`:::::::::::::An independent treatment of wheelies, in Gray, Costanzo, and Plesha's 2010 Dynamics textbook begins with the full Newton-Euler equations and so necessarily includes the vehicle moment of inertia. They then calculate the maximum possible acceleration of the combined bike and rider rigid body such that the front wheel does not lift off the ground, in other words, the acceleration that causes vertical load on the front wheel to decreased to zero. With this constraint the angular acceleration is also zero, and the only term which includes moment of inertia is eliminated. Thus, their analysis seems to say exactly ``that wheelies cannot begin until the front wheels bear no vertical load,`` and whether a vehicle, when treated as a rigid body, experiences a wheelie or not is independent of its moment of inertia. -    `