One thing that always bothered me was I could never wheelie my bike. It just seemed impossible. When I came on the forum looking for tips, most people said it is very difficult with an ebike and you get the idea it isn't worth trying to learn how to do it and you should wait for gyro controlled wheelie option in the controller.
Well, after watching this guy wheelie his stealth bomber on youtube, I thought it must be possible. One thing that got me thinking was on his video he said he had practiced for a full week and 12 to 15 hours practice. That is the big secret right there nobody really discussed, you need a lot of practice. I wish he stressed that more in the video that you just need to put in lots of time and you are going to suck at it big time in the beginning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xID556Nevw
It got me thinking, it seems almost impossible to do a wheelie but maybe I need like 15 hours of practice to finally be able to do it. I figured with enough practice I may just be able to do it and 15 hours is a lot of time spent just trying to wheelie.
I start out with my practice, and for the first few days I kept trying to wheelie, I honestly didn't get anywhere. I could lift the bike up but it was impossible to hold the wheelie. Many times I wouldn't even get the front wheel up. It still seemed impossible.
I kept on with the practice, trying different power settings, didn't make a lot of progress. I'm glad I had my custom motor cooling because my hub motor heated in no time from the constant lifting up the front wheel (make sure you have a temp gauge before practicing). My recommendation is to just use the power setting you always use and don't lower it, you need to learn to control the wheelie with the throttle.
I then found going slightly up hill made it a bit easier to wheelie, and I was making a little progress but it was very small, maybe I was able to hold a wheelie a few times for a short distance.
Finally today after a lot of practice, I actually wheelied the bike for a good distance and felt I was finally in control. I felt it was all possible now and controllable. I still have a lot of trouble but I am able to wheelie it every once in a while for a good distance.
I also found that it is important where you sit when doing a wheelie, you have to be back a bit on your seat and it is much easier to do. Your body should naturally learn the best body position.
That is how you learn to wheelie, you basically have to put hours and hours of hard practice, you need your body and brain to adapt also so you need to spread the practice over lots of days. There is no way you will be able to wheelie unless you put in these hard hours of practice with almost all failures and many times almost falling off the bike. Lucky for me I never actually dropped the bike, but was close.
Remember, you need to be quick with that rear brake if you are going back to far, this will come naturally with practice.
Well, after watching this guy wheelie his stealth bomber on youtube, I thought it must be possible. One thing that got me thinking was on his video he said he had practiced for a full week and 12 to 15 hours practice. That is the big secret right there nobody really discussed, you need a lot of practice. I wish he stressed that more in the video that you just need to put in lots of time and you are going to suck at it big time in the beginning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xID556Nevw
It got me thinking, it seems almost impossible to do a wheelie but maybe I need like 15 hours of practice to finally be able to do it. I figured with enough practice I may just be able to do it and 15 hours is a lot of time spent just trying to wheelie.
I start out with my practice, and for the first few days I kept trying to wheelie, I honestly didn't get anywhere. I could lift the bike up but it was impossible to hold the wheelie. Many times I wouldn't even get the front wheel up. It still seemed impossible.
I kept on with the practice, trying different power settings, didn't make a lot of progress. I'm glad I had my custom motor cooling because my hub motor heated in no time from the constant lifting up the front wheel (make sure you have a temp gauge before practicing). My recommendation is to just use the power setting you always use and don't lower it, you need to learn to control the wheelie with the throttle.
I then found going slightly up hill made it a bit easier to wheelie, and I was making a little progress but it was very small, maybe I was able to hold a wheelie a few times for a short distance.
Finally today after a lot of practice, I actually wheelied the bike for a good distance and felt I was finally in control. I felt it was all possible now and controllable. I still have a lot of trouble but I am able to wheelie it every once in a while for a good distance.
I also found that it is important where you sit when doing a wheelie, you have to be back a bit on your seat and it is much easier to do. Your body should naturally learn the best body position.
That is how you learn to wheelie, you basically have to put hours and hours of hard practice, you need your body and brain to adapt also so you need to spread the practice over lots of days. There is no way you will be able to wheelie unless you put in these hard hours of practice with almost all failures and many times almost falling off the bike. Lucky for me I never actually dropped the bike, but was close.
Remember, you need to be quick with that rear brake if you are going back to far, this will come naturally with practice.