This video may contain the real reasons you will
never wheelie a dirt bike in your lifetime!
This video contains cold hard truth. If you are unprepared for truth and
prefer illusion and fantasy, please close this video.
But before you do, keep in mind that there is ample evidence that dirt
riders who prefer delusion are less happy,
less successful, and most importantly, viewed as wankers by their
riding buddies. Did you ever notice how a tiny
percentage of your riding buddies are able to wheelie well?
And how when they do, it's like time stands still? Besides admiration,
you secretly lust for the ability to do an
endless controlled wheelie... and so you should!
Wheelies bring together a complicated yet subtle mix
of advanced level skills. Throttle control,
clutch control, covering the rear brake, as well as sophisticated mix
of balance that occurs in a 360 degree axis. There's a reason you can't wheelie.
Unfortunately the answer is not sexy, and the absolute last thing
any of us want to hear. A wise man once overheard me lamenting in front of
my riding group about my inability to wheelie.
He turned and asked me a simple question. "Over your lifetime
if you added up every minute you practice wheelies,
and subtracted from that all the half-assed wheelies you attempt in the
middle of a ride, how many hours of practice do you think
you have accumulated?" The realization hit me like a massive
Harley Davidson falling out of the sky. In an instant,
all my warm fuzzy delusions were crushed. I was complaining about the results I
didn't get, from the hard work I didn't
actually do! How embarrassing! We would all rather believe there is a
wheelie gene - why they can do it and I can't.
They were somehow genetically blessed with better balance than I am...
We would all prefer that "my balance just isn't very good". Or a similar logic,
that "you need to learn these things at a young age".
Or my favorite "I can't afford to get hurt at my age".
"I have responsibilities, I have family, I have children".
"I have a job". The cold hard truth that we've been waiting for
is that these are the lies we tell ourselves
to avoid failure. None of the above are true. Anyone can learn to wheelie.
Anyone. Even you. Even me. BUT you need to practice. And who the
hell wants to do that? Dirt bikes are too much fun.
Forevermore the spoils go to the man, or woman, who puts in the time.
So do you really want to wheelie? And if so,
how badly? Did you enjoy this vid? Did you enjoy the message?
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