Pedro Melo’s amazing surfer nose manual went vital on instagram and social media last week. This trick was done back in the 80’s but as far as I know not held this long, Pedro Melo is a beast! Enjoy this if you haven’t already seen it!
Pedro Melo’s amazing surfer nose manual went vital on instagram and social media last week. This trick was done back in the 80’s but as far as I know not held this long, Pedro Melo is a beast! Enjoy this if you haven’t already seen it!
OMG!
Love that !!
Ballsy move. The crashes are potentially so gnarly on this. Respect!
Wow!!!
I wonder if it would be possible to kick the frame around from this position? No-handed stemlash?!?
BBBBOOOOMMMM!!!!!
There was a rider in the states doing the surfer nose wheelie in the 80’s, Cory Strat said his name was Larry Manayan (I recall seeing this trick in American Freestyler), and also UK old school heads will remember Nick Galway doing them. Pedro holds this for longer tho with slightly different technique!
I sent this thread to Larry. He was stoked to see the trick, and the mention 🙂
That is awesome to hear Todd! Thanks for commenting
As I recall, the original attempts at this move were less nose wheelie and more of a g-turn style carve? I remember bitd having an issue of the old Orbit zine with a photo of the originator of this trick busting the move, and there’s a split second clip in one of the Dorkin’ videos of him doing it (too far back for me to remember dude’s name though… lol). In any case, a straight line nose wheelie in this position is right up there with multiple no-handed and turbine no-handed whiplashes as far as tricks I never expected to see fully realized… Melo Bros strike again!
Pedro is one of the best riders ever. So much creativity, and a lot of hard stuff.
If my memory serves me correctly, probably not, I think it was Dylan Worsley that did a g-turn surfer bitd 20+ years ago. He had his front foot on the crossbar and his back foot wedged underneath the nose of his seat, in between the bottom of the seat and the topside of his laidback seatpost. I remember the sequence from an old magazine, but it didnt show him riding it out. Just him rolling backwards a bit in the modified surfer position, when he completed the g-turn carve.
Larry Maybe was the guy from the Orbit magazine. I think I spelled his last name wrong.
http://www.global-flat.com/smf/index.php?topic=18989.0
There’s also an issue or two of Orbit for sale on ebay
Jesus Christ! Shit. Fuck.
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