to tell us about your longest wheelies

the current Guinness World Record

10.56 miles in an hour

i'm not going to be trying to beat that today

but I am going to give you some tips so that you can try

make sure your back brake is not just working but working really well

you can cheat a little bit

or at least help yourself

by adjusting your saddle height to a middle position

to keep your centre of gravity lower and help with your balance

make sure that use a low or easy gear

the lower the better in fact

begin at a slow or rolling speed and keep your weight central

Turn your cranks

or your pedals to a two o clock position push down hard on the pedal and simultaneously

pull up on the handle bars

it's going to take a few attempts to figure out exactly how quickly and easy the front end comes up

start off cautiously the last thing you want to do is fly off the back of the bike

as you get more confident try getting closer and closer to that balance point

you try to lift the front wheel to that point where it takes minimum effort to stay

balanced on the rear wheel

once you find this balance point the back break is your friend

put it on full and it will stop your back wheel dead

and bring the front end back down to the ground, eventually the aim is to get to that

balance point and keep it

by using a combination of dabbing the rear break and pedalling harder once you've begun to master the

forwards and rearward balance points

you will then need to control the side balance which you can do in two ways

firstly by using your knees, feet and overall body weight

secondly by turning the handlebars in the opposite direction

to that which you're falling, just make sure you can straighten the handlebars when you come back down to earth

and when you have finished your wheelie try not to hit the ground too hard with your front wheel

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