Power Wheelies

[jesse370]

When I make a effort to do it, I always seem to bounce off the limiter or do something else stupid. But when I'm out riding and it just happens, be it a power or clutch up wheelie it just happens naturally to me and everything is cool...

OH and a +1 on the watching of the jewels....

[Jobu]

How do you guys bring wheelies down? I've been doing massive first gear power wheelies that i can only bring down by letting of the throttle and gasing it on the way down again. I'm too chicken shit to step on the rear break.

When doing high power wheelies, generally very hard with a little head shake.    I've been meaning to try the rear brake method a little more as I have no never used it or even covered it in the past (mostly because it was wrapped and ill adjusted).

The best wheelie I've ever ridden was by accident, but it was basically using the second gear slight clutch method that Nutts mentioned.  I missed a turn, so after I turned around to go back, I nailed the throttle in first to pull the wheel up slightly and was slow on the shift into second.  As a result, the engine was spinning a little faster than the transmission and was just in the powerband.  The clutch release brought the front up enough (the suspension was also rebounding from landing the first gear wheelie) that the rest of the powerband was able to bring it up more for a nice long and smooth wheelie and smooth landing when I got out of the powerband. 

[angler]

Have never been much for wheelies on pavement, but plenty on dirt in my younger years.  Saw this post, and followed the directions for roll-on wheelies and it works, even for a big guy like me.  First wheelie in years and first wheelie on pavement.  Here in the 'burbs of DC we have tons of big, wide speed humps.  They work great for training.  They compress  the front suspension and just as your front tire is about to drop down the backside of the hump, roll on the throttle.  Works like a charm and seems to require much less throttle input to get the front tire off. I started with the humps, but now can do them in first gear at will. I guess it is a lot like a roll on wheelie from the crest of a hill except a speed hump is a much smaller hill. 

Trying hard to work and not go do squidly things on this nice fall day.....

[NuTTs]

The Adventure powerwheelies well in 1st and 2nd with the traction control switched off, this bike is very naughty.. very very naughty