3rd day out practicing on this bike, and practicing sitdowns ever... 4th time practicing 1st gear ever

I have a long way to go... and my season just started

Comments/advice/you suck/hate mail/whatever

(*note: in the third one I think it is, I was starting to look around the bike, not leaning forward)

 

bring it up a few more inches...and make ure ur foot is on that break.....lookin good....

 

kickass man. now all ya need to do is let go of the handle bars and do a no hander. trsut me, get to about 30mph, and just let go

j/k but yea your lookin good! :YEAH

 

lean back and you'll be about balanced

 

looking good dude.

are u clutchin them up?

if so try it from a stand still, by the looks of the pics your not affrade to bring the bike up clutch up from stand still u will be slowing them down in no time...

keep it up homie

 

Yeah I`m clutching them. I got the back brake covered too, its just I`m not sure when to use it, I feel comfortable enough to use it if I need it, I just don`t have it to where I can use it to keep it smoother yet, and when I do use it, I usually use too much... not enough to slam it back down, but enough to bring it down. I`m gonna try them from a standstill tonight if I get out.

 

Definitely tap the brake before you loop.

 

Since you are pretty new to the back brake... my one suggestion is don't try and save a wheelie. If you go up, and you hit the back brake and it comes down a little don't try and save it... you have a much better chance of loopin' it out while trying to save a wheelie than if you do just starting over. I've seen soooooooo many noobs try to save a wheelie, and they don't realize how much throttle they are giving it to save it, and before you know it the bike whips past BP and you're on your *** with $1000 worth of repairs. Just my 2 cents... keep up the good work.

 

Yeah if you drop it outta BP just drop it, rolling on the throttle again that close to balance is not really a good idea. If I **** my wheelies up I drop them.

 

I don`t try to, once its going down I don`t bother trying to save it.

But what I mean by not knowing when to use the back brake is, do I give it a little pressure right before I get to BP, and keep rolling on the throttle, do I take it to balance point, and then tap it, or do I go slightly past BP, and then tap it to keep it in that area? Also, from a dead stop, BP will be reasonably higher, correct? I`m rolling on from about 10mph (appx, I don`t look at the speedo, and its not right with the sprockets anyway)

 

I havn`t got out to the spot for very long since I really only ride with one other person and I don`t like trying new **** by myself, and his ***** broke at the moment, but the few I`ve done starting at around 5mph have been a TON smoother than the faster ones. Alot less squierrly and just alot more in control. I`ve also clutched them almost right to BP, so thats keeping them a ton slower, and I`m getting comfertable with the feeling of being in/near BP in a sitdown, so I`m not being choppy with the throttle.

Out of curiosity, how much more can you see taking the upper off on a 900 during sitdowns?

 

slow it down with throttle, hit the brake to save urself. save the brake **** for idle

 

I havn`t used it except when I need to, this things got tons of engine brake to bring it back to earth, and I don`t want to get into the habit of thinking I need to use it for first gear, since I wanna work on spreaders and what not in first after I get this down (2 wrecks on the freeway make 1st gear so much more appealing ).

 

My good friend Zac (Zackie Chan) taught me to do this when learning the back brake. Just put good pressure on the back brake before even starting the wheelie, and power through your rear brake to balance point. It takes a little while to learn, but this will teach you to be in the brake... then as you get smoother you can start to learn that your hand and right foot work well together.

After a while, you will learn how to power through the brake and reallllllllllly slow down the bike. Before you know it.. you'll be whipping them up to BP and creepin them. After you get used to having your foot in the brake before doing a wheelie, learn to snap the bike to BP without being all over the rear brake before the wheelie. It takes another couple weeks to learn this, but once you can start out at almost a dead stop and snap it to BP and catch it with the rear brake perfectly and let idle carry the bike you'll excel in learning slowwww wheelies.