Hi I wanted to formally say hi to everybody on this forum. I was under a different name but it was gay so I changed it. I have lurked on this forum forever, and with your help I changed the front end on my F4i to a 954. Now that I am almost caught up with my bills/debts I finnaly want to start stunting on a dedicated stunt bike.

I own two bikes, a almost stunt ready F4i (with 954 front end, FI cage, wheelie bar) and a 05 Gixxer 1000. I can only right now do basic "stunts" like, sitdown/stand up wheelies, skitch on the side, burnouts, Jesus christs, and other lame stunts. I can clutch a wheelie but its not consitant all the time so I got alot I need to work on, and I have not mastered the rear brake yet (Very important). Now since I got my f4i almost all up and running I want to start learning how to stunt, but I am gonna need alot of little advice.

F4i Issues I am having:

1. When I shift to second from any gear, it stays in second for a little bit then drops back down into neutral. A friend of mine told me it is a shift fork issue and it happens to high mileage bikes (mine has 35,000).

2. The brakes stops really smooth but it does not have the bite at the end. Say I am going 50 I can pull on the brakes as hard as I want until my fingers hurt, the bike will stop fast but it won't endo or lock up. My brake setup is like this : 954 rotors and calipers, steel braided lines, ebc HH pads, and a yamaha 05 r6 (brembo?) master cylinder. The lines have been bleed a billion times.


I am gonna take off the front and side fairings, and slap on an Acerbis headlight. As for gearing I am probably gonna go up +15 in the back which I heard you only lose 25% of your top speed, so I can still get around town.

I don't know if I should change out the clip-ons to vortex or FI so they are more durable or just get renthal bars.

Sorry for the long *** post I am just excited and want to be well prepared. I am the type of person that makes a assload of mistakes at a first, but learn from them really quickly and perfect them.

Thanks Everybody! :YEAH

 

Welcome!....Dude ur gonna get flamed....a lot of the guys on this board are ********. They forget that they were beginers once too. They like to make fun of anyone who is new to stunting. But honestly it sounds like you should stick with stock sprockets for now. Learn balance point wheelies(consistant) before you get bigger sprocket. A bigger sprocket is gonna make your bike really twitchy. Learn throttle control with stock sprockets or else you wont be able to control the bike with a 15+ on there no way. The only reason you need that big sprocket is for really slow wheelies. Hope this helps.

 

take all the plastics off as soon as you can if your planning on learning.

then put them back on when you can control it.

PS: you DONT i repeat DO NOT need gears for slow wheelies...

i really can understand why people think thats what there for.

 

Thanks Gixxsta04 and Vetter, Yea I am gonna take off all my plastics and slap on a acerbis from Hai. I know I am gonna drop the **** out of it, no question about that. Ok ill stick with stock, I just need to work on bringing the F4i past the balance point and tapping on the rear brake. I usually bring up my wheelies at around 25-35mph and I am just afraid of learning "past balance" point at that speed. I will just have to clutch them up sooner then. Yea I know there are alot of critics on this board but at the same time like you said Gixxsta everybody was once a newb to this, and I would rather ask for advice from people who know what they are doing, then guessing on my own.

 

clutch it up on a slow roll... liek almost stopped. if i had a cluster id guess like 5mph.

 

make sure you have extra rear tires...they burn up quick practicing the clutch

 

wow

 

yea right now I have some cheapo I think Dunlop D208's, hard as rocks.

 

Learn rear brake and throttle control on stock sprockets believe me you can slow it down on a stock one. Where in S FL are you???

 

Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs to be exact.

 

but it sure does help when your first learning...

-kane

 

Do I know you?

 

I dont think so. I just moved here to Coral Springs, I lived in Plantation before I moved here.

 

eh...

forces you to go slower even if they are power wheelies.

otherwise its pretty hard for newbs to get good on the throttle with big gears. know wud im sayin?

 

just commit to practise man, the bike doesnt make the stunter.

move slow and dont try anying you know your not capable of at the time. i didnt start dropping my bike until i began messing with idle, so i wouldnt worry about the plastics just yet.

i would recommend you start with the slower stuff and then the faster stuff will come. work on clutching in 1st, catching balance, then slowing it down. imo learning balance is the most tedious part of stunting but once you have the feel everything else is much less difficult.

 

Where in CS?

 

On Atlantic BLVD by the Sawgrass Express way. More detailed on a residential community on Lakeview drive north of Atlantic which runs parallel to Sawgrass.

 

Cool cool.. I'm right down the street.

 

Sweet, Maybe when I get wheelies and rear brake like second nature, we ride and you can show me a thing or two.
The only stunt place I can find close to here is the Tamarac Coporate Park on Commercial and Hiatus? You know of any good places where LEOs don't bother you?

 

never post potential/current spots on here!! NEVER! u can but only if there code named like wiht a number folloed by an extinct animal.

my spot = 76dodo

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