Yes it does! Gotta be at least two seconds.ronnieM said:If popping a wheelie means holding the front tire up for more than 1 second, no.
That sounds like a great time, Ade!ade said:Well, not now since my body's buggered (not from two-wheeled shennigans).
I used to do the whole steering of it, too. I can remember one summer's evening outside our house, just passing time with the lad nextdoor-but-one and singing a Beatles song, doing
wheelies on the road and footpaths.....and I forgot the words of the song and then lost the plot of everything else and just flopped over onto the road. My mate laughed his head off.......the cockend.
Motorbikes are a bit different with being heavier and hand-throttled. It's almost a different skill, really.
And then try going from motorbike to pedalbike and popping wheelies
The longest I could do on my old "iron pig" was about 4 seconds and then I'd dry to spin the handlebars like the BMX guys, but since I had cables it never worked, but I didn't fall once I got it down. It took the internet to teach me.Hockeyczar said:
My mom doesn't know how to ride at all. Shhh! Don't Tell her I told anyone!Weatheronthe8s said:
Interestingly, I love climbing hills. It's my specialty on group rides. My nickname that the local groups gave me is "Rabbit". The nickname my family calls me is Rue, like kangaroo. 
I can't jump well though. Or swim, lol. 
It kind of was; btw, in my post I wrote "....doing figure-of-eight wheelies on the road and footpath". Not sure what happened to the 'figure-of-eight'KrankyPants said:
The one with the flat nosewillnotwill said:
Oh yea. I did them all! Love those days. Better than being inside playing video games.willnotwill said:
), but you don't want to let that get away from you....
Yeah. I am not good at jumping either. Swimming is also not my strongest suit, but I can kinda swim.KrankyPants said:My mom doesn't know how to ride at all. Shhh! Don't Tell her I told anyone!
Oh snap, you're one of those cool people who can do that? That takes some serious balance!ade said:What about riding 'backwards', sat on the handlebars?
I've also ridden backwards, as a purely backwards thing (living on a hillside has some dubious benefits
I'm in the dealership waiting area and literally laughed when I read you wrote "Soviet"!ade said:It kind of was; btw, in my post I wrote "....doing figure-of-eight wheelies on the road and footpath". Not sure what happened to the 'figure-of-eight'
Of course it matters, because showing off is part of the whole point of doing a wheely, isn't it?
And that bike concerned was an iron pig, too. It was a BMX called a Wildcat, but not the Raleigh one that everybody knows. No, this seemed to be a Soviet style, heavily over-engineered (with the emphasis on heavy) type which my parents had bought (in total ignorance of the then new BMX trend) from the local Toymaster as my 'big' xmas present for 1980-earlysomething.
It's weight was it's notable feature and everybody who tried to lift it gave that funny look of worry.
I didn't need to be told as tears were shed on the xmas day that I got it: not because it wasn't, as I knew, a 'proper' BMX (I did my best to hide my dismay), but because when I took it in the backyard for it's baptismal ride, it fell on top of me as I tried to negotiate the steps and turn, unwieldy as it was.
Tears and tantrum followed
It's weight lended itself to maintaining steady wheelies, being less skittish once up, but it was seriously dangerous for doing jumps off ramps; it seemed to be heavier than me and would drop out of the air faster than I would. One mangled-shin occurrence, upon landing, deterred me from doing jumps with it.