All About Stunt Bikes

By Ben Labs

Just like your Average Motorcycle, a professional stunt bike is a specialized machine that’s highly modified. Some are fitted with full, custom-built steel cages that provide protection against low-speed falls that happen a lot when learning and developing tricks. Stunt Bikes also have an added degree of steering lock for making the tightest turns possible.

Some people believe stunting is a controversial subculture of motorcycling.  Stunters perform Motorcycle stunts on motorbikes, both on public roads and in private venues. Doing these stunts on Public roads is where Stunt riding gets a bad name.

There are many different stunts involved when it comes to this, but the most common are variations of a wheelie, stoppies, and burnouts.

The Next things that differentiate a regular motorcycle to a stunt bike is the Mechanical parts on it allowing you to perform stunts easier. The first notable part is a Sprocket kit, most stunters upgrade the gearing to allow for slower wheelies. Typical gearing consists of 1 down for the front sprocket and anywhere from 55 tooth to 66 teeth for the rear sprocket.

With the changing of the gearing a bike can produce higher top speeds with less acceleration, this is done using a larger sprocket or a smaller rear sprocket. Gearing a bike down giving it more acceleration with lower top speed is done using a smaller sprocket or a larger rear sprocket.                                                                        

The Last key Piece stunters have is a Crash cage, sub cages are very similar to crash cages, but for protection of a different sort. While crash cages are protection for the frame itself, sub cages focus on protecting the sub-frame of the motorcycle.