HOW TO MANUAL A BIKE OVER 40. The video I wish a saw BEFORE I started!

Wow, great filming, awesome editing, good riding and fantastic tips! Subscribing for sure. Thanks for the briliant content!

Don't be afraid to wear motorcycle/ dirt bike/Mx padded underwear. A lot of them have a coccyx pad that may save your tailbone without looking as goofy as a pillow. May not need for everyday riding but for learning could be a good option. Designed to breath pretty well too since riding dirt bikes is a sweaty activity as well. Forcefield and other companies make them.

Good video thanks. This is wisdom. We all know we’re going to learn the hard way or take videos like this seriously early on. Thanks Tufty

Great advice! 47yo here, need to pickup a BMX bike and ride with my 3yo who''s learning to ride now. +Sub for sure, keep it up!

Saw this title and thought omg what’s the difference? Watched the video and wow, excellent!

Thanks guys! I'm 51 and just got back on a bmx after a 35 year break! My how things have changed, and i'm looking forward to my manual journey!

I'm 43 and just picked up a new BMX today with the sole intention to learn to manual, ride a few pump tracks, etc. I've watched a few 'how to manual' videos before today but yours just popped up now. It's awesome! Thanks for the tips. Fingers crossed I can crack looping out.

I rode BMX in the early 70's. (Before it had a name) We modified "found parts" to build our bikes. At well into retirement age, I'm not going to start again. My medical insurance isn't that good! I'll stick to my road and mtb.

Just seeing this after looping out yesterday and jacking up my knee...

I do the deed with my RSD Middlechild singlespeed plusser. Euphoric!

I looped out of a manual but I landed on my tailbone today lol

Great video, the manual kinda ended me a bit, I’m 46 and was at the park practicing manuals, I looped out really hard and just felt a shock wave go through my body that pushed all the wind out of, long story short, an MRI later I have two herniated discs in my back which are bulging and touching the nerves which serve my foot, permanent burning and pins and needles in my foot and low level back pain, if I’d watched this video first I honestly don’t think I would of looped out so hard or would of saved it, when my discs eventually realign I’m trying again 👍

Thank you so very much for thinking of us older than 30; we get ignored the older we get.

I think anyway even the first step is almost impossible if you're an adult.

I am 52 😅

You guys are fare too cool! I loved this video, it's full of great tips and made me laugh out loud a few times :) Plus, your comment about how long it takes is so real, I've been learning how to wheelie for years now, it's a very slow progress but it's happening gradually and I'm almost there... Still I almost gave up a million times precisely because of all those videos that promise you can learn that skill in only a few weeks; i.e. when you see that's not happening for you you're tempted to stop because you didn't set out your expectations properly to begin with (those videos actually have the opposite effect of what they should be trying to achieve, which is to get you to learn the move in the first place but I guess a lot of them are more about the views)

Thanks for this vid!

I am 58 and I want to learn it too! If I wait twenty more years till you make video for 60+ LOL I’ll be 78 then… so no time to wait, starting now!

I'm 84 and I 'm gonna give it a try on my Walmart custom bike

I’m 38 and got into mountain biking 1 year ago cause I HATE cardio at the gym lol this vid gives me much hope 😁

im 14 idk why im watching this

I'm 33 and it's not happening. :P There is no practice when you can't even lift your wheel. I probably am lifting my butt (it's kind of the only move that feels natural... to push down with your legs and stand up).

I'm 45 and this video is for me! Great job!

Wonder why they call it a manual instead of a wheelie? Wheelie sounds good!

How cool would i feel ,at 50, leading out a pack of wheelieing older folks, giving it large, showing those kids theres life in these ole dogs yet........

It's crazy. I had no problem pulling wheelies as a kid. But I have a hard time relearning as "manuals" now

Ah, dang it, it was all going great till you pointed the prarie dogs out. 😅

How about 53?

What is the practical purpose of learning to manual? Is it just for fun or are there technical advantages to going down a section of a trail on one wheel as opposed to two?

This was called riding a wheelie when I grew up

I'm gonna try this on my motorcycle 💀

I miss riding. Want to get back into it. Anyone have any recommendations on bikes?

Sometimes I feel bad for learning this at 46 but looking at you, you look totally bad ass. “good for the soul,” indeed!

Useful tips. But I ride mountain bikes. I don’t have a BMX, I don’t have access to a BMX and I’m not going to seek out a BMX. Maybe easier for you to demonstrate, but also showing it on a mountain bike would have been helpful.

what would be a good bike for a beginner BMX wanting to learn manual? I'm 5'7" and 40+ yo and looking to spend $500 or less. Thank you.

I’m 28 do I qualify?😂

So .. what the video title suggests is that learning manuals is an age-specific skill? Or is the title merely designed to capture a given age bracket so the algorithm can gear ads to us for denture cream and arthritis cream?

💡👍💪

You’d be surprised at how much feathering that rear brake helps with control during the manual.

Best manual video ever thx

It looks like the margin for error is a lot lower on a bmx, i.e. there is a smaller interval between getting it right and falling on your backside.

Just turned 35,my wife got me a bike frame. About to get back into bmx and I'm super excited

Could you do over and update this video but on a mountain bike?

just bought my first bmx in over 20 years im now 50 and yeah im suffering from a bruised tailbone

I’m 60 been riding for 10 years and have never bothered with it or bunny hopping , but feel like my skills haven’t progressed as far as they should because of neglecting this stuff . I suspect it’s not being in sync with your bike as much as I should be is where I lack by neglecting this stuff .

Old dogs new tricks , is it too late ? ( I am an athletic slim 60 )

Love the attitude!!!

I’m 37, I can’t believe I’m gonna have to relearn how to manual in 3 years. 😭

It’s hard for me to loop. I need to practice. I’m so damn short hard to get front wheel up

Over 70, what lunatic starts BMX then? Yeah, me.