Hello all. I posted this advice somewhere else but decided to post it here too so more could find it. Sorry if it's the wrong forum but I figured the General Discussion forum is a popular one and so it could be of more use to people here.
When reading it try and break it down into sections. Sorry that it's a bit of a wall of text, but I hope it helps.
The best way to do the 'girder tap' as I call it, in my experience is as follows. Bare with me I am going to get technical.
Ok here goes.
Steady yourself. Don't get right to the edge of the ledge, this is not necessary, back up a little bit and stop your bike. Set your rider so that he is sitting up level, not forward not back. Next, when you are ready, quickly flick your rider forward ensuring that he gets a full lean so that he cannot lean forward anymore and then straight after flick the stick backwards so that your rider leans back. Accelerate hard while doing so but don't hold the accelerator as you start the lean back, instead, start hitting the accelerator hard just as your rider reaches the sitting up straight posture. I found this to work better for me and the reason I think this is, is because the acceleration boost you get from using this advanced technique (The game says it is one so there) is better for travelling horizontally. If you hold the accelerator while holding the lean forward posture, all of the acceleration builds up in the back wheel and it swings out so you get good height and front wheel clearance but this is not necessarily what you need here. What you need here is speed and distance. So if you don't delay the accelerator till your rider is sitting up straight, by the time you get to the girder your back wheel is too low for you to get a good enough tap off of the girder . This still sometimes gets you across but it's not as reliable.
There is one thing left you have to do. Now that you have accelerated correctly, you have to make sure that your front wheel doesn't get severely kicked down by the tapping of the back wheel. Preventing this allows your front wheel to hang nicely above the inviting ledge that spells success. To make sure you get this last step correct, as soon as your bike is in the air between starting ledge and girder, hold back hard and your bike will stay nice and straight in the air after the tap, preserving that perfect horizontal motion. If you do this well enough you can easily pull your back wheel over the lip and ride on home.
Of course this all has to be deciphered from this post and put into one smooth motion. Let me try and break it down for you.
(Posture) Flick forward fully hard--->Flick backward fully hard with delayed acceleration. Only accelerate fully when your riders posture is neutral to preserve horizontal motion and keep accelerating throughout rest of manoeuvre---> Now biker is in air hold back hard so that you keep your front wheel over the lip despite the severe hit your back wheel takes from the tap.---> pull back wheel up over lip by leaning forward and accelerating and ride away happily.....But watch the swinging things of doom.
Please let me know if this helps anyone. I am very curious to see if it does as I spent a long time turning this bit into an absolute science as it was essential to getting a platinum run.
It sucks no one had any tips when I was stuck on it when it first came out. I could only watch the leaderboard runs but since you cant rewind, you have to start the whole replay over. So that made watching the replays a bit useless IMO. As with all the other parts in Trials that I would get stuck on, I got past this part by trying something different than what my brain thought would work the frist 300 faults.
Best way to do it! Adapt and overcome. Keep trying a bit over and over again, even cancelling before you clear the checkpoint if necessary to make sure you can emulate, if you tried something and it gave you success more than something else did. I understand some people don't want to spend time doing this. ( I've heard it affectionately called practice before nowOriginally Posted by billymagnumIt sucks no one had any tips when I was stuck on it when it first came out. I could only watch the leaderboard runs but since you cant rewind, you have to start the whole replay over. So that made watching the replays a bit useless IMO. As with all the other parts in Trials that I would get stuck on, I got past this part by trying something different than what my brain thought would work the frist 300 faults.
From practicing, I have now come up with a way of doing the sloped step (The angled crate of evil) on Going Up almost every time. About 8/10 attempts work out perfect. This is my last track to platinum and I had a run earlier of 1:50:584 with no faults. Do I need to tell you that the platinum time is 1:50? Do I need to tell you how I felt afterwards? Especially since I had resolved to stop playing after that go regardless of outcome as my hands and brain were killing me after an all morning session.
