Mine about 1/2 mile :twisted:

probably about 1/10 if that, i suck at mono

You should never do wheelies. They are dangerous to you and the general public. Why cant you just keep two wheels on the ground and enjoy the scenery like an upstanding member of society? :D

By the way, my best wheelies are probably 1/4 of a mile long. I should practice more. Straight roads are hard to come by where I ride.

ha ha ha by tor... funny

Im always careful when riding my wheelies :D

How do you get the bike to stay up that long (1/2 mile), I can only get it up in second at 50 mph to about 85 mph then it just falls down.

20 feet tops.. unintentional with a side order of crap in my pants.

My brother asked me the very same question. You have to turn youreself into the counterbalance. That means lean back against the bike using minimal power to hold it up. You gotta be careful not to get too upright or youll become unstable. I used to think that the more torward the 12'oclock position the better to hold it up, this is untrue and unsafe cause you can get the backtire wobble and itll slam you on the pavement. About 45 degree is the best place but it depends on youre weight and the balance point of the bike youre riding. You just have to work with it. Also if youre coming down at 80 then quick shift into third. I can tell you that mine holds 2nd until 110mph and third @125mph. Its just a feel and no one can tell you that you just have to work with it. The best advise I can give is, 1. Keep the front tire straight, if you come down at that speed with it cocked youll get a tank slapper that you may not be able to recover from. 2. Only do em in the straights, on good assphault with minimal bumps in the road. 3. keep it smooth, if its rough drop it and try again. Dont try to ride out a real rough wheelie, If and when it stays there," smooth" and youre not having to alter the throttle too much to keep it up then ride on! As you gain more speed just add more throttle to hold it up, if you run into the limiter then quick shift! Hope this helps, above all try to keep it safe and smooth just like if youre slaming into a 35mph curve at 70. Same difference, Let me know if any of this helps :wink:

20 feet tops.. unintentional with a side order of crap in my pants.
Ha ha been there done that :!: :lol:

learning balance point is best done in second unless you re-gear your bike 2002red954,
If you try to learn distance from 1st gear you may freak and flip.
Truck's giving it to ya though, just be real smooth with the throttle and don't be skeeered.hehehe

I found it best learned bytwitching the throttle or bobbing it if you will very slightly and taking it real slow on building up the height.

Longest was from 1st through 3rd ( wanted to go into 4th but the road ran out) and let it down at over 115mph... what'd that be around :?: 3/4 of a mile to a mile???

I'm not into holding bp for too long because I like to feel the power keeping the bike up.:D

I started with first gear. The throttle position is key with first because you can easily loop it. Also you come down quick and hard. I stiffined up the front suspension which helped alot. Before I changed the gears, I could get almost a 1/4 mile in first. Now with the new gearing, first gear is useless for long wheelies, so second gear is the shit.

Is it best to sit down or stand up? Also would you use the clutch when shifting in the air?

I find myself using the throttle to keep the bike up and not much balance, I think I'll have to practice more. Thanks for the info. :D

Is it best to sit down or stand up? Also would you use the clutch when shifting in the air?

whatever you feel most comfortable with. I would rarely do my stand-ups starting off but would drop it down into 1st at 50mph and pop it up, then at the exact same time of twitching the wrist just a Tad I flick it into second without the clutch and keep on power wheelieing as you say you enjoy. :D
if you are new at twitch shifting (or speed shifting or power shifting,,, whatever they call it around by you) then practice while Not in a wheelie.
The most safe way to learn is to apply a small amount of pressure from under the shifter so as to have the bike stil in gear and when you let off the throttle it will smoothly click into the next gear and then it's back on the throttle again.

don't do this practice from 1st to second if you are learning there is a larger delay window and the chance of grinding out second is uncool.
:D :wink:

The one thing that ive found is that the balance point is much lower when youre leaning back on it. If youre not leaning back you have to have the nose of the bike much higher and to me it seems less safe. Leaning back is the key :wink:

My longest is about 1 to 1 1/4 miles. If you work @ it, you can throttle her up in fourth and it's much less twitchy. You also have the air pressure to help it stay up. I can yank it up @ around 125 on my speedo... which is about 130 135 on my friends bikes speedo. I did a gear change. Front sprocket up one tooth, rear sprocket down 2, for more top end. That's why my speedo is so far off. :twisted:

So with a little gear changing its easier to get the front to come up even at higher speeds :?

So with a little gear changing its easier to get the front to come up even at higher speeds

Yes.

I went down 1 up front and up 3 in the rear. It's pretty dramatic at first, but after a while I got used to it and like it alot. I've lost top end but I can still keep up. It's quick off the line, second gear is like first and it comes up much easier in the higher gears. It's not for everyone, but there's all types of configurations you can mess around with.

Is therea speedo healer to get the odometer back in check :?

Stand-ups!!! Clutch it up in 3rd and ride for blockz and blockz

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OutOfControl954, Welcome to the Board!
and btw...


sweet fucking ride :!:

THanks bro!!

Also if you put your left foot on your rear peg it makes stand ups easier...but it takes some time to get used to!

is that a 900RR fairing stay???? or custom??? how hard was it to fit???? thanks!

Its off a 900RR.......a 98 i think....it fit pretty good i just bent it out a little with my hands to get it where i wanted it(not much). I have since drilled some holes and put some plates on and bolted it down. Its a lot more sturdy now.

Ok, I did a sit down right at a mile, my bro and seven others witnessed it. That of course was right before surgery so its heal time for now :x
We live to wheelie another day :wink:

hey truck....now maybe you can practice finding the BP in a wheel chair, but hopefully not for long :wink:

heal up fast bro 8)

Na no wheel chair for me, just the crutches. That doc like to have killed me, the next day after sergery he came into the room and grabbed the leg and bent it to my chest. I squeeled like a girl. I told him you ought to warn someone before doing something like that :x Funny thing is he dont want me walking on it at all or putting any weight on it at all but If I can stand the pain I can bend it to the hilt.
He did give me some souvaneers though, all the hardware the other doc put in there,"man that was a lot of crap". :wink:

Parking lots for me...... I'm to skured to rock the streets, I like my licence.....

Theres no parking lots big enough around here exept in plain sight, and that isnt cool either. Im sure that there is a trucking co. that im not thinking of or a industrial park rd that is vacant after hours cause theres so much building here. I just havent found one yet.

2K whats bad about this particular wheelie is it is in a zone that is patrolled by highway, city and county, and there is three different speed changes in it. But it was my last day on the bike and I figured what the heck. :wink:

Truck, GNT, Fuckinnuts thanks for all the great info. That's why I love this site. Learn a ton of shit about things. I just started doing standups and leaning back takes some getting use to. I've found the balance point sitting down now I have to learn it standing up. Just need a little time, but mother nature is taking over now and summer is coming to an end. I hate cold weather!

Like I said in another post, throw some ski bibbs on and keep riding :wink:

Like I said in another post, throw some ski bibbs on and keep riding :wink:LOL


as long as there's no salt on the rode to slip me up I rail the shit out of it. In snow pants even. :lol: cold weather is cool because the bike runs better and powerslides are much much more useable on the country style backtop. With the engine running crisper I was able to keep the bike up at power point (not balance point) longer and easily often have third gear wheelies seem like 2nd gear ones. suspensions a little stiffer and the bumps are more sharp from the harder tires and the contractions in the road so skipping occurs for me like at times your on a pogo stick unicycle with some of the more safe high speed back roads I used to wheelie on with the 954. It did nice too. longest I think for me was maybe a mile, sit down. It wasn't till a few months before it went bye bye that I learned stand ups. then I coulda figured it out and went went went...
crazy shit men... the things we do.

Yea I think that we test the boundaries of Gods graces everytime we ride :D

Damn it's only going to get to 65 degrees today! I'm going to throw a sweat shirt on to ride, hopefully not the last ride for the season. Got to practice those stand ups and get good at riding them out for awhile. Yeah, I agree with you guys it is some crazy shit that we do, but unless you ride a bike and I don't mean a Harley, the everyday person just doesn't get it. What a russshhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Yup I rode for the first time yesterday since my surgery, awsome :!:

Did a couple of sit down 2nd gear wingers with a big thumbs up from some passengers in cars :wink:

So much for that "I'm gonna take it easy my first time out" shit :D Happy to see you back in the saddle again bro!

Yea you too blood brother :D

I only rode it about a 1/8 of a mile, but I figured it to be pretty good since I was kinda getting used to being back on her since surgery. Also the addition of a micron over a jardeen which gave me a little more midrange helping me bring the front off the deck in 2nd. :wink: I gotta adjust the chain it has too much slack in it for wheelies :wink: Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeee haahahah :lol:

The longest I hit was two miles on a stand up. Brought her down in a nice little tank slapper that i barley pulled out of. If it wasnt for the dampner I'd be gone,now I keep it under a mile

you distance isnt want caused it nor did your dampler help you out. if you got a 1kRR it didnt help you out. the HESD dont work like others but glad to see you pulled thru it. next tiem you got distance just make sure you got yoru bars straight. if the littlest bit of being off youll have that same issue occur. 1mile or 5 miles dropping it at 70mph will be the same result. just becarefull with your landing and you wont get a tank slapper

My landing came down with the front wheel straight but I had did a trackday acouple days before and was to lazy to change my race tires out back to street. My buddy said it was cause of the race compound. What do you think?

my longest is over 1mile. id guess between 1 1/4 to 1 1/2.

Now that ive got my first wheelie ticket, has anyone else gotten a ticket for that :?

Truck, I was clocked @ 121mph passing 3 cars in a no passing zone around a slight corner. I never saw him there... about 7 miles up the road I was going about 60 in a 45. So, I thought he was coming after me for that. Well, wrong answer. The officer screamed at me for about a minute before I could talk. As he was going to turn back to the squad car... I flipped out my F.O.P. card and explained that it was issued by a captain in a nearby town. He was crushed. He kept my card and sent me on my way! :twisted:

what's a F.O.P. card? like a get out of jail free thing? :shrug:

Yes, sort of. It's the Fraternal Order of Police. Very much a get out jail free thingy. Worked like a charm.

:twisted:


kool. ty

How do ya get one of those things :?

Its a must have :wink:

My landing came down with the front wheel straight but I had did a trackday acouple days before and was to lazy to change my race tires out back to street. My buddy said it was cause of the race compound. What do you think?

It was more likely due to the crowning on the tire from the track day. I get that with my tires alot. I'm thinking that may be the cause of my wheelie wobbles at higher speeds too. When you set her down, lean back and tweak the throttle a little to set er down lightly, that helps too. Now you get an idea how scary it is setting em down @ 140+! Eeeee :!:

How do ya get one of those things :?

Its a must have :wink:

You have to know an officer that is willing to give you one. It's their butt that's on the line if you get it pulled for something stupid. The good thing about mine is it was issued by a high ranking officer. If I wanted it back, he would have had to call the officer that took it from me. I guess I'll just have to run until I get another. lol :wink:

Been there done that, no wobbles though thank goodness :!: :wink:

i get a little wobble when i set down a long one(3/4mile+) but not any full blown tank slappers. the one full blown tank slapper i got, i set down a wheelie and the road was cracked/pot holed and my wheel wasnt perfectly straight.

That ill do it :wink:

Shit man, right after you started posting about this I had a big slapper around 145. I was rocking it for about 21/2 miles! It was so windy I was hanging off of the left side of the bike (and apparently had the bars turned too) to keep it straight. I finally came into traffic and set it down. The motherfucker started slappin and I thought I was going to bite some asphalt. It tank slapped so hard, the Scotts steering damper has a leak now. It just bubbles out of the top pin. The point is... to pay attention to where the front wheel is pointed, and the conditions.

Having that front wheel strait is key to keepin ya from takin a dirt bath :wink:

Truck, I've been there before 9x. I will say that nothing cleans quite like an asphalt bath. It cleans right to the bone! lol :twisted:

Man, i can only do a couple hundred feet while doing a wheelie. I'm horrible when it comes to them, as far as distance goes. I guess my time will come when i can hang with the big dogs. :twisted:

i just hold em at 60-65mph now and rock em pretty much till i get tired. ever get passed by a car on the highway while standing it up? lol funny looks you get :D

i've ridden em long enough to go by that bus full of cheerleaders :P

20 feet tops.. unintentional with a side order of crap in my pants.

Know that feeling :!:

I was riding home, after work, and i yanked out a standup for about 2 3/4 - 3 miles! It was windy as hell but it seemed to float the front end in the air! It's starting to get pretty cold here, waiting for some kind of Indian summer.

Truck, I've been there before 9x. I will say that nothing cleans quite like an asphalt bath. It cleans right to the bone! lol :twisted:

Ha Ha done that a couple of times myself, I think gnt would rival us both :D

Truck, I'll say this... That is one thing I'd rather not take the claim for being the best at! :twisted:

You and me both brother :!: Ive been down twice and the last was real bad, and im still recovering from that one. Well try to keep it two wheels down :wink:

:lol: :lol: :lol:
:P

Dont laugh gnt you know youve tasted DIRT :D

where did u get the engine cage? do you notice engine vibration with it on?

i just hold em at 60-65mph now and rock em pretty much till i get tired. ever get passed by a car on the highway while standing it up? lol funny looks you get :D

Whats the trick to holdin speed? More upright position on the bike? or just leaning back into it more. :wink:

Whats the trick to holdin speed? More upright position on the bike? or just leaning back into it more. :wink:
Get the bike to it's balance point. if you do that, you can actually slow the bike while in a wheelie. You can do it by getting it more upright, but more dangerous, so I'll reccomend leaning back more to counterbalance the bike. This keeps the front wheel lower and more stable. :twisted:

I thought youd say something like that. Ive 12ved before and it gets real unstable standing straight up.
Ill just put my 240lbs into it and keep it lower :D

blarg

i am pretty much the wheelie king where im from! i go till i get board! i also will only pass on one wheel, no matter what the trafic! i am just as comfortable on one wheel as two! ive been doing this for a very long time! i never encarage some to wheelie unless they have a dirt bike background! as far as how long ive ever clocked out was 5.2 miles on my od! only reason it went down was boardom and lost consintrasion! ive clocked out 1.2 miles sitting on the tank! as far as getting a ticket, i would never stop for a cop for anything! i sometimes go out looking for cops and pass them in a wheelie! i know it sounds cocky but im really not! just confident!

Speed channel had a thing on that French stunter...Jean Pierre Goy.....has the world record for wheelie....over 130 miles...yes MILES. I gotta practice more.

hell i dont have enough gas to ride no 130 miles! lol

Think he did that at a circle track and i think he ran out of gas :wink:

the one they showed on speed channel was going through the french countryside on a specially prepped (ie larger tank) dirt bike. Showed him going through towns and shit.

:eek: Ok well I guess thats another one. Well im a squid cause im still proud when I ride em 1/2 mile or longer :wink:

Ok Ive busted a mile now. wooo who :!: I know some of you can ride counties but thats good for me. :wink:

thats great truck! i havent had much time on the rr yet but so far i aint liken the wheelie thing yet, the balance point is higher up then my gixxer! so far ive onlly clocked off about 1/2 mile and its been unsmooth! but ive only got 150 miles on the bike, hope i just need some time to get used to bike and let the bike break in!

Yea take your time getting used to it, you dont want to wash out riding wheelies. When they click then I can go as long as I can hold it in the road, when it doesnt well you know the drill :wink:

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/290/ STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY STUFF

ABOUT 3/4 MILE ON MY RC 51 STARTED OUT IN FIRST AND MADE IT TO 4TH AT ABOUT 125ish GREAT FEELING, JUST SEEM TO CARRY FOEVER, WELL JUST SOLD THE 51 AND LOOKING AT GETTING AN 1000rr REALLY LIKED THE 51 AND TRICKED IT OUT BUT AFTER A COUPLE OF YEARS TIME TO MOVE ON...AS ALWAYS IF YOU CUT ME I WILL BLEED RED .............RIDE RED........... :twisted:

THe longest wheelie that ive seen is a guy that was on an RC-51. He did a stand up for about 4 miles or so. Good luck on the 1k :wink:

4 mile wheelie on a RC51, damn.

Yup I was behind him all the way :wink:

Truck, that's just nuts. The RC51 is a BIG bike. i guess your bud has some skills.


A good buddy of mine can wheelie his R6 pretty. He did a mile standup right in front of a state boy, the cop car was like 10 feet behind him. My buddy never looked, cracked the wheelie and just rode it. Lucky for him, the cop goes to the same church his parents go to.

Yea as far as skills go he is the 2nd fastest guy I know. He was real good at the wheelies. He would bring it up and as it was comming up he would shift into second as he was standing up and then ride it for a long ways. The longest like i was saying was around 4 miles.
Yea the boy has skills.

What happened to your bud. Did he let him off? I just got done paying $550.00 for my wheelie.

Damn, that's an expensive bill. My buddy got 2 points and and $100 dollar fine. He got real lucky. I guess it helps to know cops.

The funny thing about my buddy is that he is a short guy and when he does a stand up, he can barely look over the front of a bike. :P

I wheelied by an ambulance posted last night,
passed a cop, waived @ him
he didnt even turn around, I even started to pull over after I set it down
it would have been an easy talk, I was still in my hospital monkey suit

I have been taking it easy on the high-way though
the troopers have brought in extra help to bring up quota

I wheelied by an ambulance posted last night,
passed a cop, waived @ him
he didnt even turn around, I even started to pull over after I set it down
it would have been an easy talk, I was still in my hospital monkey suit

I have been taking it easy on the high-way though
the troopers have brought in extra help to bring up quota



dude... stop cracking me upo....... I may have to be glued together!


fer real..



longest bitch I've gotten this year is (on my own rides) two gears and 0ne block. :(



no real trying but much effort given....


now about that upo...
godless is the song... and ride/live long.
wheelie all the way you can! especially in yer monkey suit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8)

Yea but on your kanatunna it dont wheelie like ours though so you might say you did a good miler. I remember how hard it was to wheelie the old fzr 600.
My best this year so far Kylbie954 seen me do it. about 3/4 mile. :wink:

Jim, i'm pretty sure you can do better than one block. Look what bike your on. Just wait till you get a bigger one. You'll put us to shame. :D

Truck you live in ashville you gotta wheelie for a hundred yards turn left wheelie two hundred yards turn right so on so forth :lol: nothin but hills and twisties up there. We go up to the parkway from time to time great fun

naaa theres some places straight enouph to do that. Better be carefull on the Parkway, remember its federal and its a whole different set of laws for that.

maybe 200 feet? the V65 Magna doesn't balance well at all.

about 3 miles, third gear doin around 55-60 mph on my 1000rr

No kiddin Truck those park rangers were issued everything but a sence of humor!! :wink:

truck is gettin pretty good at em.. especially at the gap.. lol tryin to stand it up in the straights there for like 100 ft or so... then drop into another curve

i can pop it up in 1st and 2nd but when i try to shift gears it just flops down... hard.... im scared im gonna get a slapper one time trying to shift gears so i just balance it up and then bring her down... longest i have done is maybe 1/4-1/3 mile or so.... dropping them in 2nd gear at about 100-110

you try making the shift without the clutch?

i can pop it up in 1st and 2nd but when i try to shift gears it just flops down... hard.... im scared im gonna get a slapper one time trying to shift gears so i just balance it up and then bring her down... longest i have done is maybe 1/4-1/3 mile or so.... dropping them in 2nd gear at about 100-110
The trick is to get the bike to the balance point, go just past that, lightly roll off the throttle and make the shift without the clutch. Oh yeah, get right back on the throttle once it's in the next gear. (Since you're going to be getting off the gas because you're going past the balance point anyway, it makes it extremely easy to keep the bike pointed skyward.)

thats a 10-4... no clutch when im shifting from 1st to 2nd or 2nd to third... i can get it up and ride it all the way out... i may need to counterbalance the bike out a lil bit and lean back more....

One sunny afternoon, traveling from Riverside to LA...in the HOV lane...at about 80mph, doing a stand up wheelie......NOT ME, but someone else...

This cat was in t-shirt, shorts, and tennis shoes...in the freaking HOV lane doing a stand up. I saw another biker throw a deuce sign up and I was like...huh...til i looked in my mirror and saw him riding one. he was about 100m behind me, and just rode it thru. the funny thing was, he rode this wheelie about 2.5 to 3 miles...CHANGING LANES at the same time...i was behind him...well, not completely, but to see how long he was gonna hold it...