11-05-2007, 10:50 PM
Written by Plow King.
How to Wheelie/Manual
1/ First learn how to wheelie, to wheelie basically put your bike in a low gear start of either standing up or sitting down and once you have got it up, sit back on the seat. Once your front wheel is up to a decent height do not pedal as fast as you can because this just makes you speed up, so you cannot keep on pedaling, so try to keep the bike at an even pace. Lean back if you think that your front wheel is going down, remember to keep atleast one finger over the rear brake to stop you from flipping the bike, and you can save yourself from public humiliation. Putting your seat up when first learning to wheelie also helps, it centres your weight over the back of your bike so you dont have to pull up and pedal as hard. one of the downfalls that people have when they are trying to wheelie is that they always lean over to one side of there bike and put there foot down to stop them from falling over (this is also the same when doing a manual) so try to lean over the other side to keep your weight even on each side. They key factor in learning to wheelie is practise it is impossible to learn how to do wheelies overnight it takes months of practise to get them down well.
2/ Once you have learned how to do wheelies confidently you should try some manuals, when first attempting a manual you should start of on a gentle slope, it helps when you are learning to manual to start of on a wheelie and then stop pedalling, stay seated on your arse and when you feel the front wheel starting to come down start standing up and lean over the back of the bike more so that the front wheel comes up, remember to keep a firm grip on your rear brake lever incase you are about to flip the bike.
Once you have got these for around 5-7 seconds and are fairly confident with them you should try just pulling up and not starting on a wheelie when pullinng up you should always be in a standing position, make sure to sounteract both the force from side to side and the force from back to front.
3/ Endos are a completly different bag of tricks to wheelies and manuals although it does have the same idea. when starting off to do endo's you should go at a slow speed on even ground lean forward slightly and grap the front brake, so that you bring your rear wheel up about 1 or 2 feet (if you feel thatn your rear wheel is comming up to fast you should release your front brake immediatly, remember alot of chain slap is much better than a smashed face. Once you get confident at these try them on a gentle slope and try to get them rolling, the immediate thought when people think of trying to do rolling endos is that you continually grab the brake although this does work it is alot more dangerous than the other, better way of doing them. Instead of consistantly grabbing the brake you can find that if you grab the brake lever once and then pull the brake lever in with a certain force there will be enough force on either the rim or the rotor to keep you moving forward and to keep your back wheel up in the air.
P.S I take no Responsibility if anyone gets hurt trying these tricks
How to Wheelie/Manual
1/ First learn how to wheelie, to wheelie basically put your bike in a low gear start of either standing up or sitting down and once you have got it up, sit back on the seat. Once your front wheel is up to a decent height do not pedal as fast as you can because this just makes you speed up, so you cannot keep on pedaling, so try to keep the bike at an even pace. Lean back if you think that your front wheel is going down, remember to keep atleast one finger over the rear brake to stop you from flipping the bike, and you can save yourself from public humiliation. Putting your seat up when first learning to wheelie also helps, it centres your weight over the back of your bike so you dont have to pull up and pedal as hard. one of the downfalls that people have when they are trying to wheelie is that they always lean over to one side of there bike and put there foot down to stop them from falling over (this is also the same when doing a manual) so try to lean over the other side to keep your weight even on each side. They key factor in learning to wheelie is practise it is impossible to learn how to do wheelies overnight it takes months of practise to get them down well.
2/ Once you have learned how to do wheelies confidently you should try some manuals, when first attempting a manual you should start of on a gentle slope, it helps when you are learning to manual to start of on a wheelie and then stop pedalling, stay seated on your arse and when you feel the front wheel starting to come down start standing up and lean over the back of the bike more so that the front wheel comes up, remember to keep a firm grip on your rear brake lever incase you are about to flip the bike.
Once you have got these for around 5-7 seconds and are fairly confident with them you should try just pulling up and not starting on a wheelie when pullinng up you should always be in a standing position, make sure to sounteract both the force from side to side and the force from back to front.
3/ Endos are a completly different bag of tricks to wheelies and manuals although it does have the same idea. when starting off to do endo's you should go at a slow speed on even ground lean forward slightly and grap the front brake, so that you bring your rear wheel up about 1 or 2 feet (if you feel thatn your rear wheel is comming up to fast you should release your front brake immediatly, remember alot of chain slap is much better than a smashed face. Once you get confident at these try them on a gentle slope and try to get them rolling, the immediate thought when people think of trying to do rolling endos is that you continually grab the brake although this does work it is alot more dangerous than the other, better way of doing them. Instead of consistantly grabbing the brake you can find that if you grab the brake lever once and then pull the brake lever in with a certain force there will be enough force on either the rim or the rotor to keep you moving forward and to keep your back wheel up in the air.
P.S I take no Responsibility if anyone gets hurt trying these tricks
