Things wheelies teach you

1 Front end rising? No worries now. You will be less nervous about accidentally grabbing too much throttle or the front coming up over a hump-backed bridge. Now you can react safely, calmly and in a straight line.

2 Rear brake usage. We all use the front brake for stopping in pretty much all situations. Well now, because you have learnt the importance of the rear brake, you have two ways of slowing down your bike.

3 Now you are cool. If you never spent your teens wheeling an AR50 past bored school girls then you don’t know what ‘cool’ is. Although, if like me, you are approaching your 50s pulling a minger down the high street to impress the lassies might attract the wrong sort of attention. Officer.