lil help.....

[RedBull]

ok i looked around and didnt find a thread on it so im makin one... the question for you all is "What is the diff. bettween a kicker and a super kicker??" ive heard ppl around here talking about super kickers and yes... i know its super but what are the diffrenses besids how they shoot you actully.. thats another question i goit how does a super kicker shoot you?? high and far, high, far??

[Flap]

superkicker = high, not to far...go for 40ft.
Kicker = just a regular fmx ramp

[REISERFMX]

most fmx ramps are built at a 38 degree angle, and a super kicker can be built at a 72 gegree angle. correct me if im wrong slider.

[crustyfmx250]

yeh, thats what i thought too :)

[RedBull]

72 thats insane

[yostfmx]

this is our super kicker

[RedBull]

hey yost whats the angle on that thing??

[slider]

Well, being you asked...
I think the Super Kicker should be banned from the X games. That stupid thing needs to be in front of a step up type landing, like YostFMX uses theirs. That is what they are for, not a FMX landing! I know riders that bought that thing knowing that they need to practice on it to do better at X events but it is very hard, almost impossible, to pull a trick off it. And, the tricks pulled are usually ### tricks.

Look at Jeremey Carter. He got busted up bad on one of these things and no-one can say he is not an experinced rider. I am scared a super kicker will hurt or kill riders. Now, if they put it at 15', 20', 25'... gaps for all the riders to work up to a final gap, that would be different. At the speed riders have to hit a SK ramp, the wheels have almost no gyro effect and the bike just falls without much control. Ever see a good whip off one? Can't do.

Just my thoughts, being you asked. LOL

[yostfmx]

RedBull, I don't know the angle?

[RedBull]

no prob, but hey did you built it? it looks like it was pretty crazy to build.