A Bike.
New to Mario Kart Wii are the bikes, the second type of vehicle you can choose. There are 18 bikes available, some are default, others must be unlocked:
- Small Bikes: Standard Bike S, Magikruiser, Quacker, Jet Bubble, Bit Bike, Bullet Bike.
- Medium Bikes: Standard Bike M, Sugarscoot, Sneakster, Dolphin Dasher, Zip Zip, Mach Bike.
- Large Bikes: Standard Bike L, Wario Bike, Shooting Star, Flame Runner, Spear, Phantom.
Bikes vs Karts
Bikes have advantages and disadvantages when compared to karts:
- Bikes can only do the Blue Sparks Mini-Turbo, Karts can do Red Sparks Mini-Turbo by drifting a larger amount of time (Super Mini-Turbo).
- While using a bike, you can do a wheelie, which gives a speed boost for a few seconds, but decreases your handling.
Whether you should use a kart or a bike is course dependant, but bikes are usually better. If you are playing on Luigi Circuit, you may want to use a kart, on Moonview Highway, when there are turns at all, they are mostly tight, making the wheelie better than a super mini-turbo.