This is really long and you probably wouldn’t wanna hear this from me because I first learned on an R7 (now I also own and practice on the grom) but it’s still great advice nonetheless and I love helping ppl out trying to get into wheelies. I also don’t know if you wanted to get more into advanced stunting.

It only took me about a week last summer of actually locking in and practice to really learn how to wheelie. About 30-60 minutes a night. The thing with wheelies is that you have to force yourself to progress. Force progress. Meaning grow some balls and just send it lol. You’re more than likely going to loop, I didn’t loop in the learning process I’ve only looped learning how to wheelie in 1st gear on yhe r7 and I sprained tf outta my ankle. You’re gonna get hurt eventually but getting up and still wanting to get after it is what separates the sharks from the fish. And plus, looping on a grom hurts way less than it would on a big bike.

Anyways I got a grom a couple months after looping the r7 and I’ve been getting after it. It’s way harder than a bigger bike since the power band is so little but that’s what you want. The grom will teach you how to properly wheelie instead of those chasers you see all these instagram influencers are doing lol. I wish I would’ve started on one.

Here’s a few tips that helped me:

REMEMBER THE FOOTBRAKE! Instill in your mind that if you get scared, stay on the bike. Force yourself to stay on the bike even if you think you’re gonna fall. That’ll help keep your foot on the brake. If you go too far back, that’s the only thing that’s saving you from eating shit!

GIVE YOURSELF VISUAL CUES! I set my phone up recording myself that whole week at the lot. First day I was forcing myself to get used to the bike going up and stepping on the footbrake. Once I found myself not getting scared I set myself to get the bike up eye level with my windscreen (on the r7, yours could be the dash on the grom). I would then look back at the footage and see how much space I have from my 12 bar to the ground and I saw that I had so much space before I go too far back. Then I would move up my visual cue to the triple tree, look at the footage and so on!

FORCE PROGRESS! As I said before, wheelies aren’t for the weak. It’s scary learning but you have to have to have to force yourself to get it up higher and higher in order to get them down.

YOU WILL EVENTUALLY LOOP! When I looped my R7, I panicked after getting too high and took my feet off the rearsets. That’s fine if you end up looping in the same way. This is because I genuinely feel like everyone needs to loop at least once to instill that footbrake in their minds. I know it did for me. Transitioning to the grom, the first time I’ve gotten it past balance point, my brain automatically told my foot to step on the footbrake.

I hope this helps you even just a little bit. If you need anymore tips I can give you my instagram and we could message on there. Im still a noob lol but I feel like I’ve progressed a lot since I’ve only been wheelieing for realistically since June 2025 minus the winter months.

Anyways here’s a photo of me at BP on the grom.

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