People who can wheelie!

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:13 pm

People who can wheelie, and I mean really wheelie! Like pull it up on demand pretty much whenever almost on whatever, type of people, shit me!!!!!!!

Faarken bastards! I can do pussy little throttle on wheelies, and wheelie out of a hairpin wheelies and over a crest or hump wheelies, but I can't on a road bike for the life of me just pull it up and balance it there on the gas!

Even on my dirt bike, I could pull it up with the clutch to clear an obstacle, but pull it up and hold it up for a wheelie on a dirt road forget it! I'm a dud!

As A Kid, I was well known in my little country town as the kid who could wheelstand his 10 speed racer the length of the main street and back no hands!

But every now and then back then, I would still flip it.

Even though I had done it 1000's of times. So that's what stops me I guess on my roadie! Mind you it doesn't stop me lighting the rear tyre up exiting a turn, or cranking it over till everything scrapes, but wheelies?????

I'm not confident!

How about some of you guys who can just "Get it up on demand"

tell us some of your little wheelie bins full of secrets?????

Glen · Post by **Glen** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:19 pm

You cracked it one. I used to be able to do balance point wheelies on my KS125 but I bought it for $25 and couldn't give a shit whether I flipped it or not. Road bikes are a whole nother story. I'm too wussy to take the punt on being able to hold it there.

Instead I just tell myself that doing long wheelies roots your engine by starving the front half of the bottom end of oil, and your gearbox when you slam it back down into gear and your steering head and your forks. That's my excuse anyway

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:24 pm

Im by no means the wheelie king, but I understand the principle.... I can (if I really want to very badly) wheelie whever I want.... You should watch that wheelie vid that someone published....

should be easy on the 9 to powerwheelie in at least 1st and 2nd...

javaman · Post by **javaman** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:16 pm

I cannot wheelie but had been learning to before. Got as far as 10m wheelie on warrigal road

but after few months later the fork seal broke and cost me time and $$ to fix and that's the end of it

... still I was quite lucky did not blow the gears away like some people here

. Really envy those who seems to be able just "flick it" and airborne

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:14 pm

Do balance-point wheelstands on a Yammie trike with a thumb throttle count ??

I could do these the length of my suburb, but it took all day to do it !

mrmina · Post by **mrmina** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:01 pm

i can do it for ages on my pushie, does that count

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:05 pm

Does it have a motor ??

mrmina · Post by **mrmina** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:20 pm

Gosling1 wrote:Does it have a motor ??

no but i make brooom broooom noises

rotaboy · Post by **rotaboy** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:46 pm

the only thing i can add is cover the rear brake! if ur going to high, hit it and the front will come down quick smart

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:13 pm

power

thats wot i need....

i can wheelie a R1..i can wheelie a zx10r..... and boy can i wheelie a cbr929....

but on bikes like 600cc and less, i just cant do it.... any bike i can power wheelie 1st, i can clutch wheelie 2nd.... and currently working on clutch wheelies in 1st...from standstill!!

oh..im not that good, i get too scared, but one thing i can do is pop it up, and bring it back down in a short space, at low speed whilst looking totally in control...

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:38 pm

Strika wrote: How about some of you guys who can just "Get it up on demand" tell us some of your little wheelie bins full of secrets?????

buy a 12...and ummm...aaah
fiddle with the gearing

drop a cog or two on the front

on the 12 (well mine anyway after said mod)
full throttle and at about 4 the front just comes up
boot it up into 2nd (clutchless of course)
it just stays there

and then you can go a couple bigger on the back
roots the chain...but WHEELIE MONSTER...woohoo

mind you
the 14 I test rode did zactly the same...easy

the above?
all OF COURSE
not out in public

cheers

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:47 pm

Neka79 wrote: but on bikes like 600cc and less, i just cant do it.... any bike i can power wheelie 1st, i can clutch wheelie 2nd.... and currently working on clutch wheelies in 1st...from standstill!!
.

keep practicing neka

took me a while but I am even got my ol GPz2fiddy up
clutched it and 8000rpm helped

mike-s · Post by **mike-s** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:52 pm

last time i did a significant wheelie i got the front up for about 10m or so and got into a tankslapper while heading towards the gutter 25m or so away. I tells ya, its hard telling yourself to power it on when heading for the curb and swerving away viciously at the last moment to avoid a crash.

Blue14 · Post by **Blue14** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:48 pm

Cant wheelie, dont want to wheelie. Although i think the 14 is capable of pulling a wheelie on its own..

Tack · Post by **Tack** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:23 pm

When I went to get my learners licence at a place in Morrabbin, there was this woman, an older woman mind you, who on a 250cc bike made it wheeelie all the way across the test arena to the tyres at the back wall. She had the thing verticle with her legs dragging on the ground.

So if she can do it strika....so can you. The fact she didn't mean to do it and the next time out there she was riding a scooter doesn't count.

I still laugh about that....i now i shouldn't but it was funny...lol.

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