i am trying to learn to do a good stoppie! i can come to a stop and do a stoppie but not really ride it out. also sometimes my tire will just hop or it will slide other times the rear will come up fairly easy. is that my tire pressure? i was running around 35psi. is there any tips someone can give me or in a nut shell the "do's and don't" of stoppies? any info will help. also i am riding a 03 600RR

 

run either a pilot power or pirelli supercorsa and learn them coming in faster and try to roll them out rather than just poppin em up..

 

is there a certain psi my tire needs to be? and do i just come on the front brake hard and shift my body weight and let of the brake and just try to balance it out? while holding the clutch?

 

Stoppies are just like every other move, baby steps is definitely the way to approach this trick. Ride your bike at around 40mph, grip the tank with your legs, give it a little push forward when u squeeze the brake and sit back in your seat while rolling, keep arms firm and squeeze the brake lever easy and feel it out. Don't just grab the front brake, every day u go out to practice easily squeeze the brake and it will come, u will find the balance point eventually. From there u will have a clear understanding on how to keep it in the balance point and roll with it.

 

Run your pressure around 30lbs. Have a steering damper. Go to a parking lot and practice accelerating from a certain distance. 100 or 150 feet is usually a good start. Accelerate hard and try to pick up the rear tire at the same point every time. Gradually increase how fast you bring up the back of the bike. It takes a long time to get good at stoppies so keep at it.

And to the poster above. Wrong stoppies are nothing like anything else in stunting. If you go too far in a stoppie there is no comming back.

 

we went and practiced at our lot yesterday and i got the rear to come up good but it was more like just bringing me to a stop but yet the rear coming up. do i need to ease on the front brake and let out at the balance point or is it more like brake hard to get to it and ride it out?

 

You wont be finding the BP on stoppies for awhile. Just do what I said with a set take off distance and keep trying to go further and higher. Obviously to bring the rear up higher faster you need to use harder initial braking and then ease off as you get higher. Same thing as a wheelie, you clutch up using a fistful of throttle and then as it comes to where you want it you use just a little bit of gas. If you are finding yourself still hammering the brake in the stoppie then you're not high enough.

 

Roger! so i do need to ease off the front brake then, rather than hit and just let off?

 

Listen man, if you ****** the brake and then just let it go what do you think is going to happen? You have to maintain some brake pressure to keep you up, how much brake pressure is completely dependent on the height of the stoppie. Stoppies can not be mastered on the internet, go ride your bike and figure it out.

 

lol, okay sergeant!

 

im just looking for some advice! LOL cool it turbo

 

I gave you advice and you keep asking dumb questions.

 

just making sure i get it right that's all! no need for cyber bulling!! LOL

 

i've had a mental block with stoppies for a couple months now, every time i bring one up it goes sideways. I know that everyone says the tail drifts on you if you dont bring it high enough fast enough but it feels like i get it hella high and i've felt the terror of bp before...

i guess my main problem is that i feel like i try to play it safe which ends up in the tail drifting. Also it doesnt help that i have no flat place to practice and i can't tell if its the curvature of the road or parking lot that is pushing me around.
:bang head

 

Well you're definitely right about that, once u go too far there is no back brake or engine brake to save your ***. lol! just to clear this up all I meant was for the guy to take his time like he would with any other move. So remember manimal83 there is no engine brake or back brake to save u so take it easy bro.

 

just take it easy and practice practice practice, eventually youre gonna loop one, then youll understand where the bp is on it. difficult to find but the more speed you have and the more control over the braking pressure that you have the better youll get at it

 

Im still new in the game but id say you have to know when to bail, unlike rocking back past 12 o'clock, theres a bike thats comming over shortly behind you...stick around and see what a 12 bar will do. whenever i get to deep in a stoppie (typically near the end) ill bail over the bars to my feet and ditch the bike

 

I looped my R6 a few years back. Very embarrassing and expensive. It wasn't a stunt bike

Baby steps is definitely the best advice. And don't do Stoppies in traffic...