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Spent the afternoon getting the setup dialed-in on the new Ohlins shock and updated forks. What a transformation! It's like I got an entirely new motorcycle that just happens to look like the old one...

No need to be ashamed I know some fast riders that can't or won't wheelie...

15+ years of road racing, with multiple sprint and endurance championships, plus another five years as a track day instructor, and my wheelie skills are still pathetic. I'm convinced that fundamentally it's an innate feeling that you either have or don't have... I was fairly fast once I got rolling, but my starts were consistently horrible, largely because of my deep-seeded wheelie aversion. My racing days were mostly in the pre-electronics era, and while I learned to tolerate power wheelies on liter bikes, I was never totally comfortable with it. Meanwhile, my teammates could rip off four gear stand-up wheelies without batting an eye... bunch of damn hooligans.