GS Wheelie practice

[SoND]

Got a new clip from yesterday, learning to wheelie is a pain in the ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7dX72CZwqI

Anyone got any help and advice for balancing slow wheelies properly and where I'm going wrong? (Sparks, G??)

Was revving those ones out quite a bit but any time I try and use less revs it's very unstable and I can't try and find the BP and keep it straight both at once
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[G]

Best advice, as ever, is to sort it out, do your test and buy a more suitable bike.

For a start, looks like you're not quite getting to the balance point.
Sitting back a bit may help.

Might be worth lowering your rear tyre pressure if you haven't.

Remember, the balance point is the point the revs stop going up at all with you stable.
I found standing up on the TRX helped stop it wobbling side to side - though you seem to be falling from slow speed rather than wobbling.

TRX wheelies and others, if you haven't seen it:
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=64795

[Paddy Blake]

You got 5 stars from me anyway.I would like to see you on a KTM DUKE.

[torpedo]

I'm impressed mate, fantastic.

I've got a GS500 and im struggling to learn to wheelie, tbh learning to wheelie on a little bike is a better idea imo... safer and easier to control.

im too worried i'll throw mine over backwards doing wheelies and always bottle it, letting the clutch out as im revving up

urgh i need lessons lol!
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[Crumbso]

Know the feeling mate, trying to learn wheelie on my own Gs500. Didn't even bother practicing on the NSR.

But that first wheelie wasn't bad at all on the vid.

[G]

The GS isn't as actually mthat uch better than the NSR for wheelies, if I remember.

While it's got more power, it's also got more weight and higher gearing.

It is not safer and easier to control wheelies on a smaller bike. It is most definitely easier to control wheelies on a bigger bike, so I would suggest safer.
(I believe sond has already broken his foot trying on his 'smaller' bike).

[SoND]

Whenever I get to the point where it starts falling back instead of forward (is that past the bp?) that's when it starts to feel least stable and wants to fall sideways.

I'm running at about 24/25psi at the back. Would an almost square tyre be making it worse?
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[jim-cr 250]

very nice,but that stoppie at the end was awful mybe some more work on them