I am a new ride and would like to learn how to do a wheelie.  Any tips and advice would be helpful. 

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learn to ride first.

i'm not tryin' to be mean but you also said in other post that you have troubles with cruising speed. so make sure you fix problems first and learn to ride (it takes time and hundreds of miles), know your bike BEFORE you attempt to do wheelie.

otherwise you'll find yourself in trouble and in pain after crush. joy of riding motorcycle will be pretty much gone before it even starts.

cheers
KaMeL

thanks, not mean at all.

first gear...rev to 9k...drop the clutch....

^^^
that can't be good for the bike 

squid...don't do it

Quote from: can_rizla+. on October 15, 2007, 12:29:52 PM
first gear...rev to 9k...drop the clutch....

I don't understand can you make a video and show us all how you do that perticular technic ? 

Quote from: can_rizla+. on October 15, 2007, 12:29:52 PM
first gear...rev to 9k...drop the clutch....

I'd call it  "flippin' the bike over' 

Would that really flip the bike over?  I would think doing something like that would just hurt the engine or chain more than anything.

I've only been riding for a few months, so I've got a lot to learn still in regards to regular riding.  I want to eventually learn to wheelie, just so I can say I can do it haha

When the time comes that I'm ready to atempt a wheelie, is the GS really a good bike to try it on?  Would a cheap, larger displacement bike be better?

Yeah, learn to ride more before trying it. I have never flipped a bike doing it but on the GS500 you have to pop the clutch. This makes it more dangerous since it gives an abrupt surge in power and the front end will lift real quickly. You need to be prepared for it. I personally like to let the clutch slip out longer and get a low wheelie out of first. It will give you a good launch out of first, might be something you'd wanna try if your doing 1/4 mile at the track. I've only gotten the bike up to about a 45 degree angle once in a wheelie and it was at night which was scary. You can't see the ground since the headlight is pointing at the air. I personally would worry more about cornering than wheelies. It's a lot more fun and not as dumb. It will also make YOU a better rider, than you will be able to beat noobs on gsxr600s who do wheelies all day but can't ride for sh*%.

Quote from: adam on October 15, 2007, 09:09:04 AM
I am a new ride and would like to learn how to do a wheelie.  Any tips and advice would be helpful. 

Here's an excellent demonstration by Dani Pedrosa, MotoGP star. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-w_BhQIvdg

Quote from: RichDesmond on October 16, 2007, 07:19:10 PM

Quote from: adam on October 15, 2007, 09:09:04 AM
I am a new ride and would like to learn how to do a wheelie.  Any tips and advice would be helpful. 

Here's an excellent demonstration by Dani Pedrosa, MotoGP star. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-w_BhQIvdg

  I missed it , I only watched the race itself .  Dani is a great rider , though that was kinda funny 

it happened in a practice, and I do believe he was practing launches, not trying to loft the front end.

The MotoGP bikes have a "Launch Control" that prevents that from happening, however, it can be turned on and off.



And whoever said it takes "hundreds" of miles to learn your bike.....  you are horribly inaccurately dangerously wrong.  It takes thousands of miles.

yeah... it was me who said that. I expected someone to say that actually 
now we are clear  DO NOT DO WHEELIES if you do not know your bike. period  unless you really don't care about yourself and your bike.

It's not difficult. The sooner you do it, the sooner the thrill is gone. Sure, you could rip one from every stoplight, but it'd get old fast. It's not like walking it on a mountain bike. That's wayyyy cooler. The balance point is more fun too.

Keep both the wheels on the ground, and use the gs for commuting / playing / whatever. IF you abuse it, time will bite you quickly, and painfully.

It's certainly possible on a gs. I probably wouldn't recommend doing it often though.

My gs can't do a power wheelie, so that means using the clutch. After a few tries in a parking lot, I began to notice that the back wheel was wobbling like crazy. Turns out that all that extra force was causing the metal plate at the end of the swingarm to deform. Can't explain why it did that, but I haven't tried to do a wheelie after that whole thing 

Great advices and no I won't take it up to 9k and try to do a wheelie.

For what it's worth, I'm 44 and been riding since I was 12.
I still don't know how to do a wheelie. Don't have any interest in
learning. I'm to busy having fun riding.

Just saying you can have fun without the wheelie.

BeSafe.

Get yourself a 14T front sprocket, bolt it on and go have fun in an empty parking lot away from people.  Be sure you have your cell with you, so you can call your "buddy with truck" to pick up the pieces of the bike if you loop it.

Just kidding, it isn't that bad or hard to learn, just take it slow and work your way up from small 6" wheelies that you drop right away to something slightly higher as you get more comfortable.