2006-08-24 23:18:57 · 19 answers · asked by callywag2004 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
Fairly easy to perform. On any two wheeled vehicle. Motorbike, scooter or pushbike with good enough brakes!
Two ways:
Any slower speeds - snatch the brake (front) to raise the rear and they feather the balance point. Around a 45 degree angle is feasible, but gets scary!!
OR
From speed, shift your weight as far back as you can and apply brake a bit too hard. Back end will lift - feather the brake and shift your weight to get the perfect balance point.
MAJOR downsides to stoppies!! You can't steer much...you can't brake (already past limits)...you risk getting nicked...
Personal note: If a car pulls in front of you when your 'doing it' - you are stuffed. Although he admitted FULL responsibility for pulling out, I still could walk for a month (smashed up knee) after I had to abort by doing a 'superman'. Whoopsie!
ps. This is different to 'an endo' - an endo involves slow speed & an abrupt halt to flick up the back end and balancing on the front wheel - not the act of traveling a distance on your front wheel. The 'stoppie' can end with an endo, or a return to two wheels.
2006-08-24 23:36:29 · answer #1 · answered by creviazuk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You want to be carful doing a stoppy. If you do a wheelie and mess up the bike skids out underneath you and you fall off the back. if you mess up doing a stoppie you fall off ion front of the bike and then the bike runs you over.
2006-08-25 06:25:47 · answer #2 · answered by Slimy Si 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you like not having your front teeth? If not, try a stoppie...
Get up to 35mph and get steady on the front brake. Clutch it and shift all your weight onto the forks. Then pull in the front brake hard and progressively. If you have your weight on the front end the rear will start to come up. Hold it until 5mph or so. Just rememeber- when you release and the rear falls, if you aren't positioned right on the seat your crotch can smack the tank and it can really hurt!
2006-08-25 21:18:50 · answer #3 · answered by yazukka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just braking hard in a straight line, which SQUIDs think makes them just as good of a rider as going really fast in a straight line. If you're training to be a pro stunt rider, fine.
But they won't make you faster, won't make you a better rider, and are technically worthless for anything but showing off. You don't see pro racers doing stoppies mid-corner, do you? Some people ride, and some people just play.
If you want to learn to ride, get your knee pucks dirty in the canyons; but if your bike is just Butt Jewelry then do stoppies until you crack your fool head open.
2006-08-25 09:07:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Accelerate to 40 in a wide open space where there is no one to see you screw this up or get hurt by you falling off. Front brake only ON then OFF then ON again fast. This will bring the back wheel up enough to scare you red faced and brown arsed. Then if its your bike think about the entire weight of the bike running through the steering bearings, the fork joints and the brake mounting brackets and break discs, none of which where designed with the stoppey/endo in mind. If you can afford to replace all these then crackon.
2006-08-27 05:18:41 · answer #5 · answered by MaxRSVR 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aim for a big tree and run into it......there instant STOPPY
2006-08-25 14:53:03 · answer #6 · answered by fem40_98 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hit the front brake hard enough to get the back wheel off the floor but not too hard so that yougo flyin over the handlebars and eat tarmac. feather the brake to keep it going when you get good then you'll be able to cover a longer distance.
Good luck!
2006-08-25 06:21:42 · answer #7 · answered by sdfsgsdhyj 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe what you are refering to is what the pro's call an "endo". It is using the front brakes to lift the rear wheel off the ground. When done properly the bike will come to a complete stop. Done improperly, you will hit the ground and the bike will land on top of you. Good way to trash a good motorcycle.
2006-08-25 06:34:59 · answer #8 · answered by wzzrd 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
gradually applying the front brake when coming down from speed, the slower you get the more brake you apply until the rear of the bike starts to rise off of the ground.
2006-08-26 04:57:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First see my answer about the wheelie.
Second DISCOUNT every answer on here, not one of them knows what they are talking about; follow those instructions and you WILL lock the front and fall off.
I think they are all Billy Fireblades! or worse; wannabe billy fireblades, or worse still, non motorcyclists pretending to be billy fireblades.
You got a bike, you got a life; let's try to hold on to them both eh?
2006-08-25 15:27:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋