like a scooter bike.
Sounds gay
@@strongerthanyouallday you sound gay
3:35 Hikaru Speed Run theme
i learned bars, trucks, backflips, 3 whip and alot of other tricks on my tramp bike back in the day it acually does help as long as you learn the motion and take it straight to a jump
Wow. Bet you can't do a 30 mile ride
@@strongerthanyoualldaywhy would care about doing a 30 mile run i ride bmx not road bikes that just sounds tiring and boring as hell
@@stevencase3289 It's called being in good enough shape to do it.
You have ADD or something? Why do you need constant stimulation? Learn to enjoy nature.
@@strongerthanyouallday yes i do acually , but that has nothing to with it, i ride bmx just pedaling is boring iride my bike to challange myself to learn new tricks or run though a a good set of trails as as smooth as i can for an arthritis riddled 40 year old , two completely differnt sports
@@stevencase3289 they make things for arthritis.
I was waiting for this To be honest
Thanks seth
i want to build one of these it looks like so much fun
Hey Seth I was wondering if you could do a Walmart bike episode on the huffy scout i got this bike for Christmas and was wondering if it was decent
Hey seth I have a issue with my 2000 schwinn 4 banger It has 22mm hayes rear brakes but I went and bought some really nice shimano caliper and levers is there a way I can convert it from a 22mm to a 56mm mount I'm current running the hayes caliper connected to the shimano lever dot fluid caliler mixed with mineral oil is not a good Idea but I have been dying to ride it and I really want it to be all shimano. Thanks
man you are the best
As a kid I had a DK General Lee and a trampoline. Separate they are both fun but combined, they are even more fun.
The general lee was freaking awesome! I had a specialized vegas fatboy and later got a Todd Lyons huffy TL-88.
When you said "Thats a nac-nac, and oldschool trick!" I was getting mad. Then it motivated me to watch "the collective - roam" again and I have to humbly admit that it is old school AF... Where did the years go?! ;)
In skiing, spinning the opposite way is called unnatural or unnat and switch is skiing backwards. In comps like slopestyle, the judges tend to look for someone spinning both ways than just spinning in their more difficult directions. Hard to even tell the natural spin direction of the very best skiers unless you watch them a lot cause they learn most tricks spinning both directions. Not sure it works that way in mtb but that system is a lot easier than remembering which way everyone spins for different tricks.
In moguls unnatural spins are irrelevant as they'll just count one trick if you do it spinning both ways but rumor has it that rule is gonna change.
Haha i *need* to do this 😄.Having spent decades on dirt bikes before trying MTB ,my jumping abilities are embarrassing!
This was a fun video 😂
Nice clip from the Riviter. I'd like to see a new vid from there.
Your lower back must hav been SCREAMING at you the next day hahah. I did a bounce house with my kids and I was out of commission the next day. Great vid!!
Dude same here in a bounce house. I can barely jump on a trampoline anymore either. Luckily riding a bike feels pretty good.