Suppose you fastened two pegs on the front end of your bike, the way you see them on BMX bikes. While riding the bike, manage to get off the seat, over the windscreen, and stand on the two pegs, with the front wheel between your feet. Your left hand would be on the throttle, and your right hand manipulating the clutch so you would be looking the opposite direction than if you were normally riding, your stomach pressed up against the windscreen and headlights. (Something like the position that you see when someone gets off their bike, stands in front of it and does a circle burnout, only your standing on the previously mentioned pegs while the bike is moving). While in this position, pop a wheelie, or stoppie.. I think that'd be a pretty sick stunt if someone could actually pull it off. By typing this i'm in no way implying that I can do this (i wish though!) but if someone can actually do it and take a pic to proove it...well...i'd be speachless lol. Obviously it'd take a bike with some muscle to pop a wheelie with all the weight in the front. Or who knows maybe this is impossible?? Just somethin to think about. Peace!

-Dave

 

i wanna see someone do a wheelie like that

 

You wouldn't have any turning leverage, would you?

 

a guy got killed trying to do a backwards wheelie not quite like u r talkign but similar he was sitting on the seat it is a very dangerous thing to try

 

dunno bout the leverage, but don't they do that burnout in the 1096 vid? Gorka and some other guy

 

yea, but thats 2up, the guy on the front is just chillin. whoever is on the bike is in controll.

 

i've saw it done. there are a couple bikes i've saw with that and at a show i saw someone standing on the pegs (facing forwards though) and do a stoppie.....the wheelie would be harder but i'm pretty sure you could at least pop it up that way.

oppie from here is in indy, he had pegs up there, he did passenger stunts like that and i think he did stoppies that way too, not sure. do'nt want to say he did if he didn't but i know he does a lot of crazy stoppies.

 

I can do it on a BMX bike!!! I can stoppie, ride/coast that way, and even bounce on my front tire. that would be , bouncing on the motorcycles front tire..LOL ... Putting pegs on the front of your streetbike is the first problem. Even if you only stunt the bike in parking lots, how you gonna turn? lean a little, spill a lot! As for the control issue of being on the front, as long as your moving you'd be okay and in control, but real slow and stopped you have NO control. I can ride backwards and it same deal. I am over the front almost using leans and weight to steer.

 

I've been trying this for the summer, and it hasn't worked yet. I'll figure it out by spring though.

 

With the gearing a lot of people are running, power wouldn't be an issue, but i'm not sure about traction, there would be practically not weight on the back tire. Seems like it would like to break loose like that. But i guess the weight would be similar to a highchair wheelie. What do you guys think?

 

Hey whats that fu$%ers name that rides for Buell, he has pegs--don't know about tricks, haven't seen much footage. Seen a vid on a Euro stunt show he was in with a little chinnese guy, never seen him use the pegs. Some Harley dude here at work had a mag from two months ago with him on the front cover doing a standup and you could see the pegs. Damn I wish I could remember his name, someone help me out.

 

i had "pegs" on the front of my bike a while back. i used all thread and put a washer and a nut on both sides so i could take it on and off. worked great. i even did a few burnout like that but could not stay on for a good length of time. but i only tried a few times. It CAN BE DONE. i will try to get pics when my ankle feels better (electric scooter wheelie got bad.... dont ask).

 

Dude in one of those euro videos did the cirle burnout while hanging off the front on pegs. I think it was the "Burns Event" or something like that.

He was pretty smooth too.

 

as far as the stoppie goes, i think it can be done. heres the catch. since your weight is all the way forward, once the bike gets too hight, your done! i played around with it alittle bit and didnt think it was worth the risk cause if it goes bad, you cant runaway. just gotta suck it up and take.
circle burnouts can be done. and since your weight is on the pegs and you should have to clutch it at all.
i have seen a guy doing clockwise circles with his left foot on the drivers brake peg and his left foot on the bmx peg. looked pretty tight. but he was using moto bars.

 

if you were standing with all your weight on the front wheel, you would never get the front end up, you would just burn out. In a high chair you've atleast still got some weight on the back end.

 

rothwell also has front pegs.. on his gsxr1100 if i'm not mistaken..

 

My teammate Mark and I tried it a while back and it seemed impossible. I'm sure wth ALOT of practice you might be able to pull it off......but there are alot of better things to be practicing!!!