Can anyone do a wheelie?

alihisgreat
alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
edited June 2013 in Road general
I've been trying to do it and its incredibly difficult.

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  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    I've always found it easier to do manuals than wheelies. Not tried on the road bike except for when bunny hoping over obsticles.
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  • IrishMac
    IrishMac Posts: 328
    Hope this helps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTXncL71jqY
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  • Druidor
    Druidor Posts: 230
    does going over the handle bars count ?? or is that just a mucked up stoppie

    Came off and front crank teeth sliced through the back of my shoe, lucky did not get my Achilles tendon.

    Never managed on a road bike but done on the MB in my youth
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  • ednino
    ednino Posts: 684
    Peter Sagan did a no handed wheelie in the middle of a tour de france stage
  • metronome
    metronome Posts: 670
    ednino wrote:
    Peter Sagan did a no handed wheelie in the middle of a tour de france stage

    Peter knows when to use his hands :mrgreen:
    tick - tick - tick
  • bernithebiker
    bernithebiker Posts: 4,148
    I can wheelie my MTB quite well, (300m +), but I can't do it on the road bike, just doesn't feel right, and unlike the pros I would have to pay for a crumpled front wheel or medical care for my scraped up back....! I also have a lot of seat to bar drop,which doesn't help, but then so does Peter Sagan.....
  • Churchill123
    Churchill123 Posts: 341
    IrishMac wrote:
    Hope this helps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTXncL71jqY


    Pretty epic video - Made it looks so so easy - I can wheelie a MTB (Just) but on a road bike no chance, and to be fair don't fancy trying to due to the massive repair bill I could imagine if it goes wrong
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    I cant do wheelies, but a few months back when a car pulled out right in front of me I did a cartwheel over the bonnet remaining clipped in the whole time! if i could have landed on the wheels and carried on I could have died happy! As it was I landed on the tarmac!!
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  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Chris Bass wrote:
    I cant do wheelies, but a few months back when a car pulled out right in front of me I did a cartwheel over the bonnet remaining clipped in the whole time! if i could have landed on the wheels and carried on I could have died happy! As it was I landed on the tarmac!!

    Yup - done that at a roundabout when someone never gave way and like you, I too hit the deck. Haven't quite got the motivation to try a second time !
  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    On a club ride I saw some teens on mtb and one did a wheelie non stop for a good 400-500m from one end of the road to the other. We were all stopped and just watched him and he made it look so easy!
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  • jimmurray
    jimmurray Posts: 130
    Saw someone doing a long wheelie on a Boris bike recently.
  • zx6man
    zx6man Posts: 1,092
    I can, but I used to do plenty of freestyle BMX as a kid (even on the telly once).
  • doug5_10
    doug5_10 Posts: 465
    I find that my 1st gear is too high (39-25) to get a wheelie started, not that I've tried much! Certainly not like my ancient townsend mountain bike as a kiddie, a good wheelie felt great!
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  • junglist_matty
    junglist_matty Posts: 1,731
    jimmurray wrote:
    Saw someone doing a long wheelie on a Boris bike recently.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZH0efykhZ0
  • goonz
    goonz Posts: 3,106
    Funny really, as a kid I could do a wheelie and jump back to my feet without any hands when laying on the floor and now I cant do anything!
    Scott Speedster S20 Roadie for Speed
    Specialized Hardrock MTB for Lumps
    Specialized Langster SS for Ease
    Cinelli Mash Bolt Fixed for Pain
    n+1 is well and truly on track
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  • junglist_matty
    junglist_matty Posts: 1,731
    The wheelie king........

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yc9mmT62lQ
  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    junglist_matty wrote:
    The wheelie king........

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yc9mmT62lQ

    I bet he couldn't put a Rowntree's Fruit Pastille in his mouth without chewing it :lol:
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  • ednino
    ednino Posts: 684
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onamrs8jx2I

    hero
  • pilot_pete
    pilot_pete Posts: 2,120
    As kids growing up on a council estate in London we used to build what we called 'track bikes', which were very similar to cycle speedway bikes. They had very low gearing, single speed with a flip/flop rear so fixed or freewheel. For fun we used to have wheelie races around the estate, which was over a mile per lap! The rules were drop the front wheel and you were out. Eventually we stopped as it got to the point where we could all wheelie for as long as we liked.... :lol:

    Was relatively easy once you had mastered getting the front up high enough to get your C of G above the rear axle. Fixed made it even easier to control when up. Not going to try some 30+ years later o my road bike. Mind you I'm riding a VTTA 50 mile TT this afternoon....would make a spectacular and I suspect unique finish to such an event on my Scott Plasma! :mrgreen:

    PP
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    Pilot Pete wrote:
    As kids growing up on a council estate in London we used to build what we called 'track bikes', which were very similar to cycle speedway bikes. They had very low gearing, single speed with a flip/flop rear so fixed or freewheel. For fun we used to have wheelie races around the estate, which was over a mile per lap! The rules were drop the front wheel and you were out. Eventually we stopped as it got to the point where we could all wheelie for as long as we liked.... :lol:

    Was relatively easy once you had mastered getting the front up high enough to get your C of G above the rear axle. Fixed made it even easier to control when up. Not going to try some 30+ years later o my road bike. Mind you I'm riding a VTTA 50 mile TT this afternoon....would make a spectacular and I suspect unique finish to such an event on my Scott Plasma! :mrgreen:

    PP

    haha I think even Sagan would struggle to wheelie his TT bike!
  • pilot_pete
    pilot_pete Posts: 2,120
    I have to report that my tunnel vision whilst in the red zone as I crossed the finish line earlier today meant I forgot to try. Could well have caused heart failure for the rather old timekeepers....and me come to that! :mrgreen:

    PP

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