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finally popped a good un on my L1
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:12 pm
by markzxr400l3
Who said its difficult to wheelie one of these??? Its easy as long as you are prepared to toad yourself LOL.
Technique...
Rev tits off bike, lean back, 'ping' clutch, soil trousers, nearly go over backwards, have brief 1.5 seconds of sublime balance, run out of revs, drop a tad heavily.
Repeat till fade. LOL.
Re: finally popped a good un on my L1
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:38 pm
by masterofinsanity
class pic mate well done!!!
Re: finally popped a good un on my L1
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:38 pm
by Jeppo
Thats a great picture!! Need to get a dark visor to hide that fear
lol
Re: finally popped a good un on my L1
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:52 pm
by lewisdale
lol im getting quite used to wheelieng mine, can do it easy peasy and smoothly, no dropping it down heavily lol, just takes a lot of practice and balls
Re: finally popped a good un on my L1
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:58 pm
by masterofinsanity
Jeppo wrote:Thats a great picture!! Need to get a dark visor to hide that fear
lol
sorted for ya
Re: finally popped a good un on my L1
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:13 pm
by 86zxr01
Thats a decent pic mate.
Do you remember what rpm you popped the clutch?
Re: finally popped a good un on my L1
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:58 pm
by Vard66
Kudos, that's a good angle and a smashing photo!
I'm gonna go have a bit of a go at dipping the clutch to lift the wheel a tiny bit, like that MCN video demonstrates.
Wish me luck...
Re: finally popped a good un on my L1
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:06 pm
by Jeppo
I'm gonna go have a bit of a go at dipping the clutch to lift the wheel a tiny bit, like that MCN video demonstrates.
Wish me luck...
Its a good place to start, not that i have gotten much further than that
i'm too worried about flipping it
pansy
Re: finally popped a good un on my L1
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:16 pm
by crushedlizard
Quality picture. That is a mighy fine angle too.
Just watch your fork seals!
Re: finally popped a good un on my L1
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:37 pm
by Jamz
That's going to become a classic ZXR400 picture! Nice one!
It's much easier if you've got the 444cc rebore - but I'm not a wheelier so never learned to show it off...
Re: finally popped a good un on my L1
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:01 pm
by Gemini
baz has got a good trick for pulling good wheelies........
buy a big fuckin v twin TL!
gem
Re: finally popped a good un on my L1
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:16 pm
by 86zxr01
Gemini wrote:baz has got a good trick for pulling good wheelies........
buy a big fuckin v twin TL!
gem
Yeh Baz, get your pics out
Re: finally popped a good un on my L1
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:59 pm
by markzxr400l3
Thanks for the comments dudes, appreciate it.
Yeah LOL I do find the easiest way to wheelie the ZXR is to park it in my garage and take the VFR instead!! Then you can just give it a little snap of the throttle at 4k and bobs your fanny and uncles yer aunt. See illustration below.
For my next trick I'm going to try to mono my recently restored VF750 Sabre with its Looooooooooooooooo,......ooooooo......oooooooo....ng wheelbase. Wish me luck LOL
BTW 86 about the 'how many revs'... I think I used all of them!!! I really screamed the tits off it.