And when it goes wrong,....it can go very wrong!
http://www.wackyvids.com/movies/2whe...87/sub_637.wmv

Well went out ( Sat ) with my bro to learn this wheelie stuff , tried second gear without much luck then started to wind throttle on then off & quickly on again and the wheel will come up but then i run out of road , so stareted again only using first and that worked a treat , the road is only about 100m long !
Roll along about 10/15mph & crack the throttle open and up she comes :D:o:bouncy:

Pics to follow , & remember never wheelied before in my life accept Cadwell last year ( once) & i soon put a stop to that ,so dont be to hard on the pics

Some pics up
Just stcuk em in with the trip over some local mountains a while back and are a bit fuzzy but it was the bros first time with his new camera

http://photobucket.com/albums/f341/t...e&i nterval=2

[Edited on 13-3-2006 by Totto]

Excellent!
Keep your back straight and look ahead rather than down at the bars and the bike will be less eager to drop back down. Then you can change gear.

Thanks for that ,its very helpfull

I think my problem is i am looking at the clocks to check my speed as i have not really got the feel for what speed the ktm is doing , as i am so used to the 998

Should the bike wheelie at any speed in first ?

If you've got time to be checking your speed while holding up a large one then you don't need to be asking advice on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prob best not to look at your clocks at all - get that feel for the speed without having to check. Not ridden a ktm but I guess it's geared pretty low so 15 mph sounds about right. Sure it'll come up in first at any speed, but the lower the revs the better, for obvious reasons - you don't want to run out of them!

I can do stand up wheelies on my old 1978 348 Montesa Cota trials bike no problem at all - well, I can't at the moment 'cos it's in the shed with no wheels on it :)

I've also done quite a bit of off roading on motocrossers and again, no problem with the front wheel being in the air.

On a big road bike I don't like 'em much. Don't mind the front coming up over hump back bridges or over the mountain, but even over the mountain I stand on the pegs and get my considerable weight over the front end (Motocross style) to stop it coming up too far.

One of the things that I do have from off-road bikes is a good sense of how far the front is coming up, and I did my first proper wheelie on my ST (with the bike at about 45 degrees) purely by accident. I was following Marko and Fordie through Uppingham, just the three of us coming back from Cadwell, and we got to the crossroads in the middle of town. Marko was leading and I was at the back as we trundled up to the traffic lights in first gear. As Marko crossed the lights they went amber, Fordie went across, but I wasn't sure whether the lights were going to change so I shut the throttle off quick and went for the brake, but then thought sod it, I'll go through as well and whacked the throttle open again just as the lights changed.

I'd created the perfect wheelie conditions by rolling along steady, snapping the throttle shut then whacking it open again. Sure enough, up came the front, nice and steady and I did my first proper big bike wheelie at the same time as crashing the red light. The good folk of Uppingham were not impressed and I'd just like to say that it's people like me that give bikers a bad name :lol:

In general though, even though I've repeated the process a couple of times (except for the red light bit) and can now do wheelies ranging from the pathetic to the moderate I prefer to keep the front wheel where it can steer me and stop me.

[Edited on 13-3-2006 by Jools]

Jools, I went to school in Uppingham, I'd have been over the moon to have seen a few people popping large ones whilst on my way to double maths!!!:bouncy:h

I'm fairly good at them, normal and stand ups.
To be really good it will take ages there is no shortcut, start little and go for distance not height, height will follow.
I can recommend Paul Gowers wheelie school and tbh that's prob the best place to start.
Most people I know who are good at them including myself just started doing them and progressed. It is prob wise to learnt the basices from a pro tho especially as it's easier to arrnage that these days :)