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On a rail, the rider 'ollies over' into a nose slide position. The term, noseblunt, in downhill or flatground riding, refers to a powerslide happening on only the front two wheels. Nose grab tail drag The skater pops the board into his hand, grabs the nose, and pulls up so that the wheels come off the ground and only the tail is sliding. Noseslide
A G-Turn is a Nose Manual, but without facing the riding direction. The rider increases speed, then places the front foot on the nose while keeping the back foot over the back wheels. While riding, the board tends to turn frontside or backside, ending with a spin. Variations: One-Wheeled, Backward, Hang Ten (two feet on the nose)
There are two bushings per truck, one above and one below where the hanger fits onto the kingpin. These are sometimes called the boardside and roadside bushing, respectively. Like wheels, bushings are available with different levels of hardness. The kingpin nut may be tightened or loosened to adjust the turning radius and response of the truck ...
The wagon-wheel effect (alternatively called stagecoach-wheel effect) is an optical illusion in which a spoked wheel appears to rotate differently from its true rotation. The wheel can appear to rotate more slowly than the true rotation, it can appear stationary, or it can appear to rotate in the opposite direction from the true rotation ...
Cash roll: Invented by Daniel Dhers, similar to a 360 backflip but instead of rotating while upside-down the rider does a 180-backflip-180. Crankflip: The rider bunny hops and kicks the pedals backwards so the crank arms spin one full crank around and then the feet catch back onto the pedals to stop the cranks.
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Wheels can also lose traction when surface conditions reduce available traction such as on snow and ice. As an open differential delivers only enough torque to cause the "weakest" wheel to spin, if one drive wheel is stationary on a low traction surface (mud, ice, etc.), the deliverable torque is limited to the traction available on it.
Footage captures the moment fairgoers in Florida were stuck upside-down on a Ferris wheel ride that malfunctioned. The attraction, which features enclosed carriages that swing and flip, slowed ...