Well it always stayed in the back of my mind on how to do these.

I done them like twice before not intensionly pulling away from mates houses. Tallest one I done so far the front nearly lifted half a meter of teh floor lol

Is there a specific way of accualy do this so I can try and avoid doing it when I dont want to pull one.

P.s Im riding the 50cc so dont freek. lol

Wheelies are normally done two different ways.

1. Off the throttle...snap shut then snap open or just wind it on quick, normally only works with more powerful bikes and works even better if it has a short wheel base.

2. Off the clutch..by pinging it (ie just let the bugger go)

I'm no expert and don't recommend it but you normally have to be pretty ham fisted or have a fat pillion to get it up (phew eerr)

When it comes to best riding technique smoother is better...you only have to watch the TT boys to see that

Ill tell you how to but not in public as this is not such forum for it. Surely your bike will lift with clutch if I can lifht cg 125 with sh!t clutch.

woops not sure if that 50cc has any change to lift it, never tried, your zephyr will do it though...

I had a little test about today I can lift the wheel about a meter high with throttle lol on the DT, you would be surprise how that DT got so much kick. dont nderstnad the clutch way though. "pinging" it? lol

now i understnad i got to restrain from constant revving and go.

problem with clutch wheelies is sh*t happens to fast and can be a tad out of control, (getting smacked in the face by LC clocks puts you off clutch wheelies ) a DT should power wheelie, its a trailie after all, the trick is to get the front forks loaded so they act a bit like a pogo stick to help you up.. 5 or 6000 revs the powerband? should kick in, throttle off and lean forward to compress the forks then power on and pull back it should come up smoothly.. being a good chap you will be doing this off road.. wont you?!
or find someone large for a pillion as mot sed

Having a 1200 Bandit I wouldn't know anything about wheelies honest!

HAHAHA:LBHH:
sorry erm yeah sometimes it is a good little trick for pulling out of parties or college. lol (a little something for the ladies.)

joking but yeah Since I did it first by accdent everyone keeps asking to do one but then I feel silly not knowing how to do one.

I had a bit of wheelie practice on a tracter road today was fun. (was fully protected) would of benifited from bubble wrap? lol

The other option is over the crest of a hill. Just get yourself into the powerband coming up the hill, and give it full throttle as you come over the top. That can give you a nice smooth wheelie. It can also give you a hell of a fright if you encounter an obstacle, so only do it where you *know* there's nothing on the other side of the hill.

And off the public roads - that's right.

Always helps with a pillion too. Not that I'd know. Nope.

1st real wheelie I did scared the living crap outta me, never mind the missus on the back!

Over the mountain at Cadwell park is a good place to do that.

wheelies-not big , not clever.i've never intentionally pulled a mingin wheelie in public(well perhaps 20-odd years ago on my gsxr11 )
if you are going to practise remember two things,
1 if you do it over a hill, make bloody sure there isnt a sharp bend to the left or right.
2 the immutable law of Sod. if you do it in public(like away from the party you mentioned or in front of scantily-clad members of the opposite sex) you will feck it up big style & look like a prat.

yeah the idea of this post is to make sure I DONT intentionally do it, the way I worked it out If i practiced offroad then when I am on the road I wouldnt make teh same mistake. lol wheelies out of a junction are not clever, and not intentionally either. now I feel liek i can avoid doing them now. Which is a good thing.

I'm the last one to try and quell fun on a bike and its up to you what you do, but , but its not necessary!

a m8 of mine Flipped a RD400 proddie racer in front of load of college girls, how they laffed! how small did he feel
to add insult to injury he ended up with his fat ass hanging out and the girls had to help him pick the bike up because he hurt his wrist
for some strange reason he never went back
wheelies are useful off road and a bit softer landing when it goes wrong, but theres no reason on the road apart from show boating

Watch out for the hard landings. I dont pull wheelies due to smacking my groin one too many times into the tank I must have ruined my chances of fathering any offspring

haha I flipped Superfour few days back... My brother in law is happy with me..

And you may get pulled by a very irate policeman

I did exactly the same thing 23 years ago two up on a GP100.
There was two of us laying in the road and my mate was still holding on to a bucket full of KFC.
We then helped the girls bump start their car and it wasn't until later on that I found out that my gear lever had actually stabbed me in the calf. Still got the scar.

There's also the minor detail that coming down feom wheelies doesn't do the front end any favours, or so I'm told.

Bring the bike up to the power - ie, high revs, engine screaming, dip the clutch, not all the way in but half way and the revs will go through the roof - then drop the clutch back out and nail the throttle whilst keeping your foot over the back brake. control the height and lift angle with the back brake. once in a wheelie never shut the throttle, always control it with the back brake and keep the handle bars in line. or just nail it over a hill but only if you know there's nothing coming - like if you have xray vision or whatever. Or put a passenger on the back as has been advised.

0f course if you are asking for advice on how ''not'' to do it then simply be smooth and expert in your riding and youll be fine.

But its all good, people asking how to make their bike do something dramatic and dangerous with no understanding at all of how it does what it does? brilliant.

Ok wheelies simple, gun the fecker then dip the revs and then nail the throttle. power wheelie.

dip the revs when on the power - see above - clutch in slightly, lean on the bars then nail the fecker whilst letting out the clutch and leaning back - clutch wheelie.

nail the thorttle when high up the revs in first or second gear over the crest of a hill - blind idiot wheelie.

of course how you put it down is up to you to decide. But then of course no one would be trying anything like this if they didnt know all there was to know about how their bike handles.

why pull wheelies on a public road ....when you can just get upto speed and ride you bike head on into a car, its a great effect, broken stuff everywhere,kids screeming in the car,bits of your body all over the road and blood on everything, then there's the party after loads of crying from your mum and dad, girlfriend and close mate's, thats not including all the other people at the cardrivers party..only thing is, if your not anygood at it. then you can only do it the once.



Wheelies my arris......get a life and keep it

What is it with the holier than thow attitude ?

wasnt ment to be mate, Im not god's gift to biking or for that matter anything else. Its up to Mr B how he rides his bike, And to be honest i really couldnt careless if he ride's around all day on one wheel, or what everelse he or anyone else choose to do on their bikes. But if he's gonna pull wheelies, then he should at least be made aware of the consiquences should things go wrong.

Fair enough


Just wondered

riding bikes is hillarious - its the only persuit i know of where you can risk your own life and all those around you and get applauded for doing so.

If i bought a pistol and fired it indescriminately down my road the police would shoot me dead and be revered for it. some copper would get a medal and rightly so.
if i wheelie my bike at twice the speed limit and kill a dog id get a two page special in mcn about how the owner of the dog should be sued for being irresponsible and not leashing or tieing the dog up . ( oh and the dog bit is true by the way except it wasnt me that did it of course).

It really is a non stop disco.

So lets boogey on down and stop taking ourselves so seriously ?

yes lets. dont be serious .

''bikers who dont take themselves too seriously'' means that they are supposed to thave a sense of humour not that they are irresponsible in their riding or attitude.

Feck it - ive been fighting for years and got bored now. wheelie - stoppie - read magazines and do whatever you like. Fast as you like too. go for it!

How to wheelie - does anyone except me and chilie see the irony of the question?

Billy... Mr B doesn't want to do wheelie... if you read is post he says:

"Is there a specific way of accualy do this so I can try and avoid doing it when I dont want to pull one.

P.s Im riding the 50cc so dont freek. lol"

No mate, he's saying he cant control his bike........."SO I CAN TRY AND AVOID DOING IT WHEN I DONT WANT TO PULL ONE".....that's what he's tellin me.

as i said JP, i dont really care how he ride's his bike, but if he's going to pop a wheelie either controled or not, then he should be aware of the things that can go wrong

i don't think i've owned a road bike that doesn't require a lot rider input to wheelie, even the EXUP, you just can't accidentally wheelie it if your in full control
the only time its ever done one was a hump in a road, accerating from a bend.. but feck me a 2 year kid on a pushbike would of wheelied off that hump lol it didn't require 120+ ponnies to achieve
you just couldn't wheelie a DT by accident if you are full under control, i've ridden tuned LC and they require some effort to wheelie them
if it was a full blown motoX bike well thats a totally different kettle of fish, but it isn't lol

Pulling wheelies is all good and fine , however there is a time a place for everything unfortunately the people in this vid seem to have got it slightly wrong ....lol
DON'T DO IT LIKE THIS.
http://www.zippyvideos.com/7166724686254836/uponone_crashes/

I had seen a few of those clips before...the tankslapper one always makes my jaw drop, as does the last clip of the french guy when he loses it and crashes into the police car

Now thats not very clever



Whats wrong with reading magazines????? i'm confused!!!

oh and one other thing, dont try going for second gear if you have a dodgy 2nd gear it really hurts your nether regions!!

im with the guy with the bandit what woulkd i know about wheelies riding a tl1000 .....................were they really invented for anything else
Rushy
sorry if i offend the be sensible crew but hey i aint tellin you to be stupid ill do it on mi own dont need company

Hi!!

Right in first place the only reason why I'm posting this, is so that some of you can learn it properly and don't have an accident while doing it. It's up to you but why risking so much to do a bloody wheelie, you need to bare in mind the risks. But then again if you really want to know or try, here you have 2 videos with several tips. I would pay a lot of attention to the second one, not only because it prepares you better do it, but because it advises you, to take your time and even not to try it if you don't feel confident.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovFSahIPaVQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91Bjqnsl-k

In my opinion you shouldn't do it although I've tried it before... but like someone said once: "Do what I say not what I do!!"


Cheers, Jose.

i would be very carefull and make sure you know your bike very well. i used to wheelie no problem on my old cbr600 fs (on my own or with pillions), i bought a gsxr 600 k4 model, had the bike 2 days, pulled a wheelie with my friend on the back and the quicker throttle response of the gsxr sent us both down the road on our butts, very painfull and just as embarassing. if your going to wheelie you MUST cover your rear brake

It was 1980, one brand new X7 two lads going on holiday, not enough cash to take two bikes and no cash to buy luggage, hence the pillion had to wear a aluminium framed rucksack that held all clothes and camping gear.

Despite the fact that we were still running the bike in for the first 100 miles of the trip, the bike was so light at the front and by now so damn heavy at the back - well!

For two weeks we took turns in pulling away with back brake hard on, absolute minimum revs, (not as minimum as you would have wanted on a 2 stroke of course) and slipping the clutch more that the slipiest of slippy things from the slippy thing shop.

The best we did was to keep the front wheel about two inches off the ground.

It was a right bugger especially when you took ya turn as pillion, wheelie with all that weight on ya back no fun. At least once your feet loged under the riders armpits you knew you could fall back no further

Take your point though re modern bikes.
Even full Givi luggage plus stuff on top of top box rack and pillion, the front wheel of the Busa will only lift ever so slightly on a fast overtake uphill. Unless of course you want to lift it - but then why would I? That would slow me down, if I want to go slower, I back off or brake.

in the early 80's two clowns on LC's used to do a "stunt show" up and down Westgate Rd most sat'days,
christ knows how they never got killed or caught, they wheren't even good at it!
Its just one of those things i've never wanted to do, even the guys that can come to grief sometime, a guy i know Dave Coates has a stunt show, but his bike is heavily modified to withstand the landings and modified oil system.. the first YZF he had the forks colapsed afer 6 weeks, on another occasion the swing arm jammed up with the wheel jammed against the subframe after a two up stoppie and roll stunt not good if it happened on the road!
i've just seen so many people get it wrong!, maybe with living through the late 70's, and 80's and more young uns on bikes fecking up , you get to see and learn lol

like riding if you want to lean how to wheelie book your self on a course.



http://www.jimmyfireblade.co.uk/bandit_wheelie_school.htm



£200 lighter and you will be able to show your mates how its done out side the ACE cafe

Ahhh thinking about it why dont all the member on here book a days course and make a day of it.

then we can all wheelie together, I must admit I do like watching bikers wheelie.

Wow I remember that - get ya chips sit on the high wall, (out harms way) and whatch as the lads closed the road top and bottom of the hill so the idiots could race up and down it and try stunts. Stupid but most entertaining.

As I recall they nevver got caught cos many people got in the way of the police - it would all die down then an hour latter they would be back and start again.

Your right they werent very good - but the nerve of sticking 2 up at the establishement in such a big way kinda drew you into whatching - just to see what was gonna happen next.

Wheelied once on the Fazer racing someone one of the line (private road of course) forgot about the pillion i had, wheel went straight up pilloin s**t themself, I found it funny

There's loads of videos on YouTube about this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNQC_amZRJg

Thanks. There are quite a few informative videos on you tube. I had seen that one but never actually clicked on the link.

i was driving the bus back from troon the other week, came round a bend and there's this bike on it's back wheel just cruising along!
there's a wee hump in the road he must have hit and just went with the flow! it was only me and him on the road, however i think if i seen a bus coming along i'd ease of the throttle, theres not many worse things to hit on a bike

First off fella watch this:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rkXyF0zWcBc

Secondly.. don’t try too much , too soon!

This is a mate of mine on his WR400, not doing a good job of a wheelie. Thing is though, he kept at it and now he's pretty darn good at them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3flrCiLrhY