Table of contents

• Zonko’s attack on the wheelie exercise machine The wheelie dream
• Roar through the world for miles on your rear wheel?
• Wild Wheelen beyond control
• Mental capacity on the brink
• You can do it without panic
• The apparatus is a stunner!
• Eight steps to happiness
• Only at level 8 is the machine torn open
• As Evel Knievel in the gallery
• Conclusion

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The dream of wheeling: with the training device “Real Free Wheelie Trainer” it should become a reality for the general public.

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Meanwhile, Zonko is still practicing with the training device.

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Professional wheeler Stefan Brokisch shows his skills.

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From level 2 to level 7, the freedom and the range of motion of the front and rear wheels are gradually expanded.

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Individuals pay 399 euros for the wheelie training program. Manufacturer: Technische Hydraulikgerate GmbH (www.tehyd.at), costs: 200,000 euros.

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A course of four hours including an instructor costs 2640 euros if booked exclusively for companies or groups, for example.

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The motorcycle is too small, the outfit is too big – even after the half-day wheelie simulator training, the whole thing still has to grow together, otherwise it will be like the real Evel Knievel.

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The patented machine for safely training wheelies has eight levels. The wheelie trainer is used for special courses at the Driving Camp Pachfurth (www.drivingcamp.info).

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Secured by a rope against the rollover, you can also practice your balance to the side with the free running rear wheel.

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The zonk‘sche “Posing” is already suspicious of the title, it only takes a little before you can participate in the next stunt world cup. The successor to stunt legend Chris Pfeiffer is firmly in view.

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Professional wheeler Stefan Brokisch gives important tips on the correct sequence of movements – when do you accelerate, how do you release the clutch … When everything fits and meshes neatly, the last level is about lifting the machine into the gallery. World class!

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Zonko’s conclusion: “Wheeling has always meant a lot to me, but I never really enjoyed the area of ​​the dump because I was always under so much pressure that I didn’t have the capacity to coordinate my posture, accelerator and brake. I managed it playfully on the machine.”

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Zonko’s attack on the wheelie exercise machine

Zonko’s attack on the wheelie exercise machine
The wheelie dream

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After the long ago invention of the ship’s propeller, an Austrian has finally created something world-changing: the “Real Free Wheelie Trainer”. A machine for life on the brink.

Fritz &# 34; Zonko&# 34; Triendl

02/09/2016

Sometimes you want something so badly that you dream of it. “The awakening today was terribly disappointing! In the dream I had a full beard, but in the mirror I only saw this unworthy fuzz! ”My school colleague stammered to me at the time. I could understand him very well: “Last week I dreamed that I was finally 1.80 meters tall, but in the morning only a ridiculous 1.58 remained! I was so angry that I pressed the Nutella bread on my forehead! “

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I can’t remember any more dreams like this. Except for one: the dream of wheeling. I was now thirty years old, an experienced motorcyclist, but one who always kept both wheels in contact with the ground. And then the legendary Professor Franz Plassnik raved to me for an afternoon about how uplifting the feeling is when the front wheel is pointing towards the sky and you drive hundreds of meters.

Roar through the world for miles on your rear wheel?

Of course I tried. However, the front wheel never lifted more than ten centimeters because the throttle hand immediately suppressed the rise of the front again. I only succeeded in the night. It was just fantastic! I lifted the machine playfully, was murderously happy about the steep front, looked to the left of the tank at the road and roared through the world for miles on the rear wheel. Incredibly wonderful! World class!

But unfortunately just a dream – in the truest sense of the word. With an abrupt ending. “Why did you wake me up ?!” I grumbled at my fairy, who then screwed me right into reality: “You have an appointment at the dentist in twenty minutes.”

Wild Wheelen beyond control

The next twenty years – until I met the “Real Free Wheelie Trainer” – were then shaped by wild wheeling beyond control. It never really jacked me up (apart from the monster scrapping described in the last issue), but it was always full of risk and an adrenaline-driven rampage that demanded sheer engine power and a lot of speed. And although I was able to tear open the Kilogixxer at the level of a bus filled with waving boys at 120 km / h in two and then drive hundreds of meters on the rear wheel until the limiter at 196 on the clock pulled me down, I was not stupid enough to believe that I would master the wheelerei. For example, it was not possible for me to switch to a threesome. And playing with the rear brake was too multitasking for me.

I only dosed the height of the front wheel with the gas. Always worked great. Even when I let the pink Speed ​​Triple (Triumph called the bold color “nuclear red”) soar too abruptly on the bridge in Lisbon when leaving the toll station, I was able to defuse the situation with the throttle grip. No exit to the rear. But the machine slammed so harshly into the fork that a technician who sympathized with the steering head bearing would probably have suffered a nervous breakdown. I was just glad that I was still in the saddle with no physical damage. Only in the area of ​​the genitals was there a slight irritation. Nice memory.

Mental capacity on the brink

The screeching roar in the gallery has always fascinated me, but the euphoria was clouded by the lack of mental capacity on the brink. Of course I knew that the really good rear cyclists fine-tune the steepness of the machine with the rear brake, but that was too complicated for me. It was too much for me.

A person addicted to perfection might have stuck in the bag and devoted himself to other forms of movement. But I’m made differently. When I saw Magic Jo and his terribly weird wheelies with the huge Hayabusa and the huge 1290 Adventure KTM at the PS test on Lake Garda last year, I didn’t shout resignation, but deep admiration and childlike joy. Madness!

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Secured by a rope against the rollover, you can also practice your balance to the side with the free running rear wheel.

Of course, I never thought for a second of trying the crazy “yo-yo move” (nothing other than scrap and plaster would have come out of it for me). But I felt the need to take a small step towards control. So I had a tender, motivating self-talk: “Egg bear, finally check that with the rear brake!”

What can I say, I did try a few times, but when the machine was soaring into the sky, I had my hands full. I just couldn’t take care of my right foot as well. Not possible.

You can do it without panic

That all changed only last week when I was sitting on the Suzuki Gladius, which was clamped into the “Real Free Wheelie Trainer”. Incomprehensible! I celebrated the gallery position with 35 km / h on the clock, tared the machine by shifting my body weight, used the rear brake to adjust the height and was even able to smoke a pipe completely relaxed! What a divine machine, what a world-shaking invention, what a relief of being! It’s unbelievable what is possible when there is no fear.

With the help of the enormous apparatus, I was able to experience and savor the area of ​​the dump on the Suzuki and devote all my attention to the state of equilibrium – and with undreamt-of clarity, because the senses were not clouded by symptoms of panic. I felt like I was in a land of milk and honey. I could try everything. If I brake too hard, the front wheel touched the platform; if I brake too little or if I had too much gas, the front wheel would hang on the taut rope. I was also able to experiment with posture. I grinned from ear to ear and wheeled for minutes without any stress. So life on the brink could feel so carefree and relaxed.

The apparatus is a stunner!

The “Real Free Wheelie Trainer” not only has a relatively bulky name, but is a stunner overall – a huge device. After ten minutes of euphoria, I congratulated the brilliant inventor (who would like to remain anonymous) and said: “I would never have believed in my life that you could learn to wheel with such a huge machine. How did you come up with the idea? “

Well, in the course of the motorcycle driving technique training at the Driving Camp Pachfurth in the east of Vienna, it became apparent that there is hardly a motorcyclist who is not interested in wheeling. But it was also noticeable that hardly anyone learns to ride the rear wheel without producing scrap. Many only make it to the power wheeler, that is, to wild rides without significant control. At some point it just cracks. With the “Real Free Wheelie Trainer”, on the other hand, there is the possibility of finding and automating the right movement sequences in a completely safe environment. And so that you don’t get used to doing anything wrong on the machine, the inventor has an expert with him: Stefan Brokisch from Vienna Street Rockaz (www.streetrockaz.com). He was involved in the development of the machine and is available as an instructor.

Eight steps to happiness

You start on level 1: The clamped motorcycle is on the platform. Stefan checks the posture. So place the very best in the hollow of the seat so that you don’t have a pull in your slightly bent arms when wheeling, put your right foot comfortably on the notch and touch the brake. Past the tank and handlebars, you look down into a parabolic mirror. On the wheelie trainer, you can check at any time whether the flexible cable that holds the front wheel is tight or loose. In this posture you can see where you are going on the road.

At level 2, the engine is started, you drive on the roller at about 35 km / h, give a sign and then the front plate is raised hydraulically until the motorcycle is just about the tipping point. Now you can lift the machine either by a little more gas, by shifting the weight backwards or by releasing the brake so that the front wheel leaves the plate and the rope begins to tension. The rear wheel is guided by a V-shaped steel construction in such a way that it cannot give way.

Only at level 8 is the machine torn open

From level 2 to level 7, the freedoms or the range of motion of the front and rear wheels are gradually expanded. You not only have the time, but also enough mental capacity to coordinate gas, shifting weight and braking. In order to bring the cocky to the ground of reality or to authentically reproduce reality on the road, the inventor added a function called “pulsing” that simulates uneven road surfaces. Then it shows how far you have already progressed. I raved: “Don’t pulse! That’s really mean! “

Only at level 8 is it about tearing open the machine, about lifting the front. The ramp rises at maximum speed, then brakes quite hard, and the front of the motorcycle continues to rise through the inertia of the mass. You take over with the gas and stabilize with the brake in the area of ​​the dump. The question of why tearing open, which is the beginning of every wheelie, is only trained at the very end, is answered by the inventor and instructor alike: “Only when you have developed a feeling for the tip can you climb the front at the right moment brake. If you don’t know the cigarette, you don’t know when it’s enough. ”That makes sense.

As Evel Knievel in the gallery

Of course, I wanted to implement the knowledge I had acquired in a half-hour flash course right away. I got into the original Evel Knievel costume and ripped on a Honda MSX. Ten horsepower, 100 kilos. Ideal for balancing on the rear wheel in the hall. And what can I say, it worked perfectly! After a quick clutch pluck, the little machine willingly lifted the front wheel and then let me savor the new feel for the dump. At 30 km / h! Divine! Great joy. Well, it will be a lot of fun in the future when the 1100 tuna is roaring in the gallery below me.

In conclusion, I would like to briefly respond to reader inquiries, and because it fits, and explain the term “gallery position” that I like to use for the wheelie and which is now – I’m a little proud – quite widespread. The gallery position has nothing to do with art. Not directly, but with my past. In a small but high apartment in an old building, I built a wooden structure with stairs and handrail in the living room / bedroom to gain space at a height of two meters. My desk was there. I named the area: the gallery. And when I wheeled a super sports car and suddenly looked from above at the roofs of the citizen cages, the term gallery position came to mind. In this sense, my motto for the 2016 season is clear: “More control in the gallery!”

Conclusion

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Zonko’s conclusion about the training device for wheeling: “Considerable costs that are still worth it!”

When I think of that “Real Free Wheelie Trainer” think about it, I’m really relieved. Wheeling has always meant a lot to me, but I never really enjoyed the area of ​​the dump because I was always under so much pressure that I didn’t have the capacity to coordinate my posture, accelerator and brake.

I managed it playfully on the machine. No question about it, the cost of a course (399 euros per person for a taster course) is considerable, but you should see it in terms of society as a whole, because no plaster of paris burdens health insurance contributions and you don’t have to cheat on car insurance.

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