How to wheelie (and other squidly activities)

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#31 Unread post by **Koss** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:42 pm

After looking through all of your past posts to see if I really was doing this... not including this thread topic here... I can count them on one hand only... so I have no idea what you're talking about...

#32 Unread post by **Kal** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:25 pm

Right so everyone, me included, having a not so great time at the moment. Fair enough.

Can we leave it there?

Doohun

I am genuinely sorry to hear that about your Mum. I sincerely hope that it goes into remission.

qwerty · #33 Unread post by **qwerty** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 5:23 pm

Thanks for starting this thread, I had a very good laugh through the first page. Excellent use of sarcasm to make a point. Unfortunately, it is way over some people's heads.

Want to learn to wheelie? First, learn to ride a unicycle. It helps. Then, learn to walk a tightwire.

Then practice on a dirtbike until you can hop along the tops of the posts spaced three feet apart at the end of a dead-end road while balancing on the back wheel of a motorcycle. Then wheelie your motorcycle, ride up to a picnic table, stop (still in a wheelie), and hop up to the bench, up on the table, down the other side, then ride off, still in a wheelie.

Then, ride a dirtbike up the gravel roadbed of a railroad track, turn parallel to the track, stop and balance, wheelie the front wheel over the rail, stoppie the back wheel over the rail, ride forward and over to the other rail, and repeat, all without taking your feet off the pegs.

Now, it gets difficult. Ride up the side of the roadbed and wheelie over the rail, stoppie and swing the rear tire over both rails so you are now facing the direction from which you came, then reverse stoppie and spin around on the back wheel to your original heading and ride off. Remember, feet must never leave the pegs.

There is a guy with an ancient road-legalized Honda TL250 around here who does such things. Awesome rider.

#34 Unread post by **Wrider** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 5:43 pm

qwerty wrote:Thanks for starting this thread, I had a very good laugh through the first page. Excellent use of sarcasm to make a point. Unfortunately, it is way over some people's heads.

Want to learn to wheelie? First, learn to ride a unicycle. It helps. Then, learn to walk a tightwire.

Then practice on a dirtbike until you can hop along the tops of the posts spaced three feet apart at the end of a dead-end road while balancing on the back wheel of a motorcycle. Then wheelie your motorcycle, ride up to a picnic table, stop (still in a wheelie), and hop up to the bench, up on the table, down the other side, then ride off, still in a wheelie.

Then, ride a dirtbike up the gravel roadbed of a railroad track, turn parallel to the track, stop and balance, wheelie the front wheel over the rail, stoppie the back wheel over the rail, ride forward and over to the other rail, and repeat, all without taking your feet off the pegs.

Now, it gets difficult. Ride up the side of the roadbed and wheelie over the rail, stoppie and swing the rear tire over both rails so you are now facing the direction from which you came, then reverse stoppie and spin around on the back wheel to your original heading and ride off. Remember, feet must never leave the pegs.

There is a guy with an ancient road-legalized Honda TL250 around here who does such things. Awesome rider.

Ummm yeah, called trials riding, if you want, I can put up some vids of it somewhere...
Wrider

qwerty · #35 Unread post by **qwerty** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:10 pm

Well, The TL250 is a bike designed for observed trials. I got into observed trials with a TL125 back in the olden days and had a lot of fun going real slow over real slippery stuff, then moved to a new job in an area with no competitions, so sold the bike. Still, on my best day I couldn't deny gravity like this guy does.

#36 Unread post by **Wrider** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:44 pm

Agreed, it's some crazy stuff... Knew a guy who did it on a trials pedal-bike. His bunny hop was higher than anything I could (relatively) safely jump off of. He regularly rode nose-wheelies, not stoppies, for blocks, then did a trick to finish it off, CRAZY!
Wrider

#37 Unread post by **Koss** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:53 am

Now that is what takes true skill!

coyote · #38 Unread post by **coyote** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:24 pm

It's pretty Fun watching some of the "squids" out there pullin some moves that you'd see on video's.... Doin them you're self, get a dirt bike, some "Hay Field", and practice, guess I was raised to much on the Farm, but I tell You, goin from a soft field to pavement, and add about 100HP, I'm OK to claim, I have to be in a wild mood to pull what "squids" do on a regular trip around town.... But to Me, and I'm No Pro, 1st or 2nd Gear, a little gas, let off so the bike nose a bit, and let it rip on the throttle.... depending on the bike, pull up on the bars might help.....
But some people pull up to hard, or don't let off and land the front tire on someone else.... So find a deserted Highway, a short distance from Home, and practice... Cops don't know when You and a few friends are the only one's around... Pullin wheellies in town is only for people with skill.... or one's who love to loose whats precious to those around them...
By the way some funny posts for this.....Oh Well

intotherain · Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:02 pm

qwerty wrote:
Then practice on a dirtbike until you can hop along the tops of the posts spaced three feet apart at the end of a dead-end road while balancing on the back wheel of a motorcycle. Then wheelie your motorcycle, ride up to a picnic table, stop (still in a wheelie), and hop up to the bench, up on the table, down the other side, then ride off, still in a wheelie.

Then, ride a dirtbike up the gravel roadbed of a railroad track, turn parallel to the track, stop and balance, wheelie the front wheel over the rail, stoppie the back wheel over the rail, ride forward and over to the other rail, and repeat, all without taking your feet off the pegs.

Now, it gets difficult. Ride up the side of the roadbed and wheelie over the rail, stoppie and swing the rear tire over both rails so you are now facing the direction from which you came, then reverse stoppie and spin around on the back wheel to your original heading and ride off. Remember, feet must never leave the pegs.

There is a guy with an ancient road-legalized Honda TL250 around here who does such things. Awesome rider.

i can kinda do one of the things you listed. I can jump on to a picnic table and wheelie it out and land on the other side wheeling.. I dont have any pictures of me doing it but this is what i practiced for a month before i finally did it.

this is what happens the first time you try to jump on a picnic table

then after countless numbers of hardcore cases, you get this.. BUT my bike weighs 40 pounds.. with a light trials bike like WRIDER mentioned, I can easily pull off a 3 1/2 foot bunny hop.

and this is what bored little 15 year olds do in the winter (build a descent sized jump in my front yard)

and this is what happens when a little 14 year old's bikes gear system fails to work 1/2 a second before jumping off a picnic table (wow i am tiny)

and this is what results from a bike failure before a jump

and because you are enjoying this so much ill just include what I did summer of 2006.

and this is right before I flew off the bike and sprained my ankle in the summer of 2004.

OKAY I SWEAR IM DONE. I WAS BORED OK?

Apollofrost · Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:15 am

Back when I was studying video some of the kids in my class got together with a group of local BMX riders/punks and just filmed for a few hours. Then they came back and edited it all down to a best of and set it to music. I can still remember a guy hopping his bike from post to post in one of the local parks and landing each one perfectly, it was just crazy how good he was.