Good bike to learn on ?

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Cant realy talk about learning to get your knee down as i ride a moto and thats all leg out action…

But if you decide to learn the whole KD jobby on the bike you have now a moto-x or a trials bike would be a realy good place to start with the wheelies and any other stunt for that fact. They are designed to be dropped and they are also easier to maintain. You can learn to power wheelie on them and clutch wheelie and the throttle control needed to keep it up.

I always do power wheelies and dont use the rear brake at all for control i just use the throttle. With the fact i ride a bike which is basicaly an MX bike with road wheels there wasnt any having to transfer skills to a different riding position. But once you have learnt all the basics and to control the bike the fundamentals will be the same it will just take different revs and maybe getting used to doing it in a different riding position

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Try a Pan European, they is tough:D

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That sounds intriguing. Can you give me some example moto-x bikes that are available as legal for road use ? Just so I have an idea what to look at :slight_smile:

Thanks

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it depends how much you want to spend.

if its £1500 i would say bandit 1200 or vtr 1000

if its £2000 i would say R1 zx9 cbr900 gsxr1000

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Get your self a R1 , thats how i learned lol, Do it on your own bike forget wheelie school as its a very un-natural way of learning, you need to do it the scarey way and learn by your mistakes:)

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Nice wheelie, horrible road lol:D

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You can get any moto-x bike made road legal but if its just for stunting on you may aswell save the bother and keep it offroad. The most common is a CRF that people turn to supermoto and put on the road but you see the odd KX, YZ ect about. Siper has got a CR made for road use

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Get a very old cheapo 600/1200 bandit with some crash bars to protect the engine.

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+1 on the 600 bandit, cheap to buy and cheap for bits. And get clutching it up as soon as your use to the front coming up…Its more predictable :slight_smile:

And forget 100+ miles an hour wheelies…Its all about getting up to the balance point, then you can carry em for as long as you want, slower the better :slight_smile:

I did have a old bl*de that was all stunted up, that would have done ya, but I’ve sold it :smiley:

And I know nothing bout KD, think its a bit gay :D:)

Good luck with it Mate :wink:

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Ok, so the Bandit seems to be the way to go… I think I’ll start keeping an eye on autotrader for those. Still looks like it’ll set me back around 1500 quid, but I can live with that - it’s still cheaper than a gearbox for my CBR600F :smiley:

I’m assuming mileage and age don’t matter as much, as long as it is in good running order and passed an MOT recently ?

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TBH mate I’d look for one for bout 6-700 quid, Long as the engines good (your bound to send it down the road) as someone said get a cage for it, wear all the right protection and get someone to go with you to where your gona practice, case you come off :wink: