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On the plus side, you can expect to see fewer bikes on eBay with descriptions like, "Salvage title but will need minimal work to return to the street. Bike has missing rearsets, broken levers and lots of damage to the fairing. Headlight is broken. Rear fender is missing, as is license plate bracket. Muffler is stove in from something hitting it from behind."

Wow I never thought of that, I have a trackstand trainer attached to my road bike (bicycle, that is) and just used it for exercise until now, but tonight I am soo gonna wheelie that fucker!!!!

Wheelie 2 is even better!

I can't tell if you guys think that this is cool or not but I think it is fucking retarded.

Practicing wheelies with help from your friends, on a machine? Here is how you learn how to do a wheelie;

Step 1: Borrow someone's bike. (Important, DO NOT familiarize yourself with it)

Step 2: Stand over the bike, but don't sit on it.

Step 3: Rev the motor to about 3/4 of the way on the tach.

Step 4: Pop the clutch HARD. (This is important, be sure that you have no idea how this person's clutch engages.)

Step 5: If you are still standing with both feet on the ground and you still have both hands on the handlebars, this means that the motorcycle is approximately over your head with the tires pointed at the sky and has transformed into a gyroscope.

Step 6: Saving the bike, make sure to exert enough force on the handlebars before you let go, to make the bike do a complete flip and land back on the squishy rubber wheels as opposed to the crunchy plastic on all of the rest of the bike. Also, aim the bike towards a lawn, grass, or other soft earth like area. Concrete is less forgiving.

CONGRATULATIONS, you have just mastered the wheelie.

Now it is time to impress your friends, drive there as fast as possible and start showing off.

Remember, if you can do a wheelie and stand on the seat while doing it, all women in the world will want to sleep with you, and you will get your pick, so start pulling those handlebars really hard, taillights are easy to replace.

Pretty fucking clever if you ask me.
It's kinda sad that doing wheelies and showing off is the prime focus of so many on bikes. Enough, in fact, that that gizmo was invented. But whatever, a training tool is a training tool. Would you rather the squids practice finding the balance point of their bikes out on public roads?

I, for one, know that as soon as my front tire gets about a foot or so off the ground, I feel like I'm gonna go over backwards, and I put it down. A gizmo like that could really help me out in the mono department.

Of course, so can my dirt bike, which is what I do, but at the risk of way more damage and hospital bills.

I've done that thing, it doesn't really help at all. Yes, it tells me that the balance point is wayyy farther than I feel like it is when I'm actually wheelie-ing on the road, but the feeling simply doesn't translate.

Well then fuck it.
I won't go and build one then.

dozerone wrote:I've done that thing, it doesn't really help at all. Yes, it tells me that the balance point is wayyy farther than I feel like it is when I'm actually wheelie-ing on the road, but the feeling simply doesn't translate.

Where's your flip flops and khaki shorts bitch?

Poor little SV

Wonder how long until the engine craters from oil starvation...

Those neighbors must be thrilled by this amusement technology. Coming up next: motor with straight pipes in a wheelbarrow.

Pattio wrote:Those neighbors must be thrilled by this amusement technology. Coming up next: motor with straight pipes in a wheelbarrow.

I'm on it!

goose wrote:

Pattio wrote:Those neighbors must be thrilled by this amusement technology. Coming up next: motor with straight pipes in a wheelbarrow.

I'm on it!

This is the best thing that I have seen on the internet today. Thank you goose.

McWheelin?

Sorry; couldn't resist.

Gauss wrote: Poor little SV

Wonder how long until the engine craters from oil starvation...

Sad, sad SV