we need a freestyle categorie again so i dont have to search through the racing stuff to find freestyle topics.

I second this

i power this to the third

^4!

for sure.... freestyle is on Xgames and we dont have out own categorie.. WTH.. that makes me wonder how hardcore, hardcoresledder is? lol

hardcoresledder isn't as hardcore without us dumbasses all right here to have our own topic.

besides, we get high off 110 and then go jump a sled off of a ramp to woodchips...maybe back siding the landing a few times here and there like a certain person on a haggard-ass 440 snopro (not saying names here *cough*jay*cough*

....just to see what happens!!!!!!!!!

phew, for a second craig i was thinking you thought my sled was haggard. well, it could be the haggard 800

i think we should just ask any freestyle related questions on this topic until someone makes a catagorie for us. i want to start off by saying that that is a ballin jump jesse. was that a 60 footer? another question for you guys. im getting into freestyle this year for sure my dad picked up a bobcat skidsteer and with any luck i have a comp ramp coming home. i was just wondering how i should start. im kinda nervous about over/under shooting the landing. what would be a good distance to start at? is there any way to really speed check?
thanks,
gunnar

thanks man that jump was on a jacked up comp ramp, about 55 feet to the sweet spot.

If youre building your own landing, make sure its something youre comfortable with. some people like them steep so the landing is smooth. I prefer having a landing that is more planed out like the one in my sig. Its a little rougher when you land but you have a lot more landing to hit when youre coming down from the air. Its all a matter of preference. With the comp ramp set it up very very close on your first hits. You can judge your speed by coming in on a line next to the ramp and coasting by it. Dont start off too far back. It may seem like theres a lot of guys jumping decent gaps but STAY AT YOUR COMFORT LEVEL. when you know for sure that youre ready to pull the ramp back then you can. but dont feel pressured to pull it back when youre not ready. getting hurt is not worth it at all.

all right thanks. yeah that was my plan to drag the landing out definately the way to go for a long while. if i have any more questions i definately ask you if thats all right. ill fill you guys in when (or if) i get the ramp.

ramps are fun... like wWAAAAAY sweet.

Freestyle catergorie would be nice, since it is progressing.

well its been a while since iv been on here. we got the comp ramp back to 70 feet to the sweet spot now. iv got no foot cans, no handed nacs no footed can indian airs and what not dialed at 60 feet. i started hitting it end of december. we'll see what this week brings now that its at 70.

awesome man keep it up! im just recovering from my knee injury and I plan on hitting the ramp in a few weeks, we'll see how the knee feels.

yeah dude i saw that ur knee cap was in a bunch of pieces, thats nuts. good luck on the rest of the healing process and on the ramp hits.

i saw the vids youtube pretty damn good

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thanks man. just started workin on superman seatgrabs today and i have em pretty decent and i got my dead bodies and cordovas more extened so im pumped on that as well.

Yeah a freestyle forum would be really sweet! I don't understand hardcoresledder, they recently created a forum for the ''rotax triple'' (that was cool in the 90's) but they don't want to create one for the freestyle (which is cool NOW)...

I don't have a freestyle ramp but I really enjoy jumping and I plan on going bigger next winter!

And yet no freestyle catagory. Question for you guys, what do you pay for a dumptruck load of dirt ?

we dig really big holes and call them our cool down lol

Yeah I just rented a bobcat and dug a huge hole for my first landing. then a year later I paid a guy with a big loader to come out and make it huge.

A lot of times excavating places have extra junk dirt that they are happy to get rid of.

hey i just have a question since i guess this is the freestyle section how dose having studs work when hitting ramps

doesnt really affect anything jumping-wise. its just a bad idea to have them IMO. if you end up bailing and getting sucked into the track somehow its gonna tear you up pretty good.

^ Thats one thing I was wondering about too. I might end up taking them out before I make a trip to Bessermer. I just got done moving some dirt around with my uncle and his tractor.

They might be nice if you are thinking of going to queerland sledpark. When I was up there last year I was spinning quite a bit on some of my in runs, it tends to get icy.

Anyone been doing any riding yet this fall? I have been working on getting my feet higher when doing grabs.


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Im going to wait till the snow flies, me and kingxp just got dont shaping our mounds, ended up with a 50ft gap coming off a 4ft kicker.

Anyone else think we need a freestyle category?

Lets just post in the ski doo Freestyle section. close enough.

Or we could go buy some Ski doo Freestyles and try to bunny hop 'em

im down. maybe i'll drop an 800 in one and try a triple backflip.

why stop at a triple go for the quad flip.

i showed my wood tech teacher the plans for the comp 1 ramp he said it would be easy to make he got real into it to he told me exactly what wood to use on the deck and the thickness of it and that it has to be green tree wood and what nails to use. but my question is this he said he could make it out of all wood instead of steel would this be a good idea? i mean since roofs on a house and everything are made of wood. and the green tree wood doesn't rot. i am going to be hitting the ramp every week and almost all day on the weekends. and with a bike in the summer so should i just pay the extra for the steel what do you think would be best and what would be the price for making it out of steel and wood I'm thinking around 700-800 for steel and 350-450 for wood.

I would go with steel.. the roof of a house dose not have the mass of a 600 pound object driving up it at 60 mph

yea that's what i was thinking my friends say go with wood its cheaper but their not the one's paying for it cause they said their not going to hit ramps

I requested for one before winter and still none.

Lol, steel!!!! A wood ramp is gonna have some flex and give, and over time it is just gonna get worse. If you are gonna make the investment you need to just suck up and do it right.

ok steel it is just thought i would get a second opinion i got all the tools to make it at the shop after school i don't know how to weld enough to build the ramp my self but my shop teacher said we could build it in 3 week. where would be a good place to order steel should i just look it up in the phone book. and would you say 700-800 would be around what i would be paying to build the ramp

I built mine 3 years ago and only had about $450 into the whole thing but im sure prices on steel are a bit more now. I got my steel from a local place.

yea i'm going to call around to get an estimate

yeah your best bet is steel. you'll loosen up the wood ramp worse than ur date on prom night after a few hits. its better to pay the couple hundred extra and go with steel. I built my superkicker last march and the steel cost me 625 bucks. i worked at a steel plant so i got it from there at a lower rate, but i dont think it was that much cheaper. the decking cost us about 120 bucks. We used AdvanTec plywood so its guaranteed for 50 years! Ha yeah right. Im sure you can find some of your buddies to weld it for you. Bring it to the metal shop class, give them a little project.

i think I'm going to be spending my prom night welding the ramp. I e-mailed the cut list to a local steel companie. he said he would give me pretty good estimate by Monday. as long as its under 850 to order the steel i could do it which it should be.

discount steel companie is going to get me a estimate tomorrow on the steel. and i was wondering what would be the best seat to use from a dirt bike, to make a the freestyle seat. an rm, yz, cr or ktm

theyre pretty much the same. mine is a one industries seat for a cr 250. i shaved the foam down to make it easier to grab and re-covered it. making the frame was a pain in the ass tho.

i found a cheep rm seat should that work out fine?

OK i went with the rm seat and i got the price quote for the steel for the ramp and the told me 850 dose that sound right or should i look around more.

the rm seat should work fine. idk about the real price of steel i got mine on a discount, but it never hurts to shop around.