Photo Gallery: Wheelie School with Jimmy Fireblade

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Deep in the Lincolnshire Fens six LB members were booked in to do a Jimmy Fireblade Wheelie School, hoping to grasp the hang of 'getting it up'. The weather provided perfect conditions for the lads to play around on the old air strip. Jimmy had the bikes all prepared and after an initial lesson the guys jumped on and rode up and down trying out what they had just been taught.

It's not about speed here, they were told to listen to the engine learn where 3k revs were and what it sounded like at 6k revs. Once they familiarised themselves with that they were called together for the next stage... This continued all morning and it wasn't long before the first wheelie was being pulled, first just a few inches then as the day progressed and Jimmy was confident they were getting the right idea he raised the flip cord.

As with all learning it has to be done in a certain way for your brain to absorb the info and Jimmy certainly knew how to make everyone at ease and laugh making things alot easier to understand. By the afternoon the lads were pulling nice high controlled wheelies but the pain in their arms was showing, I think they were quite relieved when it was time to call it a day. I'd recommend this to anyone, it teaches you the basics of how to lift the bike in a controlled manner and wheelie smoothly with gear changes as well!