Ok so i think i am finally gunna grow the ***** and learn coasters this weekend. should i take the bar off. did u hit the bar alot wen u were learning these?

 

i havent learned them yet but ive seen people learn them and they hit the bar alot,because coasting you floating high and its easy to go a bit too far back.go with the bar it'll save your bike in the long run

 

Leave it. If you can get a quad to practice by all means do it. If not just start out slow.

 

Take it off and leave it off.

 

no way, still learnin bar tricks and it saves my *** from time to time

 

I learned with the bar on. I smack it sometimes, but usually it works out ok. If you hit it hard enough to make you crash, you were goin' down anyway. Just start slow....I used first gear and coasted about 14 feet at a time in the beginning, but I got a feel for what the bike wanted to do without getting in over my head. Coasters are easy......just scary to learn. Don't let the wobbles scare ya, its part of the trick. That's what I tell everyone watchin', anyway.

 

Everyone that rides with us doing coasters has a bar on their bike and learned that way.

 

i learned with a bar.....but now that i dont' have it on anymore they are better in my opinion, a bar doesn't flex, plastic flexes......plus i love hearing plastic SCRAPE!

 

Ryan has two good points . But my bar is getting pretty ground down and sharp. The razor-like edges make cutting the long end of the zip-ties that I use to fix my freshly torn pants easier. It comes in handy every so often.

 

SO why ask that question.........you seem to have your mind made up.

 

If your bar isnt 3ft long, then you shouldn't ever hit it

 

het i just rebiult my whole 929 and its pretty mint now, i was gonna start learnin slow stuff, not no-handers or stuff like that just bp real slow, was that tuff on that bike? i don't want to put a bar back on cause i don't want to cut the plastic, rather have it break on a crash than purposely cut it

 

the 929 isn't hard to learn on.. not the easiest, but not too bad

 

do you think that it is in inevitable that i will **** my bike up, i cover the rear brake well and i used it more that once when i wasn't comfortable

 

Exactly! I've only hit my bar once in a coaster and that was revving it and letting out the clutch too soon.

 

that makes me feel a little better about not having one

 

cuz u sed leave it off. i was thinkin about takin it off just to learn coasters then puttin it back on wen i got them

 

its about an inch from my tail light.

 

Thats wut I'm talkin bout'!!!!!

 

Thats too long