Believe it or not, actually riding the rear brake a little while wheeling will help keep it up.

Something else to try.

Sickman

 

Hey man, I have a 99 warrior. Even with stock equipment, I had no problem wheeling it in first and second gear. I just sat back on the seat, clutched, revved the engine, and dumped the clutch. Then use the trottle and brake for balancing and keeping it up.

With your setup, it should be no problem.

 

I would not recommend dumping the clutch to wheely. A dirtbike buddy did that with his KX125, and burned-up a clutch and had to rebuild his bottom-end.

I have a better technique that I just discovered. On my 400EX, I put my left foot on the left foot peg, and I slip my right foot through the grab bar. I put it in first and apply a generous amount of throttle. The front end comes right up. This method better than sitting on the seat for two reasons. First, it isn't as scary when the front comes up, and second, I have better control over the wheely. This way doesn't wreck the clutch and it is more fun. You will occasionally loop-out, but usually you land on your feet. You can even hop off and keep the wheely going while following on the ground. Try it and I think you will find it lots of fun.

 

Hey, what you guys are talking about falling off the back. it doesn't hurt that bad. I fell of the back of my friends 300EX going wide open riding a wheelie in a hay field. also, on my 300EX by standing on the grab bar I rode a wheelie a whole mile down the highway. it has a dg pipe, jet kit, kn filter... it's another story on my new 400ex. don't want to go too far back b/c i'm worried about that subframe!!!! oh, and powershift without the clutch when riding wheelies. if you can balance, you can easily ride a wheelie forever and a day.

haha, this brought up a funny story!! have you ever tried to wheelie with a flat back tire?? i did it one time, the quad just cut big donuts on the back wheels hahaha it was the funnies thing i ever did( well, not quite the FUNNIEST). see ya later

 

I am by no means a wheelie expert, I am still practicing my wheelies but the way I wheelie on my quad was to lean back as far as possible and give it a lot of gas, or maybe pop the clutch. Its hard with a stock quad to do it. Just gotta practice alot.

 

Personally, I recommend starting your wheelie in 1st or 2nd. Learn the balance point at slow speeds, then start upshifting. I can get to 5th sometimes on my 400EX. 3rd is fairly easy to start in, but it takes more practice to get the balance point because of the speed/fear factor. A 400EX wastes a lot of gas riding wheelies though.

 

yea, it doesn't hurt falling off the back. One day i was riding my friends blaster and was stuck in a ditch. His throttle was way too sensitive and i poped that thing right up out of the ditch, dragging my helmet along the ground about 10 ft before falling off. I didn't get a scratch on me but my helmet was kinda messy. ps, i wheelie on my recon! just lean back and hit the gas!

 

i was ridin my friends 99 400EX i was riding a wheelie in 1st the i pulled in the clutch and dropped it into second. well the next thing i knew i felt this huge folt and its turns out i had stood it up. it hurt pretty bad but i held on it had caught me off gaurd. luckly i hit the back brake hard after about 3 seconds of standing it up and brought it back down. i hit so hard that i was surprised i didn't break the grab bar.

 

Yeah Dunc, say you're cruisin' along in 2nd - lean way forward, sort-of preloading the front suspension, and then sit back hard on the seat while pulling up and hitting the gas sort-of simultanously. It is alot in timing but when you're up you'll find this balanced spot, a sweet spot, you'll know it when your there - it's pretty far back. Everything in ridin the wheelie is based off this. Keep your foot on the brake (not applied) ad when you go to far back tap it - 9 times out of 10 you'll pop back down. That tenth time will be because you're going too slow to bring it back down which is fine - if you master a long SLOW wheelie the gear changing will come. You came go as far as you want in 1st gear alone, once this sweet spot is comfortable with you. If you dump on your *** - it's not a big deal - it only hurts your pride if someone is watching. I'll still occasionally dump backwards at slow speeds when going through ditches, gullies and other obstacles. When you're getting the high-speed wheelies (4th gear and up) the grab bar will bump if yo go too far back and it will bring your front end back down.
You'll probably end up on your *** a few times but keep at it. There's notmuch like a 100 yd. wheelie just ripping through the gears! You'll get it and love it.

 

There is a friend of mine who can stand a warrior straght up and dowjn in first then shift while wheelying the warrior is stock except for pipe and air filter the way he does it is by leaning far forward and getting the rear wheels spinning(i think it is hard to do with REAL good tires) But any way he then throws his body back and pulls up on the bars as the front rises stand straight up if you can balance real good you can shift while the fronts up it takes practice!