Can anybody do these? I've got the front tire air'd down a little bit and the front brake is tightened as far as it'll go without dragging the wheel.

I'm full clamping the brake pinned in 3rd, bouncing the seat, shifting my weight forward, and the only time I can get the rear tire airborn is if I push my thighs hard against the handlebars after it's almost stopped, but it doesn't stay up.

This is ****ing annoying. I wonder if I can fit the Xr front wheel and brake on the Z?

 

more brake,, i bouce the seat on my xr and give a push on the bars..

 

Skinny street tires will solve the problem. I just put 3.50 X8 street tires on Duc-Mans Z and I started doing them although 3 or 4 feet isn't much.. Its hard to do them with the knobby tires...also let some air out of your front tire. You also have to be going at a decent clip to do them.

 

I'll have to check out getting street tires in the future, I don't think I wanna get rid of knobbies until winter is over.

 

lol street tires really don't matter... when I was doing 50+ feet it was on the stock dirt tires, you just gotta practice more!

 

I want you to try it on my Z then, I don't think it's technique, but I've been wrong before. I mean what more can you do if you've got the lever pulled all the way to grip and bounce on the seat?

 

well the brakes on these things dont grab real well. The trick is to be pinned in 3rd and SNAP the bike up real fast to balance point being on the brake as little as possible, you want to get it up to balance right away and get off that brake. Then I push on the bars or lean back to stay balanced. Staying on the brake the way you would on a big bike is going to get you about 5'-10' you aren't going fast enough in the first place and the brakes suck.

 

I'll help it up by throwing my body forward and off the seat, and then the seat comes up to my *** when it's balanced out and then Im sitting again.

 

i used to do like 70ft on mine but its pretty hard