Ducman Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 This may sound pretty nube to the seasoned duner, but hey, I just learned a new trick and I friggin impressed myself! As most of you know when you on the steap side of the dune drift side and you are doing an arcing turn on the dune face you get a sence of semi weightlessness. Its strange because as long as you keep you momentum its a very easy manuver. Get stopped sideways parallel to the face and the cross slope might be so steep that you roll your quad. Anyway, I'd seen a lot of quads and even sand rails doing it at Sand Mountain but rarely see it in Oregon, although 2 wheel bikes do it all the time; do a complete turn on the dune face while riding a wheelie the whole time. Over laborday we went to Winchester Bay and Horse Falls and sadly the banshee wasn't finished with its 4mm stroker project SOB! We'll I spent a lot of time on the wifes YZF 450 and wow, that mo fo makes riding wheelies up the dune face soooo damb easy! I wheelied all the way up Ol' Baldy at Winchester from the "S" turns on up to the top like a pro every time. I found that when your paralell to the dune face it rides wheelies very very easy because there aint much gravity to hold you down. In fact it tends to want to pull you off the steap ass drift face any way it can. Also I found that when you are in a wheelie parallel to the face gravity also tends to seem to turn you down hill. At winchester there are some pretty nice steep and tall drift faces. I started getting braver and braver. Shit, before I new it I was going up the hill, pointing it in in a slight side slope direction and pull up the front wheels, give her a little boddy english and riding a big fuckin arcing wheelie across the doon face! Ah hell yeah! After I started doing it I was like a kind in a candy store. I did it like 20 times in a row. Not a perfect wheelie every time, a couple of touch and goes here and there, but fun as a pig in shit every time. The wife even got a couple of nice pics. Hopefully I might be able to get them up loaded at work sometime soon, home dialup is too slow to even bother. Is there a name for this manuver? You all know what I'm talking about? Am I just a big sand rookie and think I just invented the wheel? I swear if you haven't done this before you got to try it. It's soo damb easy. I think the YZF450 makes it 10 times easier than the banshee due to the torquey thumper power but I'm sure I could do it on the Banshee now that I've done it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sredish Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Sweeeet!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cotton eyed Joe Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 LOL Happy as a pig in shit is right. I've only pulled it off a couple of times, but like you, the one weekend I figured it out I bet people were like "Isn't that guy gonna get tired of doing that?" I just kept doing it over and over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98bonerSTOCKshee Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 (edited) Those damn 450's make it easy... I finally got it down on the 'shee labor Day. Although it's still real picky, If timed just right the 'shee will do it.. Just doesn't sound or look as easy as the 450's make it look.. I got a video post somewhere............ I think it's here Edited September 27, 2004 by 98bonerSTOCKshee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducman Posted September 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 Uploaded at last! First pic is wheelie the dune face. Second pic is gettin some air. Its kinda blurry, but the only good one the wife got with the stupid digital camera. It took like 2 seconds to snap a shot so half the time I was already landed or just taking off and good focus was about 50% of the time. Remember Sesame St? Which one of these things is not like the others? Which one of these things is not quite the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98bonerSTOCKshee Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 Remember Sesame St? Which one of these things is not like the others? Which one of these things is not quite the same? that is awesome.. Did you see that thing run? Go video for your pic delima, I got a cheap o Mustek DV2000 it does awesome stills but like you said you gotta time it right.. This camer also does video, it's got SD card and with 256mb I can get over 2hrs of video. Not bad for a Home Shopping Network deal $149... (1st and only time HSN shopper I SWEAR) You can always go back and capture stills from your action shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ducman Posted September 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Yeah, thats a cbr 600 turned into a quad. When I first looked at it I thought, how in the hell did that cbr get all the way out here in the sand? Even though it had haulers with like 12 paddles it still seamed squirly going up the hill. The picture was taken at the bottom of Ol' Baldy or some people call it Banshee Hill at Winchester Bay. My wife has a cannon A70, pretty good camera, but a rookie operator. She needed to use a better picture setting or take an MPEG like you said. I'm not sure how to capture a still out of a movie though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledofthezep Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 (edited) Hell yeah man! It's definately a unique feeling powersliding on the crest of a dune while in a wheelie...oughta try it sometime; wheelie up at the lip, hang your ass off one side & nail it; once your facing back down the dune start slamm'n gears and try to keep it in a wheelie all the way down. Kinda like in this pic, but in a bit better wheelie... ...gets me all warm & fuzzy just thinking about it. Over-rotation can be a bitch though, but practice makes perfect! Edited September 29, 2004 by ledofthezep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98bonerSTOCKshee Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Hell yeah man! It's definately a unique feeling powersliding on the crest of a dune while in a wheelie...oughta try it sometime; wheelie up at the lip, hang your ass off one side & nail it; once your facing back down the dune start slamm'n gears and try to keep it in a wheelie all the way down. Kinda like in this pic, but in a bit better wheelie... ...gets me all warm & fuzzy just thinking about it. Over-rotation can be a bitch though, but practice makes perfect! oh man .... Kinda like a surfer on his very own wave... i love it... I stop the 'shee at the bottoms of the dunes, right about the spot where the dune just starts to rise. look around (you know just to allow everyone time to behold the 'shee 's power) Grab some throttle and a few gears then right at the crest kick her sideways bar ly letin the azz roost the rim 30 foot over the other side....just when you get going back down the outher way, turn the 'shee and rearrange the rim again!!! Most of the 4 tokers out there will get back with a run on the dunes... I feel to fully master ...you must start inclined... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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