Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

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Bike or Biker

Bike or Biker

Complete BMX or NRG challenge.

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How to unlock the Bike or Biker achievement in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Definitive Guide

I found the NRG Challenge to be alot easier then the Bike because you dont need to spend alot of time getting the skills up to complete the challenge.

The NRG Challenge is found at the docks in San Fierro and most of the Red Circles are easily obtained with the tricky ones being the ones you have to jump to.
For those ones get a good run up and you shouldn't have any problems completing this in the allotted time.

The Cycle race is located in Glen Park.

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01 Nov 2014 16:26

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A lot easier than I expected
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By GsO Light on 21 Jul 2015 23:05
You can unlock this by completing either the BMX minigame located at the ganton skatepark, or the NRG minigame located at the docks area of San Fierro. You'll need to upgrade your BMX/Cycling skill or your Biking skill before you can start them. The NRG minigame is easier in my opinion but to each their own, you can do the BMX one from the start of the game as well (not the very beginning though, as you need to upgrade your BMX skill) where-as with the NRG you'll need to wait till you unlock San Fierro. If you do the NRG one something to add is if you press up on the left thumbstick ( cn_LSu ) rapidly (not just once, keep spamming up really fast) you can increase the top speed and acceleration of the NRG making it easier to get the checkpoints.

Location of the NRG on map -
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Location of the NRG in game -
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Location of the BMX on map -
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Location of the BMX in game -
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27 Oct 2014 00:59

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Should list that you need a certain skill level to start the challenge.
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By ReplacedStar on 27 Oct 2014 13:04
My bad, had no clue there was a skill requirement! I must have always just started them after reaching it so I never noticed, updated the solution thanks for that Replaced.
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By Kaleb on 27 Oct 2014 19:09
I actually had very little bike skill and was able to unlock it with plenty of time left. Great solution, thanks!
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By D Romaine on 29 Oct 2014 15:46
do you need to bring your own vehicle or is it there already ?
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By NoobgamerValbo on 01 Nov 2014 11:41
The NRG spawns there, getting on it starts the challenge. Same for the BMX.
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By Kaleb on 01 Nov 2014 18:02
thanks
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By NoobgamerValbo on 02 Nov 2014 10:42
+1 Vote. Tried multiple times and failed miserably, then read your solution and immediately got it. Hammering up on the NRG made all the difference in the world getting those high rings.
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By Seoulcrusher on 03 Nov 2014 03:29
The key to this is pressing up to jump higher. +1
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By sonnyforple on 03 Nov 2014 18:27
left thumb stick trick for the NRG was the key, thanks
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By nebulousIAM on 04 Nov 2014 04:24
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I found it's smarter to do as follows:

*Right after the burglar mission with Ryder between 20.00 and 06.00 you can do burglaries yourself. It is quite easy to do so, since most people are already asleep. When not, take them out with a silenced pistol, and you don't have to worry about making any noise. Collect 10.000$ worth of stolen goods. You will get 3000 dollars and (here comes the important one!) the abillity to run, swim and bike fast for an unlimited time!

*Just take that BMX from the above location. If you didn't do jack shit with that bike (most people rather have a car to drive around since nobody can hit you by accident and kill you) like me, chances are your bike skills are only about a 10 or 15%. You need at LEAST 50% Cycling skill. Since you don't get super exhausted from biking (since you can make speed with that bike for an unlimited time) your bike skill goes up amazingly fast. It took me about half an hour to get 50-55% up in skill. The best route is by following the tracks all around the map and watch out for trains (freight and passenger trains)

*The higher the better, and if you haven't done it already, do the Beat the Cock marathon. It takes about 15-18 minutes. In the second course of the race you will cycle from the country side through San Fierro, ending in Las Venturas. It is quite the distance, but in the process you will never be hit by a car, since the roads are totally empty. With unlimited speed your cycling skill is at 100% by the end of the bike race, allowing you to jump very high. With that 100% cycling skill, the course on Benton should be a piece of cake and you unlock 2 achievements!
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23 Jan 2015 00:31

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After struggling with the NRG challenge (OK the three star wanted level didn't help, two police cars and two bikes in the pit can be a problem) I decided to watch the bike video on Youtube, it seems a lot easier.

If I remember rightly I did this in the pc version. Anyway found this solution and love it, especially integrating the beat the cock marathon into the training, really nice to find a great solution, just goes to show when you are struggling scroll down and you will sometimes find gold on solution pages, thank you for this.
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By Iceonfire89 on 04 Aug 2015 07:55
Fucking BMX challenge. I got it third try after I realized to hold A and release it for a high jump. Your solution is good 👍🏻.
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By Orran Durai on 23 May 2020 05:54
Both the NRG and the BMX Challenges can be glitched to give you UNLIMITED time to complete them. Simply roll through a Red Ring as the timer gets to 00:00 and it'll say "15s added" but the timer will disappear. Now you can take your time. I started this with low Cycling skill and leveled it up enough during the BMX Challenge to hit the last Red Ring. If I'd not glitched the timer, I'd have had to do it again.
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21 Dec 2018 14:10

The BMX challenge is found in Glen Park with all the pipes and stunt sets. All you have to do is touch all the coronas in the time limit. This method needs quite the high cycling skill (about 75%) to beat. The NRG challenge may be a bit easier; it is located in San Fierro by the Easter Basin drydock.

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The test is easy to complete when the bike's skill level is 50% or higher.
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05 Apr 2016 22:57

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Without a doubt, the most difficult trophy in the game!

NRG or BMX ??? It’s up to you to decide for yourself, I’ll outline just a few arguments in favor of the bike :

1) The BMX skill is upgraded much faster than the motorcycle skill.
2) You can cheat on a bicycle test, simplifying your life and saving a lot of nerves
3) In the BMX test there are still fewer hard-to-reach rings.
4) The test is available from the very beginning of the game: you prepared, trained, passed, and your head doesn’t hurt for the hardest trophy!

Preparation for passing :
- from the very beginning of the game, a BMX is constantly generated in front of CJ's house (in the courtyard opposite the house). Sometimes it is not there, for these purposes you can park one in the garage. While the game is in Los Santos, we ride a bike more often, the skill is upgraded quite quickly. It is highly advisable to improve your skill to at least 80% before training at the skate park.
- We’re actually trying to pass the test at the skate park, study the location of the rings, etc. Maybe you’ll be lucky and pass right away, but if not, your skill will still increase. Having collected the required amount of time in reserve, we practice taking two rings on the upper (short) ramp, next to which the test begins and the bike itself is standing. After the mission fails, we put the bike in about the same place, get off, sit down and... train again.

Immediately before passing :
1) Be sure to reduce body fat to 15-20%, no more. Recommendations for weight loss: we run more, ride a bike, swim and dive, don’t eat. Because there is a ring between the two sides of the largest - the lower vertical ramp in the air. It is located quite high:



and jumps freely from a place (we are guided by the shadow of the ring), but! - only if you lose fat to the above parameters. I was upset when I took the top two ramps on the move (I was lucky with the middle one - the most unpleasant), and could not pick up this ring because of the fat.
2) You can try long and hard to honestly take the ring on the middle ramp (long) and struggle with the physics of the game. But the fact remains that it is very difficult to get there, even if you turn off the time counter! Yes, sometimes it works without a meter, but in order to call in consistently....
Therefore, in order to save time and nerves, it is better to cheat and go to the port area for a springboard truck. He doesn’t have a permanent location, so he has to drive back and forth along the circular route in the southeast of Los Santos and wait until he appears. You can’t drive it into a garage (only into an airplane garage in the desert, but from there it’s too far to go. Although if you don’t like waiting for it to appear in the traffic in the port area, that’s also an option!), so we drive it straight to the skatepark and install it in the position for taking this devilish ring like this (I made the screenshot myself, having already passed the test, so the position is extremely correct):

The upper part of the springboard on the truck moves (with the right analogue), do not forget to lower it completely - otherwise you won’t get there later (I got upset with this once!).

So, fat is at a minimum, the truck is in place, let's start the BMX passage :
1) We roll down the hill, collect easily accessible rings - we accumulate time for 3 serious rings. The lower ones - on the move (including the one hanging in the middle of the ravine), the upper ones - we slow down under them (the shadow indicates the place) and jump . Under the highest (due to which fat was reduced) we stop and hold longer before jumping.
2) Without touching the two rings on the upper ramp, we go to the truck. We carefully drive to the end of the springboard and jump off the spot. Thus, without driving onto the ramp itself, the ring can be picked up.
If it doesn’t work out, and time is running out, we get off the bike and quickly get into the truck: this creature has a very unpleasant property of disappearing immediately after a failed race. It is precisely because of this that I do not recommend going through the two rings on the upper ramp first: luck can fail there too, and the truck will disappear...
3) We go to the beginning of the race - the upper ramp. If, as I wrote above, you trained to take it before, in theory everything should work out.
And may luck help you!!!

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By Kazuma-2 on 13 May 2017 21:23
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By stichman on 21 Dec 2018 10:08
The ring on the ramp can be taken much easier, you need to drive under the edge of the ramp and press quickly and often , the first time Sij will not jump high, but after a while he will jump up, hit his head on the ramp and take the ring.
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By Hayato on 07 Aug 2018 14:54
There is no need for any trucks or other hassles, he jumps everywhere on his own, it was more scary, he passed the second time
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By exxSVE on 26 Apr 2019 10:17
Nonsense is an achievement. At 20-30 percent, I came just to try BMX. While I was learning the location of the rings, I brought the bike up to 80% and collected all the rings with a jump. And to the ring on the ramp, just take any car (ideally a convertible), there are a lot of them driving nearby. Lightly jump on it. Fix yourself and jump with a full jump. All.

PS SiDoji was a skinny guy with zero fat and full stamina. Federal Law, does this affect, but just for reference.
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By MeJloman on 13 Mar 2021 16:21
Pump the bike 100%.
All the rings are collected either by running over them, or you stop on the shadow of the floating rings and jump.
To drive onto the ramp where the unreachable ring is located, you just need to hold down and don't let go. First, drive up to half the ramp, don’t let go, then there will be a jerk and you can drive onto the ramp by moving forward.
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By alhur on 04 Jul 2021 00:12
I did it in 3-5 attempts on NRG, the biker’s skill was something like 50-60%, the easiest thing, I didn’t even try too hard, probably much easier than on BMX
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By Vladimir1897 on 07 Feb 2023 16:46
You can also drive a ramp truck to a hard-to-reach point (you can find it driving on the highway off the coast on the way to the airport), because you need to be able to jump onto the ramp (or whatever it is).
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By kirichenec on 27 Jun 2016 00:10
With 100% skill it’s very easy to ride a bike, the problem will arise only on the final ramp, but I went with a more difficult method and instead of a springboard wheelbarrow, I placed a helicopter with the pilot’s cockpit facing the final point, in the end I got it from the second jump, that’s me why, any large car or helicopter will do (as was the case in my case), if you are too lazy or find it difficult to look for a trampoline car
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By AlanSD on 21 Dec 2018 12:22
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It’s easy to go on a motorcycle in San Fierro, I passed on the first try and didn’t shake any bike.
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02 Feb 2018 23:00