During another dedicated wheelie fest with The Little Engine That Could (WR250R/Two-Fiddy), for some unknown reason, it didn't go anything at all like the last. Last time I realized that I'd only learned how to learn how to really wheelie motorcycles over the past few years. This time, I was up near the balance point (just under or over) without further training. I don't know what happened. Well, I do. I slept on it. And this time out, I was pulling the fat ones a hundred times better than last time on, basically, an unfamiliar bike. Kudos, MotoBum. Kudos.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Ah Ha with Two-Fiddy
+10 wheelies on the KLR. Yes. It never gets old. Just let the clutch out quickly from 2 miles an hour, and BAM... nice wheelie!
+10 wheelies on the WR250R. In a long overdue wheelie session with the little bike, I had an ah ha moment. I realized that I could not wheelie any motorbike by just hopping on and ripping some good ones. Not yet, anyway. What I learned is that I now have a solid method for learning how to pull wheelies on any motorbike. With this wheelie session, I was instantly transported three years back in time -- back to a time where I did not have the skills that I have today. I felt like such a beginner, such a hack. But now that I know how to learn to pull decent wheelies on a motorbike, the learning curve is expected to be quite low.
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+10 wheelies on the WR250R. In a long overdue wheelie session with the little bike, I had an ah ha moment. I realized that I could not wheelie any motorbike by just hopping on and ripping some good ones. Not yet, anyway. What I learned is that I now have a solid method for learning how to pull wheelies on any motorbike. With this wheelie session, I was instantly transported three years back in time -- back to a time where I did not have the skills that I have today. I felt like such a beginner, such a hack. But now that I know how to learn to pull decent wheelies on a motorbike, the learning curve is expected to be quite low.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Feeling Great
It's amazing how a seemingly normal morning can turn extraordinary by simply pulling ten motorcycle wheelies.
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Friday, February 8, 2013
Hero
When the heavy weight of life feels overwhelming, that's when I know it's time to give a two-wheeled machine a hard launch or two... or ten. And when I do that, the heavy weight lifts and I re-realize what I should be doing.
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Monday, November 5, 2012
A Couple
It's amazing how quickly the skills have come up. Now, it seems 50 feet is enough to get a KLR up and over the b.p., rock one for a second, and get back down to earth in time before crashing. Also, The old smooth and perfect inclined plane "cheater" lot seemed like child's play to rock a big one just above idle. It seemed so easy, it was almost scary to my psyche. Still working on smoothness though.
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