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I was reading in the "drop a tooth" section, and noticed that someone said something about clutching it up in second. The R6, in stock form is capable of doing a second gear stand-up wheelie, with no clutch. The question is, "is the rider capable of doing a second gear stand-up wheelie with no clutch?".
My boyfriend (sorry to sound so dumb, but bear with me) has a GSXR1000, and he does 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th gear wheelies with no clutch. He hasn't dropped a tooth, just put on exhaust & PCIIIr. Anyway, in our opinion, clutching up a wheelie is a bad thing. He might clutch up a wheelie in 5th, but that is about it. Wheelie worthy rev's in 5th gear are around 150-160mph, so there really isn't any need to do it in 5th anyway, when 4th works just fine.
There is a trick to doing wheelies without the clutch, but it isn't hard. Clutchless wheelies are more controllable, and there shouldn't be any surprise as to how fast the front is going to come up. If you are doing a highway wheelie, you don't want it to come up fast anyway, watching them come up slow and climbing to the 12 o'clock position, and staying there for a mile or so is pretty cool.
Honestly, there is no reason to clutch up a wheelie, unless you are on a ninja 250, or something like that. Todays sportbikes are capable of doing them without, and that is before dropping teeth. We did drop a tooth on my bike though, to compensate for the center of gravity being so low after being lowered 3". The bike just wouldn't do a wheelie AFTER being lowered, but that all came back after we dropped a tooth. Now, second gear stand-ups are more than possible with no clutch.
Of course, this is just our opinion, and everyone has one. :moon
Char
My boyfriend (sorry to sound so dumb, but bear with me) has a GSXR1000, and he does 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th gear wheelies with no clutch. He hasn't dropped a tooth, just put on exhaust & PCIIIr. Anyway, in our opinion, clutching up a wheelie is a bad thing. He might clutch up a wheelie in 5th, but that is about it. Wheelie worthy rev's in 5th gear are around 150-160mph, so there really isn't any need to do it in 5th anyway, when 4th works just fine.
There is a trick to doing wheelies without the clutch, but it isn't hard. Clutchless wheelies are more controllable, and there shouldn't be any surprise as to how fast the front is going to come up. If you are doing a highway wheelie, you don't want it to come up fast anyway, watching them come up slow and climbing to the 12 o'clock position, and staying there for a mile or so is pretty cool.
Honestly, there is no reason to clutch up a wheelie, unless you are on a ninja 250, or something like that. Todays sportbikes are capable of doing them without, and that is before dropping teeth. We did drop a tooth on my bike though, to compensate for the center of gravity being so low after being lowered 3". The bike just wouldn't do a wheelie AFTER being lowered, but that all came back after we dropped a tooth. Now, second gear stand-ups are more than possible with no clutch.
Of course, this is just our opinion, and everyone has one. :moon
Char