yeah...might be time to change your screen name. kids around here give me the universal "pop a wheelie" signal pretty often. i usually look around for cops and, being unable to resist the temptation, pop a short one for them. or sometimes a stoppie...that usually seems to completely blow their little minds.
Last time I did a real wheelie (excluding hard launches) it cost me several thousands dollars, a nice pair of jeans, and a decent size chunk of my ass
Im 50 and can still wheelie my mtn bike for a long time....last bicycle trip a few kids said ,,C'mon old man, do a wheelie and I did a nice one.. On the DR I'm afraid to try it and break something.
I was coming home from work on a long commute this week on the Harley. Not just a harley but the biggest of the land barges doing about 80 or so. Car full of young guys pulls up next to me and starts pacing me, I look over and they are doing the wheelie sign... I think I laughed most of the way home at that one. I never did learn to ride a wheelie on anything anyhow so when I do them on the GS or the Duc, they are accidental.
Oh that's easy to fix. Buy a Tuono. Any version will do. My preference is Gen1 with the "right chip." Or if I'm feeling a little nostalgic the RZ350 will do the job handily. And then there's the open class motocrossers..................I think I have a problem.
Never been able to shift on the back wheel. Now I really don't want to spend the money to learn how - epic fails - but even at near 61 I still enjoy lofting the front wheel of the 650 exiting a stop sign occasionally (read as when there are no cops or people around). Another thing that I completely enjoy is floating the front wheel when cresting a rise with a quick drop on the other side and things like that. There's one I know of on OH SR164 where I crest a rise at about 70, holding the throttle on the 650 steady and it will float the front wheel down the back side about 2 ft off the pavement.
Wheelieing a DR650...........its what about 400lbs being yanked up by clutch and chain and 35hp. Not the best wheelie bike Ive tried. Lower gearing helps it a bunch. ============================================= Beacon ! My sis lives in Beacon NY,she likes it!
I figure when I can do one on my Rocky Mountain Flow hardtail bicycle, I'll try it on my GS. That said, I have been working on it for a while now...and getting older (48 last month) isn't helping.
Rule #1:Never wheelie on request as the results will end up on Youtoob somehow. And the odds of a poor outcome are guaranteed to be bad when a camera is present.