Building A Wheelie Bar For My Mountain Bike

Building A Wheelie Bar For My Mountain Bike | Blake Builds

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Жыл бұрын

Looping out when you're learning to wheelie or manual on your MTB is never fun, but it's an inevitable part of learning moves on the back wheel - or is it...? Blake decided to get in his shed and build himself a wheelie bar to see if he can make loop outs a thing of the past!
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@ZOB4 Жыл бұрын

"I was going for 180mm and the length of this spindle is 174, so I was pretty close" and now we know why The Crab rolls down the trail sideways.

@BlakeSamson8 Жыл бұрын

😂

@justinalvarado7351 Жыл бұрын

Can’t wait to see what they say on Hacks and bodges

@allangrant1326 Жыл бұрын

This is gold! Blake is like a younger James may off top gear

@J.Cee-1675. Жыл бұрын

Love it I hope this becomes a regular show

@BlakeSamson8 Жыл бұрын

I'll try my hardest. What do you want to see me build next. 😁

@mikerothmusic4128 Жыл бұрын

this is so fun thanks Blake! Love how much fun you had making this and it had me smiling ear to hear :)

@user-bt2rx6mp4j Жыл бұрын

😂i love the duck on an bike

@user-bt2rx6mp4j Жыл бұрын

I love Blake's builds 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

@CarlosParadaP Жыл бұрын

Now is time to hit the trails with that thing !!!

@RomanMoroniesFargingWall Жыл бұрын

Love a good Blake Builds!

@Sidewhineder Жыл бұрын

Blake Builds is the best!

@goingbonzo5923 Жыл бұрын

A man who can fabricate is worth his weight in gold. Dude I love your little shop. Mine is such a disaster with all the tools and materials lying around. Not to mention Christmas tree, Easter and Halloween stuff. 👍👍👍

@GeNeReDeR Жыл бұрын

blake is my favourite MTB and youtube celebrity x3x3x3

@KillaMTB Жыл бұрын

We need more episodes of Blake builds

@vilimiryordanov8502 Жыл бұрын

Blake, you are a legend! I’ve been into wheelies and manuals since I first got on a bike. Years ago I tried to make a “wheelie stunt stand” - basically a metal bar above the rear wheel so you can step on it and do a manual on it - just like the motorcycle stunt riders have multiple bars/pegs at the rear to step on for different tricks. It was connected to the axle via bmx pegs I had mounted, and the support bar was extending to a custom seat clamp. It was awesome, but stupid heavy …. I’m planning to try this again soon on my Trek Roscoe Hardtail. I recon you should make one too! It will be a lot of fun making it and even more so going down a hill with you feet on that thing instead of on your pedals

@trixandre 4 ай бұрын

haha same with me, i did something similar with pegs too, but in wood, still in experimental phase ...

@thelonewolf3515 Жыл бұрын

3:04 this laughter made me laugh so hard 😂😂 love you Blake and your crazy-genius ideas!

@johngreen787 Жыл бұрын

Blake, that was a nother great video dude, well done, 👏 🤘

@gmbn Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 🤘

@the_spanner_ch7mp Жыл бұрын

Nice work Blake 👍 As ever full of enthusiasm doing the build 😁 Great stuff #GMBN 🤘

@BlakeSamson8 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ross ✌

@JacobKapp Жыл бұрын

Blake, you make me laugh and smile. Thank you for making these types of videos.

@theknights1512 Жыл бұрын

Build more! I love it, just going off to do some pull-ups on my homemade CrossFit rig!

@anitalandkroon Жыл бұрын

Great video 😃 always look forward to a Blake Builds ! 🙃🙃

@xanderdixon3688 Жыл бұрын

Another great build

@malikridesmtb Жыл бұрын

Well done Blake!!!!! Just Loved every minute of the build.... This is more exciting than your van build...... Just amazing....... Ride Safe!!!!!

@atanasbozhilov6043 Жыл бұрын

Wow, there is Bulgarian money on the shelf 😂 Blake still remember Pamporovo bike park from 2016.

@JB50713 Жыл бұрын

Haha good one Blake.

@eddierivera7803 Жыл бұрын

Need a castor wheel on the back so that it swivels. Good fun Blake keep it up!

@rickywoods3101 Жыл бұрын

exactly,A castor with weak springs to pull it true so the touch down don't feel weird would probably help

@philipwoolgar2011 Жыл бұрын

ahhhh cool, we have a duck on a bike… it’s halarious🤙🏻 nice build dude

@ScottsMTB Жыл бұрын

😅 now that's a work of art...donated my manual machine to the local bike park for kids to learn and I don't have anything for me now. Maybe this is what I need. Shame I don't have a welder

@GalacticWoodsman Жыл бұрын

Will always come by for a Blake Builds! Great video, thanks!

@gmbn Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙌 We're glad you enjoyed it 🙂

@BlakeSamson8 Жыл бұрын

Stoked. Glad you liked it Max

@junka1975 Жыл бұрын

All I need on top of that is actual skills and some extra padding. 😎👍 I think the motorcycle drag racers would be thrilled with your engineering and fabrication work on that one Blake. It looks super clean.

@BlakeSamson8 Жыл бұрын

Cheers 👍

@MrSkyline1337 Жыл бұрын

you could make the bars that connect to the seat stay with pivots on the ends so you could kind of adjust the height of it

@Arc_Seven_Review 6 ай бұрын

The bike is now like a dragster.😁😁😁😁😁

@thehigsy Жыл бұрын

Love it

@WIPEYOURLENZ Жыл бұрын

Cool, you need to put a shopping trolley wheel on there so it can steer.

@expresslux6942 Жыл бұрын

Build a full sus 🙏🙏🙏 I’ve been waiting for soo long❤

@deadfinggerz Жыл бұрын

Now that's a perfect gopro or insta mount.

@Numberofbillion Жыл бұрын

Bloody good idea, you should've looked into the patient because surely someone will bring that to market?

@stu7588 Жыл бұрын

When you going to build a full suspension can't wait for it haha

@crazybigball82 Жыл бұрын

Try using an office chair wheel that uses a scooter/rollerblade wheel. Love the video.

@rickywoods3101 Жыл бұрын

Really good idea , I was thinking a swivel joint with weak springs to pull it back true when it lifts off the ground

@tomassanesson902 Жыл бұрын

Awesome

@Trikk57 Жыл бұрын

Good video concept! This is one is obviously wildly impractical though fun, but this series could be educational to some people, if you were to cut the head tube off a frame and re-weld at the upper and lower ends of the slack/steep angle scale, to highlight the effect it has on the geometry and riding style? It would show the lay-over of the wheels when more slack and show what no caster angle does to high speed handling lol Same could be applied with Chain stay length and seat tube angle as well.

@madladmtb7184 Жыл бұрын

thats pretty cool

@gaddobronx6740 Жыл бұрын

That is awesome. Your welding skills are great. I don't have the talent or the tools to make something like that. Good job Blake...much respect! Do they sell something like this or is this one of a kind?

@BlakeSamson8 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, its a one off. I was curious on if it would work or not

@orkakayaking4441 Жыл бұрын

Caster wheel would work. Nice job

@milesdakin3540 Жыл бұрын

Love this! Blake’s Builds ftw! Can you do a video of actually teaching someone to manual with this?? Would love to see if it gives them more confidence to find the balance point! I can wheelie but can’t manual 🤦‍♂️

@gmbn Жыл бұрын

Think the Wheelie Bar might need a bit of a re-design before letting anyone else loose on it 😂 We've got some manual tips here in case they help 👉 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ad99l6Wal5u0nnU.html

@bobothericefarmer1878 Жыл бұрын

Sick

@fentuz Жыл бұрын

@gmbn It needs a caster wheel or (if someone wants to go crazy) - modify the front steerer of a micro scooter kickboard (lean and steer) or a skateboard truck

@ROWDMedia Жыл бұрын

Freebord adjustable castor wheel would do the trick

@esadventures3456 Жыл бұрын

Swivel caster would try turn the bike more. Blake try a omnidirectional wheel, pretty spoony but would work a dream!

@MattJonesGR9 Жыл бұрын

I made an anti loop device to practise wheelies on my Triumph Street Triple. It worked but I stopped practicing as the police frown on wheelies

@MrAdambinnie Жыл бұрын

Mega! Can you put something in it that actuates the rear brake when the wheelie bar wheel touches the ground?

@garycockbain6506 Жыл бұрын

The duck looks like rich😂😂😂

@gmbn Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@BlakeSamson8 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@firbolg Жыл бұрын

I know it's probably bonkers but I would really like to see Blake building something with Colin Furze! Great video by the way!

@alwaysInMotion001 Жыл бұрын

Good work and an awesome idea...now if someone can just mass produce it...

@nickmassey9104 Жыл бұрын

And then it can double up as a gopro mount and trailer hook up for a shopping trolley Blake 😂😂

@JustOneWolf Жыл бұрын

the next big project should be a self built fully obviously :D

@inxlee Жыл бұрын

A swivel caster wheel would be perfect for the rear!

@Naomi_Boyd Жыл бұрын

Brachistochrone (brah kissed a crone) was the greatest shredder in ancient Greece. Braki, as his friends called him, had one simple question: What's the best shape for a ramp? The answer to that question haunted mathematicians for centuries. Legend has it that Newton invented calculus just so he could solve the problem and give shredders everywhere a definitive solution. It worked. He discovered that the best shape for a ramp is the inner curve of a cycloid, but to this day, ramp builders still use radial curves, and every time a ramp is built with a radial curve, Braki kickflips in his grave. I post this for the sake of general knowledge, but if you really want something to build... go make Braki proud. Cycles are for cycloids.

@mickyturnbull236 Жыл бұрын

You should do a update video of your work shop

@HaywardFamilybuilding Жыл бұрын

Need a tail wheel off a small tail drager plane.💡

@hansschnier4955 Жыл бұрын

Flexing and welding in a full wooden workshop oh boy😆

@herrbertunddieballerburger2038 Жыл бұрын

Nice job...

@gmbn Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@canuckchuck8836 Жыл бұрын

Skateboard truck with larger wheels to replace the single wheel?

@aliens1990990 Жыл бұрын

my only concern is putting all that stress on the top rear triangle :O looks good though and clearly works

@my2017raptorhardtail Жыл бұрын

Taking orders my brother? 😄👌

@Nice-Riise.x Жыл бұрын

Amazing ! 🚀Now do the finished product in carbon 🤣

@alistermclean1319 Жыл бұрын

What if you remove whatever is stopping the jockey wheel going side to side within the frame? Give it freedom to wiggle? Would that work?

@BlueKnows Жыл бұрын

Get down yer local canal n pick up a shopping trolley wheel

@BlakeSamson8 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@matthewthomas3081 Жыл бұрын

Just replace the wheel with a ball and you have full motion in the rear

@BlakeSamson8 Жыл бұрын

thats a good idea. thanks

@jonathanedelmann5423 Жыл бұрын

How about a caster wheel!?

@_mgiles Жыл бұрын

So whens the Enduro crab build starting?

@bjornkunze9275 Жыл бұрын

Downhill-Cargobike next?

@stevenreyes3680 Жыл бұрын

Blake, haven’t you’ve seen motorcycle drag racing ? Their wheelie bars have the little wheel an inch or two off the ground. There is no way they could keep the front wheel on the ground without it.

@shiftyIIama Жыл бұрын

You should team up with Sam Pilgrim and start building some of the weird and wonderful bikes he rides

@86309 Жыл бұрын

think aircraft tail dragger rear castor wheel that pivots

@Mihail_Palatov Жыл бұрын

Great... now can you send a drop with this thing?

@KevinT3141 Жыл бұрын

Are you ever not having fun Blake? (Don't answer that, it has the potential to bum me out for the day...) Thanks Blake, Nick, and the whole GMBN team!

@danielgibson4744 Жыл бұрын

I cant manual. Let me try it?

@zebbenbrown1301 Жыл бұрын

Skateboard trucks so when you lean it turns like skateboard does

@markapollosantamaria4742 Жыл бұрын

Try cantered wheels like the ones on a grocery cart

@markapollosantamaria4742 Жыл бұрын

I meant caster wheels

@joeyyule Жыл бұрын

Swap the wheel out for a caster 😅

@smoothisfast6644 Жыл бұрын

Just cringing at the scrapes on the rear triangle.

@_Zane__ Жыл бұрын

Now to get a factory to make them in china and sell them for $150

@billderas3420 Жыл бұрын

Or...have them made in the US and sell them for $500...🚴

@dara_1989 Жыл бұрын

weilding inside a wooden garage 👍

@Htns275 Жыл бұрын

That is stupid , but funn 😂

@shawngifford Жыл бұрын

Blake is out to terrorize the neighborhood… again! I think we need some man on the street interviews next time to get a feel for the local opinion.

@Thekalllllllll Жыл бұрын

Now put it on the front, and practice your Endo´s

@markhowlett9951 Жыл бұрын

They sold those in the 70s

@BlakeSamson8 Жыл бұрын

REALLY?! Sick

@fredward0372 Жыл бұрын

Just use a back break

@Terrylyon1979 Жыл бұрын

Lol😂 bodge

@Mtblover1 Жыл бұрын

Drag bike 😂

@beiser555 Жыл бұрын

As we can see, it is absolutely useless

@pedrojimenez2674 Жыл бұрын

Look like a dragster