what is the proper way to do a wheelie?

what is the proper way to do a wheelie?

 

Remove your helmet and any protective gear you may wearing, get the bike moving about 15 MPH in 1st gear, pull the clutch in while simultaneously bliping the throttle, release clutch quickly... let Darwinisim take effect.

 

how do i blip the clutch?

 

no no the throttle blip

 

oh, ya. ur right. so how do i blip it?

 

FIRST only do it at 15 mph or less. Trying it at 60 mph on a freeway is instant suicide.

Once you're rolling at around 15 mph pull the clutch and rev up the engine and then release the clutch quickly. The trick here is to literally "drop" the clutch. This isn't the time to feather the clutch and let it out slowly.

Just drop the clutch and you should at least feel the bike surging forward and you might do a 2 inch wheelie on your first try. If you couldn't get the wheel up either drop the clutch faster or give it more revs before you drop it. Any halfway decent bike can do a small wheelie at around 5-6K RPM.

Keep practicing, you won't get it in a day. And remember it's better to stall out than wipe out!

 

Wheelie the Shorty way:

1. drop weight until you weigh somewhere around the 120-130 lb range with all of your gear

2. roll easy on the throttle through first and second

3. as the bike starts pulling lean all the way forward

When the bike hits 8k RPMs the front tire magically lifts itself right off the ground, and you are going maybe 55-60 mph :tongue:

 

im glad to see this didnt turn into a flame fest. In all honesty, I think wheelies look cool and when done in a responsible spot, they are a hell of a good time. Having a few people give their their input on how to do one right without a million "stupid squid!" posts is nice.

I usually do em one of two ways, either roll on from a stop in 1st, then once I am at 8K, I roll off the throttly sharply, then back on hard, and if my butt is toward the rear of the seat, up it goes (but only a little).

I did one yesterday the "right" way I think, getting in first, and with the clutch part way in, I revved up, so the bike was speeding up, and right after the rpms hit VTEC I let the clutch out the rest of the way and the bike lifted the front wheel about a foot or so really smoothly, and then I set it back down. If I could do that with any consistency, I would be happy.

That or I will just buy a desmosedici and power wheelie in the first 4 gears! zoom zoom!

 

The easiest way to pull the front wheel up is to hit the gas at about 7,000 rpm’s once, when the front end is finishing compressing floor it again, this should get the front end up for a decent wheelie.

 

If you're going to try it, wear all safety gear and for god's sake don't do it around anyone else. Find a secluded back road without traffic or homes.

 

what is compressing floor?

 

130 lbs. that would be nice. i probably weighted that much about 7 years ago.

 

I think what he is saying is, accelerate hard in first gear. Once you feel the front of the bike get a little light abruptly let off the throttle and then twist it back to all most full open. Start small and work your way toward larger amounts of throttle. What you are looking for is to use the compression in the front springs to help lift the front wheel.

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Well said sir, thanks for the clarification.

 

Here's a good video with the basics: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6656191590638402466

Be smart and have fun!

 

Just watch out for oil starvation and cylinder drowning, I know of a couple of V-4's that have eaten themselves from this. when doing the wheelie oil can slosh back into the back cylinders and cake up the walls and cause to much stress on the pistons and rotating assy, and the oil pump will no longer be submerged so the fwd cylinders won't get any oil. either way bad ju-ju. small wheelies won't affect this much, but bringing them up to where you need to stand to see where your going is heading into the danger zone......

 

I even wheelied my KTM 650 without trying (dropped the clutch a bit too fast) one day...so, I think the VFR should be able to wheelie!

 

My VFR will power wheelie in 1st pretty easily.
If I pin 'er wide open the front wheel claws for the sky at around 7500-8000 rpm.
If I chop the throttle off and back on around 7500-8000 rpm it leaps up urgently and I need to feather the throttle to fly/land her.
I have never used any clutch work to wheelie.
As far as I know the bike is bone stock except for K&N and gutted stock pipes.

I assumed all VFRs wheelied this easily...:vtr2:

 

wheelies are for people who grew up riding dirtbikes; if you have to ask how, you shouldn't be doing them.
wheelies are for braggarts, show-offs, squids,and are dangerous and give sane motorcyclists a worse reputation than we already have.

grow up!

 

So you can't wheelie huh?