do a wheelie AmE informal
pop a wheelie AmE informal

To underscore that, a rider is seen doing a wheelie.

For one moment Richie thought the big bike would simply do a wheelie and spill both of them off the back.

Doing a wheelie on one's nose sounds painful - but not when it's done like this.

He made it a point to do a wheelie as he passed a small group of young men standing by the road.

He gave the bike gas, set off a dust storm in the dry weeds, then did a wheelie and peeled out.

And he did a wheelie on his bike as he raced off to join his friends.

Skilled users can control speed and turning and often learn to balance the chair on its rear wheels - do a wheelie.

"On a Snow Blade, if you don't use a fairly centered stance, you'll do a wheelie and fall down.

The car has lights which you can turn on or off and can do a wheelie (on the back wheels) thanks to a small fifth wheel.

But some texters weren't sure you saw the finish line and that Tom Cruise doing a wheelie would have slowed him down.

With the flash of orange lights starting the second, Mr. Schultz's mower did a wheelie, leaping up on its rear wheels.

He aimed purposely high, and the Mossad men ducked back inside long enough for Katz to do a wheelie out of there, feeding the bike so much power.

Mr. McCabe explained the Wheelie Trainer, an apparatus designed to make it less likely that the bike will tip over backward while doing a wheelie.

Hydraulics can be used in combination with nitrous at a start of a race which can cause a car to do a wheelie and for some cars get a better launch.

Comedian Bob Slayer, who is a regular on the comedy stage at Download, broke his neck doing a wheelie bin crowd surf stunt whilst entertaining at the festival.

God wasn't in a low-rider, he was [291] doing a wheelie on a big Harley, and the Light was coming out of one tailpipe and the Darkness from the other.

Much like their Choro-Q contemporaries, Q-Steer cars have a slot at the rear, where users can insert a coin to change the cars' handling characteristics, such as doing a wheelie.

A frenetic giggle pulled back her lips as she yawed the Now You Sw tt... 165 casket around the guillotine, turning so fast that it "did a wheelie," as they say.

I also remember doing a wheelie at slow speed and dumping myself and my passenger (no injuries), then realizing, after about a year, that I was not the sort of person who was going to survive very long on a motorcycle.

"It looks like it's just about to pop a wheelie."

"Why do you pop a wheelie on a bicycle?"

Two other special techniques to use while driving are the barrel roll, and Popping a wheelie.

He pops a wheelie and is off.

It's about popping a wheelie on your mountain bike, framed by the Golden Gate.

Doing his best to pop a wheelie, though only half succeeding, Switters spun and followed Joolie out.

To distract his thoughts, Switters tried to spin his chair, but it was no use: you couldn't pop a wheelie in the sand.

We Got A Bomb 7" - Split with Kilara (Pop A Wheelie Records, 1995)

Revolution, I Think It's Called Inspiration (CD) (Pop A Wheelie Records, 1996)

Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole, weaving flexible lath canes like reeds in a basket.

I once witnessed a terrible accident on Grand Avenue when a motorcycle guy was popping a wheelie and a drag racer came out of Page Place and hit him with his car."

Their most well-known recording, Revolution, I Think It's Called Inspiration, was released in early 1996 on Pop A Wheelie Records and was re-released in October 2005 on A-F Records.

We stop near the end of the trail to watch the more daring of our crew take on the Pipe, a rust-colored bowl that the biker descends at top speed in order to make it up the other side and maybe pop a wheelie at the top.