I do love a wheelie

This is me on private road of course "cough cough" Just thought i would share it with you. Some will apprechiate it and others will not, whats you're view?

 

My view is usually something like this:

 

Very nice My best to date is 143mph landed and would like to get a 150+ this year but you get a seroius front wheel skid of about 2 foot long

 

You'll get that on any mono once the wheel has stopped spinning, which leads to 2 side effects one being loss of gyroscopic effect which aids the wheel going down pointing the right way the other is the pleasing puff off burnt rubber as the tyre tries to catch up to speed.
Pre accident my best wheelies were steady 25-30mph
Didn't get out as much as I'd hoped last year but as you're semi local we could visit those 'private' roads sometime.

 

Look forward to it, always good to have another biker that appreciates a nice wheelie just a shame the police don't lol

 

Love 'em...although don't do them much.

 

"Adult Mode On" Bloodly show off's the lot of ya and you should all be flogged.

"Child Mode On" Cool mister, I like a good wheelie . Shame i'm crap at them

 

used to be ok at them, cant do them on my wildstar though........good picture mate

 

I'm crap at them these days too. When they're done well, they're a thing of purile beauty

 

I think it's very irresponsible of you and I think you should be banned from public roads. Only because I can't do em and if I tried I'd end up binning it!!!!

 

Here's a thought; how about we organise a day at a wheelie school? It should be a bit of giggle. Spring time anyone?

http://www.iwanttowheelie.co.uk/index.php Silverstone. £200 pp
http://www.learn2wheelie.co.uk/the_course.html Dunsfold, Surrey. £180 pp for 4-6 people

No doubt there are a few other places dotted around, but these look to be pretty reasonable. If anyone knows of any cheaper / better options, let us know.

 

Yeah baby!

 

If we can get 4-6 confirmed as interested, I could look at dates in mid April (ish). Whaddya reckon?

 

Too much for my meagre earnings, but I might come to watch and laugh!!!

 

Yup, sounds good to me.

 

If you want to learn to wheelie, you're more than welcome to pay me £200!
Learn2wheelie looks the better school, although there's a limited amount you're going to get in 1 day. Don't want to shatter illusions but 1 days course is only going to give you an insight into dealing with the inertia of the front wheel lifting.

If you're half awake then flipping a bike while learning is damn near impossible, of course if you have slow reactions / new bike, then the course might be worth the outlay. But the physics of hoiking the front can be covered over coffee and biccies.
Would be nice to have access to the open space, mind...

The other site mentions about using fancy tyres, really not an issue and infact a sharper profile / sticky tyre is a waste when stunting anyway as you want a high contact patch with lots of stability - ie. low psi.

 

God if you can find a space I'll try and help teach you all for free. I wheelie my bike 2 up alot as the girlfriend loves it. We have hit 3 figures many times (almost everytime) in a wheelie so could take passengers to help teach the technic whilst on the back. A good place to start is on your push bike as it the same principles but you don't have to pedal on your motorbike

 

Think the main worry is binning your own bike! Not a worry with someone elses Bandit 6 !!!

 

Yes but with the right training you wont bin your own bike Start small in first gear only using the throttle and your very unlikely to flip. Clutched up wheelies usually in second are where it gets a bit harder. But I would give up a day to help anyone on here if they would like to try