Wheelie School

[jay12329]

Does any one fancy doing Jimmy Fireblade Wheelie School day?
£200 for the day if you use one of his bandits or £150 if you use your own bike.
If we can get a few people together he offers small discounts for group bookings, max of 5 people per day.
J

[Black Knight]

Not wanting to put a downer on your day, but couldn't you save a lot of money buy just practicing on your own somewhere. The only benefit to going to a school that I can see is that if you drop it, you still have a bike to ride home on.

IMO better of spending you money on bungs or engine bars.
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[dodsi]

I disagree, as you are being tought in a controlled enviroment and you can easily cause more than £200 worth of damage to your own bike without binning it.

Just ask yams.

[Black Knight]

That may be so Dodds but bear in mind the cost if you wish to use your own bike is still £150.

I do appriciate the the skill it takes to perform stunt riding. Just go to any mortorcycle show and be amazed. I openly admit I haven't wheelied myself - Not intentionally anyway - but I don't think I couldn't learn with an empty carpark and a few hours to myself.
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[instigator]

I'd possibly pay it.

If you get him on one of the times he's in glasgow

[dodsi]

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[Wave2k]

i would be interested if a few people went,
just REALLY depends on what day
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[White Noise]

couldn't we do a BCF wheelie school day. someone on BCF must be great at wheelies that could teach others. only person i can think of who does a lot of stunting is blacksheep
find a very empty road/runway/private road and spend the day at it on our own bikes
say £50 each
WN
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[G]

This has been talked about a lot in the past.

The big issue is the location, a runway or what ever so that it's an organised event is going to require public liability insurance - which can start to get very nasty. If there isn't any, there is the possibility of someone losing everything and going to jail for a long time, small but a risk someone will probably have to take.

[White Noise]

can't people write disclaimers that they are waving the write to sue etc etc if stuff goes wrong?
WN
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[White Noise]

arse
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[G]

There are some possibilities, but would require a lot of organisation.

Finding someone to do seems to be quite hard around here - I'm still far too busy with lots of other stuff at the moment .

[Phoenix]

That's all fair enough, but this was about doing a proper wheelie school organised professionally not a DIY one, which will only end in disaster imo.

I'd be interested if I had the money, but I don't know if I will. Done it once, but it was taught off the power all, not the clutch like I expected it to be and the instructor was piss poor imo so learnt very little indeed. Especially didn't like the way he spent all day teaching us off the power then at the end showed us...how it's done, and proceeds to yank it up off the clutch over and over.

[BlackSheep]

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[BlackSheep]

The Avatar pic is a through the gears power wheely , my bike will sit at that angle through the gears to over the ton , (will put up some balance point / standup pics after the weekend if your interested)
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[Ste]

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[G]

I suspect it's a bit like the gym thing for me - I could do exercise at home, but never get around to it. However as I'm paying £xx a month for the gym I actually get around to going to it every week!

In a similar fashion, some people might make that bit more effort when they've paid £150 for 'pro' tuition.

[Bendy]

Or maybe folk like the idea of a space to practice where they're not going to get done by the plod.

[Wave2k]

i want to at least learn a bit before i try it on a 4k bike
once you get the drift of things it should be ok.
unless i catch the wheelie bug where crashing is immanent
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[swaffs]

hmmm,
I can do small power wheelies on my bike, but it's looking like I will be going to a wheelie school next month https://www.thewheelieschool.co.uk/ to get some practice on a school bike with an instructor looking on and giving me advice as I'm going.

I'm hoping that will help and I like the idea of using someone elses bike (with a wheelie bar!)
Ok its costing me money, no more than a trackday but it should also be a good day out, a few guys from work having a blast.

Each to there own but I like the idea.
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