What's up guys?
I am BeRad.
We're here on the Cross Training Enduro channel.
The number one thing for learning wheelies?
Get that front wheel up near balance point as quickly as possible...
without gaining much forward momentum.
That allows you to keep your wheelies very slow and controlled.
And also it's a lot safer.
You're not going too fast if you backflip.
Your motorbike will probably be okay.
And hopefully you will be okay too.
Work on very minimal throttle... 10% to 25% throttle if you're on a 250 or 300.
That's probably all you need.
But you have to have very good clutch control.
Time the clutch with that little bit of throttle.
You want to get your clutch lever set up just before the engagement point.
Hopefully you're familiar with that if you're working on this technique.
You hover it somewhere off your handlebar before it starts grabbing, pulling you forward.
As you apply throttle, as you're twisting, you want to dump it all.
You want quick inertia impact and helps bring your wheel very quickly,
without your motorbike lunging forward into a power wheelie where you will get out of control.
You need to work on weighting and deweighting, specifically your front suspension.
If you come from sitting down at nearly a standstill, you'll get plenty of traction.
If you have your butt back on the seat you probably won't have to worry about that.
But it's really important to use your suspension both front and
rear to get traction and help lift the front wheel up into the air.
One really good way to do that - grab with one finger on your front brake lever here.
And you push down.
Don't use too much chest.
You don't want to get your body forward.
But if you stay rigid here, use your lower chest, and keep walking,
you can compress your suspension a little bit.
When it's unloading that's when you want to time your throttle and clutch.
That will really make you be able to come up with what seems like no throttle.
The most important for safety is the rear brake!
Before you start ensure your brake works!
Maybe you put a new knobby on recently, and your brake pads aren't close to the disk?
Always pump the brake to check as you roll.
Make sure you grab it before you start your wheelie.
You want your toe covering the brake and this will have you set up so if you do
get the wheel up quickly and it drops you back, your foot is already there.
All you have to think about is put your toe down and that sets your wheelie down.
A lot of people think it requires some like elephant's worth of pressure on there.
But even for 12 o'clock I could apply enough pressure with my fingertips.
And your foot, or boot, is more than enough.
So you'll have to play around with different pressures,
see what works for you, and your brake setup, your motorbike.
But definitely make sure you're covering the brake...
not only covering it, actually using it to bring your front wheel down.
You'll see my left leg dangling out.
Now the reason I do that is to act as a counterbalance.
Sometimes you may hit a bump, you may turn your handle bars to the left,
and it will throw your weight to the right.
In order to counteract that, you can dangle your leg out.
Typically for me, I may have to put my right leg out,
but the issue with that is then you're not covering your rear brake!
And things can go bad pretty quickly.
Try to set yourself up and get comfortable to a point
where your left leg is the main leg you'll use for that counterbalance.
But the last thing that's super important is if both feet are on the pegs... footpeg pressure.
Pushing down on the right peg will throw you to their left side of the motorbike.
You want your knees to be open when you're doing these really slow wheelies.
You can almost shift the motorbike like a typewriter, moving over your hands on the bars.
Just open up your chest, your elbows, and your knees.
Let the motorbike float there to control it.
So thanks everyone for watching, I hope this video
was really helpful and you learned some techniques that will help you wheelie.
Again, my name is BeRad.
If you don't know me from YouTube already go check out my channel, BeRad.
I will have links up on the screen in the description.
Awesome.