How do I get my bike to do this?

[CRXSi90]

Re: Wheelie (Oh my Gawd!)

Wow, thats an incredible story. It got my heart going!

[MAXIMAN]

Re: still a little cautious of wheelies

Originally posted by Yamaniac
Just food for thought, I have read on several stunt websites that the clutched wheelies are (safer?). they are easier to control, at least.

I don't buy that. But then I don't buy into much of any bologna a stunter post on the www.

Of all the Elevens I've owned (three in the last couple years) I've wheelied two of them. One is a full dresser ('82 Maxim) and did it quite unintentionally. The other was a '79 SF. I never was able to "power wheelie" any of these Elevens. To get the front up I always had to clutch it which can be a bit un-nerving.

Unlike my 2005 ZRX1200R. Simply roll the throttle in the first couple gears and the Kaw jumps over the moon. It is much more controllable ... at least to me...to be able to simply power wheelie a bike than pop the clutch. I supposed because all the YZ dirt bike I rode would loft the front end if you did so much as sneeze.

[MAXIMAN]

Originally posted by scalded dog
My 78 standard, will do it quiet easily, about any time I want it to, rolling about 10mph, pull in the clutch hit wop and let the clutch go. I have done it about 4-5 times on my fully dressed '79 standard, now clutch too weak. Later 'Dog

Dog

That is a sight to behold. A full dressed bikeon the back wheel. I know when I did it by accident in Branson couple years ago there were 7 or 8 Beemers in a group. They all had this horrified look on their faces.

SO DID I!

One thing that makes the Eleven hard to wheelie compared to chained bikes is the counter jack from the shaft. In reality this is a good thing. It makes the bike much more controllable when launching from a dead stop.

[TopCatGr58]

Clutching at Wheelies

Hey there Maximan,

I first started practicing wheelies using the clutch technique, but then I tried the 15mph roll on, snap to throttle and pull up. The Snap rollon seems to work better cause the clutch plates are already fairly locked and fully grabbing.

Last year I was showing off a little for who I thought would be a new Xsive(who I got Basketcase from), and was leaving his neighborhood after visiting with him, went down the block, turned around, and did the roll on technique, and grabbed a bit more throttle than I had before, and Godzilla reared up to about that same level as in the Frenchie Photo at the beginning of this thread... I held on, wasn't covering the rear brake, but was able to control it and get the throttle turned down and bring the front wheel back down! PHEW

I've posted this little snippett video before, but here it is again:
Godzilla "little" Wheelie IT's about a 1 mb video, only about 10 seconds long, done several years ago shortly after getting it broken in after my topend Big Bore build!

When the weather gets better, I'll be trying to get some better footage of a better attempt.

[scalded dog]

Maximan, One of the wheelies on my fully dressed, was at Thunder Beach, two years ago, pulled in to where they had mostly Harleys, waiting to do a dyna on their bikes, bought some leather, turned around and saw a couple folks looking at my standard, which at the time only had 17, 000 on it, clean as a pen, I pulled out hit the clutch and throttle, walked it about 10 ft., heart in throat, everyone was clapping, man what a feeling. LOL. Later 'Dog

[pggg]

I could only clutch it up in 1st (shaftdrive) but she'll rear up easy by snapping the throttle in 1st with a 43 tooth rear sprocket on chaindrive. With a 48 tooth sprocket, you'd be fighting against wheelies

[gerkenbruce]

Yes T.C.

But your frontend is all ready 4" in the air LOL.

If you have road with T.C. HE dose nice wheeles but shoud see him drag his mulfer in the coners,

XSively
Bruce

[Shuriken]

TC makes it look all too easy. That bike looks like it has grunt.

Ben

[Pain]

I have done wheelies on both my SG and my dresser H.

i didn't like it. With only the 2 wheels, I think it is better to keep them on the ground.

[MAXIMAN]

TC

I noticed Zilla wasn't dressed in that movie. Cool wheelie though.

As you all know getting a Maxim up is a bit more of a challenge because of all the Elevens they were the weakest. They had...by 1982...been tuned down for emissions and gas mileage.

Add to that the fact that my Zilla was fully dressed ... it was a total shocker for me and everyone with in "eye shot" that it reared up like Roy Rogers on Bullet.

Today just for grins I took him up the street and could not get the front wheel off the ground more than 2-3 inches. Kept spinning the tire. I'll try it again on a rougher surface. I gotta master getting a full dresser off the ground just so I can get those jaw dropping looks like DOG!

I have no idea how I got that big Maxim up in Branson. The conditions were just right I suppose. My '79 SF was easy to unicycle. But this big heavy Max is a different machine altogether.

[dragxs11]

Huh... I thought I was the only one who accidently stood one to attention. Guess I should've known. It was dads 80G on a home town street. With my old friends from high school in rear view, and a slow brick in front I got frustrated and dropped a gear around 25. The front came up, while the rear burned, and my friends told me that the Kerker scared a guy on the side walk into a sign. Up to then, I thought xs11's wouldn't do that. A score for me, I have a reputation to uphold.

[LoserShoes]

Originally posted by MAXIMAN


... it was a total shocker for me and everyone with in "eye shot" that it reared up like Roy Rogers on Bullet.

.

Yea that would have been a shocker, since Bullet was Roys dog, Trigger was his horse.



Steve

[Winterhawk]

The best and safest way is to use Paint Shop Pro.

[skids]

Yeah, but his dog was not well-trained! He should have had him neutered...

Originally posted by LoserShoes


Yea that would have been a shocker, since Bullet was Roys dog, Trigger was his horse.



Steve

[MAXIMAN]

Originally posted by LoserShoes


Yea that would have been a shocker, since Bullet was Roys dog, Trigger was his horse.



Steve

Figures...that was way before my time.