Grown men doing wheelies

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AIBU to think that the 40+ year old man who has just whizzed past my house on the pavement doing a wheelie looks absolutely ridiculous?

a) why on earth is he on the pavement of a quiet residential street?
b) what would make him think “hey you know what would be really cool, if I just yanked one wheel off the floor and balanced precariously as I fly past people’s front doors!”

this is a frequent occurrence round here….does anyone else have a city of man children wheelying about like 10 year olds?

No but we have hoards of teenagers, early 20 year old who think this is acceptable.

All balaclava'd up, dressed in black with the obligatory JD plastic bag. We had 2 who crashed into a wall and their mates held a vigil, riding around a park on stolen bikes.

well doing a wheely on a main road would be stupid. Why can’t a grown man have a bit of fun? They’re not hurting anyone.

Are you being sarcastic?

I feel your pain, those noisy scrambler bikes!

The men round here are on mountain bikes!

No. seeing someone do a wheely doesn’t upset me, it barely registers frankly

@beAsensible1 I didn’t mention having fun. My AIBU asked if I was unreasonable to think they look ridiculous!

also I don’t think it’s very safe to be riding a mountain bike at high speed directly outside people’s front doors.

After seeing it on a daily basis and having a few near misses, it's bloody dangerous and about time these clowns were taken off the road/path!

Do you not have driveways? If you mean you open your front door straight onto the pavement where he is doing wheelies then I think it’s dangerous and risky but I wouldn’t describe it as ridiculous.

To be fair that's not wrong, although i do think they are a bit testosterone performative, i mean i ain't never seen a lass do it

what would make him think “hey you know what would be really cool, if I just yanked one wheel off the floor and balanced precariously as I fly past people’s front doors!”

They shouldn't be flying down the pavements or the roads doing wheelies.

But they are fun to do in the park.

I'm a woman in my mid fifties and it's still one of my favourite things to do in the park!

Oh, cross posted 😊

@FuzzyWolf funnily enough not everyone does have a driveway.

That was why I asked to try to accurately gauge the potential risk as a wheelie on a pavement where people have driveways and can see in advance really isn’t something to be concerned about. If you open your front door without any visibility and get knocked over, it’s a different matter.

They do, just more likely to be younger as the way women are socialised to have fun are usually less active. And we are generally more risk averse as we age and in general.

I don’t even think they look silly If I did think about id at most think it seems a fun skill to have/try. I wish more adults had fun and were silly to be honest.

doing it on the pavement is dumb

Nobody should be doing wheelies on any pavement surely? They're for pedestrians.

I'm in my 50s...

They're actually manuals, there's a difference, apparently.

It's on my wish list to learn how to do, probably in a park tho. 😎

I bet it feels brilliant to be able to do a wheelie tbf

Just let people enjoy things

This!!

And I'm sure its equally brilliant if you are the parent walking along with your pram as the idiot races towards you on his back wheel, probably completely unable to see you. Can't imagine how brilliant that must be.

It does!

Especially when you learn not to fall off the back of the bike! 🤣🤣

My children always loved me spinning them around in their pram which has to be the younger years equivalent of a wheelie.

Yesterday a 30ish year old was doing one outside of Aldi and landed on his arse. It took all my restraint to not laugh. Tbf I was impressed he got up and did another one straight away!

Saw one doing a wheelie on an electric bike on the main road into town. His hat feels off, so he stopped the wheelie but couldn't stop to retrieve it as he was going too fast and there was too much traffic. Not in his 40s though.

Some people have no self awareness and look or behave in a ridiculous way. Not something really to get worked up about unless there are injuries.

This place is so weird sometimes. I'm sure if I posted about allowing small children to bike or scoot along the pavement I'd be swamped with posts telling me the pavement is not for bikes but 40 something year old men are just having a bit of fun doing wheelies on them!