As some who has been wheeling everything I could get my hands on for about 10 years and have wheelied to work/school every day for the same time this video is great people underestimate how hard they are especially fixed I’m a massive fan of going for distance current record is 2.43 miles (hard tail mtb)
Wheelie was something I always wanted to learn as a kid but never took the time to do it. Finally when I got my first (and only) fixed gear I stubbornly decided to learn it, and now at 35 I can wheelie, and a fixed gear bike for that matter. As Zach mentioned, changing to lower gear ratio helped a lot, next was leaning back and holding the handlebar with fully extended arms, after that by consciously pulling/pushing the pedals depending on the balance point (straps or clip-less pedals are essential). What made a difference for me, was at one point focusing on the hips/ pelvis and making micro adjustments to keep the balance during the wheelie. Finally, all that was left was just practicing until I got it right. You can do it!
Thanks for the shared insight! Does the ability to be able to perform a track stand help, in a sense of finding bike balance? Should I be able to track stand before wheelies? Thanks.
@@bknapp9728 It definitely helps with the front/back balance while performing the wheelie (pushing/pulling the pedals), but it's also nice to know and it's not that difficult to learn. I'd suggest starting with that. For more resources, check out the FOAD Gang channel. They have tutorials for both tricks (and more) with steps for each progression. Hopefully, the next one on my list will be Fish'n'Cips. I hope this helps.
1) thank you so much for making this video! It's so helpful for those of us who didn't learn in childhood haha. This gives me a ton of perspective for me! 2) You should do a follow up video for this!
I think your honesty about how hard it is, is more inspiring than pretending its easy. I’ve never bothered to progress past 4 or 5 pedal strokes on any bike my whole life since I was satisfied with being able to manual my mountain bike. Now is the time to learn how to properly wheelie my fixed and its all your fault!
My only two tips for any beginner, more rolling speed, less pull with the arms! If you're at (or near) full arm extension and don't drag the bike up with your arms it will be considerably easier to achieve and maintain balance in the wheelie ;-)
Funny thing, when I was a kid in my banana seat, 20" Schwinn I could pop a wheelie no problem! Once I moved to bigger bikes... could never manage to do them again!
The thing that helped me the most was to get a nice wall or anything you can hold yourself on sideways! Hold your bar in the middle, pull up & find your balance point. then play around with it. Also this in my personal opinion but a unicycle is nearly like wheeling a fixed gear bike, helped me a bunch.
I spent a couple hours today just balancing on the rear wheel at the porch. And like Zach's instructor pointed out, kept my focus straight ahead instead of obsessing about the wheel or whatever. Also practiced learning how to lean back instead of using brute force to pull up the front, and keeping my body at 12 o'clock. I actually feel a lot of progress and this is my second day. I'm 59, and I almost decided I was too old for this until I found this video. Very inspiring. I probably should mention that I can track stand just fine, even on my geared bike, but I want to wheelie and then bunny hop before I get "too old".
Doing a wheelie on a single speed BMX is hard enough and here is Zach trying to learn to wheelie a damn fixed gear. Keep it up and you will eventually get it. I don't suggest using pedal straps until you get it down pat. Lowering your seat post will help as well. BMX bikes that do wheelie's always have their seats slammed to the lowest possible point to lower the center of gravity. Unfortunately it's murder on your knees, especially going uphill. It's why you see BMX riders standing up on their pedals going up any kind of hill.
16:31"Because, once you know how to wheelie forever, nobody can take that away from you. Unless they hit you with their car" Cracked me up as a multiple time victim of minor occurrences, but too real. Drivers cannot be trusted Anyway just did my first wheelie session on a fixed (rusty ol 6ku 🤪)and made some progress, maybe 3 full rotations. I thought it wasn't possible but your video made me believe. I shifted back in the seat and just threw it back. Key for me was getting the non dominant foot around then you're away. Also bringing it past the balance point and bailing. That's actually an awesome feeling. Leaning back but tucking forward into the bars a little worked for me if that makes sense. Then I wiped out and hurt my heel 🤗 I don't have stirrups, would be interesting to try. 46/16 gear ratio I think
It took me 3 weeks to learn to wheeie on my fixie with downbars, its a bit more difficult with downbars, but your vids made me want to buy a fixie so thank u, and your vids are amazing
Hi Zach, I've been following your channel since your purple all-city bike. I just wanted to thank you for inspiring me to try a bike without any extra gears. Despite my secret obsession I always considered this type of bike as generally a bad idea. I was expecting the worst when my first fix was delivered and I went trying it out. It was early february and the streets were still covered in snow (since I live in Ukraine). I remember everybody freaking out about some guy riding in the snow, but they just didn't know that it was a lot more than just some dude riding in the snow... This thing is unstopabble... (I had the brakes on but they just didn't work in the snow since the rims were coated with clearcoat). Oh, I can't thank you enough. After my first ride I was quite literally the happiest person in the world. The next day I just had to go to the church to pray to not to kill myself with this new bike and for the health to all those good people who inspired me to try it. Few years ago I made myself to do a similar challenge. It was backwheel hops on a mountain bike and I practiced everyday for 45 minutes for few weeks. I almost mastered it, but at the end of third week I oddly fell on the handlebars and injured my wrist. It wasn't painful but on the next morning it felt bad and after few weeks of bunnyhopping on my bike and trying to shake the pain off it only got worse. So I decided to quit cycling for a while (it just happened to be more than two years) to give my wrist and my knee (it was also getting bad) some time to recover. Some may say that in my case fixed gear bike wasn't the best decision, but I ordered one with brakes maybe just to finish my backwheel hop challenge. Thank you again for your good work and for being inspiration for many cyclists around the world.
During shelter in place I was DETERMINED to wheelie my fixed gear. I have up after just over a month. My parking lot progress never translated to the street But I'm inspired to try again.
itll take a while.. weak foot push first, then strong foot push hard af to get way up, then try to keep the relative momentum ... wear 2 jeans and 2 old jackets and dont puss out on the pull back when practicing.. it really feels strange when you find the actual fulcrum point, dont be afraid to fall and youll slowly wrap head around the balancing. you can build a manual box and get comfortable where the fulcrum point is if youre having real trouble sticking it. good luck Zach
buddy of mine broke both of his shoulders falling over while doing a wheelie. but good advice to wear several layers of clothing to soften the fall though.
the comment about sleeping is exactly what i do when i learn a new song on guitar. I'll struggle to learn a part, go to sleep and the next it's magically easy for some reason.
Please I repeat please do not lower ur seat u ride at that height n it’s dialed for u. ( u wanna pop up on demand mid ride) Also remember the brake is back pedaling it will save u from going over the back. U can make micro adjustments with ur hip placement and knees, major adjustments with backpedals…. Please beat Spindatt for NorCal
I’d buy a chrome bag but that’s about it from them, my clipless shoes broke, also my bottle opener doesn’t work on my chrome bag so idk they might have some quality control
I would love to learn trackstand because it can be very practical. But I can't bring myself to learn it. So respect to you to force your self to practice nearly 30 days. ✌
The biggest thing that helped me was realizing there is no balance point. you are constantly adjusting up and down. there are points you can float but there is no point at which the bike will just sit up there without input from you
Na,there definitely is a balance point,adjusting your body is important to stay at the balance as well but there’s a point where you can get the bike to where it feels easy to maintain
Something I’ve always found that works good is practice practice practice then stop for like a week or more and then get back on and do it again when I was first practicing wheelies I had to stop because it was winter so I’m the spring I got back on and bam I was great at wheelies and it shocked me because when I stopped I could go for more than 10 food then all of a Sidon doing 1-200 feet at a time now I can do sick one handed wheelies but just keep practicing and you will get better. RIDE MORE
With a fixed gear you its sooo hard to practice wheelies because with other bikes you can feather tap the back break so you dont fall backwards but with a fixed gear its all balance. You just gotta find that balance point.
Hey. I've learned how to manual on a bmx bike in about 2 months , everyday. and after that i figure out the tips your friend told you for a Fixed gear. so i would say it took me around 2.5 months for learing the balance.
I've been trying for some time, just keep in mind that there's a difference in slow and fast "fakies". The direction in which you have to turn your handlebar changes at a certain speed. When going slow, you have to turn the bar against the direction your falling, to get the front wheel back underneath your center of mass, if you go fast, you have to steer in the direction your falling, as in "leaning into the curve". Can be quite confusing if you don't know about it.. I can't find the video on fakies anymore, but someone explained this.
Hi Zach I'm a Filipino Fixed Gear Freestyle Rider and my personal record for doing a wheelie is 1.3 km and my ratio is 54/16 btw thank you for the helpful videos you have best of luck for and your wheelies
As always styling while riding..! Thank you for this video & effort . Iam trying to do the same thing & yeah..it’s hard..🤬 Difference is I wear knee pads elbow & helmet.Among other tricks Iam trying to learn ..! Thank you Zack..🙌🔥🔥🔥
I think your issue was that you were doing power wheelies. This is when you're not leaning back far enough into the balance point, so now you have to pedal hard and grab the handlebars real hard to generate torque in the rear wheel and keep the front wheel lifted, or else the bike will come back down. So I guess your main focus should be to practice leaning back farther into the balance point. It's scary at first but you gain confidence over time
i wanna learn to wheelie this summer i have 2 bikes which should i use my sort of trial bike thing with wide wheels(its heavier but more control because large wheels) some speed bike thats REALLY light but has very thin wheels which should be hard to control but ive used it forever so im used to it
I'm not going to lie doing a wheelie on a fixed gear is harder than it looks compared to a bike with hand brakes. It's easier to get the front wheel up but harder to keep it going. I did a video on how to do this for beginners but still takes practice, like you said, everyday to get really good at it.
Hey Zach i've always struggled with wheelies and you gave me hope. That was a steep learning curve, how old are you? Just wondering how different would my learning be, being older.
try carving (steering + leaning into a turn) faster - bike should almost lay flat. That helps it finish the rotation and maintain speed after you hit the 180 point. Good luck!
ive been practicing sim drifting, so i totally feel the frustration in this haha. I have 57 hours on it so far and i still have alot of learning to do but im almost there
Hey Zach, I am new to the channel and was wondering to buy a second hand Singlespeed bike. What do you think of the Decathlon ELops 500 for an entry and affordable bike?
This is why I don’t do wheelies. Because the guys who do them have backed way off their gear inches to be able to spin to make doing a wheelie easier. Some even dropping to the spin comparable to a unicycle. The main reason for my bicycle is for transportation, so I’m not backing off my gear inches resulting in my decreasing my ability to stay with traffic to be a little showy for a brief period of time. Not important to me.
Zach you have no idea how important videos like this are. Realistic progression. Trials. Fails. And success. Thank you brotha
Yeah!
Life and death important!
Jesus.. 😆
its just a wheelie bruh but yeah
As some who has been wheeling everything I could get my hands on for about 10 years and have wheelied to work/school every day for the same time this video is great people underestimate how hard they are especially fixed I’m a massive fan of going for distance current record is 2.43 miles (hard tail mtb)
I feel this is just an advertisement for the wabi wheelset strength
Ya aint wrong tho 😂
Mans gotta eat lol
im actually impressed at how well they held up. it would be even more impressive if he showed the truing on camera afterwards LOL
This is nothing for any double wall rims laced with stainless steel spokes
Wheelie was something I always wanted to learn as a kid but never took the time to do it. Finally when I got my first (and only) fixed gear I stubbornly decided to learn it, and now at 35 I can wheelie, and a fixed gear bike for that matter. As Zach mentioned, changing to lower gear ratio helped a lot, next was leaning back and holding the handlebar with fully extended arms, after that by consciously pulling/pushing the pedals depending on the balance point (straps or clip-less pedals are essential). What made a difference for me, was at one point focusing on the hips/ pelvis and making micro adjustments to keep the balance during the wheelie. Finally, all that was left was just practicing until I got it right. You can do it!
Thanks for the shared insight! Does the ability to be able to perform a track stand help, in a sense of finding bike balance? Should I be able to track stand before wheelies? Thanks.
@@bknapp9728 i would suggest learning trackstands first as they actually have a utility outside of looking cool or whatever.
@@GladRichGirl thank you!
@@bknapp9728 It definitely helps with the front/back balance while performing the wheelie (pushing/pulling the pedals), but it's also nice to know and it's not that difficult to learn. I'd suggest starting with that. For more resources, check out the FOAD Gang channel. They have tutorials for both tricks (and more) with steps for each progression. Hopefully, the next one on my list will be Fish'n'Cips. I hope this helps.
@@bknapp9728 track stand only need a couple of hours to get the ability. way easier than wheelie. so try to do track stand first.
i hate it if people manage to do stuff easily. really appreciate the struggle. thanks for the honesty. :)
Great effort wheelie-ing and filming. These vids take a crap ton of time.
1) thank you so much for making this video! It's so helpful for those of us who didn't learn in childhood haha. This gives me a ton of perspective for me!
2) You should do a follow up video for this!
I think your honesty about how hard it is, is more inspiring than pretending its easy. I’ve never bothered to progress past 4 or 5 pedal strokes on any bike my whole life since I was satisfied with being able to manual my mountain bike. Now is the time to learn how to properly wheelie my fixed and its all your fault!
Hey Zach, a tip that helped me a lot was lowering the seat down.
This! This is super important, not just for learning, but even when you have them down, its way easier with the seat down just an inch.
My only two tips for any beginner, more rolling speed, less pull with the arms!
If you're at (or near) full arm extension and don't drag the bike up with your arms it will be considerably easier to achieve and maintain balance in the wheelie ;-)
Yes its in the hips and ass that it happens
Check jball pulling handless wheelies
Funny thing, when I was a kid in my banana seat, 20" Schwinn I could pop a wheelie no problem! Once I moved to bigger bikes... could never manage to do them again!
The thing that helped me the most was to get a nice wall or anything you can hold yourself on sideways! Hold your bar in the middle, pull up & find your balance point. then play around with it. Also this in my personal opinion but a unicycle is nearly like wheeling a fixed gear bike, helped me a bunch.
Those are great tips bro. Much needed. Tq
This is how I learnt kickflips (holding a hand rail).
I spent a couple hours today just balancing on the rear wheel at the porch. And like Zach's instructor pointed out, kept my focus straight ahead instead of obsessing about the wheel or whatever. Also practiced learning how to lean back instead of using brute force to pull up the front, and keeping my body at 12 o'clock. I actually feel a lot of progress and this is my second day. I'm 59, and I almost decided I was too old for this until I found this video. Very inspiring.
I probably should mention that I can track stand just fine, even on my geared bike, but I want to wheelie and then bunny hop before I get "too old".
@@calllightnin7153 never to old 🙏
Doing a wheelie on a single speed BMX is hard enough and here is Zach trying to learn to wheelie a damn fixed gear. Keep it up and you will eventually get it. I don't suggest using pedal straps until you get it down pat. Lowering your seat post will help as well. BMX bikes that do wheelie's always have their seats slammed to the lowest possible point to lower the center of gravity. Unfortunately it's murder on your knees, especially going uphill. It's why you see BMX riders standing up on their pedals going up any kind of hill.
For learning the higher saddle is definitely better and you should never go from fully extended to fully slammed always small increments.
16:31"Because, once you know how to wheelie forever, nobody can take that away from you. Unless they hit you with their car" Cracked me up as a multiple time victim of minor occurrences, but too real. Drivers cannot be trusted
Anyway just did my first wheelie session on a fixed (rusty ol 6ku 🤪)and made some progress, maybe 3 full rotations. I thought it wasn't possible but your video made me believe.
I shifted back in the seat and just threw it back. Key for me was getting the non dominant foot around then you're away. Also bringing it past the balance point and bailing. That's actually an awesome feeling. Leaning back but tucking forward into the bars a little worked for me if that makes sense. Then I wiped out and hurt my heel 🤗
I don't have stirrups, would be interesting to try. 46/16 gear ratio I think
Good for you! I'm officially inspired :)
It took me 3 weeks to learn to wheeie on my fixie with downbars, its a bit more difficult with downbars, but your vids made me want to buy a fixie so thank u, and your vids are amazing
I like this, make this into a series
Video Idea: I practiced Fixed Gear Fish N Chips for 30 Days
If you’d had brakes on the back it would be easier, that way you can pump the brakes as soon as you feel you’re tipping. That would be my approach.
Welcome to tarck world, once you in there's no way out
Hi Zach, I've been following your channel since your purple all-city bike. I just wanted to thank you for inspiring me to try a bike without any extra gears. Despite my secret obsession I always considered this type of bike as generally a bad idea. I was expecting the worst when my first fix was delivered and I went trying it out. It was early february and the streets were still covered in snow (since I live in Ukraine). I remember everybody freaking out about some guy riding in the snow, but they just didn't know that it was a lot more than just some dude riding in the snow... This thing is unstopabble... (I had the brakes on but they just didn't work in the snow since the rims were coated with clearcoat). Oh, I can't thank you enough. After my first ride I was quite literally the happiest person in the world. The next day I just had to go to the church to pray to not to kill myself with this new bike and for the health to all those good people who inspired me to try it.
Few years ago I made myself to do a similar challenge. It was backwheel hops on a mountain bike and I practiced everyday for 45 minutes for few weeks. I almost mastered it, but at the end of third week I oddly fell on the handlebars and injured my wrist. It wasn't painful but on the next morning it felt bad and after few weeks of bunnyhopping on my bike and trying to shake the pain off it only got worse. So I decided to quit cycling for a while (it just happened to be more than two years) to give my wrist and my knee (it was also getting bad) some time to recover. Some may say that in my case fixed gear bike wasn't the best decision, but I ordered one with brakes maybe just to finish my backwheel hop challenge.
Thank you again for your good work and for being inspiration for many cyclists around the world.
During shelter in place I was DETERMINED to wheelie my fixed gear. I have up after just over a month. My parking lot progress never translated to the street
But I'm inspired to try again.
itll take a while.. weak foot push first, then strong foot push hard af to get way up, then try to keep the relative momentum ... wear 2 jeans and 2 old jackets and dont puss out on the pull back when practicing.. it really feels strange when you find the actual fulcrum point, dont be afraid to fall and youll slowly wrap head around the balancing. you can build a manual box and get comfortable where the fulcrum point is if youre having real trouble sticking it. good luck Zach
buddy of mine broke both of his shoulders falling over while doing a wheelie. but good advice to wear several layers of clothing to soften the fall though.
great video Zach! as usual
Good work brother ❤very inspirational
you made great progress, keep practicing them wheelies! it will become natural overtime
the comment about sleeping is exactly what i do when i learn a new song on guitar. I'll struggle to learn a part, go to sleep and the next it's magically easy for some reason.
Please I repeat please do not lower ur seat u ride at that height n it’s dialed for u. ( u wanna pop up on demand mid ride) Also remember the brake is back pedaling it will save u from going over the back. U can make micro adjustments with ur hip placement and knees, major adjustments with backpedals…. Please beat Spindatt for NorCal
Kinda sus that Zac is wearing the same messenger bag everyday. Makes me want to buy that exact bag
Chrome bags are the best man.
I’d buy a chrome bag but that’s about it from them, my clipless shoes broke, also my bottle opener doesn’t work on my chrome bag so idk they might have some quality control
Your channel taught me how to skid!!
I would love to learn trackstand because it can be very practical. But I can't bring myself to learn it. So respect to you to force your self to practice nearly 30 days. ✌
The biggest thing that helped me was realizing there is no balance point. you are constantly adjusting up and down. there are points you can float but there is no point at which the bike will just sit up there without input from you
Na,there definitely is a balance point,adjusting your body is important to stay at the balance as well but there’s a point where you can get the bike to where it feels easy to maintain
This man has balls of Steel trying this without a back Brake
Why would you need that
Something I’ve always found that works good is practice practice practice then stop for like a week or more and then get back on and do it again when I was first practicing wheelies I had to stop because it was winter so I’m the spring I got back on and bam I was great at wheelies and it shocked me because when I stopped I could go for more than 10 food then all of a Sidon doing 1-200 feet at a time now I can do sick one handed wheelies but just keep practicing and you will get better. RIDE MORE
With a fixed gear you its sooo hard to practice wheelies because with other bikes you can feather tap the back break so you dont fall backwards but with a fixed gear its all balance. You just gotta find that balance point.
I ordered a Wabi Special and can't wait to master drifting like Jay jo from Wind Breaker.
Hey.
I've learned how to manual on a bmx bike in about 2 months , everyday. and after that i figure out the tips your friend told you for a Fixed gear. so i would say it took me around 2.5 months for learing the balance.
Imagine being sponsored by a bike company and not being able to wheelie 😂
This is exactly how learning wheelies went for me
Wheelies is something you need to be a kid to learn it, its different state of mind: reckless n fearless
as a kid I found it easier to try learning on a mountain bike riding on the grass
I did that once and my rear deraillieur got twisted up i eneded up upgrading most components at my LBS for 650$...ouch
cleanest bike bro damn!
Nice !!!
My challenge for the summer: Learning to ride backwards on my fixed gear … I managed about 1m (1 meter) so far :-))
Nice, keep it up
my challenge for the summer is to get a fixie and to learn stoppie with turning a tail on my mtb.
I've been trying for some time, just keep in mind that there's a difference in slow and fast "fakies".
The direction in which you have to turn your handlebar changes at a certain speed. When going slow, you have to turn the bar against the direction your falling, to get the front wheel back underneath your center of mass, if you go fast, you have to steer in the direction your falling, as in "leaning into the curve".
Can be quite confusing if you don't know about it.. I can't find the video on fakies anymore, but someone explained this.
@@wonjez3982 didn’t realize that: thanks !!!
im feel so hppy see u try hard👍👍👍
😄 gotta take my dog to soccer practice 😆
Your bag is really nice 👍
hell yeah samurai ant
Hi Zach I'm a Filipino Fixed Gear Freestyle Rider and my personal record for doing a wheelie is 1.3 km and my ratio is 54/16 btw thank you for the helpful videos you have best of luck for and your wheelies
My wheelie is a se bike fixie and i wheelied 1 half mile
Loved your video.
At least with all these wheelies your saddle will finally be level. 😉
Zach please review Philippine Fixies like the Manila Animal and Celt and The Project Fixed Gear
As always styling while riding..!
Thank you for this video & effort . Iam trying to do the same thing & yeah..it’s hard..🤬
Difference is I wear knee pads elbow & helmet.Among other tricks Iam trying to learn ..! Thank you Zack..🙌🔥🔥🔥
I think your issue was that you were doing power wheelies. This is when you're not leaning back far enough into the balance point, so now you have to pedal hard and grab the handlebars real hard to generate torque in the rear wheel and keep the front wheel lifted, or else the bike will come back down. So I guess your main focus should be to practice leaning back farther into the balance point. It's scary at first but you gain confidence over time
this is what really scares me about fixed wheelies since there are no brakes. if u lean too far back and miss the save then u got no safety net 😂
You're a god damn inspiration.
It’s always good to take a break.
i wanna learn to wheelie this summer
i have 2 bikes which should i use
my sort of trial bike thing with wide wheels(its heavier but more control because large wheels)
some speed bike thats REALLY light but has very thin wheels which should be hard to control but ive used it forever so im used to it
"Where are you focusing your eyes when you get it up" 👀
Rear brakes are necessary signed nick
I thought you where taking a break because your videos weren’t in my UA-cam feed this the first one in a while
I'm not going to lie doing a wheelie on a fixed gear is harder than it looks compared to a bike with hand brakes. It's easier to get the front wheel up but harder to keep it going. I did a video on how to do this for beginners but still takes practice, like you said, everyday to get really good at it.
ok but your bike looks cool af
Love the vids
now i want to see you trying fish n chips hehe
I wonder if anyone knows, how long will regular double rimed wheel live in "wheelie" style of riding? How fast does the back wheel will break?
Love that shoes Jack
Bro hit a griddy
Bro, buy some vans, those boots are killing you.
May I ask what peddle cages you are using. I like mine but want better ones!
The thing is how do you even lift it up?
Hey zach, where did you get your handle bar
took me a while to learn how to wheelie but I got it down, but I could never wheelie fixed. always freaked me out too much.
What sunglasses are you wearing?
a wheelie on a bike without a rear brake is hard as fuck!
What kind of backpack do you use in your video
id probably put some safety gear on, just to get the fear of getting injured out of my mind while attempting to wheelie
Hey Zach i've always struggled with wheelies and you gave me hope. That was a steep learning curve, how old are you? Just wondering how different would my learning be, being older.
32
Practiced wheelies before... almost stripped my hub. I relied on pedaling too much not on leaning.
Zach what is the bag your using in the video?
Hey that parking lot you’re practicing in, is that a Greek Orthodox parish? The roof looks like it’s Orthodox.
I’ve been trying to learn fish and chips and this lol
try carving (steering + leaning into a turn) faster - bike should almost lay flat. That helps it finish the rotation and maintain speed after you hit the 180 point. Good luck!
ive been practicing sim drifting, so i totally feel the frustration in this haha. I have 57 hours on it so far and i still have alot of learning to do but im almost there
What boots do you wear? They look comfy.
Keep it up bro but trust me after learning to keep the frontwheel up u'll understand that's just the first of many steps it takes to really wheelie
Its all about balance, unfortunately one needs to lean back much further than what they may feel comfortable with.
@@the.communist yes, but I think personally steering is the hardest learning process
Hey Zach, I am new to the channel and was wondering to buy a second hand Singlespeed bike. What do you think of the Decathlon ELops 500 for an entry and affordable bike?
Now i want to start learing how to Wheelie too :D
Start off with a much lower gearing and once you get it, start increasing the gearing again.
Lean back
HELLOOOO ZACH HOW ARE YOU ZAAAACH GOODBYE ZAAACH
Bruhh.. is that Good Shepard Church in Mira Mesa? I thought you were def not from San Diego lol
Weenie Hut Jr reference. Boom.
Please do a review on my cinelli replica
what’s that on anthony’s frame at 10:47?
its a frame pump :)
@@anthonyreyesjr9396 thanks man!
I think you're supposed to do that in heavy traffic?
Hi there good job and great video.. Could you please tell me what sunglasses you are wearing? My girlfriend loves them. Thanks
This is why I don’t do wheelies. Because the guys who do them have backed way off their gear inches to be able to spin to make doing a wheelie easier. Some even dropping to the spin comparable to a unicycle. The main reason for my bicycle is for transportation, so I’m not backing off my gear inches resulting in my decreasing my ability to stay with traffic to be a little showy for a brief period of time. Not important to me.
personally for me, wheelie with 1 hand is easier than both hands on the handle bar
it helps with the balance
It allows u to get further back in the balance point no hands is purely floating
"doing a wheelie is kind of a balancing act"
Zach how did the sub 15s do after those thirty days?
what kind of handle bars are those, couldn't understand what he said?
zach please wear a helmet cuz i care for you even though i just started watching your channel
24 and i wouldn't be caught dead trying to learn wheelies. Maby one or two attempts is cool but no. But then again i am a racer foo.