BACKWARDS WHEELIES

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Okay-  You are probably asking yourself "Why is it that backwards wheelies are listed as an easier trick that I should learn over regular peg wheelies?"   The answer is this- I think they are easier!  Why?  Because you don't HAVE to coast backwards wheelies- you can squeak them (like squeakers) as well you can really get your back brakes into the trick.  Regular dork wheelies (peg wheelies) can't really be helped along- and if you hit your brakes to hard the trick is over....  Kind of like squeakers being easier than hang-5's.

It is important to know how to do endos and it helps to have learned or be learning sliders at the same time that you try backwards wheelies.

• Begin by rolling at a very slow pace standing on the back pegs holding the grips normally. (as you would for sliders)
• Do a small endo and at the same time bring your right foot off the peg and put it on top of the rear tire.  You should be holding BOTH front and rear brakes.
• When the rear wheel hits the ground lean slightly backwards so that the front wheel comes off the ground.
• You need to keep leaning back until you are about to fall backwards- then release your REAR brakes...  You can also release the front brakes if you want.
• Pull down on the top of the rear tire with your right foot.
• To balance you should shift the handlebars left to right which will shift your weight left to right and use the rear brakes to keep yourself from falling forward.
• NOTE:  You should learn to use your right leg to help balance you forward-and-backward as well as side-to-side.  Eventually you will do this trick without brakes.
• If you grab the brakes a little bit hard or start to slow down to much put your right foot on top of the back tire and pull down again to gain more speed!  THIS will take quite a while to learn to do correctly. - It is JUST like squeakers except on the rear wheel!
• To ride out let your weight fall forward.  As soon as your front wheel hits the ground grab BOTH brakes and step forward onto your right pedal with your right foot.
• Step down hard and pedal away!

This is another fun trick to learn to do.  As with sliders it teaches you a LOT about rolling backwards and controlling your bike.  As you get better and better at the trick you will use the brakes less and less.  In fact it is possible to do this trick COMPLETELY brakeless if you would like... it just makes riding in a lot tougher.   There are alos variations to this trick you can learn including doing it one-handed and spinning the bars.

You can ride into backward wheelies from about every trick you can imaging- decades, fire-hydrants, squeakers, gerators...  whatever!  Some things are much easier to do than others into (or out of them)...  But the choices are limitless.  A good trick to do out of backwards wheelies is decades....  but it's not easy.

If you have a question about this trick please feel free to e-mail it in...