How do I wheelie?

[lindrup119]

I'd also be interested in a BB wheelie school... especially if there was some sort of group discount in exchange perhaps for a feature post on the PH website (Jon Urry/PH are you listening?)

[The Beaver King]

+1 if we're all going to have a PH wheelie day.

Although I feel like we're encroaching on Prolapse and MTB's 'special time'

[Modified car enthusiast]

ya'll don't need a "wheelie school". If you want to get together and practice wheelies just go to a big car park FFS. How do you think people learnt before the advent of wheelie schools?

[Prof Prolapse]

The Beaver King said:

+1 if we're all going to have a PH wheelie day.

Although I feel like we're encroaching on Prolapse and MTB's 'special time'

All we do is smoke fags and argue anyway... As much as I'd love to do a PH session, it's a bit of a hassle to go that far into Englandshire. Once you get to Brum, with no bike to bring, you're better off flying, and then it all becomes a much for what would just be a bit of banter.

Statler can't speak on behalf of Waldorf, but I would think he's of the same opinion.

[skahigh]

I recently learned there is a wheelie school at llandow run by the chap who sold me my triumph. Really nice guy and I can confirm he is a skilled wheelieist having witnessed him doing it first hand.

[Fleegle]

I did a wheelie once




I didn't enjoy it

[lindrup119]

Modified car enthusiast said:

ya'll don't need a "wheelie school". If you want to get together and practice wheelies just go to a big car park FFS. How do you think people learnt before the advent of wheelie schools?

You keep flogging that dead horse eh

For someone who's supposedly lingered around here for so long I'd have thought you might have been a bit better at integrating.

[Prof Prolapse]

Modified car enthusiast said:

ya'll don't need a "wheelie school". If you want to get together and practice wheelies just go to a big car park FFS. How do you think people learnt before the advent of wheelie schools?

Yeah that would be great, a bunch of aging professionals spread throughout the country congregating in a McDonalds car park somewhere North of London. The blind leading the registered blind overseen by the fking delusional.

Perhaps I can wear my sideways baseball cap and hip-hop styled "stunter" jacket. I can hunt for bding pokemon whilst I'm doing it.

Or, as informed adults, we could just go to an organised event we're happy and able to pay for, drink tea, and take it for what it is.

[EvoBarry]

Modified car enthusiast said:

EvoBarry said:

Buy an MT-10, they'll lift the front on power in second, so easy its addictive:

https://youtu.be/jAuinx2DYAk


Since I've been fortunate to own half decent bikes I've been less and less inclined to risk ruining them with wheelies, but then I bought the SMT990 and it does them for fun. I stopped using clutch years ago, preferring power and a bar tug or just using road crests when the chance allows. Less abusive to the bike. The MT-10 requires nothing more than accelerating in second gear

That just goes against the nature of a bike for me. I can't see how doing wheelies will "ruin" it either. Using the clutch is not "abuse", you don't know much about mechanics

I know enough to know it DOES have higher wear and tear on a lot of components compared to just riding it as intended, to say otherwise is simply incorrect and I think you know that. Clutch being tapped will wear the springs and plates out quicker, fork seals will take a bashing when you're practising, head and wheel bearings take a good smacking, hell I've even seen rims get bent from poorly executed landings ffs. I know enough about mechanics to know when something is being used outside of its intended use! I belm thee hard I'm afraid. And that's before we talk about potential engine issues, oil pickup, oil starvation, cam wear etc. Not all engines "like" being held at big angles.

edit - my RISK comment was more about the risk of flipping it btw, not neccesarily a wear issue, but my above points still stand along with everybody elses comments for that matter.

[Modified car enthusiast]

Prof Prolapse said:

Yeah that would be great, a bunch of aging professionals spread throughout the country congregating in a McDonalds car park somewhere North of London. The blind leading the registered blind overseen by the fking delusional.

Perhaps I can wear my sideways baseball cap and hip-hop styled "stunter" jacket. I can hunt for bding pokemon whilst I'm doing it.

Or, as informed adults, we could just go to an organised event we're happy and able to pay for, drink tea, and take it for what it is.

Hmm, I can see myself still doing my thang when I am old, I'm not changing who I am because of an arbitrary number. If you want to, that is up to you prof

EvoBarry said:

I know enough to know it DOES have higher wear and tear on a lot of components compared to just riding it as intended, to say otherwise is simply incorrect and I think you know that. Clutch being tapped will wear the springs and plates out quicker, fork seals will take a bashing when you're practising, head and wheel bearings take a good smacking, hell I've even seen rims get bent from poorly executed landings ffs. I know enough about mechanics to know when something is being used outside of its intended use! I belm thee hard I'm afraid. And that's before we talk about potential engine issues, oil pickup, oil starvation, cam wear etc. Not all engines "like" being held at big angles.

I've never argued it didn't increase wear.

[black-k1]

Modified car enthusiast said:

ya'll don't need a "wheelie school". If you want to get together and practice wheelies just go to a big car park FFS. How do you think people learnt before the advent of wheelie schools?

Good idea! Don’t worry about the fact it’s very likely to have some CCTV on it and that you can be prosecuted for Dangerous Driving etc. while riding/driving on car parks.

[mike150]

Buy an MT10, Speed Triple, S1000R or Tuono

On any of these bikes its hard to accelerate hard in low gears without pulling a wheelie especially the MT10.

I don't like clutching a wheelie up, I always just drop the throttle at mid revs and pull it up on the power on my GSXR1000, its safer! BTW fuelling on needs to be good for good balance and the fuelling is not the best on the GSXR so 1st gear is a no go area for me and wheelies.

[Birky_41]

They have courses, schools and training for just about everything these days!

I just learnt on an mx track and when I went to road took what I learnt on there. I dont do the school thing, to be honest I dont have the dispensable income to do so

As for doing them, whats already been said will get you doing the mono stuff real well. Just need to be brave and do it little by little

[Modified car enthusiast]

black-k1 said:

Good idea! Don’t worry about the fact it’s very likely to have some CCTV on it and that you can be prosecuted for Dangerous Driving etc. while riding/driving on car parks.

Do the police have nothing better to do than prosecute people practicing in a safe environment? If you are that much of a worried person I am surprised you even ride a bike.

mike150 said:

Buy an MT10, Speed Triple, S1000R or Tuono

On any of these bikes its hard to accelerate hard in low gears without pulling a wheelie especially the MT10.

I don't like clutching a wheelie up, I always just drop the throttle at mid revs and pull it up on the power on my GSXR1000, its safer! BTW fuelling on needs to be good for good balance and the fuelling is not the best on the GSXR so 1st gear is a no go area for me and wheelies.

Completely incorrect, it's far more dangerous and unpredictable.

[Birky_41]

Modified car enthusiast said:

Do the police have nothing better to do than prosecute people practicing in a safe environment? If you are that much of a coward I am surprised you even ride a bike.

I see how you are thinking, can see where they are going with this too. When our lot used to stunt we just took our plates off...to say that on here though has probably just put me in a firing line

Either ways there will always be people on one side of the camp and people on the other.

[The Beaver King]

Prof Prolapse said:

Yeah that would be great, a bunch of aging professionals spread throughout the country congregating in a McDonalds car park somewhere North of London. The blind leading the registered blind overseen by the fking delusional.

Perhaps I can wear my sideways baseball cap and hip-hop styled "stunter" jacket. I can hunt for bding pokemon whilst I'm doing it.

Yeah, what a bunch of losers!




......seriously though, can we do that?

black-k1 said:

Modified car enthusiast said:

ya'll don't need a "wheelie school". If you want to get together and practice wheelies just go to a big car park FFS. How do you think people learnt before the advent of wheelie schools?

Good idea! Don’t worry about the fact it’s very likely to have some CCTV on it and that you can be prosecuted for Dangerous Driving etc. while riding/driving on car parks.

FFS man, did you not hear? He isn't about to change because of some arbitrary number! He's going to be young and care free forever!

Break the law and shagging bhes, yo!

[The Beaver King]

Modified car enthusiast said:

black-k1 said:

Good idea! Don’t worry about the fact it’s very likely to have some CCTV on it and that you can be prosecuted for Dangerous Driving etc. while riding/driving on car parks.

Do the police have nothing better to do than prosecute people practicing in a safe environment? If you are that much of a worried person I am surprised you even ride a bike.

A safe enviroment like, maybe some kind of school, purposely geared towards training skills of a particular nature....? Maybe things like, I don't know, how to wheelie......

[Modified car enthusiast]

Birky_41 said:

I see how you are thinking, can see where they are going with this too. When our lot used to stunt we just took our plates off...to say that on here though has probably just put me in a firing line

Either ways there will always be people on one side of the camp and people on the other.

Exactly!! It seems that PH is a completely different universe to the real world sometimes. The thought of going to a wheelie "school" just seems ridiculous. It just doesn't seem in anyway normal at all.

All you need is an empty car park and practice. I spend a lot of my time on American forums and they would seriously laugh at the attitude of some people here. Seems to be the way this country is going, everything has to be "official" and "approved" rather than anyone learning anything for themselves.

The Beaver King said:

A safe enviroment like, maybe some kind of school, purposely geared towards training skills of a particular nature....? Maybe things like, I don't know, how to wheelie......

The Beaver King said:

FFS man, did you not hear? He isn't about to change because of some arbitrary number! He's going to be young and care free forever!

Break the law and shagging bhes, yo!

Mock all you like but I plan to live my life to the max

You don't need a "school" to learn to wheelie like I keep saying. And those bikes will be completely different to your bikes. A lot of wheeling is down to finding the sweet spot on the bike you are doing it on.

Like I keep saying, a big empty space and you and your bike is all you need.

[black-k1]

Modified car enthusiast said:

black-k1 said:

Good idea! Don’t worry about the fact it’s very likely to have some CCTV on it and that you can be prosecuted for Dangerous Driving etc. while riding/driving on car parks.

Do the police have nothing better to do than prosecute people practicing in a safe environment? If you are that much of a worried person I am surprised you even ride a bike.

Hmmm … spend lots of time and effort chasing “real criminals” where there’s a high probability of them being let off by the courts anyway or improve the crime detection/prosecution figures by charging a bunch of bikers based on video evidence that takes virtually no effort to collect and is almost 100% guaranteed to get a conviction? …. Difficult choice! … … … … …

[Modified car enthusiast]

black-k1 said:

Hmmm … spend lots of time and effort chasing “real criminals” where there’s a high probability of them being let of by the courts anyway or improve the crime detection/prosecution figures by charging a bunch of bikers based on video evidence that takes virtually no effort to collect and is almost 100% guaranteed to get a conviction? …. Difficult choice! … … … … …

Video evidence of someone doing wheelies in an empty car park? Besides what car parks have CCTV? Obviously use your common sense. Grow a pair and stop being so afraid of the authorities. If you are afraid to learn yourself without supervision then just say that instead of trying to drag the thread off topic.

A blackbird isn't ideal to wheelie and most people would be intimidated learning on that, get yourself a sports bike, naked or enduro and a nice open space if that is the problem.