For one hander stoppie make sure your right arm extra stiff to make sure the bike doesn't drift either way when you let your left hand off.
Supporting your body weight with your legs is important because you can't really use your upper body to hold yourself on the bike with only one arm. To make this work, get all your weight up on the tank and jam your knees into the tank cutout to hold you up so you don't have to press on the bars.
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28 February 2009
.::One Hander Stoppie::.
.::180 Endo::.
To pull this off, you really need to know how to steer an endo or stoppie well.Instead of trying to steer the bike straight, intentionally add a steering input to bring the back end of the bike around, then control that input so it doesn't come around too fast or too slow.
To launch a 180, get the bike up to the balance point with your body centered you don't want to look for the balance point when the back end is already kicking around. The higher you are, the easier it is to steer and the smoother the back end comes around.
Once you're up, start the rotation by countersteering. It takes a major input on the handlebars to make the back end come around. To get it to crank--to move all that weight around--really takes some strength. You can't just snap it around.
Avoid the temptation to roll your body into the rotation--to maintain control over the bike, you really want to stay above the bike, on top of it at all times.
As the back end starts to come around, the bike will usually stall because you don't have enough momentum behind it. More height is better, but at a lower height you need more speed to snap the bike around. One way to make it spin around faster is to use more brake.
The 180 endo is probably the only endo where you need to increase, not decrease the brake pressure as the endo progresses. At the end of the rotation, you're probably going to have to pull the brake back to that initial 80 percent to get it to come around. You're always at a dead stop at the end of a 180
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Source:
- Matt Blankstrom : http://www.superstreetbike.com
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.::Frog Wheelie::.
Frog wheelies are a lot like High Chairs. Get up on the tank first, then clutch it up. Just like the High Chair, you have to be smooth pulling it up because you've still got all your weight over the front.
While doing frog wheelie, you don't really have anything to hold onto, so when you drop the clutch your body weight wants to go backward. That's going to make you wanna hold onto the bars even more tightly, which can cause you to twist the throttle more than you should. So to avoid unwanted throttle inputs, you have to grip tighter with your left arm than your right.
The hardest part with a Frog wheelie is putting it down. When you set the wheel down it throws all your weight forward, and when you're standing up on the tank and just holding on to the handlebars, there's not much to keep you from just flipping over the front. Not for amateurs, this trick.
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Source:
- Dan Jackson, www.superstreetbike.com
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.::No Hander Wheelie::.
For a Standup No-Hander, you're standing with your foot on the 12 bar and you've got your idle turned up, so you're basically using your foot to balance the bike and riding the wheelie with no hands, controlling the height of the front tire with your body and also with the rear brake. Sit-down No-Handers are a bit harder because you don't have the leverage of your foot out on the bar to balance the bike.
To keep yourself ont the bike, squeeze the tank with my knees and sit back against the passenger seat. If you work your body position just right, you don't even have to use the rear brake.
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Source:
- Dan Jackson, www.superstreetbike.com
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.::High Chair Wheelie
Sitting on the gas tank with both legs out to the side. (The easiest and safest way is to kick out one leg at a time that way you still have at least one hand on the bars.)
It's a good thing to dig your ankles to grip onto the headlight so you don't go flying off the back. Denting in the tank here really helps too because it gives you a flat surface to sit on.
Use clutch wheelie to rise the front tire.High Chairs (or anything where you are sitting on the tank) take more throttle because you have more weight over the front of the bike. But because your weight is so far forward, and because you're using more throttle, you have to watch and be smooth on the clutch so you don't get wheelspin. Leaning back helps, too, and so does blipping the gas to bounce the bike a little bit.
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Source:
- Dan Jackson, www.superstreetbike.com
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