One of the hardest and strangest tricks i've ever seen performed on a bike is the backwards miamie hop hops... How did someone even think of this trick... How did they get up in the position? Then hop on top of it? That trick is insane still to this day..

Lots of great pics in this thread, Keith...that's just plain sick.

Another pic of Vander, this one from the SHREDDIN' zine/magazine thing.

I never seen that one, with doing a Bar endo and reaching around and touching the back wheel. Man, that would not be easy. That trick was definitly hellon the front wheel and forks. But that was one of the coolest tricks. Especially when you hit that right spot, and you could tuck and balance it.

That Skyway letter is the funniest, STRIKE. Reminds me of my buddy Fred at the Chinese Buffet:

"You been heah FAW OUWA now...you go home!"

Here's some more pics of the almighty Hopper:







And my personal fav:

Man, this thread just keeps getting better.. Who can get enough of Miamie Hoppers..Not me...

When they are tucked,, watch out..

Great thread. I had to go out yesterday and do a couple bar endos. Fun trick.

I am amazed that the cheap 48s I have have not bent holding up my fat old body.

I am still amazed by that photo sequence with Vander doing the bar-flip bar endo. Classic old school tricks like that are cooler than a lot of modern stuff.

What craziest about that trick is that he's running mags and a caliper and still trusted his endo-ability enough to do that on the ledge...... Crazy.

That bottom pic was and still is one of my favorite phots in any magazine. I can sort of do bar endos to this day I just get scared taking off my hand.

Let's keep them coming!!!!

What? No Rick Allison pictures in a Miami Hopper thread? I know Axlepeg must have one!

He could tweak those and balance them like NO ONE!

Definitely one of the coolest flat tricks I've seen.

I used to be able to do them, but havent pulled one in awhile. Maybe I'll have to start trying them again...

Jeff

Here's a pic of me doing a bar endo in 1989 rocking my 2-hip society hat.

That Nourie wedge picture is just amazing.

That is sooooo COOL!!!!! I don't think I've ever seen that done before.

I would just like to say that I tried my first bar endo in probably 18 years and actually pulled the first one I tried!

I'm with ya...This is a picture from last year when i put my Dyno together....Probably about the same amount of time for me.. Great thread! Loved doing these back in the day..

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Me. Circa 1988.

I REALLY wish I still had that bike.

I recently tried one for the 1st time in at least 20 years and 75lbs heavier........ All went well until.......KINK.... SNAP... outter leg of the fork broke right off... I don't think bikes are designed for 250lb er's to be pulling bar endo's...

Frame Grab Bar Endo... on my Haro.
(photo by guav)



Pulling into the Frame Grab Bar Endo position.
on the Kuwi.

Look at that crowd in the Strike picture.. They are freaking amazed..

That dude up above grabbing the frame,, that's a new one.. And very cool....

Necrothread!

Yeah, a bunch of n00bs gawking in awe of my mullet.

I'm kinda diggin' the framegrab bar endos.

I think I'm to blame for digging this up... believe it or not, I was posting my bar endo pic to the RAD fans Facebook group and had to make sure I remembered the name of the trick.... so I googled "Bar Endo" and this thread was hit #1 or 2. So I HAD to post on it....

it's now a thread that is UNDEAD!

Shamefully, me and my friends did the same thing, except we laid the bike down to "ride" into them to. The were really only done for pictures, so no one knew we didn't ride into and out of them the right way, because no one else in town rode.

My family used to vacation at Lakewood Campground in Myrtle Beach during the summers. I remember riding with the guys down there. There was one "older" (maybe in his early twenties) that rode a Mongoose with the old short metal GT pegs that would do that trick. It amazed me.

On another note, if I remember correctly Rick Alison had some sick Miami Hopper variations (and some sickly tweaked windsurfers) when he rode for Mongoose.

Great story Spin........ but we are still waiting for the hopper pic !!!!

I have awesome mh pics (rick allison included), gotta get them scanned and posted. I try to pull one everytime I ride my bike w front brakes; ia m good for 5 out of 10. Still a hard, super cool trick

JD

I remember being a chunky 15 yr old kid learning Miami hop hops. Amazingly they weren't as hard as they looked. I got them down after only a few hours. The only problem was that the forks on my 89 Pro Performer didn't hold up AT ALL. I was so psyched to pull the trick, only to notice my bike stearing itself to the left as I was riding away. Of course I figured that they must be defective because Martin A did them all the time and he rode for GT. So I took them back to the shop I bought them from and explained the situation. The shop was called Flyin' wheels in Methuen, MA and the owner was this cool guy named Ed. He sent them back to GT for me and in a few weeks I had a brand new pair of forks, free of charge. This process repeated about 3 or 4 times. Each time Ed seemed a little bit more annoyed. But so was I! I was starting to get really pissed with GT! Anyways, Ed handed me my last set of replacement forks with a stern word of advice. "Do not do that trick again because I can't get you another pair of forks!" I nodded and raced home to install them. Of course I couldn't let it go. After a few minutes I went for it. I pulled it, but needless to say, I was riding with tweaked forks for the next few months. Looking back I now realize why Martin would spin his bars while doing them. It wasn't for extra style points, it was to keep his forks straight.

I always thought Miami hop-hops would have been the best way to just destroy a bike, so I never did them. I'd watch Martin do them on a video and think, "That can only end in tears." Thank you for the confirmation that my hunch was indeed correct.

I did hop-hops on my GT and never had a prob... I was a little lighter, though. I did them on my GT Superlace (36 spoke) and on some Araya 48s with ne'er a problem.

You can sorta tell in this pict that I'm hopping--mostly from the positioning of the body on the bike. Can't tell if the shadow would show anything but the death-grip I've got on the bars/brake/seat may also be evidence...

There was definitely an art to a Miamie Hopper.. It took a soft touch to do Miamie Hop Hops, for sure. That trick was something I never tried either just because I know it would break my bike.. One of the sickest tricks I ever seen was the backward Miamie Hop Hop... Riding on the bike backwards and hopping,, How did someone think and pull that one off!

I would like to introduce myself with a shot of a bar endo in this cool thread: I performed it last week on my '85 RL20II. Notice the front peg, I cut it off long ago for miami hoppers because I can't stand them when the front tire gets off the ground.

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I am now 40 and therefore I dare to do it "old man style" grabbing my seat. Sometimes I manage to ride off of them when they came in very straight. The trick is to be audacious to take off the hand to grab the grip again while the bike is on its way down. I didn't stand the one on the photo, cause I forget to wake up from doing grimaces until loosing balance

I remember a friend BITD who owned Z-rims. They were so flabby and bend enormous when tortured in a bar endo. But with the power stored in the bended rim he were able to flip the bike backwards and off the ground a bit.
Maybe Miami Hoppers were invented to sort out the good bikes to survive.

Way to make an intro! Great first post!
I brought my RL-20II home from my parent's garage rafters in late 2003. I immediately started doing bar endos after a 15 year hiatus. Shortly after that I stopped doing them on that bike because I realized the value of the bike that I was doing them on. I couldn't forgive myself if I broke my childhood scoot.

for some reason my pic never made it on this thread.

Pardon the extra picture.
It is a long story...

Excellent first post. Here is the only one I can find of me BITD.

John, me, Steve, Greg



some bar spin hop hops at a contest in Alabama.

This is me in 1985/2008.

Lunchbox 67 invented the no handed and barspinning Miami hop-hops, I don't know why he hasn't weighed in here or added a pic.

Love that Skyway letter Strike. I remember Menlo Park local John Ficarra busting four out of five spokes on a Toughwheel with one tailwhip on a dare once at Beach Park bikes.

Been working on my endos, did a sick one last week at the end of a tiny wedge ramp.

Heh thanks man. As a kid I was floored, hurt and embarassed that they thought I was taking advantage of them, I mean they were supposedly practically indestructable right? Looking at it now, yeah I guess I was lol.

I switched to 48's shortly after this and never looked back. I still do love Tuffs though.