Not necessarily. I‘m fairly new to rolling mounts and mostly do them when practicing but not in real life. I know with my 20er the pedal I usually step on when doing a static mount has to be in the horizontal when I start walking with the corresponding foot. I then do two steps, and with the third „step“ I land on the pedal, shortly followed by the other foot landing on the second pedal. It‘s surprising how great the effect of wheel movement is, in that I can hop on one pedal (with my full weight) without the uni shooting backwards before I land the second foot. Of course, short cranks are (or would be) helping to prevent the wheel from suddenly roll backwards.
I also agree that that is more of a static mount.
I used to do a rolling mount on my 36, but I haven’t tried a rolling mount in a while and I will have to remember to try it soon. I think it is very useful for mounting a larger wheel uphill.
Could be a video of Florian.
Back when we were learning, Florian (now known for his close to crazy freewheel riding) would do a really crazy full speed run/sprint and jump into a rolling mount without stopping the wheel and ride off at a good speed, I think on a 26" but maybe it was a 24". It looked pretty impressive, but as I was still learning I didn’t try it (Florian was learning too but a lot younger around 17 and a lot crazier - if you’ve ever met him then you know what I mean).
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I thought the way to make uphill mounts easier is to turn the wheel 90º, so you can mount as if it was flat. Then do a turn the wheel into the hill and go up.
This.
Or a rolling mount (give it a try).
Yes, that is correct and what I mostly do. Works for me well on the 29 muni (today I successfully did some uphill mounts that way on a 20% asphalt grade and about 16% gravel grade).
But I have however had some situations on the 36 where it is really hard to get the initial momentum (so you can mount at 90 degrees and even hop in place but then not be able to rotate uphill and get the wheel turning). And I have seen a few videos where the rolling mount was used to start uphill on a 36 on asphalt. But I think it may only work on the road, as the “pushing” your body up might be hard to balance on a bumpy gravel surface. But I would like to try it. It may only work for moderate uphill grades, but I’ve never really tried it except in flat or low grades, so I don’t know.
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I still need to learn the “dynamic” mounts (jump mount, rolling mount, etc.) as right now my only method of mounting is the static 3-9 mount, regardless of configuration or situation. Most of the time it works well enough though I do feel there are some specific situations where it might help to know some different mounts.
I can only do a dynamic rolling mount on a 36", because it rotates in slow-motion.
A static jump on 3-9 pedals on a 20" is pretty intuitive. I can not say that I learned it. Although scary, I just did it some times and these few times it always worked.
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