Wheelies

[struan80]

Hello, Hope you're all having a good day better than yesterday.

Wheelies. Every so often I see a lunatic/hero pulling wheelies around the town (Edinburgh).

Is the wheelier (Is there such a word?) a skillful hero that brings a smile to your face or is the wheelier a dangerous nutter ready to kill himself and others. Most I see are relatively safe and look skillful enough.

What are your thoughts on wheelies on public roads? Can you Wheelie? How did you learn?

TL;DR I want to wheelie before I'm 60.

[Bhud]

They say that everyone's got an opinion, just like everyone's got an exit-hole, but not everyone needs to see it.

If you've got to do it, you've got to do it. Whenever I've done one, it's been accidental. It will always be easier to learn wheelies if you're in your teens and seemingly made of rubber, and don't care about wrecking your(?) dual sport or classic 2-stroke. I wouldn't want to do it as I don't find it interesting, personally, and I'm not sure if it's the most dignified thing for me to try to do, but there are wheelie schools dotted around the country. Might make a different, interesting weekend away, at least, even if it isn't about your status in an adolescent peer group. We only get a certain amount of time to do what we have to do here, so why not, eh.

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[B0ndy]

What are your thoughts on wheelies on public roads?

Time and a place, middle of a town or anywhere with peds no way - long straight road no junctions with no traffic, game on

Can you Wheelie?

Yeh boiiiii

How did you learn?

Quiet industrial estates, Sunday evenings. Was shit when starting out but like anything it's all about practise
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[thx1138]

I wheelie on byways, to clear obstacles. It's 50/50 if I end up on my backside though.

[P.]

Through traffic on a supermoto, legend.

Sports bike on a motorway at 100+, legend.

[owl10]

Can I?

No..

Not very well anyway...


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I can but I try not to!
Bike is basically built to be naughty and encourages it but I want to keep my licence.
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[MCN]

If the polis see it your for the high wheelie.

They say even 1/4" off the road surface is dangerous riding.

You have to be kind of aggressive when serving the beans to wheelie.

Yes I can wheelie Like a Circus Poodle.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

I've done two. One was on purpose and I had no control, the other was an accident and I surprised myself how well I didn't crash.
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[chickenstrip]

Not tried since I smashed up my arm and shoulder. Having wheelied my brother's 350LC over the top once, I know how quickly things can get out of hand, although that was down to a sticking throttle. But it worries me that my dodgy arm might not be able to keep things in check.

I used to be able to wheelie my 750 Turbo ok, my 350YPVS was a cinch, and my H2...well, I'd like to have seen someone not wheelie that!
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[Skudd]

The problem with wheelies is that you have to learn by mistakes. Many learn on other peoples bikes so that when they are damaged they can walk away with zero affect to them.

If you can afford to dump your bike, then go ahead and learn on your own bike.

I have wheelied but by error not design. I would love to learn, but can't afford to dump my bike so it will have to be a Wheelie School somewhere some day.

Oh and there is a time and a place.
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[BTTD]

All my wheelies have been mistakes. The last one I did was coming off a mini roundabout, still lent over, gave it the beans and the front started to come up. Got a good head shake when it touched down.

Did feel like a TT hero for a couple of seconds while also considering that it could have ended badly and that I'd pretty much had no input in controlling it. The bike pretty much took care of itself because I didn't panic and do anything ham fisted.
Would not try to intentionally repeat.

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I want to know what you did to the cat after that?

Not sure if I'd want to give it its own Kenny Roberts paintwork job, or just use it as an aerosol can warming recepticle instead?

[Mr Hammers]

I usually do one every morning on the way to work, when i pull into the industrial estate. Early in the am so very few people around, and quite safe. Started doing them there in the hope it'd stop me wanting to wheelie every time i pull into my road on the way home from work.

Which it..er..doesn't.
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[struan80]

I'm not sure about wheelies. I reckon it's entirely possible on my bike. Certainly, at the moment, I wouldn't mean to do one and not by design.

Power wheelies would also be possible I think but I'm not twisting the throttle quickly enough to even get close to attempting one.

Kudos to the ones that fly passed on one wheel

[SirFallalot]

I have mixed feelings.

On one side, it's dangerous and stupid, on the other side it's super cool, bonus if you crash and end up in youtube.
I saw a guy do a one through a 30 speed camera, must be a new fine evading technique? I wonder if it worked cause he must have been doing ~50.
On long empty roads or estates, sure, not hurting anyone else I figure.

I'm still debating whether to try to learn or not, I don't think the wheelie satisfaction would ever overcome the sadness of dropping the bike. Plus PO geared it higher so might be harder to get up. Still, I can't help the cheeky feeling of "But I wanna!".

I've watched videos on it.

[ThatDippyTwat]

Can I?
Damn right. I can hoist some proper mingers if I have the room and the bike. Not much more fun than sticking a supermoto on it's back wheel the length of the high street when you're in your late teens.

Do I?
Not at the moment. neither of my bikes like them. Even if I did, it would need to be somewhere I won't get caught or plow into shit.

Learned the same way most people will - Quiet carpark, industrial estate etc late night/weekends, although I learned to ride through smaller ones on a crosser offroad years before I touched tarmac, so I had a headstart on mates that hadn't ridden before.
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