Say No to Slow : How to Wheelie an Adventure Bike
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- In this free episode of Say No to Slow, eight time New Zealand enduro overall champion and three time Roof of Africa winner Chris Birch explains in detail the four processes to a successful adventure bike wheelie.
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1 : Bike Set-Up
2 : Body Work
3 : Motor Control
4 : All Together
Production By : Out House / John Colthorpe
It's ready, three hours and 16 episodes of off-road riding skills so you can learn to Say No to Slow! : vimeo.com/ondemand/saynotoslow
This series takes adventure riders from core techniques like correct standing position and off-road bike set up, all the way through to jumping logs and high-speed slides.
Along the way, you will learn techniques to become a safe and efficient rider.
Its $35 US for the whole series and I'm confident you will come out of this Covid madness with some new skills!
what helmet are you wearing can you recommend me one like it?
Anddddd I bought. You are such a nice guy Chris. Truly happy to pay you back and it's worth every penny.
this could be a 300k sub channel instead of a 32k channel if they were taking all the quality videos and putting them behind a 50$ paywall on vimeo.. would make way more money here on youtube with 10x the audience than from the 1000ppl that might pay that for riding videos.. idk who would with all the great channels already here on youtube for free
Thank you,
for the videos. 20 years ago, I had serious accident, by backflip. My mistake I know. But maybe another young people will better know how to ride, watching your videos. Well done.
Very kind and delicate and elegant
"Practice it until it feels boring" - such a good way to put it!
50 years of wheelies and I just bought a beta 270 LOL, it never gets boring
"practice it until it feels boring"
best advice for anything!
I love it when people know how to break down a serious skill into simple steps. Well done!
Mate what's the lesson on getting back down eh? I have been wheeleying for the last few hours. Goddammit.
Using that back break, use it always!
nerd! haha
Start off with 1 cup before progressing to a full tank.
Just keep on doing it till your fuel runs out
Pulling clutch gets you down I guess
Don't let the insurance company see this video
Superb instruction! I started riding at 10, and I could wheelie for blocks on my Kawasaki KE 100. Now I'm an old fart and my toy is a bit more expensive (Hypermotard), and I feel a bit less invincible... That said, I've been timidly trying to regain the "feel" to wheelie confidently, and this video is the first I've found that gets the details of the sequence down pat. Thanks!
This is one of the most thorough, specific, detailed, well produced, and clearest tutorials I've ever seen. Thank you, Chris & your team, for putting this out there. I look forward to following all your videos ... maybe they'll tide me over until I can work it out to attend one of your classes! Thanks again!
Get a room mate
I don't think anyone asked for this, but glad I watched. Worth the 10 minutes.
"Episode 1. How to wheelie"
Aaaaaaand subscribed😂😂
Clear, simple and bound to get me into trouble.
Looking forward to the next.
Thanks guys.
Best of luck.
Stephen Lumley LOL, you have that so right!
This is total winter pornography, can hardly wait to go practice when the wilds are rideable again.
Just got short term disability insurance this year, set and ready to get stupid.
We are working on the next. Im glad you enjoyed it.
This is the most detailed instructional video I've seen on this topic. Thank you. I like also that it's geared to the big adventure bikes. Many others are demonstrated on 2 strokes or street bikes.
Thanks again Chris. Can you make a second one on how to keep, control and end the wheelie on different conditions?
Thx Chris is amazing video, actually is the best tutorial in RUclips.
Yep!
:-)
Nice one!
I stick to that! An amazing vid about wheelies. The best I‘ve seen so far.
absolutely!
I’ve been practicing the wheelie for almost 20 years now and it never gets old.
The same for me but on my bicycle; now I still do it at age 57 on my moutain bike, but I could never fill secure doing it on a motorbike. I tried some at my 20s on a Suzuki GSK 1100, but it was risky for me.
This is really good info, but I see a lot of hospital visits from people who bought their bikes yesterday.
I learned to wheelie on a bicycle.
Can wheelie a bicycle for miles.
Got a motorbike thought it would be easy, several faceplants later realised it's not even remotely the same.
The one thing of the bicycle wheelie you can carry to a motorbike is using your front wheel to steer when its in the air. I can now wheelie a motorbike as far as I like!
I am impressed. I never thought it was possible to “teach” how to wheelie but Chris did it in spades.
I’ve been riding street and dirt for 41 years since I was 6 years old. After a really bad accident 8 months ago on the road in North Carolina, I got back on a bike and headed from Brooklyn, NYC to Baja for two months to remind myself that I didn’t die that day in April when the pick up truck cut me off and that I still had some living to do. I traded my other bike that wasn’t totaled for a more comfortable yet capable “mid-sized adventure bike”.
Chris’s Say No To Slow series helped to prepare me for my journey into the off road wonderland that is Baja Mexico. I even rewatched some of his videos (with the help of an over lander friends Starlink) when faced with a daunting hill climb off a remote beach 30 miles from nowhere.
His series is very affordable and so well laid out, both in instruction and aids from video. Share this with your friends: it can only make them better riders that will be more willing to explore the roads less travelled and to find those little slices of paradise where most people won’t be confident to get to…
This is so nice! Thanks for the message
Great video, congrats!!
Yes!!! I‘d absolutely love to have an Adventure riding technique series from you Chris!!!
Some examples I‘d like to improve / hear your opinion & advice:
- Sand riding
- Slippery terrain (compact red mud with rain on top)
- U-turns (slide in and accelerate out)
- Your toolbox setup
- Emergency preparation (Spot, first aid kit, etc)
- Recommended mods on 1090 R and 790 R (ABS dongle, fueling dongle, air intake, Break and clutch levers, handlebar, etc)
- Riding Gear recommendations (Rider and Luggage)
- Water crossings (different depths and surfaces)
Thats what came to my mind for now.
Cheers!!
Break?? 🤔 Brake...✔👍
Nice one! That gives us lots to work on. Thanks for your suggestions.
@@ChrisBirchNZ Nice wheelies ! Good video suggestions.
Massively helpful! Definitely do a series of this sort of video!
The fingers covering the clutch (number of) advice is super useful, I have always secretly wondered this because nobody ever talks about the finer details, and I had been too embarrassed to ask. Thanks for the breakdown!
Looking forward to trying this on the farm roads home today... Thank you, Chris!
Well thought out breakdown of the steps involved in a wheelie.
probably one of the best step by step ive seen
thank you
Thanks Chris - Looking forward to another lesson and one in person again would be great, once I'm ready.
Yes please do a series, love watching you throw these big bikes around !!
I was lucky enough to get this lesson in person at a rider training day with him. Was such a good day
Amazing, the best tutorial on wheelies by far. Thanks and keep it up please!
Watched so many ADV guys cross water fully sumerge until I watched you last demo. Something to think about. Terrific bro!
Thanks Chris.
Excellent instructional and I hope to see more.
Awesome video, Chris. Your a master in executing AND in teaching the how to. I had never seen such precise and detailed instructions on how to wheelie a big adventure bike (or any bike for that matter). Please keep them coming! I would love a video on how to ride fast on dirt, particularly on turns. I do tend to loose trust on the bike and myself as I turn fast offroad. Thank you, thank you!
"burrrAH!! burrrAH!! burrrAH!!"
-Chris Birch, 2019
Yes please, more of this!!! Beginner offroader here, would love to see more of your experience tricks and tips!!
This is the absolute best description of how to wheelie. Thanks so much Chris!!!
Loved it! This is a skill I've ridden road for decades but got an adventure bike not long ago and decided to go offroad. I'm just starting to learn the basics, and after watching your vid, I was finally able to get the front wheel in the air! I'm stoked! As for your tutorial series, I'd love that too! I"m a beginner, so just anything you think beginners should know as fundamental skills is gonna help.
Now THAT's how videos should be done! Great Job Chris and crew for putting this one together.
Suggestions for future videos and in line with this one, be it for gravel road techniques, sand, mud hill clims, etc - show what the progression of the rider should look like, from beginner to advanced rider. Cheers!
Probably the best instructional video I’ve watched for big bike wheelies! Keep them coming.
Thank you! This is the clearest riding tutotial I've seen on wheelies, or maybe on anything.
How about gravel road cornering. Fastest way, safest way, best way to recover from understeer, how to ride the loose edges that we all find sooner or later.
Reuben Johnston practice
I find keeping more of my weight over the front tire the best way.
Then, if you feel you won’t make the corner or just wanna look like a badass put some throttle to it. You’re then using the rear tire to turn into the corner.
Practice practice practice. Start slowish and work your way up
For sure!
I second that! Meanwhile...from an old track racer...invest in full protective gear, because you will go down before you get good. GO find a short dirt loop with 3-4 slide-able turns. Then go round and round getting just 0.5% better each time. You'll begin to pitch it in there. Then go the other way around. Best to start with a small dirt bike if you have never slid around on purpose. Good tires will have a gradual breakaway.
We are on it! We started filming this today.
@@ChrisBirchNZ any updates yet.... I appreciated your clutch control advice
Great vid! Would love to see more tutorials for big bikes!
That's the best wheelie explanation step by step I've seen so far. Now I'm practicing. Thanks a lot!
Well done!!!! Instructions were concise and precise, and easy to understand. The right balance of details and the perfect amount of visuals (love the sound effect, too, those help comprehension). Looking forward to more!
Great video. Enjoyed it very much! Would like to see more techniques for large adventure bikes such as riding through sand and snow/ice.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge skills and experience!
I've ridden dirt bikes since I was 7 and street bikes since I was 16 and I'm now 55 but until last fall I've never combined the two. What is fairly simple on a dirt is a lot harder on my 1290 SAR so pretty much everything I'm good with even if it seems not important. An example is I had no problem geting on my WR 426 but seemed to struggle on the 1290 until I saw a video where you said to simply turn the handlebars to the right before you swing you're leg over. Amazing on how much easier that made getting on the bike.
I love the step by step of this video. Always finding ways to improve.
The first one I come across with clear and precise info. Great Video. Cheers from Mauritius
Excellent video. Well done, Chris!
I guess we don't have to shoot a Wheelie video now on MOTOTREK :)
What?? Make the video anyhow. Us pupils out here could always use the best of both worlds. Your channel has made my riding experience so much better. End of trail turns, kickstand pivots and baby heads just to name a few.
Yeah Brett. Don’t think you got out of it! Make a video!!
Please do your version too! :) 2 sides of the story!
😀😁
You don't get off the hook that easy Bret!! Looking forward to your wheelie video! ;-p
Well done. Thanks for sharing. Can I wheelie? Sure. But nowhere near the control that I would like. Your instruction will get me a lot closer to where I want to be
I'd love to see more of this! What a great video. Big bikes in the sand, power slides, mud, hopping logs, jumping etc. I could watch this all day... Right up until the riding itch gets to be too much and I need to go try these techniques myself.
This is one of the best tutorials I have seen on RUclips. Well done. More please.
In other news, crashed adventure bikes insurance claims are unusually high this month.
Hopefully not if they watch and listen!
Excellent vid! Made me feel like I can wheelie... even though I don’t have a bike at the moment! 👍😅
Hey Chris! I've just discovered you with your video. I have been watching all Kinds of videos on riding tips and I REALLY enjoyed yours! You teach with simplicity and you are effective. Thanks man! Still à newbie at off road riding even after a few years!
Andre from Canada
Thanks Chris, beautiful video. Easy to understand and visually appealing. I'll definitely try your tips. I hope to see more instructional videos from you. I was a snowboarder instructor for 14 years and i love how you break down the learning (what we call sessioning in the ski industry), makes learning so much easier.
OK! Its taken us a bit longer but the whole series will be available very very soon!
Chris : whats the problem......UH take 22... take 23.... take 24 ... oh fuck it.
Ok
So that was a lie 🗿
Thanks a lot. Can you make video how to replace backlights blinkers and a rear fender?
Incredible how easy he makes it look! Really good explanation.
Yes a series of videos would be awesome Criss to show us as much as possible. A lot of different age groups and experience of riders will probably tap into your experience Criss. There is always something to learn.
Good way for ktm to move stock of back lights, blinkers, plastics, levers, etc. ;)
Steering Head Bearings? as these are heavy bikes.
Fences, trees, traficc signs...
Hey Chris great vid you really know your stuff and explain well, keep em coming mate👍
Nice work Chris! Probably the most informational How To Wheelie video we have seen. Love it!
Best tutorial on the subject I have seen. Thanks. You're a good teacher. Not everyone who can do something can teach it.
Brilliant video Chris....keep them coming (cool for a Broxburn man)..lol...👍🏴🥃
Would love to hear your thoughts about transitioning from roads to trails while traveling - how your set up and riding style changes.
Crystal clear explanations, even for a non-native speaker, with the support of slow motion. Good job ! And good you started to teach.
My first wheelie was next level! My bike flying towards a parked car and me sitting on my butt!
Say No to Slow!!!
Kim Fuck U: you’ve reminded me 45 years ago I did that on a moped and ended up flying towards the side of a bus. The moped had no kill switch and the ignition switch was down on the left hand side panel. Suffice to say I fell off the back and the moped narrowly missed the bus!
Halcyon days....
Do one with jumps. How to jump a big bike, how to set yourself for the jump, stance, movement prior to the jump
P.S. sorry if double posted
This is an excellent vid, the procedural break down is the best I’ve seen, nice one! Also really useful for those of us riding smaller trail bikes that are a bit low on power ... all about the fundamentals!
"think about it till its boring"...best advice ive heard with learning a routine! awesome!
So this video inspired me to try this in my back yard with my 2018 AT. Needless to say, I need much, MUCH more practice. I think one problem is that i'm a wimp and used Power Level 3 (the slowest throttle response) and I need to pop it more. Also, coordinating a bounce with a throttle snap is a hell of a lot harder than it sounds. Practice practice practice. I'm glad I have 5 acres of yard to play with and only have to worry about dodging the cacti in my yard :D
cputeq007 I also have 2018 ATAS, you need it in P1 mode and the Traction Control off! She comes up nice with some positive control! I’m so glad I didn’t go for DCT like everyone was recommending haha
Thanks Chris, any plan to have courses in europe anytime soon? Meanwhile, if you could go through tips on how to ride a big adv bike in (thick) mud, would be great :)
Thanks for these videos! I've just gotten back into it, rode motocross 30 years ago, and I'm in love with the capability and functionality of the new adventure bikes, especially the 800 class. It's never too late!
Probably the best how to wheelie video I've seen yet. Great job!
8:33 A heavy dab on the rear brake throws weight on the front to help with the spring back. Ya didn't mention that Chris!
*So you stand up, lean back a little, pull the clutch in, peg the throttle until its bouncing off the rev limiter and quickly dump the clutch...*
*GOT IT!*
bring a camera!
@@brrrlak that too!
Never gone the red revolution zone
used to love trying wheelies, was never that good though. I did manage to get into 3rd on an old XT550 once. The power wheelies intrigued me..the ones that get pulled while already speeding along. One of the local guys was a real ace at this...he passed away a long time ago (not due to a bike accident I might add) one of my abiding memories of him was watching him do these as we hooned around town at night. Seeing that headlight beam pointing upwards...it was priceless to watch. We had others too, who did some great wheelies up and down some steep roads. Raw skill.
Wow! Thank you, Chris....have done much of adventure riding.. still, a lot to work on and learn but will definitely try this...👍
"So that's bruuu-rhap, bruuu-rhap, bruuu-rhap." This is gold xD. Really good video. Subscribed :)
Oh boy, I have to show this video to my old Honda Transalp 600... Maybe it can give some motivation :D
Your Transalp will need motivation an one or two spare clutch sets. ;-)
Man do I miss my transalp 600!! Never have been able to find a bike that is a good replacement. Have you?
jim perry CRF1000 Africa Twin Adventure Sports! Although, the new CRF1100 adv actually feels even more like the transalp (a little more cramped in the cockpit than the 1000). The 1100 is a really good bike and feels super light like the transalp and is a fair bit quicker!
Yes please.......continue on with the online coaching......Any skill you wish to demo will be a benefit to 1000's for years to come...So looking forward to more...Top man!!
The best video about how to do a wheelie I ever have seen.
Yo! Give us more!
I will Greg no worries 😁👌
I’d like everyone trying this on their big adventure bikes to record it and post it here 😂😂
Awesome way of sharing your knowledge and experience! Loving it, and waiting for the next lesson.
Thank you Chris! Headed to NZ in 3 weeks to ride and will use some of your instruction.
Would love to see a video about balance and slow riding....so important, so easy to overlook.
I'm late to the party....just found you and subbed, great vids👍
2:40 Too funny. I had a lengthy conversation with another rider about finding a dead accurate tire gauge. His concern being the gauge and bikes TPMS was out by like 5 psi. Dude thought he was going to die. World-renowned rider, squeeze the tire, feels too hard. Lets out some air, squeeze tire mehhh feels about right .... let's go wheelie... BTW vid has been forwarded to tire pressure guy... :)
Great video thank you very much. I’ve been clutching up the. Using rear brake to control angle. The way you are using the clutch makes perfect sense. Thanks for the vid*
Tough obstacle navigation...deep rocks...creek crossing...log crawling...etc
Great video! This is the way I learn...by the numbers! Keep up the great vids!
Tried it... Neighbor wants a new fence... Who is paying for it? 50/50???🤷🏻♂️
I didn't see a disclaimer.
guess you weren't paying attention to the "open paddock" bit
Clutch in, clutch in!!! 😂😂😂
The Jester gets to pay for his entertainment. Come on, people. Be grown ups in grown up bodies. You break it, you bought it. :-)
Jester Entertainment lol, well 1:45
Hey Chris you didn't mention about break cover doing wheelie. And in caption from your back I noticed break light flash before you pop up the bike.
Brake light is from applying a bit of front brake to help load up the front suspension prior to releasing the clutch
@@joeymorris4863very complicated with front brake intervention
Superb video, everything is presented and explained step by step, I like the way you teach, . I haven't done a wheelie in 30 years and I'm ready now.
By far the best wheelie video I've come across but not surprising that it's coming from my idol, my GURU.
Hello Chris, are you in Off Road mode, or do you have the traction control and ABS turned off?
Step 1: Be a professional motorcycle racer.
Step 2: There are no other steps.
Subscribed...! Really looking forward to future videos, thanks Chris
That's a great video. Very good explanation in simple repeatable steps.
I'd definitely love to see more of those videos
Hi. Just One question: First Gear or second Gear? Nice video btw! Greetings from Italy.
1st
@@wickedleeloopy2115 thanx
Excellent video. Very well explained and love the way each step has been focussed on.
Ultra clear instruction, thanks for posting Chris.
"I'm an older rider returning to riding because Charlie boorman and that Scottish jedi guy really inspired me. How can I make my REALLY heavy adventure bike put me in hospital EXTRA good?"