Thursday, 22 December 2011

How to Do a Basic Wheelie on a Motorcycle


 

                             How to Do a Basic Wheelie on a Motorcycle

Wheelies can be fun, but make sure you do them safely and in a place where they're legal. First and foremost, you do wheelies by the feel and sound of the engine, not by what the tachometer says. Everyone has different power and sprocket setups, plus you don't need to be looking at your tach. Pay attention to the road.


First step is a basic "roll on power wheelie". Basically you need a bike with enough power to raise the front wheel off the ground with simple acceleration. You need to get comfortable with the front end getting "light". Most stock bikes won't be able to do this without some modification. You can also try getting the bike up to a good speed in first gear(around 10-20 kph), once you reach the powerband (where the engine starts to go faster with little throttle) let off just a little, then give it a lot of gas. Not so much gas that you flip over, but a good amount. You'll notice the front end pick up, and if you let off the gas, it goes back down. More gas after the powerband will get it up higher. If you don't have a stabilizer, this would be the ideal time to get one. Trying to lift the bike off the ground and then comming back down suddenly will cause the front tire to shake. If you don't land almost perfectly straight, you will do a highside (flip off the bike over the front). You will be hurting and so will your bike. Once you get comfortable with the front end getting light, try to carry the wheelie further each time. After you are comfortable with this move on to the next step, which is slipping the clutch.


Roll at about 10-20 kph in first gear on


Pull in the clutch and rev the motor a little, then slip the clutch. Do this a few times with a little more gas each time until you start to feel comfortable with how high the front end is coming up. The front end will come up quicker than a power wheelie, so be prepared.


Once you are comfortable getting the front up a little, it's time to worry about throttle and brake control. Use the throttle to maintain the height of the wheelie and the back brake to keep from looping the bike. Chopping the throttle while in first will almost always bring you back over, but you will most likely slam the front pretty hard.


If you get good enough at the brake control, you can ride a wheelie in first until the motor blows, in theory. But at first you will probably just run through your rpm range and drop the front down. This is when you need to shift to second. It's a clutchless shift, at the peak of the wheelie when you have about 3k rpms left before redline. Let the front come down just a bit and simultaneously shift to second.


Once you get in the second gear, pull the accelerator so as not to let the bike go down due to inertia, and find a balance point upon which your bike is steady in the air on the front wheel. Balance point can be found by leaning on the rear side of the bike, so that centre of gravity of the whole system (you and bike) is in the centre, and you can roll on long. But take care as not to shift the body position on the back side, as you will be likely to fall in that case, and keep your rear brake ready for any such situation.

Sunday, 18 December 2011

What’s a Stoppie?



                                                What’s a Stoppie?



stoppieThe “stoppie” — also incorrectly called the “endo” — is a motorcycle and bicycle trick in which the back wheel is lifted, and the bike is ridden on the front wheel by carefully applying brake pressure after timing the “bounce” of the rear suspension. It is also sometimes called a front wheelie or wikang. (The word “endo” is short for “end over end”.)
A stoppie is not a safe maneuvre to attempt, and will eventually — if not immediately — lead to the rider crashing hard, especially when on a motorcycle.
The trick is performed by progressively engaging the front brake and leaning forward. The rider then tries to balance by shifting their weight and keeping the rear wheel as high as possible.
stoppie stuntIf the bicycle rider does not have a front brake, then experienced riders may jam a foot between the tire and front fork while pushing forward. Stoppies can also be accomplished without front brakes, with the aid of a roadside curb. However, if the bike’s wheels are 24″ or larger, they will normally mount the curb instead of being stopped by it.

Video After The Jump

                                 


                                                          Video After The Jump

                                                         Some people are just born lucky.

Motorcycle stuntman Denis Borges survived a scary crash at Brazil's "Extreme Show" that was being held at Beto Carrero World last month. After watching the video you'll be wondering how.

Borges and his partner Anderson Sanches were performing a maneuver that required them to ride at full speed while avoiding three oncoming cars. Borges misjudges the distance between the vehicles and clips one of them sending him flying 80 feet through the air. After he landed he slid an additional 40 feet.

According ABC News, Borges was rushed to a nearby hospital and miraculously came away without any injuries. He reportedly was back at work the next day.

The drivers are professionals who already have more than 10 years experience and rehearse their maneuvers on a daily basis,” Beto Carrero World said in a statement to ABC. “‘It was a really scary accident, but it also served to show how extreme the show is.”

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

stunt man

                                                                       aryan jain

I'm crazy about bikes. Everyone knows me as a biker. On my 1st birthday, I was given a tricycle. I rode it well! And by the time I was 8, I was teaching kids older than me how to ride cycles. By 14, I used to maro bikes from people…as in, ask them to let me ride. Then my dad bought me a bike - a Hero Honda Splendor. It's a Sports bike. I have a few other bikes - a Suzuki GSX 600, a Kawasaki Ninja, a 225 CC modified Hero Honda Karisma which I won on Roadies, a 50 CC Pocket bike and a Royal Enfield Bullet.