What is it with kids (14-18 year olds I mean, god I must be getting old!) these days. They see a bike and they feel that they must try to get you to ‘do a wheelie’ for them.
“Yes mate, OK, I’ll just chew my sprockets up and stretch my chain because you want to see a wheelie shall I? I’ll just spin my wheel up on this cold, wet road and shred my expensive tyres on your say-so. Tell you what, I’ll do a wheelie for you, even though I’m 3 feet behind a car, filtering through rush-hour traffic. No doubt you’ll forget about it 5 minutes after it’s happened, but that’s not a problem because there’ll be another biker along 5 minutes later for you to harass.”
Yes, I can do wheelies and yes, I enjoy doing them, but only when I want to do them and when it’s safe enough to do it! You want to see a wheelie every 5 minutes - You grow up, get a bike, and learn for yourself!
6 Responses to “‘Go on mate… Wheelie!!’”
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December 16th, 2005 at 10:03 am
David
you were the most gratuitous wheelier I ever knew… is this because you now ride a trailie?
Peter
December 16th, 2005 at 10:26 am
You forgot the <rant></rant> tags
December 16th, 2005 at 10:30 am
No (although I am constantly frustrated with lame wheelies on the KTM) it used to annoy me on the R6 and the R1 too (although, after a while I found that wheelies on the R1 were kind of boring and I didn’t bother as much). It’s hard to explain… What annoys me most is when people expect you to do it in ridiculous places, like the examples I gave of filtering through rush-hour traffic, or when your 3 feet behind a car. Like I said, maybe I’m just getting old!!!
Oh, and if you think I was gratuitous, you should meet a couple of people from the Ace!
P.S. Nice to know someone else other than Jay, Thorkhild, Phil and Rob actually reads this
December 16th, 2005 at 11:41 am
Oi I read this too, and so does Nat!
December 16th, 2005 at 11:44 am
OK, so I’m more poular than I though! I’d better up the quality of my posts then
December 16th, 2005 at 1:16 pm
I get this all the time as well! I just ignore them now, don’t even return a gesture. In this weather though, it invariably ends up as a fishtailing rolling burnout down the road, rather than a wheelie…