On Sunday we were traveling north on the A1 up to Sherburn to see about a couple of new jackets from speedstyle, as we were passing the slip way from the M62 where it rises onto the A1 on our left there was rider cominup the slipway to join the A1 doing a wheelie, this continued onto the A1 and down the road until he reached ferry bridge power station which for those who now this stretch will tell you it is a awfull long way.

Upon reaching the end of his very foolish deed he then started to swerve in and out of traffic like he was allowed to do his own thing, this idiotic disply does no good for motorcycling and with legislation in the process of being ovehauled I think with people like this our days of free enjoyment will be under more stricter laws besause of such deeds..

And yes we picked up a couple of RICHA Mellenium jackets and was given a couple of freebies in with the deal, makes a change from M & PEE service that I got well done speedstyle ..

There's a time and a place for everything. In plain view of everybody is not that time or place.

I was behind a bloke on a trail bike last weekend, who was doing wheelies through the centre of Paisley in the wet. I was in the car and I thought I was seeing things.

I was coming up to a red light and I thought I had imagined it, then the bike behind popped a wheelie, even though I was already slowing down for the light. He parked alongside me at the lights, then when they changed green, he pulled away from the lights then popped another wheelie with a car sitting right behind him. If he had lost it, there's a chance that the car would have went over him.

I also caught a bit of footage on the telly last night of a bloke on a bike. He was overtaking on a bend with oncoming traffic and double white lines. Cars and lorries were having to try and get out of his way.

These images don't do us any favours and while I'm not to bothered about reputations, I don't want people to think that we bring a lot of the accidents on ourselves.

Coupla weeks ago on the Hill (Westgate Road Newcastle) guy going up the hill pulling a wheelie and over stepped the mark by going too far......found himself slipped off his seat and standing on the road whilst still holding the handlebars, front wheel in the air and then having to let go and allow his bike to take a nasty damage instilling fall!!

I mean.......everyone does not look at these types in awe and think to themselves how clever and amazing they are, especially in that circumstance.....I personally just think...'what a pratt'.

What I did find funny though, was that the biking fraternity emerged from every nook and cranny, the bike was removed and all evidence disappeared, it was also probably stripped down more quickly than a prostitutes drawers, when a police car and an ambulance arrived, scratching heads looking very confused!!

The wheelie crew are a pain in the arris and need banning from the road.
It's the old story of tarring people with the same brush.
see one guy do a wheelie and suddenly all bikers are at it.
take a trip down to any biker meeting place and i guarantee you'll find a couple of doylums doing wheelies.
The funny thing is most of the serious riders are jeering and telling these folks to piss off.
I for one am not impreesed and neither are the rest of us, so bugger off!!

Kind of reminds me of a story Wilf told me about a while ago... it involves a bucket of KFC.

I'll let him tell the story!

What UWL is refering to was an unintentional wheelie.
I'd taken a friend to a KFC on the back of my GP 100 about 20 years ago. We bought a bargain bucket and got on the bike, as we were leaving I noticed a group of people from my college and thought I'd show off a bit with a fast take off. A GP needs a lot of revs to Pull away sharpish with a combined weight of 28 stone on it. I gave it too much throttle and pulled a vertical wheelie which then flipped with the bike coming down across my leg. My mate Ian was unhurt and still holding on to the chicken, I thought I was ok but the gear lever had stabbed me in the calf. It only made a small puncture wound but it created quite a dip in my calf.It left me with a permanent reminder of how stupid we can be at times.

Same happened to a m8 of mine once.
thought he'd impress the girlies with a wheelie on his superdream.
he ended up cartwheeling the thing instead and the clutch lever went through his groin nearly slicing off one of his nuts in the process.
funnily enough his girlfriend wasn't impressed for obvious reasons (no nookie for 3 months)
and he never got back on a bike again, thereby denying himself hours of endless enjoyment in later life.
What a dickhead !!

Wheelies, doghnuts burnouts yeah im impressed wake me when they are finished.

a few years back we had 2 blokes doing doughnuts on some hard standing at one off our rallies
they had a big crowd round them watching what they did not know was that all the crowd was waiting for is to see them crash n burn or at the very least fall off.

was we impressed yes off course we was so much so that i took the keys & had them thrown off site without thier bikes or camping gear & told them to come back on sunday to pick them up.
a bit harsh you may think but that was the 2nd time that day they had pulled silly stunts & we get a lot of kids at our rallies.

silly stunts i think that is what i called them

Do you have the Volvo advert in the UK where a bike overtakes on double yellows and causes the Volvo coming the other way to swerve showing how great the grip and suspension on the Volvo is. Why couldn't they do the same advert with an XR2 like in real life. Its taken how long to get away from the Hells Angel image. We don't need arrisholes doing wheelies in public, bike insurance in the UK is off the scale already. Bikes in the US are seen as a mild pain in the arris and insurance is so low. I pay less than 250 quid a year on my R6, and only 40 quid road tax. Petrol is costing me 75p a gallon but I would rather be in the UK with the best people in the world. This lot wouldn't know fun if it bit them on the arris. Don't let me down and ignore me on my first day. I have had that sh!t for 2 years now. Sorry for highjacking the thread but I just had to show how bitter and twisted I really am.

Nick

And, let's be fair... that's a hell of big target in most cases

Welcome, Nick, nice hijack by the way... bitter, twisted and hijacking... you'll fit in nicely methinks

Wheelies? Don't impress me I'm afraid (although I have to confess that I have no idea how to perform such a manly stunt myself) but then I'm a postman...

A good point for another thread. I'll start up a new one. So that we can stay on track with this thread.


What the feck are you all fainting for.

Anyone see the report on motorbikes and speed on the BBC tonight?... some prat boasting about toping 200mph.. I'm sorry I can understand the need for speed, but nobody in their right mind should be boasting on TV.

The next clip was a Copper in a camera car clocking bikes doing 98 (with a pillion)... when he stops them the guy says 'I was doing 'bout 60!!'


Wayne

Last lesson on a 125 tomorrow (I hope!!)

Back in '94 after years of having dodgy old two strokes that sounded fast even when they were going slow I bought my first decent bike, a Honda CBX 750. At the end of a dual carriageway I was coming up on a roundabout and I thought I was doing about 70 when I looked at the speedo I was doing 105.

Granted the guys who do these things at the wrong time and place are daft, but dont we all ride on the wrong side of the speed limit at times .
A lot of people think this is just as stupid but it is fun

right time right place, thats the key here. Ok so reading this thread the majority vote is, down with loons, so we all agree that some loons should never be alowd on a bike.

But it looks like the fun police have been in, i actualy find it quite impressive that some one can have the confidence to have that much fun on thier machine, not to mention the skill involved, i love a bit of showmanship, why, becouse i cant, i would like to though (any one seen las-vegas extremes).

We have to be careful who we condem here, it is the loons who cant identify the right time and place that need to be educated, not to have a blanket condemnation on what fun you can have on your machine, there are enough retsictions on thier way as it is. Just coz some think its boreing and unnecesary does not make it wrong.

however we are under close scrutiny by all at the moment (especialy after the program last night... i missed it) so there does need to be some serious education, i think that there is more of a problem with the power ranger type "ride as fast as i can every where and get my knee down" than the odd plonker doin a wheelie.

Trouble is bikes are now so fast and well designed that they encourage riders to push it as far as they can, and they will, the majority of modern sports bikes will far out perform the rider, not to mention the crap roads we have to endure. These bikes are designed to race, Knee down hang off your seat at 80 in a bend, so it is little wonder that we have problems.

I would like to know when they are going to interveiw some real bikers, some bikers who live bikes and the bike scene.

It is the minority that loon about at top speed and act like idiots that get noticed, not the majority that respect the bikeing world and want to preserve it.

Yes Ging, i do ride on the wrong side of the speed limit, and i weave through traffic, and i have a home made exhust, and an illiegal number plate and a tinted visor, but i have respect and comonsence too.

So there Nah nah nah nah.....!

I agree - having just finished my last DAS 125 lesson with an ex copper, (500 next!!) I had cuppa with him. His attitute was 'right time, right place'. I can understand people wanting speed, even what I would consider to be excessive aka 200mph, but effectively 'boasting' to the world on TV. The problem with the media (I used to work in it!) is people latch on to the excess and run with it... now a large proportion of non bikers who saw the report will assume we all ride 4 times over the limit.

Also it only takes the 'odd plonker' to pull a wheelie down the local high st and squish a granny or 5 year old... I bet that would make the TV with good 'o Tony bleating on about 'stronger measures to deal with this menace'... what next? ban anything with less that 4 wheels?

I would query the word 'confidence'... I worked once with a guy who was confident enough to drive around a blind corner at 70 (in a cage) , He got around the corner without a problem, but the cyclist he hit (they estimate at 67 mph) did some interesting damage to his head when he bounced off the bonnet and through the windscreen.

Result .........2 dead


Wayne

I did that one the VFR, when I decided to overtake a landrover. It was the first day out on the new bike and the speed was a lot higher.

For you guys who haven't tried a big bike yet, 100 mph is like 50 in a car. Remember in a car you have a point at each corner (wheel) trying to upset the balance. On a bike you only have two points (wheels) and you sit in the middle of them. Bikes, especially modern bikes are very stable at these speeds. It is far easier to hits the ton on a bike.

There is still a time and a place though and it is not through town or populated areas. It can't be on a busy road or motorway either. If I did another trip down to Cambridge, I'd be looking to cruise around 80 to 90 mph for most of the day. If I was going bu car, I'd be looking at 55 to 65 mph. However that is a family car and not a big engined touring beast.