I feel so dumb about posting how to wheelie in second. Yesterday, I was cruising with my friends and we started messing around. I was going like 35 in second, pulled the clutch, revved the crap out of it and dumped the clutch. It came up nice and slow and I rode it for maybe five seconds. But at least i know it'll come up. I was bitching and moaning before about how it wont come up but it will. after that I decided to see if it would power up in second and it will. Brought it to like 10k in second, rolled on then off and on again... came up waaaay to fast. But again, it came up when i thought that it didnt have enough power. You guys are right, its definately not the bike... Its the technique. Thanks guys...You helped me alot.

 

whats up mang. What'd you do differently? sit back in your seat more? and how much did you rev it up when you pulled the clutch in goin 35?

 

How the crap did you on off on a 2nd gear wheelie on a 600 with stock gearing??????????????? I am thinking of changing gearing on my f4i to do that.

 

I can get my F4i off the ground with a bounce in second. Yet, I'm still learnin, so it' not consistant. Throttle on, throttle off as I stand up, throttle on. I'd say she comes up about a foot or so. My technique needs work, but it comes up with stock gearing.

 

I did the on-off-on method first, in second gear with one down in the front... Make sure you are low on gas. It comes up way to fast and is tough to control. Brought it up to like 11k in second the whacked it, came up and scared the bejesus out of me. Then i tried to clutch it at about 35mph in second. Pulled the clutch in, didnt look at the tach, jsut went by sound, when it sounded scary loud and revved out, i dumped the clutch and up it came, much slower than powering it up. I held it there for about five seconds and let it down easy before it hit the rev limiter.

 

You dont need to change nothing....just keep trying!

 

It took me a long time to learn how to wheelie, so I feel your pain. I could roll 100+ foot endos and feet over endos before I could raise the front. I also tried the, my bike is hard to wheelie excuse but it is not true, your bike will wheelie no mater what it is.
I have seen goldwings wheelie and if the they can you can.

The key to any wheelie is to accelerate into it. I started out very inconsistent I found the difference between when it came up and when it didn't was acceleration, and onece you are consistant riding them is easy.

Sitdown: I usually start at about 35, accelerate to about 45, pop the clutch. When the wheel starts to come up don't let off the throtle stay with it. I measure how I am by how well I can see infront of me. (if you can see where you are going you are not high enough)

The key to a stand up is to bounce with your legs not your arms, and don't pull up with your arms. (have you ever stud on a peice of wood and tried to pull the corner up it just does not work)

The most important thing in stunt ridding is to get over your fear, It took me two days to go from not being able to wheelie (my defonition of a wheelie is riding on not getting it up then putting it down) to riding my first mile on one wheel. No mater what you do be confident, you are in control make the bike do what you want it to do.

 

Well said....u r a

 

on my Gix 600, in 2nd gear, I go to about 8kRPM let off gaz, bounce on the rear peg in a squatting motion, when the suspension is compressed, I wack the throttle open, comes up nice, then you use throttle control to bring it at the height you want

 

i can bounce in 2nd no problem now...before i used to keep trying all it takes is some practice now im rocking 3rd

 

Yeah I have tried clutching my 600 Gixx -1 front up a lot too it's pretty hard. I thougtht that the rpms had to be up higher when clutching it sittin down, but I did one the other day going pretty slow and it came up and floated really nice. This is all sitting.

Still don't have it figured out so I gave up and just practice stand-ups N second, I can do those better than sit-downs.