Is this a manual?
09-01-05, 01:43 PM
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Is this a manual?
One of my friends does trials (not trails) on his mountain bike. He pulls up the front to a wheelie while sitting on the saddle and keeps pedaling to a comfortable speed. Then stops pedaling and coasts on his back wheel feathering the brake for balance. Remember he is still sitting on the saddle, do you call this a manual? Or if not, what is it?
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NO thats not a manual. A manual is a wheelie thats balenced with out pedaling. And how to do it is get speed put your weight on the back tire and lift up your front tire like a foot of the ground, if you lift up to high you'll fall back and hurt yourself.
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ya, its a manual
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I don't know if I would call it a manual, it's more like a coasting wheelie.
While brakes are sometimes used in manuals, mostly it is all about using your body to maintain your balance entirely. Sitting down screams wheelie to me. Whether you are coasting or not.
Still a good bit harder than a regular wheelie, but not as tough as a manual. If your friend does it standing up... well, then he is in for a world of learning as it feels way different.
While brakes are sometimes used in manuals, mostly it is all about using your body to maintain your balance entirely. Sitting down screams wheelie to me. Whether you are coasting or not.
Still a good bit harder than a regular wheelie, but not as tough as a manual. If your friend does it standing up... well, then he is in for a world of learning as it feels way different.
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WHAT YOU GUYS ARE ********, you cant pedal on a manual, there for its not a manual. GEEZ YA NEWBIES.
09-02-05, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Redeyery
WHAT YOU GUYS ARE ********, you cant pedal on a manual, there for its not a manual. GEEZ YA NEWBIES.
if he's coasting, I call it a manual, coaster wheelie or Rear Wheel Roll. if you start out pedaling, then stop and coast, I'd call it a pedal wheelie to coaster wheelie/manual/rear wheel roll.
if you pedal the entire time, i'd call it a pedal wheelie.
what if you start out coasting, no brakes on just your rear wheel and while you adjusting your body to keep the front end up, your butt touches the seat for a bit? would you say it's no longer a manual because you are seated?
how would one do a no footed manual? you have to sit down to take your feet off......
it starts to get extremely silly when you have to break it down to such a finite level.
it's like debating weather a jump is a table top or an invert.....
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I call it lame. Learn some cool tricks 
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Originally Posted by hypersnazz
I call it lame. Learn some cool tricks
I love wheelies!
coasting, pedaling, standing, sitting, doesn't matter to me. to me, they are cool...
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Originally Posted by pnj
I love wheelies!
coasting, pedaling, standing, sitting, doesn't matter to me. to me, they are cool...
09-02-05, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by hypersnazz
Yeah, but I'm pretty jaded about arguments over what a certain trick is called, especially from snowboarding. Often they'll have multiple names, regional names, the names will change, a contest announcer will incorrectly identify a trick and people get confused for YEARS, sometimes the same trick has a different name if it's done off a booter or out of a pipe...there's no canon.
as to the longest wheelie question. a real real real long ways some days.
five feet or less on others...... 
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I like doing wheelies on my fixed gear. They're scary.
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what are you five? or 13?
if he's coasting, I call it a manual, coaster wheelie or Rear Wheel Roll. if you start out pedaling, then stop and coast, I'd call it a pedal wheelie to coaster wheelie/manual/rear wheel roll.
if you pedal the entire time, i'd call it a pedal wheelie.
what if you start out coasting, no brakes on just your rear wheel and while you adjusting your body to keep the front end up, your butt touches the seat for a bit? would you say it's no longer a manual because you are seated?
how would one do a no footed manual? you have to sit down to take your feet off......
it starts to get extremely silly when you have to break it down to such a finite level.
it's like debating weather a jump is a table top or an invert.....
if he's coasting, I call it a manual, coaster wheelie or Rear Wheel Roll. if you start out pedaling, then stop and coast, I'd call it a pedal wheelie to coaster wheelie/manual/rear wheel roll.
if you pedal the entire time, i'd call it a pedal wheelie.
what if you start out coasting, no brakes on just your rear wheel and while you adjusting your body to keep the front end up, your butt touches the seat for a bit? would you say it's no longer a manual because you are seated?
how would one do a no footed manual? you have to sit down to take your feet off......
it starts to get extremely silly when you have to break it down to such a finite level.
it's like debating weather a jump is a table top or an invert.....
PS:sorry for the screwed up Grammer (Im an aim-er).
09-03-05, 10:59 AM
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ok no need for the word dick lol, but no he was saying the kid who made this treads friend was right and hes not. DUMB NUTS