Graham Jarvis Wheelie - Explained

Graham Jarvis Offroad Academy. Episode 1. Wheelie. Learn to wheelie your dirt bike like the world champion of hard enduro - Graham Jarvis. This video demos how to do a very famous Graham Jarvis' slow wheelie

[jamespolucha]

Everything he does is at an idle and just blips the throttle, man he doesn’t even give it much gas to get it up, he’s amazing

[rajkirannatarajan]

It's hard to appreciate at normal video speed, but go to 1:09 and play at the slowest speed.
Notice a few things.

1. Look how much he is able to compress that fork. This is crucial. Tune your forks to get as much travel for compression.

2. As he compresses the forks, he's rapidly shifted his butt back over to the midpoint of the swingarm. This rapidity is important because the forks decompress quickly, and by the time the forks start to rebound, his butt is already over the midpoint of the swingarm. He doesn't lean forward to compress the forks, he doesn't need to, most of the weighting is done over the pegs. All this happens in the blink of an eye.

3. He deweights just as the forks are about to rebound.

This coordination (probably from his trials background) is important.

[sammyscrap]

NIce camera work. You can see in the slow-mo that as he compresses the bike the wheels are actually dead stopped for just a moment, right before he brings it up. Amazing too to hear how little the engine revs during the whole affair. Truly a gentleman's wheelie if there ever were such a thing haha!

[starfee]

the best tutorial video of how to wheelie from the best rider in the world.thank you Poisk.
about the back brake tip.i have trained a lot following the tips of this video and i realise that using back break help the bike to stand still which is a major key of how to learn a slow wheelie.Jarvis had mentioned on an interview that most of his students in his clinics find it hard to do a slow first gear wheelie...Another think that helps of learning how to slow wheelie is making the slow figure eights exercise, Jarvis showing on another poisk tutorial...So begin to maintain your balance skill first and when you are confident enough start with the wheelie ...or do it both on your same training day

[davindrachenberg]

Makes that bike look light as a feather

[Ernesto_Jr.]

I saw people revving near the power band to pull wheelies. Jarvis's wheelies are just above idle, you can see how important body positioning is.

[andrewchavez]

Andrew c 2012 wr 450f






Graham Jarvis rule's I love his video's I learned alot watching them thank you ! Thank you graham!

[klkiddentertainment]

Best explanation ever seen on how to wheelie

[INSTRUCTORBMW]

Graham came down to Costa Rica to teach a clinic, which was great, very useful and inspiring. He said to me: "Any bike can wheelie".

[alcro]

Love the music in this. Wish that version of that tune was available.

[fuzzbot]

absolute pleasure to watch., with the skills you have.

[thomasmiller]

I can't believe you all are in here and West Virginia up Rock camp that's like a 15 minute drive from my mom and dad's house I love it I love to see people coming to West Virginia and having fun and riding motorcycles

[Grovesq]

With the help of my friend, and this video. My wheelies look just about like his!:D it's taken a month or so but it's coming along really well!

[MrMountain]

best wheelie tutorial ive seen yet. most people dont mention compressing the forks

[kenwolfe]

I don't think this is emphasized enough in the video. Yes, use your weight to push down and compress the suspension but applying the rear brake is essential to make sure all that downward force goes to the front wheel. Watch his right foot every time he wheelies. He uses the rear brake quite a bit to transfer the momentum. Happy and safe riding everyone!

[worldrage]

On bicycles I am incredibly good at wheelies and staying in the balance zone while also using the rear brake to do other things like going past 12 o’clock and returning back to balance. On dirt bikes and road bikes it’s like my brain can’t multitask and use the foot brake reliably like can with a hand brake. I have a Yamaha scooter I can wheelie incredibly well because of its nimbleness and the fact it has a hand brake like a bicycle. But I’ll just keep practicing and I’m sure I will get it. I still plan to buy a hand brake for my grom so I’m more comfortable

[OneCleans]

That husky looks so good. great skills too

[triumphtriumphant]

its only practice and oppurtunity.notice he works with the suspension, he taps both front and rear compresses the susp. then as it rebounds lift weight shift behind and throttle.respect though he understands the 2stroke.you can do anything you dont need middlemen or brokers to travel your path!just the will, he did assist people on the wheelie path!and i commented the first minute in before i heard what he said!

[billness]

Trial bike riders make any maneuver look impossibly simple, even on a standard dirt bike!

[sy]

his bike sounds like popcorn in a microwave XD