Never a truer word said in my case. My skills may never match the ability of this bike but I’m having fun with it and that’s what’s important. 👍

Thanks for the advice, I’m slowly gaining in confidence, it takes a total reset of your brain to deliberately ride on one wheel when you have two perfectly formed wheels as standard. 😂 I’ll practice what you’ve recommended though. 👍

Yeah you're probably better off having some professional training if your nerves are shot after a crash. It is literally a confidence thing, I was bricking it doing this thinking I was going to flip the bike over or something but thankfully that never happened.

I wear both of those safety items, I have no desire to seriously injure myself. If I fall off as you’ve suggested then I’ll reflect on why that happened and what I can do to prevent a repeat and hopefully learn from it. 👍

To be fair, riding with no mirrors on a road is a bit dodgy and I don't like doing it. Likewise this bike has no indicators so I have to use hand signals if any signal is needed. Generally I will trailer this bike to wherever I am riding or as I now have a van I will shove it in the van. The only reason I rode this bike to this trail was that it isn't too far from home. The best mirrors I have found for Offroad riding are the Double Take Mirrors, you can buy them from Amazon or some bike shops stock them. Use them when riding to the trail then either take them off completely and put them in a rucksack or better still just fold them inwards so they are not protruding beyond the bars and then when you drop your bike they won't get damaged. I have the Double Take Mirrors on my Husky 701. 👍

Hi thanks for watching and leaving a comment. You will never see me popping a wheelie on a ‘road’ as that simply isn’t me or the way I ride. I think it’s important if you’re doing a bit of green laning to have the confidence to lift the front wheel a little bit even if just to lighten it up when riding over a rock or fallen tree etc. However what you see on this video is probably about my limit, I occasionally see some KZfaqrs who should know better popping wheelies on main roads and they are just stupid in my opinion and at the same time risking their licence if they get spotted by the Old Bill. I completely understand your desire to keep both tyres firmly on the ground, it doesn’t make you a chicken, it just makes you a sensible careful rider. 👍👍

If you do enduro as a sport you have to be able to loft the front wheel to some degree sooner or later. I’m still trying to learn how to and not get freaked out that I’ll whisky it. It’s not about looks just trying to clear obstacles. I’ve got my first ever race Sunday. Ruh Roh!

@@airindiana Ha, good luck with your race at the weekend, if you’re racing enduro you must be pretty good. I’m going to keep practicing until lifting that front wheel just becomes second nature. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. 👍

⁠@@701Adventuresthanks Steve! Definitely am NOT good 😂, I’ve just done 6 months of enduro play days. Places like pea farm on the Pennines (recommend that on your 350, it’s ace fun and loads of people to ask tips. Everyone helps everyone out when they get stuck. It’s good for confidence with the laning). it’s more a “have a go what’s the worse” mentality that signed me up to get my licence and enter, I’m in the novice class. I think as long as I get out the way of the faster riders and settle in I’ll be ok. The next difficulty will be for me lasting the race as I’m wacked by 1 hour on a play day. Even if I DNF I’ll be happy I tried. Even more comical is in August I’m entering the 10 hour overnight portion of the Dusktildawn enduro in Wales 😂. Good luck with the wheelie practice you were getting on great in this video I reckon. It’ll come.

@@airindiana Lol, you must be mad doing an overnight enduro event especially for ten hours. I doubt I’d last two hours! 😂 I’ve never heard of Pea Farm but I’ve just looked at it online and it looks decent, I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the info. 👍

Thanks I’ll give that a go, obviously I’m not using the 701 in this video, this is the FE350 which is probably even more capable of wheelies than the 701?

@@701Adventures Oh yeah, i was confused which bike you were using. The FE is much lighter and fogives mistakes

@@MaexOFF It certainly does, I prefer using the 350 for this type of riding.

I scared the hell out of myself doing this video 😂

Yeah I know 😂😂

The area where the trees have been cut is not legal to ride on, the only area which is legal is the fire trail where I am. The loose log on the road is just an obstacle, it could just as easily represent a rock, a hollow in the ground a fallen tree etc. It’s not dumb to practice trying to negotiate a fallen log on a fire trail, why would that be dumb? They won’t roll if you hit them right and the intention is to ensure any contact between the rear tyre and the log is swift and decisive therefore minimising the possibility of the rear wheel sliding left or right and throwing you off the bike. 👍