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What the best gear to learn to wheelstand on a KX500 ?
Polar-Bus:
--- Quote from: kiwikx500 on May 30, 2006, 05:29:22 PM --- ? Cheerz 8-)
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Before you ever get good at wheeling, you need to know the "balance" point of your bike. This is where the bike, front wheel in the air can almost perfectly balance itself. I recommend using 1st, and easily just roll the throttle incramentally bringing up the front tire higher, and higher. Trust me to a beginner you will find you need to get the front tire up REAL high to find this balance point. Then you can practice carrying more speed, and eventually banging gears in a wheelie (I am not that good and multiple gear wheelies, I much prefer slow speed technical wheelies. (kinda hard on a KX500 as they have SO much snap....
crusty:
the best way is rev up to about 10 grand in first then dump the clutch...... try it!Sorry that was sarcasm honestly 2, 3, 4 is the best at about 30 mph . :evil: :evil: :evil:
BDI:
You have to learn that? I thought thats just what the kx500 did. Now if you could learn how to make it not wheelie that would be an accomplishment. I dont have time to learn new tricks so I'm going to go on living life with the front tire in the sky. 8-) By the way I find first threw fifth all suitable for wheelien but the taller gears you can relax more and enjoy the ride. Slow and dieliberate throttle controle is the key you have to fight the urge to chop on and off. Very small throttle inputs will raise and lower the tire with a little practice you can keep the tire right where you want it and when you get good at it you will find that you can wheelie at very low rpms. Concentrate On what your right hand is doing and cover your rear brake and put it in your mind before you start your wheelie that if it starts to go over :-o I'm going to hit the rear brake. Cheerz
P.S. My favorite place to do wheelies is on dry lake beds,wheelies and land speed records are why god made those.
Hillclimb#42:
Hopefully you have learned most of this on another bike first. Do not try wheelies on a k5, if this is the first bike that you have owned!!!!!!! The k5 has aloooooot of power. It wheelies all the time on accident on all traction in all gears. Most bikes you can just let off and you save it. The k5 can be up and then surge a little after you let off and throw you down quickly. Be ready with the clutch under any riding, where you are spinning the throttle around. Also it is great advice to be ready with the rear brake, BDI, alot of time in a wheelie panic, people will freeze up and just let themselves flip. The worst part, I think, about wiping out in a loop out is the long silencer getting ripped off. Often that bends or breaks the sub-frame. Oh yeah and the road rash. The other problem with just riding for wheelie practice or jumping practice is that I always seem to get better and better and better until wham. Pay attention that once you start getting tired or improvement is falling off that you take a break or ride around doing other stuff for a little while.
Good luck. Keep it rubber-side down. :evil:
BDI:
No B.S. I have gotten off at 70 pluss mph before in a wheelie. I was wearing a leather and it ground off metal snaps burned me threw the leather bent the frame and all sorts of good stuff. I laid in bed for a couple of days never went to the hospital but should have. Be ready to pay a big price for small mistakes. :-(
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