Steps

1. Turn on the motorcycle and keep it in second gear.
2. Pull in the front brake and the clutch all the way.
3. Use your right thumb and turn the throttle while remaining four fingers holding on the front brake and other hand hold clutch, get up to about 7000-8000 RPMs.
4. Make sure to stand solidly on your feet (if you are still learning do the standing one first) all of your feet touching the ground, to from an A shape with your legs so that your thighs or knees hold the bike from going too much to the right or too much to the left.
5. Slowly start to release the clutch while keeping the front brake pulled tightly. You will feel your back tire start to spin, but you won’t go anywhere as long as you keep on the front brake.
6. Keep accelerating, you will be making a lot of smoke and turning a lot of heads. When you are done, pull in the clutch all the way or release the throttle your thumb

Tips

• Do not let out your front brake until you have the clutch pulled in again.
• Lean forward just a tad, but not too much.
• If you do a burnout on a paint stripe, it does less damage to your tire and makes more smoke.
• If you’re just starting to learn how to do a burnout, you can try to do a burn out after you wash your bike if your tires are wet, when they are wet they will easily spin out and break traction this will be a great way to learn and gain confidence.

Warnings

• If you feel the bike going too much to either side, and you feel that you are losing control quickly disengage the clutch and release the throttle in one quick smooth motion.You might want to try again later when you feel more confident
• This will ruin your back tire. Doing them on a paint stripe only helps keep your tire intact but it will ruin it regardless.
• Be careful to not blow your tire.

Things You’ll Need

• A motorcycle
• A new back tire when you’re done

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Knee dragging should only be performed on a closed circuit course in a controlled environment and not on public streets. Always wear appropriate safety gear when operating a motorcycle.

Steps

1. Understand the reason for knee sliding. The purpose of dragging a knee is to indicate to the pilot the angle of motorcycle lean. At high speed sportbikes don’t turn through turns, they carve through turns by leaning over in the direction of the turn. This lean is is induced by countersteering and is essentially a controlled fall over to either side. The gyroscopic nature of the rotating wheels and the traction of the tires allows the pilot to lean the motorcycle over through the turn and return it upright as the turn is completed.
2. Use correct body position. On the balls of your feet, torso bent over the tank, head tucked down and hands on the grips with a relaxed grip.
3. Learn to carve the turns at slower speeds by inducing countersteering.
4. Practice throwing your knee out to the same position through the turns, even if it doesn’t touch the ground yet, just get in the habit of throwing the knee out there to the same position every time. This “same position” every time is important because touching down the knee is an indicator of lean angle, if your positioning isn’t consistent you’ll have no way to judge lean angle consistently.
5. Get some pictures of you in action. If a photographer is available and you can see some pictures of how you look you’ll know how close you are to touching down. You might also pick up errors in body positioning that are contrary to safe efficient operation.
6. Pay attention to, and learn about, the traction. You’re also learning about traction as you go through these exercises. Watch faster riders, study their body position, how they get their weight low to the inside of the turn. Knee out, torso shifted to the inside, head out from behind the screen near the edge of the front fairing.
   • By now you might be suspecting the bike has more traction available than you’re using, and if it hasn’t slipped or crashed you’d be right. Continue becoming more comfortable with lean angle and body positioning. The whole idea here is to carve the turn with the minimum amount of motorcycle lean as necessary by getting your body weight positioned correctly.
7. Be consistent. Dragging a knee is an indicator of lean angle so consistency is key. The more comfortable you become leaning the motorcycle over the sooner you’ll feel that first scrape on the sliders. Focus on not hanging off the motorcycle to an extreme as well as not leaning the bike over so far that traction is easily compromised.
8. Lastly, ask for tips and critique. If Control Riders or Instructors are available ask them to follow you a few laps and give feedback, they’re there to help you achieve your goals.

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How to Do a Basic Wheelie on a Motorcycle

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Wheelies can be fun, but make sure you do them safely and in a place where they’re legal. First and foremost, you do wheelies by the feel and sound of the engine, not by what the tachometer says. Everyone has different power and sprocket setups, plus you don’t need to be looking at your tach. Pay attention to the road.

Steps

1. First step is a basic “roll on power wheelie”. Basically you need a bike with enough power to raise the front wheel off the ground with simple acceleration. You need to get comfortable with the front end getting “light”. Most stock bikes won’t be able to do this without some modification. You can also try getting the bike up to a good speed in first gear(around 25-35 mph), once you reach the powerband (where the engine starts to go faster with little throttle) let off just a little, then give it a lot of gas. Not so much gas that you flip over, but a good amount. You’ll notice the front end pick up, and if you let off the gas, it goes back down. More gas after the powerband will get it up higher. If you don’t have a stabilizer, this would be the ideal time to get one. Trying to lift the bike off the ground and then comming back down suddenly will cause the front tire to shake. If you don’t land almost perfectly straight, you will do a highside (flip off the bike over the front). You will be hurting and so will your bike. Once you get comfortable with the front end getting light, try to carry the wheelie further each time. After you are comfortable with this move on to the next step, which is slipping the clutch.
2. Roll at about 10-20 mph in first gear.
3. Pull in the clutch and rev the motor a little, then slip the clutch. Do this a few times with a little more gas each time until you start to feel comfortable with how high the front end is coming up. The front end will come up quicker than a power wheelie, so be prepared.
4. Once you are comfortable getting the front up a little, it’s time to worry about throttle and brake control. Use the throttle to maintain the height of the wheelie and the back brake to keep from looping the bike. Chopping the throttle while in first will almost always bring you back over, but you will most likely slam the front pretty hard.
5. If you get good enough at the brake control, you can ride a wheelie in first until the motor blows, in theory. But at first you will probably just run through your rpm range and drop the front down. This is when you need to shift to second. It’s a clutchless shift, at the peak of the wheelie when you have about 3k rpms left before redline. Let the front come down just a bit and simultaneously shift to second.
6. Once you get in the second gear, pull the accelerator so as not to let the bike go down due to inertia, and find a balance point upon which your bike is steady in the air on the front wheel. Balance point can be found by leaning on the rear side of the bike, so that centre of gravity of the whole system (you and bike) is in the centre, and you can roll on long. But take care as not to shift the body position on the back side, as you will be likely to fall in that case, and keep your rear brake ready for any such situation.

Tips

• Body position is very important. Beginners may be uncomfortable and hug the tank with their knees to help hold on, but ideally sliding back against the rear seat is the best place.
• On powerful street bikes, as soon as you shift to second the front end will pull up a little so keep the rear brake covered.
• If you have never done a clutchless shift, practice on two wheels first. Get your rpm’s up fairly high, back off the throttle just a bit and shift firmly so you don’t hit neutral.
• Stand up wheelies, either both feet on the back pegs or just the left foot on the back peg can make it much easier to balance a wheelie.

Warnings

• Wheelies are dangerous, even when done by professionals.
• Wear protective gear and practice on a small dirt bike such as a 100cc-150cc. These smaller bikes can help tremendously with learning brake control which will prevent you from looping a motorcycle.
• Do not think you can learn to ride wheelies in a day. Even practicing every day will take you a few weeks to get comfortable. Most of the pro’s you see in videos or doing shows have been doing it for many years.

Things You’ll Need

• Helmet
• Gloves (gripping your handlebars is very crucial)
• Protective gear, or at least a leather jacket and blue jeans.
• Shoes with some grip; motorcycle boots are preferred, and will protect your feet and ankles if you go down.
• A bike that you can afford to drop, generally something small and light to start.
• A safe open and legal area to practice(wheelies are typically considered illegal on public roads)
• Use elbow,ankle & Knee guards to protect your joints

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