Thanks for the tip! I've gotten comfortable using the clutch on my WR250X, but that thing couldn't get the front wheel off the ground without a clutch pop no matter how hard I tried. 😂 The Tuono won't have any problem with that!

I'll try this

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I have to agree with you on that one! 😁✌️

Thank you! It is reeeeally addictive 😅 Seating position does make a huge difference, even on the Aprilia! It's night and day on my WR, but on the Tuono it had more of an impact than I was expecting. Let's keep practicing, and hopefully one day we'll be able to ride out some sick stand-ups like the GP guys 😁

I feel that! Same instinct like you said. My body wants to stay upright rather than feel like it's falling backward. I'm trying to lean back now, though. 🙂

I have the same instinct…super hard to overcome, for me at least.

Hey Adam! Appreciate you sharing your experience with this. That skill is what it’s all about if you want to wheelie, and it takes a lot of practice to develop for sure! Totally respect your decision though, as it is undeniably risky. Ride safe as well, and hope all else is well with you and your family! ✌️

I think you found some of my other video and see that's usually what I try to do. :) Just wanted to give it a shot on the Aprilia and try to apply what I've learned from the WR. Naturally, being waaaay more powerful, heavier, and handling much differently, I was a bit timid. Appreciate the advice nonetheless! Thank you for watching, and glad you are enjoying. :)

Scary indeed! I tried to learn how to wheelie like 7 years ago on my CBR600RR and gave up pretty quickly after feeling like I was going to loop it, chopping the gas, and coming down hard. Didn’t really try again after that until I got my WR250X. I can do first gear wheelies pretty easily and ride them up to the rev limiter, but it hasn’t prepared me well enough for this! 😂

Thanks for the advice! I got used to using the clutch on my WR250X, so that seemed like it would be easier and more comfortable for me, although unnecessary. Do power wheelies actually save your chain? I would figure if you’re smooth with the clutch (smoother than I was in the video) it wouldn’t make much of a difference.

You are 100% correct about the RPM's. I rocked my 21 RSV4 up on my way to work today exactly between 6k and 7k. I can get it to come up between 5 and 6 sometimes but 6 and 7 is the sweet spot.

@@johnnylucid Makes sense, especially with the RSV4's taller gearing. How are you liking your 2021? That and the 21 Tuono V4 are definitely at the top of my want-to-ride list for this year.

@@hiimchad I'm in love with it. It's my dream bike. I wanted a Mille since I was a kid and finally got my APE. Coming from a 15 R1, it's so good in every way. 10/10. 💪😃💪

@@johnnylucid that's awesome! Congratulations Johhny! 😁

She comes up in 5th too without the clutch

@@henrylewin7677 I haven’t had this happen without a bump instigating it 😂

Nice! Have you been doing wheelies for a while? Perhaps on an R1 as your username suggests to me? 🙂

Not really just enjoy the odd power wheelie when appropriate here in the UK it's a licence looser so you have to be careful.

@@joshr1444 that’s why I do mine in virtual reality! 😅👀

Same here, have a healthy obsession with it!

It certainly is a dream-worthy bike, and I still dream about mine all the time 😁 Make a plan, execute it, and you could have one too!

@@olis790 as do I! 😂

It’s just the best bike I’ve owned as an all round package - not the bike I love the most but woah it is capable! 💪 best hypernaked out there IMO !

Built it myself! 😉🤣

@@hiimchad :D

Yeah, exactly.. 😅🤣 My first Tuono came with it on 3, and I dialed it back to 1 after having it cut in with the front wheel hardly even leaving the ground. Made first gear pretty useless if you were trying to accelerate with some decent speed. I transferred all my aPRC setting over when I got this bike, and just haven’t really felt the need to turn it off. I wanted to spend some time getting comfortable with the feeling of the front coming up on my WR250X first, which I felt like I had, but apparently not comfortable enough. 😂 I figured it was going to be much different than the little supermoto, but it was even more so than I expected!

@@hiimchad yeah you’ve totally done the right thing… wished I could here in the Uk, but I live in london currently and the police are really cracking down so I’ve shelved wheelie progress and doing what you’ve done and getting a sumo because the police are very intolerant here and I was lucky to get away with a 120 mph wheelie on the ape as they had no filming equipment but that shit me up big time and I’m just going to wait until I have some land and can practice there.. I don’t want to lose my licence and possibly go to jail for something like a fucking wheelie.. and the Aprilia doesn’t enjoy being ridden gently. Thing wants to go all the time 😂 but I don’t want to slide it down the road so I’m not going to really push the envelope and try 12 o’clock it as that would be a nightmare seeing it go down the road etc. Power wheelies, long as they may be… will have to do for now until I get a sumo when I move away…

@@henrylewin7677 sounds like you're making the best decision for now. 🙂

Thank you! Best to you as well and congrats again on your new Tuono :)

@@hiimchad lets do some virtual reality over in azusa or ortega or ach the weekend! Come join!

@@SuperbikeDiscovery I appreciate the offer, but I'll be heading out to the racetrack :)

@@hiimchad have fun mate! Hit me up whenever you want

They look like stomp grips from the video to me - I have got them on my 2018 factory ☺️ - really grippy and are genuinely clear - some of the other brands seem to either discolour or refract the light slightly.

@@d675ose7 Found them, thank you so much for the help 🥰

@@ennisyui @D675ose those are indeed them! 😁

Thanks Alex! Appreciate you checking it out and grateful that you appreciate the effort 😅

Just under 11.5k now!

That going to take some serious recoding, but I am working on it 🤣 Thanks for watching Reshard! 🙂

Hey Andrew! I like using the quickshifter, and it still has a good amount of torque even in 6th. 🙂

That was shifting at 6-7k rpm, which is perfectly fine for the quickshifter and transmission. It actually says in the owner’s manual that it is fine to use the QS so long as the engine speed is 4k rpm or above. I prefer the clutch, more control for me personally, but the power would definitely make it easy without the clutch. I’ve made some improvement since this video as well. Appreciate your comment! 🙂

@@hiimchad yea its scary, im learning on my tuono too. after i messed up my knee(1 year no riding+surgery) doing clutchup on dirtbike, il stick to powerwheelies on tuono😀

@@lauriL90 totally respect that! I use the clutch because I messed my hand up crashing my supermoto doing a power wheelie 😅 It seems we both found our ways by making mistakes the opposite way, how about that? 🙂 Glad you were able to get back to it after the recovery!

Thanks for the recommendation, Tom! I ran ATC on 3 for a while, but the rear kept getting squirrelly on corner exit on track, so I turned it up and haven’t really touched it since 😅 Have you been popping wheelies on your Tuono? 👀

@@hiimchad Yes! If you’re on FB, join the “RSV4 & TuonoV4 owners group”. I think there was a post on there talking about wheeling, and that’s where I got that advice from on turning the ATC down or off as well as AWC. Also 2nd gear chopping the throttle off at 6k and then back on will bring her up nicely for a power wheelie!

@@PezRacer guys, are you able to pop up power wheelies with AWC =1?

@@mcguiveroner I would need to experiment with that. I’ve only tried with AWC - .

@@PezRacer thanks Tom! I’ll join the group! Had no idea it existed

Practice makes perfect, right? 🙂