What did everyone learn 1st?

I learned stand up 12's first. I think they are alot easier both to do & learn. And to control if hte bike goes to one side or wabbles.

After about an hour trying it, i learned to do sit down 12's last night, hit the tail good a few times and slowed it way down for some nice ones. But, i can still ride a slower, steadier stand up.

Im just curious to see what everyone else learned first.

 

Hmm for me i learned to scrape in a sit down 12 but never really got the hang of it till i started stand up 12's...same here i can ride a smoother stand up 12.

 

Standing Up...it just feels like you have more control over the bike.

 

Stand up for me....I also agree it feels more comfortable

 

id have to say stand up's are easier for me to ,sonce i cant scrape sitting down yet.
lata,
mike

 

I just learned how to sit-down 12. Stand-ups are next!

 

Learned stand ups first but I do sit downs a lot know. Still have more control with standups but my sit downs are getting there. I can do ape hangers and a lot of the bar tricks easier sitting.

 

I learned stand up 12's but sitdowns are so much more gangster..

 

true that, it is bad *** sittin down tearin' the bike up. Just gotta muscle the bike to keep it straight. I actually look my fuse panel cover off so i can kind of see when doing sit downs. it looks down the forks.

its player.

 

i like sitdowns better... maybe thats bb/c i dont have a bar yet either...hehe

 

I cant do a sitdown for **** and its really getting to me. Thats all I'm working on tommorow.

 

Well it's not like Nags can even see over the bike while standing up either so seeing isnt an issue for him.

Sorry, with that picture I just couldnt help it.

 

when you guys learned stand up 12's, did you ROCK the bar hard right away with little brake or did you pull up the wheelie and ride it back slow with the brake???? i have done sit down 12's, but i really don't like them too much, not enough control ....probably would help if i had a bar too...

 

stand ups here, haven't quite got sit downs perfect yet... but i'm close...

 

Well...since I can't do either I can't really reply, but I'd say sit down twelves look a lot better but stand up will probably be the first way I learn if I ever get a large enough sack to try.

 

Sitdowns feel a lot cooler than standups! I need a 12 bar though! I hate doing 1oclock in order to scrape the tail!

Anyone have a 02 R1 12 bar?

 

yeah, but that **** looks so player!

 

MAN, Just wait till i get back in the states! I'm soooo gonna learn to 12 in no time. Every minute off base will be dedicated to wheeiles, mark my words!

 

oh yeah! can you show me your bar pretty please with sugar on top?

I've been thinking of making my own special scraper that doesn't make the bike look really ugly on the ***....

 

When you guys do standups, do you get up there and tap the brake when you need to, or drag the brake as you go up?