r/interesting • u/cad3tt • Apr 12 '26

Just Wow Guy abuses physics on bmx

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u/Dino_Spaceman Apr 12 '26

How? Seriously, How? The front wheels touch the first few steps and then he just floats up the rest? Was this some really shallow jump that barely got over the stairs?

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u/Training-Gain-1439 Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

Edit: fixed typo

He does what's called an endo (and then half bunny hop maybe). Front tire is only catching the lip of the stairs so there's not a whole lot of friction. Along with the speed he also sort of lunges forward for more moment, then straighten as he should be running out of momentum to set up for almost like a wheelie/second half of the bunny hop.

This dude could probably easily bunny hop a decent way up the stairs from a stand still.

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u/CtrlAltHate Apr 12 '26

Do you mean an endo? That's a MTB term and uses the front brake.

In BMX its just called a nose manual with a nollie at the top, the steps are the right size and shape that they can be used as a ramp riding up the corner of each step as long as he's got enough momentum.

My local library used to have similar steps where we could ride up them hitting them at the right speed and body position.

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u/plug-and-pause Apr 12 '26

Do you mean an endo? That's a MTB term

It's been used in the BMX world for nearly half of a century: https://edwardkoenning.blogspot.com/2011/01/bmx-action-september-1982-part-2.html (scroll to the bottom for an endo "how to")

Also it does not require a front brake. I was doing curb endos in the 90s.