How to wheelie??

[TechTMW]

[ Wheelies, and espically extended length wheelies starve the engine of oil.

Er, my vtr should have seized long ago . But I agree that learning on a streetbike will hurt you. Get a dirt bike and get good at them before ever attempting one on a street bike.

I've personally seen snarfed main bearings due to (assumed) long distance wheelies. The thing about alot of dudes who stunt like this is they do it to show off - to everyone - so you ask anyone of their acquaintances and you usually get "Hell yeah he had it up for 500 meters one time ... !!"

Short wheelies are no big thing - there's enough residual oil to protect the engine - especially if you are running a synthetic. But i guess that dino oil just fries

I dunno the physics of it, all I know is that I've seen it. 3 times to be exact.

[ron b.]

i learned to do them on my little 250 in an empty parking lot. now the 750 is a different story.

[High_Side]

Short wheelies are no big thing -
I dunno the physics of it, all I know is that I've seen it. 3 times to be exact.

Yep, I don't doubt it......but it is doubtfull if our new wheelie king will go the distance. I think it has to be a really long wheelie or several of them to cause the damage. I used to wheelie A LOT and never blew anengine in a bike. The little below balance ones I indulge in nowdays should keep the VTR in tact for quite a while....I hope!

[TechTMW]

......but it is doubtfull if our new wheelie king will go the distance.

[Mag7C]

I get it from people and I ride a CRUISER. I've tried it unsucessfully on my own though, just to see if my bike can do it. Maybe it's a good thing it can't (or that I'm doing it wrong).

Sevs method sounds good. What I usually do though is just smile and slowly shake my head "no".

[Randy]

I can barely keep from falling over on two wheels. There is no way I am gonna try and wheelie

[Slap-Bassist531]

hmm i got this wheelie sign once when driving on the road about 7 months ago (on my 125 dirtbike) n it was a dude ina golf cart that did that sign to me so i was like ehh ill try... pretty much i just held in the clutch halfway revved up a lil bit and dumped it and it went up and then from there its just throttle control and if u get t ogoing too far back just hit the rear brake that'll get ya down

[isaac]

I've gotten the GZ250 up, and tried it on a Katana 600, and I'd say it's kind of a catch 22 scenario.

The 250 being so light is more controllable in the air, and less likely to go over backward than a more powerful bike, but you have to do it from a stop or with 2 people on it, or it won't have the power to do it.

I think the slower you're going, the more dangerous because you don't have the gyroscopic force built up to stabilize the bike in the air.

If you have a really powerful bike that can do it just on the crank of the throttle at 20mph, then you're more stabilized when it goes up, but it's more likely to flip over on you, or get so high up that you dump it sideways.

I say do it on a bike that WON'T be a write off if you crash it.

[Fonz]

Rev up to 10,000 RPM in first gear, dump the clutch, you'll be wheelying in no time.

[bennettoid]

Rev up to 10,000 RPM in first gear, dump the clutch, you'll be wheelying in no time.

I think I'll try to keep my rubber on the pavement.