Larrakin behaviour!

**Coldkiwi** · 1st July 2003, 13:07

Wheelstands, wheelies, stoppies...It's what bikes are famous for:

So who here indulges in this highly anti-social, illegal and damned fun behaviour?

Who has tried? Anyone come a cropper doing so?

Interested to hear your thoughts!

**Motoracer** · 1st July 2003, 16:42

Anti-social?? Its all part of the fun. mucking around doing wheelies and stoppies with my mates is a part of the weekend rides. It makes straights more interesting. It also adds more things that you could laugh about at the breaks making rides more enjoyble.

Althoe I must admit, I have done some silly things in my road bike days. Eg. I was testing my green neon lights on my kawasaki in Queen Street at 11:00 pm on a Friday night and Did a rolling stoppie. After I did it I noticed that four cops in a squad car were looking at me for the whole time. Luckily they must have been rushing off to somewhere else, so all I got was a warning thorugh there loud speakers...

Just as long as no one crashes or gets done by the cops its all good.

**karbonblack** · 1st July 2003, 17:00

Been doing them for years without a worry (other than loosing my license a few times) but... When I got my GSXR1000 I did a wheelie down the motorway. A couple of mates were riding alongside. When we stopped for a coffee, they asked if I knew what speed I was doing on the back wheel. I knew it was pretty high, as I had got to 5th gear (lifted it in 3rd but changed up as I was going along). Also my mate on an SP1 was lying on the tank which also gave me a little clue. 250kph!!!! Gave me a hell of a fright.

It was at that point I realised that I had a little probem (with my self control). No more Superbikes for me!

**Coldkiwi** · 1st July 2003, 17:26

yeah.. you pretty much have to keep accelerating to keep the wheel in the air so the longer its up there the more speed you're building!

I've had limited success with stoppies on the ZXR 250 (hurts my wrist!) and finally got the front wheel up last night on the 6R under power alone in 1st gear (no clutch destroying tricks reqd which pleases me greatly!). the best part is I wasn't really trying to get the wheel up, just explore the nether regions of my throttle cable!.. so with a sensible shift of weight: away we go!

**Motu** · 1st July 2003, 17:56

Never been into wheelies,haven't even thought of doing a stoppie.As a trials rider getting the front wheel in the air is a basic,just never applied it on the street.Power stands are a different matter,going over bridges,humps and out of tight turns with the front wheel a few inches up is a better feeling than having it on the point of balance.Getting the back wheel out in a slide is what gives me the biggest thrill,not something I do on the seal much these days,but thats why I've always loved to ride on gravel roads.No audience though,but the sheep think I'm pretty good!

**Antallica** · 1st July 2003, 20:40

Nah, my mate has been doing it heaps when riding with me. Last time I tried doing a stoppie was on my MTB after my mate tampered with my breaks and I went over. If I can manage to pick up my nuts from that I should have no worries.

As for poppin a wheelie, on a 150cc!!?? Been there, tried that, get lost haha

**Redstar** · 1st July 2003, 21:27

depite the awesome performance of my zxr4 it's bloody hard to get it up i'm very front end loaded

but stoppies well thats a different fish! I've done one by accident it were that or die and the other one was for entertainment only. and its real good for it. but I wont make a habit of it cause it is a risk sport if fun

theres a right loony R1 up my way he shows off something rotton on the northern motorway with a 300m wheelie blue?
waves his hand at the same time.
who are you?

**Motoracer** · 1st July 2003, 21:43

Antallica, You can't really wheelie your bike (I would imagine even pros would have difficluty) but you can do power stands. I had test ridden one for a mate to buy. If you rev it to 9.5Gs and pull hard on the Handle bars (it has clipons I think) as you drop the clutch hard you should be able to lift the front wheel nearly a meter high above the ground for a couple of seconds of glory.

It does stoppie easily thoe with a good front tire of course.

**Dave** · 2nd July 2003, 08:59

Had a good stoppie going when i was at manfield for the nationals,end of the front straight,tapped out in sixth,hit the front brake,back wheel came up around my ears,let off the brake slightly wheel drops back too earth,brake again-still going too fast,back comes up a second time.run really deep into the corner,finally let of, (cant turn with only one wheel on the ground)
grit teeth and turn in hoping the front end sticks.made it!
loads more preload on the front end made sure it didn't happen any more for the weekend.exciting though.

**Urban Terrorist** · 2nd July 2003, 17:46

I sometimes use speedbumps to get the front up on the RG 50, never much more than up and straight down again, but it makes me smile and have got a few grins form others. Stoppies are easy enough, and a fairly regular occurance. I don't fancy my chances of doing a rolling burnout though

**Kwaka-Kid** · 2nd July 2003, 23:07

me = done only a few semi-decent stoppies on ZXR400 (letting front tyre coz its crap down to approx 20pounds) - done 1x clutched wheelie (hard to do, not powerful) and a few little wheelies that didnt last coming off speedbumps.

clutched wheelied everything ive riddin i think? CB250RS is hard, but trick is u slide off the seat, then walk down the road holding the bike.. Try that! (prolly looks dumb when i do it from a giveway to the car behind, but makes me feel special)

pulled a wheelie on the GS1000 for the FIRST TIME in 1st gear not clutched not intentionally, with my mate on the back (YouMostWanted on the board here) haha he nearly fell off, was lane splitting (stopped traffic) when green light came and only 2 sets of cars 2 go, so i darted it expecting a slight rear wheel slip when she was ready to change gear around 4.5K, but instead with extra weight the rear end got grip and lifted all of 6 inchs porlly, dunno, but felt mean!

but me = into rear wheel drifting on 78 GS1000, with rock hard avon roadrunner (approx 15yo) on rear. in wet (not even heavy, no rain) i got my first slide going thru bockhousebay roundabout putting on too much power coming off the roundabout, and look, is that my rear wheel trying to overtake my front? :P most fun was my fastest yet.. overtaking a van @ 120kmph on north western heading into work, fuckme that rear end just slipped like hell and i nearly ended up kissing the vans right hand door, but luckily not and lots of adreniline pumped.

I have witnessed Motoracers stoppies - in my opinion he is GOOD! moto - i only hope to be anywhere near as good as you @ stoppies on my 400 oneday when i put a new front tyre on, i think its a confidence/experience thing, and when i have the 400 back on road i will try again. thats all from me, sorry about long post. OH WAIT!

WORK COMMENCES ON 199X RVF400R TOMORROW MORNING @ 6am SHARP! OMG, THE DAY IVE BEEN AWAITING, YAAAY! stripping that bitch down and fast! yeehaw, goodbye stock street bits - hello homemade fairing etc etc.. :P hahaha its gunna b worse, but its mine!

**georgedubyabush** · 2nd July 2003, 23:34

i dont reckon the zxr250 even comes anywhere near a wheelie. maybe if I stood on the rear pegs. havnt tried my new clutch yet, the old one just slipped like a mongrel. lots of fun wheeling my oldmans grizzly 660 farm quad, just dont tell him
im a stoppie virgin. someone wanna do a quick 'Stoppies for Dummies' guide?

**Kwaka-Kid** · 3rd July 2003, 09:56

prolly not because they dont want to take responsibility when you can-off :P

haha, well yes, someone with experience please post... Because i have prolly taught myself the wrong/bad way, duno, i just started ripping in brake lever, and jumping forward as i did so (so no weight on pegs, and weight on bars and body leaned way forward) and yeah ass just off the seat (so no weight on it)

? oh and i let front tyre down to 20 pounds to have more touching the road.

**Motoracer** · 3rd July 2003, 10:49

Thanx for the complement KK

I should probably leave it to the pros to explain how to do stoppies so here it is :

http://www.bikesounds.com/stunts/stoppies.htm

I found that piece to go on your fiberglas tail piece for you ZXR. Oh and if you aren't useing the police radar detector attachments that came with your bike, could I please have it back?

**bungbung** · 3rd July 2003, 11:20

I used to jump my old gsx400 impulse off the top of smooth speed humps on a downhill road in wellington good fun until cleaning the bike one day I found a hairline crack in the box section swingarm about 80% the way across

Soooo lucky to be cleaning that day, I don't like to think about what could have happened if I had kept on riding. I bought a new arm from a wrecker in Tauranga and stopped the jumps. I had too much mechanical sympathy to get it to wheelie, but stoppies were fun.