8.30am Trafalgar Square! Just thought I’d share this milestone with everyone 
It’s great innit…
Pulled my first proper wheelie on the R1 totally by accident yesterday.
Mrs on the back and accelerating hard in 1st from the lights. Let off the power a little to clutchless hook 2nd and then back on the throttle and up pops the front wheel.
Landed it hard and got head butted in the back of the head…Thought that was gonna be followed by a punch from her behind, but when I stopped by the side of the road to check she was ok, she said she couldn’t stop giggling when I did it.
Result!
TBH mine similar- fortunately without pillion. At traffic lights next to bendy bus. Hard in first gear and accidently (!) pulled in clutch and released while continuiing to smoothly accelerate. Front wheel was probably only in the air for a couple of seconds but wow!
Went to wheelie school a couple of weeks ago and while not to bad there, am still shite on my bike…
Need to practice more methinks
Nice one, mate! Had a quick try myself the other day on private land, but no joy! Glad to see you picked a nice, out-of-the-way place for it!
once you pop, you just cant stop 
any vaguely straight bit of road now gets me itching to drop the clutch.
defo not as easy on your P&J is it Gixerphil? 
Damn right johnnyb, plus I’m prob just being a bit gay about the whole thing… I’m sure it won’t loop that easily really!
I have a new gixer 750 and am too scared to pop it but probaly because i am crap
+1
I’m not great at them but try to give it a bit from time to time. Managed a couple of beauties (well they seemed like that to me) on Sunday.
First one was cheating (like the mountain at Cadwell) over the humpback bridge as you come into Broadbridge Heath from Billinghurst. Got a nice clear run and gassed it on the crest then carried it on for a bit. Had to look round the bike so I know I had a good angle on that one Felt nice and easy and stable too so no surprised drop down…love that fr*ggin bridge
Second one was from the lights in Shoreham and used a bit of what JB told me at BM last week about his wheelie school experience. Revs up and hold and pop the clutch and well what do you know she comes up nice but not exactly big.
Never really been a one for it before but certainly getting a taste after recent rides. I am nowhere near adept at these though and wouldn’t know a balance point if it sh*gged my missus in front of me :w00t:
tried gassing it off a small bridge riding with jonesy and another mate last year - totally crapped myself! went high, and then the rear obviously went lower quickly so even more height :w00t::w00t:
can ‘fairly’ reliably bring the front up now but defo cant hold it there without accelerating (and mostly like the clappers) or the front drops. the front isn’t getting as crossed up as it was tho which is a start!
Same here…Definitely want to try a few more minus the pillion.
Used to gas them up on the R6 a few years ago, but never wanted to try on the R1.
Where’d you go and how much was it… I feel like a bit of a fraud riding a hard bar-stewards’ bike but still not being able to wheelie… 
I remember my first one and it was years ago. Had a mate on the back of a Vespa 160 -we had just moved his gear from one flat to another on it…This was in Corfu and in those days it was illegal to drive without a drink (well, nearly) so we had a few to celebrate the new flat…On the scooter slightly pissed , a wheelie seemed the right thing to do…Popped the clutch , flipped over and we ended up under it - laughing so much we couldn’t stand up;) The many tourists around loved it.
Nice one, I’m getting to grips with the TL, easy in first but a bit violent so second and pop the clutch up she comes sweet be sure to cover the back brake though, my blade is still in bits and the pain in my heels where I fractured both is now only starting to dull after 2+ years. Flpping is no fun at 90, not on the wallet or the body.
Live and learn…but be sure to have fun.
hey toby - Jimmy Fireblade’s school is out near skegness (east kirkby) and its 175 for the day. Terry has organised a couple of outings there. admittedly not the cheapest day out but well worth the money IMHO. he teaches clutching it up, and you learn how to do it at low speeds (and on someone else’s bike that will take the punishment, with a anti-flip device)
http://londonbikers.com/forums/Topic310979-52-1.aspx
http://londonbikers.com/galleries/1392/wheelie-school-with-jimmy-fireblade
ONCE YOU HAVE DONE ONE WHEELIE U CANT STOP
On the subject of wheelies, I have seen a few clips where when the front comes back down, the rear end fishtails all over the place resulting in an off :w00t: What causes this ??
tank slapper. front comes down hard and skewed, possibly made worse by rider chopping the throttle. tends to get bad from then on…:pinch:
when you’re setting the front down you want to accelerate. softens the landing and helps the front if it aint straight.
hardly an issue for me yet but long wheelies have the front wheelie slow down or stop spinning. when you’re setting it down its gone from 0mph to lots of mph instantly (you’ll see a little bit of smoke and a chirp). can aggravate the first situ apparently
I went to south coast wheelie school - http://www.southcoastwheelies.co.uk/news.html
Was good fun if a bit of a long way and a wet day. Not an enormous amount of instruction though, more the chance to use someone elses bike all day. Having said that I’m not sure how much of it can really be ‘taught’ anyway - it seems that once you know what you’re supposed to be doing, which comes quite quickly, its just a matter of consistency and A LOT of practice.
was it clutch or power up there?