How do you pull a road bike wheelie?

nolf
nolf Posts: 1,287
edited July 2008 in The bottom bracket
I've seen videos of pros doing it all the time, but can't get the hang of it.
Anyone able to do this?

Any clues on how to?
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  • Gavin Gilbert
    Gavin Gilbert Posts: 4,019
    Try a hill start at the barriers on the car park ramp at our office building? I've lost count of the number of times I've done it and I suspect I'm on our security contractors 'Christmas CCTV Compilation Tape' :oops:
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    Shirely can't be good for the rims can it? Okay for the pros who get free wheels, but do you really want to do it on you own bike?
  • neeb
    neeb Posts: 4,473
    I'm planning on getting around to practicing this myself. Sometimes when I'm out on the road bike with all the gear, kids on BMXs and MTBs do wheelies when they're passing in the other direction. It would be great fun to reciprocate, the last thing they'd expect from a roadie! :D
  • Salsiccia
    Salsiccia Posts: 405
    One of the best cycling images of all time:

    _40406831_mcewen.jpg

    Mcewen pullling a wheelie at the end of the Alpe D'Huez time trial, TDF 2004
    I was only joking when I said
    by rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed
  • Robspedding
    Robspedding Posts: 146
    Shift your weight, don't pull up on the bars...or so I've been told. So, who fancies a road bike stunt technique feature in CPlus?
    Editor, Cycling Plus.
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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,094
    Robspedding wrote:
    Shift your weight, don't pull up on the bars...or so I've been told. So, who fancies a road bike stunt technique feature in CPlus?

    Do it!
  • Mog Uk
    Mog Uk Posts: 964
    Makes it look easy....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcM59itMCLk
    Manchester Wheelers' Club
  • McBain_v1
    McBain_v1 Posts: 5,237
    Seems like you shouldn't go for too easy a gear or yu will spin out with bad results. Personally I would have thought that this kind of thing would have been easier on a fixed wheel bike :?:
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Mog Uk wrote:
    Makes it look easy....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcM59itMCLk

    One handed from the drops is just showing off.........
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    who fancies a road bike stunt technique feature in CPlus?

    Depends whether CPlus's budget for lawsuits is currently topped up! Imagine all the roadie noobs* crippling themselves AND looking ridiculous in the process...


    *I am a roadie noob
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  • CarlosFerreiro
    CarlosFerreiro Posts: 83
    McBain_v1 wrote:
    Seems like you shouldn't go for too easy a gear or yu will spin out with bad results. Personally I would have thought that this kind of thing would have been easier on a fixed wheel bike :?:
    Fixed adds too many options ;-)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWYemEeLTTE
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    I'm of the opinion that doing wheelies can't be learned. You either know now to do them
    or you don't. Of course I have no facts or figures to prove this. It's just the excuse that I use because I can't pull one.

    Dennis Noward
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    Robspedding wrote:
    Shift your weight, don't pull up on the bars...or so I've been told. So, who fancies a road bike stunt technique feature in CPlus?

    Bunny-hopping excluded. That's old hat on a drop-bar bike with 700c's, y'know. :wink:

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Same as an MTB...but more so.
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