Clutch Wheelies or Power Wheelies which do you prefer?

[Fatharleyride...]

I can do both on my 600 but prefer power wheelies as they feel more natural and controllable, have almost looped a clutch wheelie a couple of times, plus wouldn't endless clutch wheelies fuck your clutch up?

i'm not condoning reckless riding, let's say it's in reference to tracks and private roads

[supZ]

Where's the 'can't wheelie' option?

Had the front up plenty of times under power but no more than a few inches, nothing 'intentional'.

Would like to learn, just not on my bike
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[Ste]

Power wheelies are for wheelies n00bs, once you've got your head around them then clutching it up is more controllable and smoother.

'OMFG that was so high and so close to flipping' when learning probably isn't very high at all.

Slipping the clutch when pulling away will wear your clutch out, if you're using the clutch to wheelie then you're pulling the lever in and then releasing it, you're not slipping it.

Wheelie on trackdays and you'll get black flagged.

[strikeforce]

I prefer power wheelies as i can do them easier
I am getting better at clutch ups tho but i find it easier to power up.
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[Evil Hans]

I demand "Chorlton and the" as a third option.
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[skatefreak]

I have an old CBR600F3 that I'm using as a track bike.
Wouldn't cry if I binned it so figured, do try wheelie

Get rolling, rev up to the powaahh, off the throttle and then pin it like a bastard!

Front starts to get light, approaching warp speed, lift's a few mm, wee a little, chicken out because it's feeling too faassssttttt already

Do need more testicular fortitude

[grr666]

Can't wheelie.
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[goto10]

Can't wheelie, won't wheelie. (Barring the occasional floaty when giving it some beans)
I don't _really_ want to learn either (although the wheelie school that I saw BvG once do looked quite fun)
I'm all for people doing what the f'ck they like as long as it doesn't impact on me - but, without sounding like a grandad, it's not something I'd personally do on the road, when I see others doing it around town (esp. London), I just think... dick.
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[bandit1990]

The reason an option wasn't added for no wheelies was because the majority of people probably don't do it, the poll was just to see of the people who do wheelies which one they prefer

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

My favourite kind are the slow ones, that Graham Jarvis is so good at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jWULpONVA4
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[B0ndy]

Had no choice with my CB400SF, it was clutch up in first or nothing.

Recently bought a ZX6R, not sure if it can power wheelie or not but I will be sticking to clutching up regardless - not in first gear though!
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[.Bishbash.]

Clutch, definately clutch, you can do wheelies slower and under more control.
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[stevo as b4]

It absolutely has to depend on the bike your riding and why you want to lift the front wheel and in what situation?

If your trying to pop the front wheel over a rock on a trials or enduro bike, you wont want to use the clutch normally for that, especially on wet slippery surfaces.

If your in the 3rd lane of the motorway on a sports bike at 70mph and want to mono for show, then you'd use a totally different technique.

Also power wheelies are a misnomer and mean different things to different people.

Some think a power wheelie is pinning a bikes throttle in 1st or 2nd gear and accelerating very hard and waiting for the front wheel to go light or lift depending on the bike and conditions.

Others think a power wheelie is a weight transfer wheelie, where you load and unload the front suspension with the throttle and weight transfer to lift the front end.

I also don't think bike for bike that any type of wheelie is necessarily easier or harder to learn, all wheelies are skill in machine control.

[Az]

Clutch every time for me. Feels more progressive and controlled, it's all personal preference though really. Try both and then decide yourself which you feel most comfortable doing.

[Ste]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

I've wheelied 3 times.

1st was on my mate's DT50, my first ride on a clutched bike. Dialled the revs in, dumped the clutch, put it in his neighbour's hedge.

2nd was my XJ900. I was drunk. Dialled the revs in, dumped the clutch, found myself staring at my tank with my legs dangling off the back.

3rd was by accident, test riding a GPZ500S. Pulled away sharpish at a roundabout and the front started coming up. Backed off the throttle, it went back down again.

My preference is for power wheelies.


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[haroman666]

Up until last year I hadn't owned a bike that could power wheelie.

So I had only ever known how to clutch it up.

The clutch up process is easy to me, it's just the keeping it up I have a problem with (INB4 Viagra)

But then I bought a 1000cc V-Twin and my life was changed from that moment onwards.

Now, I can progressively open the throttle in 1st and up it comes and id say it's actually more scary.

I still cant keep it up either. Too afraid of looping out.

One day I will wheelie as long as Bishbash or Paddy.

But it wont be for a while.

EDIT: Just remembered my time as a Dirt Bike instructor in America and how easy and fun clutching up on a dirt bike is. At 80cc's there was no chance of power/load transfer wheely at all.
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[barrkel]

Barring one power wheelie on my ER6f, I've never tried to wheelie, and never had much inclination to learn. Doing a long wheelie seems a bit pointless to me; I'm not much of a show-off.

My preference for power wheelies comes from liking having enough power available to lift the front when I'm accelerating hard. It has nothing to do with actually doing a wheelie.

The VFR will lift the front but you have to be dangerously aggressive in 1st for it to happen. The front will also come up in second when the rear is loaded with luggage, as I found out to my surprise one morning when heading to the tunnel and a car tried to race me - I was lucky I didn't crash, it was so surprising I came down hard with the steering at an angle. But otherwise it just gets floaty; it's usually too heavy.
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[Banana_B1]

I compress the forks with front braking + small throttle blip, @higher speeds i stand on the footrests and compress the front/rear springs with my knees + arms. 1 mph - 15 mph wheelies in 1st/2nd gear are much easier and safer than 3rd/4th gear 25 mph+ wheelies
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[Polarbear]

Never have consciously wheelied. I had the front end up on my old BSA when I dumped the clutch at traffic lights buts thats abut it.

A friend had his Aprilia Dorsuduro on the back wheel for the full length of the A5 in Milton Keynes but he is a fruit loop.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

I haven't tried to wheelie since I had a GP125. That was 1991.
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[Jayy]

Both? I clutch most up but I do like to power them up as well.