Enhanced Bike Physics & Stunt System for GTA 5

This is my first mod. I tried "Ceano Real Speed For Bicycles" and "Fearless_Bobs BMX Handling Overhaul" mods but they weren't exactly what I wanted. They were close, but not good enough, so I compared their values to the vanilla ones and fine-tuned all the bikes for realism over a course of 3 days.

Changes that are the same across all bikes are more precise steering and adjusted top speed.

The Tribikes and Whippet share very similar stats now as I felt they are the same bike with minor differences. They both hit 40mph/64kmh.

The Scorcher is now more like a downhill bike and tuned for tricks. However, you can't ride backwards because that would remove a massive portion of the break function and be useless for the mountains where it's at home. It also has more lean for easier flips and air steering for easier 360s. The top speed is just over 30mph/48kmh.

The BMX was my main focus and what I spent the most time tuning. It's completely ready for an actual freestyle BMX experience! The back wheel is more of a freewheel now, riding backwards after a 180 is possible with being able to stop without hitting something. Nose manual is over a longer distance, more lean for flips, and air steering for 360s. The top speed is 30mph/48kmh.

There are a few bugs that break the realism.

First is the Scorcher with a stoppie/nose manual you can keep going forever if you steer it the right way.

The BMX stoppie/nose manual will go forever, and if you hold the jump button you will reach speeds upwards for 40mph and it's extremely hard to knock you down (I call it freight train mode and I can't fix it…I tried). As well as if you hit some walls while doing a nose manual you can ramp up flat walls for a short distance.

I have a video showing what you can do, bugs included. If someone knows how to fix these bugs, please do! I want it as real as possible and this is as real as I could get it.

Changelog

1.2 BMX only

• -new top speed is 25mph/40kph
• -wheelie/stoppie balance points, so now balancing on ledges is easier!

Install

1. Run OpenIV.
2. Follow this path: OpenIV > GTA V > update > update.rpf > common > data
3. Start edit mode and replace the old handling file with the new one.

If you have a different handling mod installed

1. Follow steps one and two from the previous method.
2. Enter edit mode, right-click, click on "open", then "export" on the top right corner and export as .txt
3. Open the txt file, use the find function and type in "bmx".
4. Go back to OpenIV and start edit mode, find handling.meta, right-click and use "edit", then search for "bmx".
5. Start replacing the values for each bike or just the bikes you want. All the bikes are grouped together starting with the bmx and ending with the tribikes (the three road bikes).