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More amazing happenings! All wheelies are amazing.

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Truth

I am amazing. I even blow me away. 

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Throttle Smoothness

With a focus today on throttle smoothness, I got it. My sit-down motorcycle wheelies over and around the balance point have become almost bicycle smooth. And they're getting better. Yes!

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Rocking the Balance Point

As with any personal skills explosion, selecting the skills to refine next is easy. What's next? Throttle smoothness, without question. I find myself doing sit-downs just under and just over the balance point while slightly jockying the throttle. While effective, one of my goals is utter smoothness. I'll get there.

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450 on a 250

I keep doing what I love to do. That's it.

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Self Test

As a self test, I stopped by one of my old flat parking lot test sites to see how far I've come in the past few years. Verified. I have gotten way, way better.

I expect that in a year I will be There, right where I set my goal so long ago.

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Starting to Live

It is safe to say that I am now just starting to finally realize my motorcycle wheelie dreams that I have been chasing for the past ten years.

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Just Practice

Just keep on getting on. And it keeps getting better.

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Better

Definitely getting better. A lot better.

It felt almost like the fall season tonight.

#Oktoberfest
#FallIsComing

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High Risk

I figured it out. Motorcycle wheelies actually *are* easier than bicycle wheelies. In these past 10 years, I've heard that, but never believed it until today. 

The difference? On a moto the risks are much higher. Bigger speeds. Heavier equipment. Potential crushing on a loop out. 

The bicycle demands, arguably, a finer level of balance and control of inputs by the rider while the moto, given relatively massive gyroscopic forces of the wheels and engine, tolerates a slightly looser level of control. 

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Shot By Ruthie

I decided that an impromptu photo needed to be captured for tonight's random wheelie session. It wasn't a milestone event. There wasn't a special number or trick. It was just me in the moment.

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Reference: https://instagram.com/p/6eR93vnYjW/

Tequila on the Sideline

With a bag with tequila on the sideline (in preparation for Ghostface KLR's 45th time around the sun celebration), I got in a good 15.

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360

Taking a good look around requires space. I got it today.

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Good

Back in the saddle after a much needed vacation -- wheelies never felt so good.

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Satisfaction

It's amazing to me that it has only been a few hundred wheelies since the close of the Third 1000 Wheelies Project. My skills and perspective have evolved over these past short weeks. So much so that I barely even recognize me out there.

What's changed? The feeling that one ill-timed input will result in an instant crash. It turns out that is only a fear. The reality is that subtle inputs aren't usually even enough -- it takes deliberate, but still careful, adjustments to pull a motorcycle wheelie well. One has to keep in mind of the sheer mass of these insane two-wheeled rockets. They are not light (no pun intended).

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No Fear

Well, perhaps saying that I have no fear of riding my fire breathing monster on one wheel over the balance point is going a bit too far, I can certainly say that today marks the day where I am comfortable going over the balance point at speed. Of course, this fear was conquered years ago on the bicycle.

Today, I arrived. And it feels great.

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Saturday Night

Feeling great out there. Wow.

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