Can I Wheelie Better With 1 Hour Practice? 

First of all, not a stunt rider, but i have a lil more experience on wheelies, and its all about body position, if u check the video, you all curved on top of the front wheel, thats what making your wheelies so much harder to get up and running and so unstable. My advice, try on second gear, harder to get up but way less scary and body position is way more important, then go as slow as u can, cluch up and relax ur back and arms, go back to lil baby wheelies until you get your body position right. keep checking back on your camera to see if you corrected it. it was my major problem trying to wheelie. Using the bike to fight ur body is a good way to get hurt. Have fun

Great start Justin :D Just keep practicing the so-called pop up wheelies to understand the 1) BODY POSITION 2)QUICK CLUTCH RELEASE 3) QUCIK THROTTLE START 4) PLAYING WITH THE FOOT BRAKE TO CONTROL THE ANGLE ... on the side note, next year you are more then welcome for a private lesson :D

I am definitely not a stunt rider but I am reasonably okay at doing a wheelie. Here are some tips: 1 Body Position, sit further back on the saddle with your back leaned back slightly (look up on the internet and try to recreate that), keep that position the same throughout the start till the end of the wheelie. Try doing a wheelie in second gear if first is to scary this way you learn correct body position and correctly clutching up rather than using the power of the bike. Always keep the throttle consistent throughout the wheelie, find what works for your motorcycle this way it’s easier to keep them consistent, last longer and improve upon. And really try to land the motorcycle smoothly so it doesn’t damage the front fork seals or otherwise your bike needs a little bit more than a top end rebuild 😅. I learned to wheelie on a ktm duke 125 (15hp) and now own a 450exc sumo and gsxr 1000 k6. I used the same method for all 3 bikes, I know u can do it aswell! Keep looking back at the footage and compare it to people who have similar motorcycle and you’ll get the front wheel at 12 in no time! (Sorry for the poor English)

Next time youre out training, instead of chasing the wheelie try popping up the bike and as soon as you get up, press the back brake! That will make you more comfortable using the brake (the break is key!) then do it over and over again and try to get higher and higher, this will also help you get over that scary barrier before balance point easier, quicker and more safely than for example chasing the wheelie 😉👍

this would be a nice serie to do, learning something in like 1 hour

Great video. I could relate to every word of this.

My longest wheelie is 2 miles.. so I might know a thing or 2. Learn in first gear, you will crash so it’s better to be going slower. Practice popping the clutch and smashing the footbrake to build muscle memory and confidence. If you don’t you will not remember to use it when you go too far back. Slowly work the bike up to higher and higher and try not to chase it. When your forks are parallel to ground that balance point. Smooth throttle is your friend, don’t brap it! Stay the course and good luck! It takes time and practice.

Glad you recognized when you hit the wall and stopped. So many people push through that point and try to grunt fuck it and that's when bad things happen

I learned to wheelie in 2 days. It was all about the body position. Not a pro but enough to do it more than 5 seconds.

Some tips on wheelies too (I sometimes find balance point but I´m scared to keep it there): leaning rearward and keeping your arms straight and keeping your back straight will make wheelieing so much more controllable, and also keep your feet on the rear brake. Constant throttle input but correcting using the rear brake. I bought a supermoto to practice wheelies but I went and learned a lot more on my MT09 😂

Thank you for the road, trust I will be using it to practice my wheelie's😁

When I was learning wheelies I realized that I made better progress by doing wheelies 30minutes everyday or every few days . That rest beetween means alot. At the begining I tought if I train for hours and hours a day that I would progress sooner but 30 minutes a day is all it takes and I bet you will already be good at doing long wheelies and shifting gears in 1 month

My plan is to get a beaten up old trailbike and practice on the beach. Soft landing and no fear of damaging the bike I love. So funny how we all did wheelies on our bicycles as kids, and now we can't wait to do it on something that ways 200kg at risk to life and limb.

I am also learning wheelies on my DRZ400, I am able to bring it up in 1st through 3rd and can click into 4th. What I have found is when it comes up you let off out of fear and it drops, even when not at balance point, instead of letting off try just backing out of the throttle a tiny bit and staying smooth instead of jabs. When I began to be smooth I naturaully found balance point and just a few weeks later I found how to push the balance point and use the engine brake. I can now hold wheelies for essentially as long as possible without using brakes at all.

Cool! You're doing great! Waiting for drifting practice and tutorial 😁😁

Ha ha, I sympathise, I have the same problem: I don’t push myself hard enough because I don’t want to make damage (to myself and the bike), and so I’m stuck with tiny wheel pops and never really make significant progress…

I’ve being trying to learn wheelies for like 2 years but never stuck to it but a couple weeks ago i was like okay now i want to really learn this skill. So i went practicing every single day for around 30 minutes to an hour a day and i learned wheelies in 3 weeks the only thing i could do before hand was clutch ups 30 centimeters of the ground. But still felt comfortable.

you should touch the back break when you pop the wheelie it helps a lot with progressing

Nice effort. I can relate to some things, like having a nice bike you dont wanna crash / fear etc. The 10k hours is not needed, if one havnt ridden a bike before it might take some time ofc. No need to rush it, build on it. These bikes have much engine break so no need to keep break pressure for a regular wheelie but once you are trying to do things like 12o clock you could have a light pressure on the brake. Doing a high wheelie like that feels extremely wrong when learning it, hard to get over the fear aspect. For me it took only one night of riding in a parkinglot to scrape the rear fender, same for my friend. Was also on supermotard. One easy tip for you, go to a hill, try wheelie UP it, much easier to get a feel for how things works then, and you could probably also learn how to wheelie slower then! Getting the bike up high FAST will also help keeping the RPM down thus a easier bike to handle and more rev range to play with!

How can you get board of practicing wheelies?? Learning was so fun for me. I love hitting that point when you feel like you start to get worse when practicing something, that’s how you know you’ve practiced enough.

If you put a certain time limit on something, you will get lost in time and you cannot do what you have in mind. don't set yourself a time limit, say "today I'm going to do perfect wheelie" and do it. everything ends in your mind. wherever you look, you go

I am a Karen and Im upset... You could have gone 5km without getting caught

Keep it going dude!!!

I bought a drz400sm just for wheelie practice. Most hard part is finding a road that is empty enough

Here is 4 top tips to learn how to wheelie safely and effectively. Tip #1 and most important: learn how to use de rear brake. Alot of poeple underestimate its power and its the secretbto doing good wheelies. Start by lifting up the wheel of the ground and emediatly apply the brakes to get a feel. It needs to be a second nature so that you press it in panic instead of yeeting your legs. #2 don't chase wheelies, idealy you should not take speed on wheelie focus on finding the tipping point. (quick trick apply a slight bit of brake when popping the wheel of the ground) it will prevent the bike from accelerating and give you more confidence safety, and controll to find the tipping point. #3 dont fight the bike, follow it. you should have a relax position and be relaxed. Try finding an incline and sit on it just like in a wheelie to visualize the angle. As odly as it sounds y unlocked my fear of getting to the tipping point by riding a lawn mower in a steep incline. #4 if you can try to practice on dirt with knobies at low speed or get propper slidd8ng equipement for you and your bike . Dont worry about the machine those thbings are cheap as fuck to fix. You can also try at higher speeds in higher gears the bike is much more smooth to controll and less edgy at lets say 50 mph .and try slowly raising the wheel without taking speed.

On the street, a wheelie is a poser move. Off-road, a wheelie is a way to turn around in a tight space, or a way to get over a log, or a way to land on rear tire after a jump, and... a poser move 😎 But off-road, the wheelie is at a slow speed, or from a stop, or at higher speeds.... usually

look forward helps. And be smooth with the throttle. Always cover the clutch, and rearbrake.

still cant believe u got a supermoto 🥴

For me it took about 3weeks to learn how ti wheelie, and i had a 50cc moped with a tuning exhaust

Bro join rokbagoros wheelie academy ASAP and drop a vlog😅 also I’m waiting for that coffee table

At the age of 20 I had a 125cc "trail" bike. I managed in a very short time to reach the balance point... and even quicker to overpass it. My right hand still carries a very nice scar. No gloves, no helmet, no experience. My only advise (40+ years later) : keep on training OFF ROAD, mud is way softer than tarmac...

Just bought a klx300 that i plan to learn wheelies on in the dirt. Too bad its winter now 😢

I have the exact same problems as you. Seriously everything in this video

I would like to watch more of this content as well as stoppies etc. 😎👍🏻

It’s all about Seat time there’s nothing around it the more you practice the better you’ll get

I did practice for 3 months every day , and the biggest misstake as to little throttle and not leaning back . And I Got a lot better . And Don't be scared o dropping the bike. Use more throttle and you pop the clutch .

It takes... Many hours of consistent training! And as you noticed after some time, you need to stop and call it quits when youre tired. You work up the wheelie stamina as you go, but theres not really any point of doing more than one or two hours of practice a day!

i have been wheeling my mt07 since this year (2022) doing 10/15 min a ride day if i had the time (2-3 days a week), it took me about 2 months to be able to lift the wheel up for more than 2 sec, now i do full 2d gear power wheelies at decent elevation but still afraid of going to far up.

What happened to the x3 insta 360

took me 2 months over an hour every day in the lot before i could do an actual wheelie

The nice bike turns into a beater wheelie bike after you crash it. But the fun is putting it back together with better parts when you break them

Nice video. Keep up the good work

An hour a day works wonders, but first try to focus on getting to the balance point instead of focusing on the going further aand keep your foot on the rear brake that is when you feel like you are not comfortable with the height of the front wheel off the ground.

It's 10,000 hours to be an *expert* in a field. That doesn't mean "do a good wheelie" but rather "compete in a stunt world championship" If you're looking at just doing a decent wheelie, it will take you a few hours

Try to do it on a restricted 50cc moped

If you’re just using power, I would 100% suggest learning clutch-ups. Makes popping the front wheel way more controlled and predictable.

Well ive been to scared to learn wheelies on my kx250 bc i didnt feel comfortable on 1 wheel. But now iam selling the kx250 and buying a 450 to then turn into a stunt oriented supermoto and hopefully it will go well :)

Wheelies are too much fun 😅😅

if i may come with some comfort. those 10k hours acctualy the time to reach worl elit kind of level.the time to get good is around 20 hours. there is a ted-talk on this :) there you just saved abourt 420 days or so of practice

Actually, it's a common misconception that it takes so long to learn skills. What you have to realise is that people might do stuff for years, but not for very long at a time. Even if you go out to a lot, doing wheelies for 4 hours, if you stop for 5 minutes after every 20 second wheelie you're not actually getting that much practice in. Actively practicing a skill humans learn much much quicker. I work as an off road motorcycle instructor and you'd be surprised that people, even kids that have NEVER ridden motorcycles before are competent enough to go onto a fairly rough offroad track after only 3-4 hours of training, of which at least 1/3 is just explaining stuff. From there another 2-3 hours and they get comfortable off road to the point where they can actually put in fairly decent times. Then we usually move onto trials, and again they can clear some pretty impressive obstacles in fairly short amount of time. I'd say after 25 hrs of training they can comfortable complete most things in our trials park, even if not first try, or not perfectly but they can do it. It's the same for wheelies too. If you go out and practice an hour, I guarantee you that after 5-6 sessions, you'll be consistently be able to pull off good looking, long ish wheelies. There isn't months of practice involved, if you decide to do 1hr everyday for a week, then that's all it'll take. Biggest blocks for progression are mental blocks such as "what if I hurt myself, or my bike" and not practicing often enough, having to re-learn things everytime, before you can actually go on to improve your skills. Forgot to add, what you said at 7:40 is absolutely crucial, only practice until you start regressing. There your skills will NOT improve after that point. Either take a long break, or finish for the day. This is the same as with going to the gym, the first 30 mins are the most productive, everything after that is rapidly diminishing returns.

It's better to train 10 minutes every day than an hour every week.

You could ride that for another 50hrs and it still won’t blow up.

WOW AWESOME VIDEO SUPERB

Put a handbrake fot your rear brake calliper 😁😊

First of all, good improvement, maybe try leaning back and just pulling a little on the bars when popping the clutch, but otherwise, it will come to you. About stoppies, please dont try to do them, they are just about the most dangerous trick you can do on a bike, and learning in the middle of nowhere just sounds dumb, if you want to try it, do it when someone is around for when you get hurt

Boet let's build you a WHEELIE FRAME ... I work as a draughtman around the corner from your workshop and my dad has a fabrication shop. I'm sure we can find some offcuts that will work.

depending on the bike its often easier to wheelie in 2nd, idk if your doing that but whatever

Well done man still better than I could do, Jesus loves u✝️❤️

Bro stop saying your bad at wheelies. Thats a lot better then i Can. Might be because it svares the Living crap out of me though😂

You can’t learn everything in 60min. I started exactly like you 2 years ago and I’m still learning.

10000 hours are way too much i needed maybee 5 afternoons and my wheelies became okke 😅

Superrr🔥🔥

Your view point is stupid. About not wanting to hurt bikes etc. I knows it’s stupid causing I do the same dam thing and am currently looking at getting a dirt bike to improve my riding. Lmao. Yes a vid about stoppers as well. 👍🏻

to wheelie better you need to go outside of your comfort zone, just don't crash

Practise uphill, is much easy.

how much does it weigh holy shit you are moving it as if it were 40kg

Check wheelie king 5

Practice only 20min at the time, your brain only learns the first 20 mins. So do 20 mins 1-2 times a day and will progress

Superb❤️🤟

A 450 is way to powerful maybe try your 250 . I recommend to watching Rob Rippin channel he gives some really good advice 👍

Yeah, a 100kg + 60HP trackbike is not ideal for wheelies... because the gearing... megaLOL.

Mmm, I have to ask what practical benefit does this ‘skill’ reveal? Is it to escape invading zombies where you can smash through a pack using the hard undercarriage of the bike as a shield? Is it to prepare the bike for leaping over a log , trials style? Is it to get up a stairwell into your apartment? Is to flout the road rules and prove what a total rebel you are to the man? In my 55 years of riding road bikes, I’ve never felt the need or desire to deliberately ‘chuck a wheelie’ , nor actually have I had bike capable of withstanding the mechanical abuse needed to achieve it! My trials riding was a different thing altogether, however. I guess Im just a silly old codger who thinks such activity on the road is but an embarrassment to one who does it. As my mum would say, grow up mate.

Can you wheelie on a bicycle?

Bro the 10000 hour is not real I learned in a week and now after 2 months i can hit balance point very easy just practicing and say to yourself that you can do it

Akward.. after my first hour I was able to do a 1km wheelie and after 2 hours 2km was a piece of cake. Melcom Gladwell taught me himself so I guess I had an advantage 🤣

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Just buy a grom or a pit bike

I cannot stop staring at how poorly your hat fits, I've never seen someone wear a hat over their ears like that

Stop giving excuses n keep training. Nobody need 10000 hrs to get wheelies. U cab get it in 8 to 10 months if u train 1 hr per day 3 to 4 times a week

I am happy to give some tips 😊 give me a shout out

That was wheelie pathetic

Check out tarzanmotovlogs, he has a good vid .

Try 3. gear trust me on a supermoto 3rd is soo nice🤌

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