Say No to Slow : How to Wheelie an Adventure Bike 

It's ready, three hours and 16 episodes of off-road riding skills so you can learn to Say No to Slow! : vimeo.com/ondemand/saynotoslow This series takes adventure riders from core techniques like correct standing position and off-road bike set up, all the way through to jumping logs and high-speed slides. Along the way, you will learn techniques to become a safe and efficient rider. Its $35 US for the whole series and I'm confident you will come out of this Covid madness with some new skills!

"Practice it until it feels boring" - such a good way to put it!

"practice it until it feels boring" best advice for anything!

I don't think anyone asked for this, but glad I watched. Worth the 10 minutes.

Mate what's the lesson on getting back down eh? I have been wheeleying for the last few hours. Goddammit.

Don't let the insurance company see this video

I love it when people know how to break down a serious skill into simple steps. Well done!

Superb instruction! I started riding at 10, and I could wheelie for blocks on my Kawasaki KE 100. Now I'm an old fart and my toy is a bit more expensive (Hypermotard), and I feel a bit less invincible... That said, I've been timidly trying to regain the "feel" to wheelie confidently, and this video is the first I've found that gets the details of the sequence down pat. Thanks!

This is one of the most thorough, specific, detailed, well produced, and clearest tutorials I've ever seen. Thank you, Chris & your team, for putting this out there. I look forward to following all your videos ... maybe they'll tide me over until I can work it out to attend one of your classes! Thanks again!

"Episode 1. How to wheelie" Aaaaaaand subscribed😂😂 Clear, simple and bound to get me into trouble. Looking forward to the next. Thanks guys. Best of luck.

This is the most detailed instructional video I've seen on this topic. Thank you. I like also that it's geared to the big adventure bikes. Many others are demonstrated on 2 strokes or street bikes.

I’ve been riding street and dirt for 41 years since I was 6 years old. After a really bad accident 8 months ago on the road in North Carolina, I got back on a bike and headed from Brooklyn, NYC to Baja for two months to remind myself that I didn’t die that day in April when the pick up truck cut me off and that I still had some living to do. I traded my other bike that wasn’t totaled for a more comfortable yet capable “mid-sized adventure bike”. Chris’s Say No To Slow series helped to prepare me for my journey into the off road wonderland that is Baja Mexico. I even rewatched some of his videos (with the help of an over lander friends Starlink) when faced with a daunting hill climb off a remote beach 30 miles from nowhere. His series is very affordable and so well laid out, both in instruction and aids from video. Share this with your friends: it can only make them better riders that will be more willing to explore the roads less travelled and to find those little slices of paradise where most people won’t be confident to get to…

Thank you Chris . Best training so far. I'm getting me a bottle of whiskey and heading to the hills to practice the whole day long. Thank you mate

Massively helpful! Definitely do a series of this sort of video!

Thanks again Chris. Can you make a second one on how to keep, control and end the wheelie on different conditions?

Excellent ! Thanks for sharing these precious tips !

Great instruction & awesome video/footage!

This is really good info, but I see a lot of hospital visits from people who bought their bikes yesterday. I learned to wheelie on a bicycle. Can wheelie a bicycle for miles. Got a motorbike thought it would be easy, several faceplants later realised it's not even remotely the same. The one thing of the bicycle wheelie you can carry to a motorbike is using your front wheel to steer when its in the air. I can now wheelie a motorbike as far as I like!

Well thought out breakdown of the steps involved in a wheelie.

Ultra clear instruction, thanks for posting Chris.

Oh man... this is great! Thanks for doing this. Can’t wait to watch more of your content!

Great vid! Would love to see more tutorials for big bikes!

Amazing, the best tutorial on wheelies by far. Thanks and keep it up please!

Thanks Chris. Excellent instructional and I hope to see more.

This was the BEST wheelie video on you tube ! Hands down! Instruction videos for bikes PLEASE!!!

Awesome video, Chris. Your a master in executing AND in teaching the how to. I had never seen such precise and detailed instructions on how to wheelie a big adventure bike (or any bike for that matter). Please keep them coming! I would love a video on how to ride fast on dirt, particularly on turns. I do tend to loose trust on the bike and myself as I turn fast offroad. Thank you, thank you!

Thx Chris is amazing video, actually is the best tutorial in RU-vid.

Outstanding video, I’m hooked! Thank you so much!!!

The fingers covering the clutch (number of) advice is super useful, I have always secretly wondered this because nobody ever talks about the finer details, and I had been too embarrassed to ask. Thanks for the breakdown!

probably one of the best step by step ive seen thank you

I was lucky enough to get this lesson in person at a rider training day with him. Was such a good day

Excellent video! Thanks so much for sharing 😊

Outstanding coaching - Well done

I am impressed. I never thought it was possible to “teach” how to wheelie but Chris did it in spades.

Loved it! This is a skill I've ridden road for decades but got an adventure bike not long ago and decided to go offroad. I'm just starting to learn the basics, and after watching your vid, I was finally able to get the front wheel in the air! I'm stoked! As for your tutorial series, I'd love that too! I"m a beginner, so just anything you think beginners should know as fundamental skills is gonna help.

Absolutely spot on. Brilliant guide. Thanks 😎👍

Yes please do a series, love watching you throw these big bikes around !!

Great video. Enjoyed it very much! Would like to see more techniques for large adventure bikes such as riding through sand and snow/ice. Thanks for sharing your knowledge skills and experience!

I’ve been practicing the wheelie for almost 20 years now and it never gets old.

Beautifully explained. Thank You mate for your time and effort !

Thanks Chris - Looking forward to another lesson and one in person again would be great, once I'm ready.

Great video, congrats!! Yes!!! I‘d absolutely love to have an Adventure riding technique series from you Chris!!! Some examples I‘d like to improve / hear your opinion & advice: - Sand riding - Slippery terrain (compact red mud with rain on top) - U-turns (slide in and accelerate out) - Your toolbox setup - Emergency preparation (Spot, first aid kit, etc) - Recommended mods on 1090 R and 790 R (ABS dongle, fueling dongle, air intake, Break and clutch levers, handlebar, etc) - Riding Gear recommendations (Rider and Luggage) - Water crossings (different depths and surfaces) Thats what came to my mind for now. Cheers!!

How about gravel road cornering. Fastest way, safest way, best way to recover from understeer, how to ride the loose edges that we all find sooner or later.

This is great and so useful. Thanks. Keep them coming please

I love the step by step of this video. Always finding ways to improve.

Now THAT's how videos should be done! Great Job Chris and crew for putting this one together. Suggestions for future videos and in line with this one, be it for gravel road techniques, sand, mud hill clims, etc - show what the progression of the rider should look like, from beginner to advanced rider. Cheers!

I've ridden dirt bikes since I was 7 and street bikes since I was 16 and I'm now 55 but until last fall I've never combined the two. What is fairly simple on a dirt is a lot harder on my 1290 SAR so pretty much everything I'm good with even if it seems not important. An example is I had no problem geting on my WR 426 but seemed to struggle on the 1290 until I saw a video where you said to simply turn the handlebars to the right before you swing you're leg over. Amazing on how much easier that made getting on the bike.

Subscribed...! Really looking forward to future videos, thanks Chris

A perfect explanation for a useful maneuver. Thank you for the video.

Well done. Thanks for sharing. Can I wheelie? Sure. But nowhere near the control that I would like. Your instruction will get me a lot closer to where I want to be

Hey Chris great vid you really know your stuff and explain well, keep em coming mate👍

Awesome way of sharing your knowledge and experience! Loving it, and waiting for the next lesson.

Excellent explanation. Good job Chris.👏

Excellent vid! Made me feel like I can wheelie... even though I don’t have a bike at the moment! 👍😅

OK! Its taken us a bit longer but the whole series will be available very very soon!

Looking forward to trying this on the farm roads home today... Thank you, Chris!

Excellent video as always Chris.

Excellent video. Well done, Chris! I guess we don't have to shoot a Wheelie video now on MOTOTREK :)

Brilliant video Chris....keep them coming (cool for a Broxburn man)..lol...👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃

Watched so many ADV guys cross water fully sumerge until I watched you last demo. Something to think about. Terrific bro!

You are a perfect coach, congratulations

Would love to hear your thoughts about transitioning from roads to trails while traveling - how your set up and riding style changes.

"So that's bruuu-rhap, bruuu-rhap, bruuu-rhap." This is gold xD. Really good video. Subscribed :)

Nice work Chris! Probably the most informational How To Wheelie video we have seen. Love it!

This video is wonderful. Thanks Chris 🍻

"burrrAH!! burrrAH!! burrrAH!!" -Chris Birch, 2019

Thanks a lot. Can you make video how to replace backlights blinkers and a rear fender?

Great video!! Thanks for posting it! 👍😎

superb lecture in few words ...thanks Chris

Good way for ktm to move stock of back lights, blinkers, plastics, levers, etc. ;)

Do one with jumps. How to jump a big bike, how to set yourself for the jump, stance, movement prior to the jump P.S. sorry if double posted

Great video.... Thank you Chris.

Really excellent and clear instruction! What a great teacher! Thanks for this tip!

8:33 A heavy dab on the rear brake throws weight on the front to help with the spring back. Ya didn't mention that Chris!

So this video inspired me to try this in my back yard with my 2018 AT. Needless to say, I need much, MUCH more practice. I think one problem is that i'm a wimp and used Power Level 3 (the slowest throttle response) and I need to pop it more. Also, coordinating a bounce with a throttle snap is a hell of a lot harder than it sounds. Practice practice practice. I'm glad I have 5 acres of yard to play with and only have to worry about dodging the cacti in my yard :D

Excellent video. Very well explained and love the way each step has been focussed on.

The best explications to do a wheelie. Many thanks

I'm late to the party....just found you and subbed, great vids👍

Thanks Chris, any plan to have courses in europe anytime soon? Meanwhile, if you could go through tips on how to ride a big adv bike in (thick) mud, would be great :)

The first one I come across with clear and precise info. Great Video. Cheers from Mauritius

Really informative Wheelie video.Thank you!

In other news, crashed adventure bikes insurance claims are unusually high this month.

Oh boy, I have to show this video to my old Honda Transalp 600... Maybe it can give some motivation :D

Hands-down the best video I’ve seen on the subject. Thanks

Great explanation easy short and deep!

Yo! Give us more!

That was a first class lesson! Great skills.

Excellent explanation and great training exercises to ease into launching a big boy!

My first wheelie was next level! My bike flying towards a parked car and me sitting on my butt! Say No to Slow!!!

2:40 Too funny. I had a lengthy conversation with another rider about finding a dead accurate tire gauge. His concern being the gauge and bikes TPMS was out by like 5 psi. Dude thought he was going to die. World-renowned rider, squeeze the tire, feels too hard. Lets out some air, squeeze tire mehhh feels about right .... let's go wheelie... BTW vid has been forwarded to tire pressure guy... :)

This was so well explained. Thanks!!

Excellent video. Well done!

Hey Chris you didn't mention about break cover doing wheelie. And in caption from your back I noticed break light flash before you pop up the bike.

I’d like everyone trying this on their big adventure bikes to record it and post it here 😂😂

Probably the best how to wheelie video I've seen yet. Great job!

Great video.Really useful tips.Thank You

Hello Chris, are you in Off Road mode, or do you have the traction control and ABS turned off?

Tried it... Neighbor wants a new fence... Who is paying for it? 50/50???🤷🏻‍♂️

Love it! always wanted to learn how to do a wheelie, love the details. thank you.

Great video guys. Clear, concise, great production quality