Wheelie crashes - who has/hasn't?

[Drew]

That looks real cool on one wheel too bro. A guy called Mouse was doin it on Whitetrashes first SRAD at the Meremere stunt day. Choice stuff.

And shit could he sink a lot of Tui. Only guy who has every bottle top question memorised that I know. You only get to say the first three words of the question, and the bloody piss head rattles off the answer.

[skelstar]

...bloody piss head know-it-alls. I've seen you do a high-chair from a set of reasonably local traffic lights...I was doing the apologies to the cars for ya

[festus]

I can wheelie. Binned me first TL after getting too cocky. Used to off/on in 2nd and change gears thru to 4th, got 5th once but too f#ckin fast and dangerous. Don't bother with first gear. Any TL owner should be able to power it up in 1st. Now I just off/on in 2nd and quickly change into 3rd and I'm away..........keep the balance and no need to change ya gears!....

[jade]

I wheelie everytime im in first pretty much...
just accelerate in first and when I hit 6-7 thou just dab the clutch with 2 fingers... right on the powerband
Only doing about 50 when I go up and normally flick her into 2nd and hit bowt 100... plenty of friends on 600's who can do wheelies as long as they please... gotta love the stand up ones..
havent binned doing one yet but my mate has on his nsr, takapuna.. 2nd gear - 120k and went to far back...
when I get my next bike (prob a k6 750) ill be pushing 200 on the back wheel/./

[DEATH_INC.]

I do ok wheelies, I've only really crashed doing 'em once, that was landing it....but not learning.

[dodgy matt]

2nd gear wheeles are my favourate type the hang around in the air for some time and you can usually cary them past your mates too for a little lughter love them it is what riding bikes is all about (the odd shangagens ) but yes it went all horribly wrong one day 2nd gear over a nice shaped bridge in papakura when i brought it down before i put the front wheel through the back window of the car in front !! a slight wiggle of the bars (that is normal ) and i was tarmac surfing BUGGER i blame the vtr,s front end HA HA

[Mr. Peanut]

I've just about looped the NSR (legs came off managed to save it though), love the feeling.

[Mr. Peanut]

I wheelie everytime im in first pretty much...
just accelerate in first and when I hit 6-7 thou just dab the clutch with 2 fingers... right on the powerband
Only doing about 50 when I go up and normally flick her into 2nd and hit bowt 100... /./

+1 or I just roll off the throttle at high rpm in first then wack it on again.

[slopster]

I'm trying to get my wheelies sussed but I've got a terrible habbit. I do a fair bit of mountainbiking and I can wheelie all day on one of those. Unfortuately on the gsxr when I it comes up too fast I instinctivly grab a bit of clutch cos thats where the back brake would have been. It gets the front back down but a bit more abrupty than I like! I reckon I'd be sweet if I had a left hand brake control - Until then I'll just have to practice.

[Drew]

I'm trying to get my wheelies sussed but I've got a terrible habbit. I do a fair bit of mountainbiking and I can wheelie all day on one of those. Unfortuately on the gsxr when I it comes up too fast I instinctivly grab a bit of clutch cos thats where the back brake would have been. It gets the front back down but a bit more abrupty than I like! I reckon I'd be sweet if I had a left hand brake control - Until then I'll just have to practice.

I did the same thing when I got back from my last trip to WTs pad. I'd been pissing about on his kids quad, which has a left hand operated rear brake, I was hammering them them trying to wheelie it to a stop, then the first time I got a bit high on the gixxer, that's what I grabbed for. Lukily came to my senses and let 'em go again. Interesting times

[Denniso]

I can't wheelie but some of my bikes seem to enjoy it , GSXR only does em in front of cops bastard bike , SV likes to do em in the rain (bloody show off bike) , have yet to figure how to keep the goddammed RMZ on two wheels

[Drew]

I do ok wheelies, I've only really crashed doing 'em once, that was landing it....but not learning.

Didn't have the front wash out did ya?

At Manfield the weekend just gone, showing off during the drag session, I did a pretty crap stand up, and the front went all pear shaped on touch down! Fuck slicks are a bitch when they're cold, at least that's what I'm guessing was the problem, it's only ever happened a couple times on the road, and they were real high speed jobs.
Happened to a lesser degree on the next go, but since we had to do a full lap to come back for another go, the tyre must have warmed up, cos it didn't happen again.

Did my longest ever spreader while I was there too, fuckin pearler, right down the front straight

[JayRacer37]

Crah push bike wheelies all the time..good practice. I like doing them on the 600's...pick it up off the throttle in 2nd, hook thru to 4th real nice and quick, and do what ya want. Climb on the tank, stand up, feet off, feet to one side, stand on back of seat...and if youv'e got them nice and balanced, all the back break you need is in the throttle overrun, and plenty of power to keep em' up...the lenth of the straight at puke isn't a worry on a good day. I love wheelies!!!

[Pixie]

I'm interested to hear about peoples experiences with learning to wheelie and whether/how often/how seriously you have crashed doing so, how much damage was incurred to bike and self etc ("wheelie bins" if you like...).

Trashman: Where's yer bin?
Aboriginee: I've bin on holiday,boss.
Trashman: No.Where's yer wheelie bin?
Aboriginee: (looks ashamed) I've wheelie bin in jail,boss.
perteesh.

[Drew]

Trashman: Where's yer bin?
Aboriginee: I've bin on holiday,boss.
Trashman: No.Where's yer wheelie bin?
Aboriginee: (looks ashamed) I've wheelie bin in jail,boss.
perteesh.

I thought the last line was, "Ok, I wheelie bin out the back 'avin a wank"