View Poll Results: how long after buying your bike did you start to wheelie?
1 month or less
165
55.00%
1-3"months"
61
20.33%
4-6"months"
25
8.33%
7-9"months"
11
3.67%
10-1year
9
3.00%
1yr-1yr & 3months
19
6.33%
1&4 to 1&6
1
0.33%
1&7 to 1&9
0
0%
1&10-2yrs
3
1.00%
took longer than 2yrs
6
2.00%
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how long after you got your bike befor you started to do wheelies?
Registered User
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 158
From: newbaltimore,michigan
Re: how long after you got your bike befor you started to do wheelies?
im 15 and i had my bike for about 2 weeks before i started lifting the wheel off the ground, i never got a hold of it to where i could wheelie real long because of winter but its a 91 zx7r and i can lift it up, just need a lil more practice on it, yea i know im too young and i shouldnt be on the bike anyways but i do it at the factory buildings down the street 
I Chose to No Longer Post
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 3,284
From: people get shot here
Re: how long after you got your bike befor you started to do wheelies?
i think everyone that buys a sportbike wants to learn to wheelie, just takes a certain mindset to actually try long enough to learn balance point.
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Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 98
From: glencoe mn usa
Re: how long after you got your bike befor you started to do wheelies?
Originally Posted by GPcrew
man i am fed up with this hunk of sheot i got!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im gonna work my *** off and get a 900 because i can bearly get first gear sit downs on my peice man, i creep at like3 k and hit like 10 grand befor itll stand up past couple inches off da ground. im no good at clutches cause im gooin so slow i have really hard time ballenceing. it will have even harder time standin up with my 300 pound 6'2 foot *** on it too. so in my opinion is that i should get 900 and learn some powers then slow it down and hit up some clutches once i get used to holdin the wheele off the ground longer than 2 seconds, with the help of the powers , witch buy the way i cant do on my bike"puss bike+big rider=no powers"lol. so anyone agree? if you do whats a good cheap *** 900 stuntbike? cbr900rr,929,zx9r, any suggestions for my fat ***? 
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 179
From: pittsburgh pa usa
Re: how long after you got your bike befor you started to do wheelies?
i understand but how long did it take yall to get good at whellies where you could get it up to bp and ride the **** out of it? it seems like im dumb to me caus ei cant get the sheot down. is it easyer if you learn to wheelie stand ups first or ?? cause it seems to come up easyer and more comfy for yall and i feel awkward when it dose get up high enough cause i feel like im gonna fall off the thang backwards and i know im not even past 2 or 2.5 feet, is this normal feeling to have or am i a puss? should i try stand ups? or stick with sit downs? oh yea dose anyone know of anyone that would mind riding with a punk that can bearly pop em up? im in the stpete/tampa area of FL holla at me if you wanna ride PM!! later you punk asses that make me look like crap.. lol peace.
your spelling makes me want to shoot myself in the face
with a really big gun. please learn to type esp. if your gonna ask questions. being able to actually write a complete thought in sentence form will help you get better answers rather than saying :
will muh byke stand it up in fyrst gyear and if so wat about 3rd or 17th!?@#@#@
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Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 2
From: 10eastern avenue,ashford kent TN23 1LR
Re: how long after you got your bike befor you started to do wheelies? 
years to perform all the perfect naughty stuff.dam god now u cant 
catch me ,i can fly yours angles anywhere.juuuuuupp....
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Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 2,698
From: ..
Re: how long after you got your bike befor you started to do wheelies?
Tought myself how to wheelie when I was a kid with no help & not one pointer. Started clutching up & riding out wheelies on dirtbikes at 11, by right before I turned 12 I was shifting from 2nd to 3rd gear on my back wheel of my xr100 & doing most of my road on one wheel. I'd ride out long wheelies even with my friends on the back. Nothing crazy, just sitdowns. I would have been doing other crazy stuff but I've never seen it then.
I started lifting my front wheel at the end of my first day on my first rocket. By my 4th day I was doing 1/4 mile smoothly a over 80mph. I picked up very fast on my rocket, but I was good at 11 and i got good on my 50 acouple months before I got my rocket.
I started lifting my front wheel at the end of my first day on my first rocket. By my 4th day I was doing 1/4 mile smoothly a over 80mph. I picked up very fast on my rocket, but I was good at 11 and i got good on my 50 acouple months before I got my rocket.
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Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 714
From: CT
Re: how long after you got your bike befor you started to do wheelies?
never had a big bike, but i can clutch up someone else's R1 no prob. wheelied my mtn bike everywhere. when i bought a cr80 and taught my self how to wheelie that. wheelie my fiddy and 450R all over the place.
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Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 99
From: Laguna Nighetto, CA
Re: how long after you got your bike befor you started to do wheelies?
hmmm had a zx-7r and wrecked it tryin to wheelie. hit a grand cherokee head on and fucked myself up something awful.
got a gsxr600 this year and three weeks later i'm back up on one. it helps having a better rider to around to learn from.
got a gsxr600 this year and three weeks later i'm back up on one. it helps having a better rider to around to learn from.
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Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 10
From: denton, tx
Re: how long after you got your bike befor you started to do wheelies?
My first bike was a gsxr600 wich i had for about six months before it got jacked. now I got a gsxr 1000 which I've had for about 6 months which im stunting out now and still havent never done a wheelie. . .should be interesting
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Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 799
From: Oceanside, NY
Re: how long after you got your bike befor you started to do wheelies?
started ryding dirt bikes when i was 8 motocross racing etc, started with a 50 woo long time ago. did wheelies about a week after having my honda crf100 a bit later after ryding,had a yzf600 pos, now i ryde a 05 gsxr and it just kinda came natural still took a while to get the hang of but probably easier then if i didnt ride at all.
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Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 101
From: ~wisconsin~
Re: how long after you got your bike befor you started to do wheelies?
first day i got my XR. In the yard trying to do power stand ups. wouldnt come up at all. Finaly lead back so hard that it did come up and the bailed off the bike. Lol i thought my bike was done for. LIke 5mph crash on the grass. I was freaking out because i just got it.
