Just say it on speed, next week they will have a segment on that wheelie machine. :YEAH

 

yeh I seen that too

 

**** my damn digital cable just got shut off sun. And now i can't watch speed (2 wheel tuesday) no moore until i get my dish hooked up
keep it posted on whats going on :YEAH

 

i saw that too. i caught the end of it and was pissed because i thought they only showed a 2 minute clip. nice to know it is on next week thought

 

hey, when you guys watch that next week, see if they have a contact number or e-mail or something, anything. we are having a bike day in florida and i was asked to talk to them about coming but i have no info, and i dont have cable(never home to watch it), if you come across som info can you please p.m. me with it!!!!

thanks a lot,

dave m.

 

what did they show? my roomate and i are gonna be building one...

the roller mechanism is the hard part.
I say its gotta be weighted to give a ton of inertia to simulate riding on pavement, but my man dave's coming at it from a different way.

 

they didn't give any info on it as far as having the come to a bike rally, I think they are going to be selling them.

they said it started off as a dyno and went from there. to help the forks out, they put a small trapoline down for the front tire to land on.

you could probably make it out of a weighted drum with a type of braking mechanism on the drum to simulate resistance that you can control. thats how i would do it if i were to build one.

 

I seen it on SPEED. I seen it in person @ stuntwars too. I guess its cool, but if you wanna learn wheelies, I say to take it to the back streets like everyone else did.

 

Yo that thing is Now I know some purists would say that it takes away from the sport and that it could be considered cheating and blah blah blah, but for someone who has looped a bike (3000$) and served time and paid fines (probably cost me about 20 grand all together) it sure would be a great investment if I could buy one for say around 5000$ not including bike. :YEAH not to metion a huge boost for the sport.

 

for info on the wheelie machine goto www.wheelieride.com

 

anyone have ideas on how to make one?

the dude said its got a 600 pound roller..

 

it would make sense that the roller would have to represent you riding down the road. so if your bike with you on it weights 550 lbs, you would need somewhere around that amount of weight on the drum to simulate you riding down the road. a hollow drum with weight bar going through the center and welded into place (a straight bar, used for bench press) should do the trick. This way, you would be able to vary the weight of the drum for rider and bike to better simulate riding down the road.

 

thats a great idea, and if you couldnt come up with enough weight, you could have a chain and sprocket set power some remotely spinning weights like at 3x speed and giving you 3x spinning mass.

i was thinking of going to a heavy equipment junkyard and seeing what i can scrounge up, maybe a junk steamroller wheel or something.

my friend made a homemade 'steamroller' to flatten earth in his yard, its a 15" diameter pipe with ends welded on and bearings and hubs on the ends.. it has a place where you can fill it with water and it gets extremely heavy. the things gotta weight 700 lbs full..

fixing the bike axle to a mount will be tough, i was thinking of getting some long threaded rod to replace the axle bolt.

 

the only thing with water is that unless the drum is completly full, the water would slosh around and create an "unrealistic" ride

 

very true, there would have to be interal baffles to keep the water moving with the roller. but not restrict the water from equalizing around the inside as not to throw it way off balance.