Video of my wheelies.

Alright, let it fly. How bad am I? I have been riding this bike for 3 weeks now. This evening had the gf take some video, hey, she knows where the on/off record button is! The sun was going down and not the best light. By the way. I always wear the shoei, but since the camera was out, hmmm.

http://www.putfile.com/iamupononewheel

dude, thats pretty solid hay, lookin good. not bad for 3 weeks of riding. i know its only coz of the camera, but dam, you should most definately wear your helmet, especially when stunting. having said the responsible. sick, wish i could ride em out, still growing the balls.

nice work

3 weeks on this bike. A Katana before this one.

not bad but -1 for no helmet. +1 fo rthe vid. looks like on one of the passes you got a bit squirrely! but good job. wish i could pull it up like that.

sounded like you were rappin it out quite a bit........HOW many times did you go past RED line??? and FOR SURE DUDE wear a HELMET!!! (there was traffic on that road too man......)

well you were really over reving it! not goooood....sence the camra was on what... you think your invincable when your doing wheelies? ahh..NO!
i would advise you to wear your helmet unless you want your girlfriend scraping your brain off the road...

I wish I could do a wheelie. I've been riding since April and am afraid to attempt it. Although I did try to attempt a wheelie on one of the MSF bikes some old nighthawk 250 I was going like 30 in 2nd and pulled in the clutch a little bit reved her up and popped the clutch. I jerked forward and that was it. hahahahaha How about some more video footage of like, say, your girlfriend, if she's hot. =D

Mike

ps im jealous

You need to pull it up some more and you would be able to ride that alot further. Looks about like what my wheelies looked like when i started out. I used to ride my F3 in staggered wheelies in first for a long ways. You could ride that whole rode if you get some more practice.

Oh and wear your damn helmet!!!!!

Your head it the one thing you want to protect the most and you werent showing much concern for it.

Not bad. Whats everyone saying about over reving? His bike has a rev limiter doesn't it?? But you could work on going a little slower, mabye between 15-20 mph and clutch it from there. No offense but your doing speed wheelies, which are low and they pick up speed quick. If you get it up higher you can ride them out alot further and not be going as fast. Not bad for 3 weeks though, keep it up and don't crash. Now you should try some standups. That way when you get them up you can see where your going.

-Jesse-

wow im surprised there arent a thousand ppl sayin u shouldnt do that and u might die doin it, wow that usually happens. Well good luck at gettin better at them, and be careful.

I can do slower wheelies, not perfect by no means, but my tire pressure was @ 42 p.s.i. when doing those, and I get kinda wiggly going too slow without dropping the pressure. I guess just not enough practice.

lookin good but wear that helmet

learn how to clutch it up. All those power wheelies are bad for the trans, chain and sprokets. be careful

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ORIGINAL: e3gordon

learn how to clutch it up. All those power wheelies are bad for the trans, chain and sprokets. be careful

Clutching it is like putting a car in nuetral-mashing the gas- and jamming it in drive.
Power wheelies is just mashing the gas.

****in sick man! I love seeing real wheelies not the slow ass 5mph and try and balance ina parking lot crap(don't get me wrong they are still very talented it just bores me personally) I am trying to work up the balls to do that i just don't want to drop it....

around 1:03 on the vid it looked like you were about to eat shit....Did you have to clean your pants after that one????LoL

Good work keep it up and Post more vids they kick ass!!

Now you see i have the same exact bike, and my girl said those yellow cbr's are the only bikes that can't wheelie, so i haven't been trying.

Shes such a sweet liar. But seriously scraping your face on the assphault... no ammount of beauty rest will bring that back.

Good work though, nice riding.

<---- So is this like a salesman or something?

lol

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ORIGINAL: DThompson

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ORIGINAL: e3gordon

learn how to clutch it up. All those power wheelies are bad for the trans, chain and sprokets. be careful

Clutching it is like putting a car in nuetral-mashing the gas- and jamming it in drive.
Power wheelies is just mashing the gas.

Hey, engaging an automatic from nuetral is a lil different than using the clutch. I think a nuetral slam is quite different. Your slamming the gears together all at once compared to disengaging the drivetrain and re-engaging via the clutch: plates/springs.

wheelies = cool as shit
wheelie in traffic = definitly not cool

wear a brain bucket.

I hope your girlfriend likes her eggs scrambled. Dude wear a helmet.

That was the first time I had done wheelies without one. I know it takes only once, but it isn't going to happen again. Second of all, Turn your volume up. About 25% of the wheelies are clutched. No problem clutching, just prefer power ups. Some people say they are less predictable. I can post a un-edited version without ever turning the camera off, and those are every one I pulled up. Predictable? I would say so. By the way, power ups are easier than clutching on drivetrain. Not a lot, but a lil. Especially the clutch plates.

Lol. Yes I did about eat shit! What happened was a small area with maybe 15 little rocks was under my tire when I popped the clutch. Listen and you can tell that was a clutch up. My back tire barely skidded a lil to the sided and threw the weight off a lil when it came up. But I did power out of it and get it perfectly straight before setting it back down.

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ORIGINAL: e3gordon

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ORIGINAL: DThompson

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ORIGINAL: e3gordon

learn how to clutch it up. All those power wheelies are bad for the trans, chain and sprokets. be careful

Clutching it is like putting a car in nuetral-mashing the gas- and jamming it in drive.
Power wheelies is just mashing the gas.

Hey, engaging an automatic from nuetral is a lil different than using the clutch. I think a nuetral slam is quite different. Your slamming the gears together all at once compared to disengaging the drivetrain and re-engaging via the clutch: plates/springs.

Still your doing the the same thing, You are stopping the tranny from moving and building up energy with revving the engine up and than you are popping the clutch.
I think of it as the same way as popping the clutch in a car as dropping it into gear with an automatic. It isnt as hard on the car if you just mash the gas and spin the tires than if you build up energy and let it rip. I have busted U-joints popping the clutch opposed to just nailing it.

Great job so far.
Some things...
Without a foot to cover the rear brake during practice is baaaad news. ESPECIALLY without a helmet. NOT wise. Wait a month or so at least to do that. BTW you won't be able to ride them w/o the rear brake so you might as well not practice that way.

Wear a helmet and jacket and gloves ANYTIME you think youre going to be on one wheel. New skin is expensive at the hospital.

Do some stand ups. You won't ever want to go back. Even 1st gear stand ups.

my 2c.

LOL!!!! ok, when you slip a clutch, your doing what its DESIGNED to do! just at lower rpms. and when you put a car into drive there is no buffer between the engine and the tranny like on a bike!!!!! so slaming a car into drive you are conecting the the engine to the tranny witch is gears. and what happens when you jam gears together when they are spinning at different speeds??? I will let you figure it out on your own! oh and when you pull the clutch in when you are moving, it dosnt STOP the tranny from moving it just disconnects it from the engine! so, clutching a bike you are not all slaming gears together! the clutch slips ALOT when you do a wheelie! so, if you wanna know what not having a clutch (like a car) try reving up your bike in nutral and slaming it in first and see what happends!!!!!!!