Fakie wheelie anyone?

Real apparently, pretty amazing if it is:

Joel Weston on Vimeo

fake.

Thats what I thought at first, and i'm still pretty sceptical, but if it is real, then its pretty mental!

obviously played in reverse

look at the chain

'shopped. you can tell because of the pixels.

tbh his vest is moving un-naturally so i reckon fake.
[/vest expert]

His vest is being blown towards him. This is a normal wheelie played backwards. /Thread

Yeah his front end did seem to pop up without any effort, at all. Pretty amazing if it is real though. Wouldn't mind learning that one day.

Oh yeah, the vest has quite a good reverse ripple from the wind thing going on there, nice spot.

I'm gonna call a big fat real - there is car moving forward in a side street to his right just as he goes out of shot. Surely it'd be reversing if it was played backwards...unless it was reversing anyway...head explodes

I'm gonna call a big fat real - there is car moving forward in a side street to his right just as he goes out of shot. Surely it'd be reversing if it was played backwards...unless it was reversing anyway...head explodes

That is also what makes me think it might be real.

Check at about 14 seconds. There's a car driving the right way (left to right), not in reverse as you might expect if it was a simple backwards video. Not sure about the reverse T-shirt ripple either. I see what you mean, but it could also be the wind blowing it...

I'm gonna call a big fat real - there is car moving forward in a side street to his right just as he goes out of shot. Surely it'd be reversing if it was played backwards...unless it was reversing anyway...head explodes

Hah, beat me too it :)

@ CJ: Being as how you can wheelie, you're probably in a better position to comment!

@ CJ: Being as how you can wheelie, you're probably in a better position to comment!

I'm far from a wheelie king, yeah I can wheelie, but not in the same league as many other peeps.
But I am pretty good at the ol fakie riding, and the intial few seconds look to me like he was genuinely travelling backwards, from what I have experienced.
Why on earth he is using carbon forks though is beyond me!

He is not wearing a helmet, so I think it would be best not to encourage this kind of thing.

Won't somebody think of the children?

Bollocks I reckon. How can you get the speed and momentum to be able to sustain it?

Too hard too tell

But he did do a little wiggle at the beginning much like a Fakie rider like you said James.

Um.. don't those reposted cycle girls do shit like this all the time?

YouTube- Amazing synchronized cycling girls

I'm gonna call a big fat real - there is car moving forward in a side street to his right just as he goes out of shot. Surely it'd be reversing if it was played backwards...unless it was reversing anyway...head explodes

maybe they set it up so the car was reversing

Too hard too tell

But he did do a little wiggle at the beginning much like a Fakie rider like you said James.

But the little wiggle is also part of doing a normal wheelie when finish/land, so if reversed....

Bollocks I reckon. How can you get the speed and momentum to be able to sustain it?

By riding backwards maybe lol?

I could easily get decent speed up riding backwards on my trick bike, I used to do laps of trix with dix car park and gone backwards across the carpark outside 14.
If you got enough speed, and popped it up into a kind of fakie manual, you'd just have to keep the cranks spinning at the same rpm to keep going backwards, assuming you could balance it, which is the ridiculously hard part.
OOl's son Keanu was getting very close to Fakie wheelies last time I saw him up the car park, he nailed one for about 4-5ft, impressive to say the least.

Why would they put out a 'fake' video to promote one of their riders?
That would upset the people that care about these things.

Um.. don't those reposted cycle girls do shit like this all the time?

YouTube- Amazing synchronized cycling girls

Weird as it sounds, its much easier to do it round into a circle, i've seen 2-3 guys that can do that, but to do it backwards in a straight line and maintain it, is ridiculously hard, however no doubt the amazing cycling ballet girls could probably do that to!

But the little wiggle is also part of doing a normal wheelie when finish/land, so if reversed....

From personal experience, that has never happened. Dunno about everyone else.
I'd be doubt free if his vest didnt look so damn suspicious.