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    A wheelie machine

    Can someone please make one here in Auckland - I will become a loyal customer.

    promise to spend at least half my weekly lunch money on it

    Someone make it - please please please

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    wicked that...

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    $25 a go

    I guess it does take a while to realise where the balance point is on a bike and this is a quick and safe way of finding it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by YellowDog View Post
    $25 a go

    I guess it does take a while to realise where the balance point is on a bike and this is a quick and safe way of finding it.
    OR 100 bux and you get to strap your bike to the machine and try for an hour ....

    I'd pay for that, wouldn't you ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by TOTO View Post
    OR 100 bux and you get to strap your bike to the machine and try for an hour ....
    I don't think think it's that simple. Though I guess you could make the axle brace adjustable and make it work that way.
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    Really?
    I'd rate it 9.5 on the ghey-o-meter.

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    The previous owner of your bike spent a not inconsiderable amount of money making your bike into a better wheelie machine Toto. What a waste!


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    how does it corner?
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    I propose that we take a treadmill and repower it with a GSXR1300 engine. A few matresses on each side and Bob's your uncle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TOTO View Post
    Can someone please make one here in Auckland - I will become a loyal customer.

    promise to spend at least half my weekly lunch money on it

    Someone make it - please please please
    cud make a huckory one for about 1k i reckon, get a big drum, fill it with concrete, chuck a frame around it an put some bearing on the end, pivoting swingarm clamps, springy front wheel thing, done, maybe closer to 2k actually, or you could just htfu and practice on the track or private roads.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TOTO View Post
    Can someone please make one here in Auckland - I will become a loyal customer.

    promise to spend at least half my weekly lunch money on it

    Someone make it - please please please
    Where the hell were you this morning Toto? There were plenty of wheelies to be seen, courtesy of Gremlin on his wheelie machine, as Sharry will attest to. MBB couldn't behave himself either, as evidenced by some of his back tyre tread to be found at the traffic lights on Constellation Drive. ZXRider - well he was just bloody quick. I was the only well behaved one.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by MsKABC View Post
    Where the hell were you this morning Toto? There were plenty of wheelies to be seen, courtesy of Gremlin on his wheelie machine, as Sharry will attest to. MBB couldn't behave himself either, as evidenced by some of his back tyre tread to be found at the traffic lights on Constellation Drive. ZXRider - well he was just bloody quick. I was the only well behaved one.....
    Gremlin had Sharry adding ballast. ZXRider was riding slowly - when he rides normally the planet slows down due to th cornering force. MBB was very well behaved.

    But, MsCBT wasn't all that well behaved, were you mate??????
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    MBB was very well behaved.


    Oh you big sooth sayer MMB, don't imply your inocence The rubber on the intersection says differently. Did we remiss to tell you that open roads are for two way traffic

    Gremlin behaved admirably.... It's not his fault Katie has a front wheel allergy to tarmack, she is so addictive

    ZXRider was impecable at whatever speed he chose

    MsKABC was fautless and the only one abiding by all rules. There is no road rule saying you have to have the bike upright at all times is there

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sharry View Post
    MBB was very well behaved.


    Oh you big sooth sayer MMB, don't imply your inocence The rubber on the intersection says differently. Did we remiss to tell you that open roads are for two way traffic

    Gremlin behaved admirably.... It's not his fault Katie has a front wheel allergy to tarmack, she is so addictive

    ZXRider was impecable at whatever speed he chose

    MsKABC was fautless and the only one abiding by all rules. There is no road rule saying you have to have the bike upright at all times is there
    I wondered why there were so many cars on my racetrack this morning. Hmm.

    Gremlin, well, he's a fun guy to ride with. Wheelstands the length of Quay Street the last Swarm I rode with him - today, outside the fuzz shop... He MISbehaves admirably...

    ZXRider is super smooth and fast. Many have done impromptu hedge trimming when trying to follow his wheel.

    And as for MsKaBC - yeah, she's a great rider, and she's a legend in long lines of traffic (eh!), but give her one little Scoot to u-turn...
    It’s diametrically opposed to the sanitised existence of the Lemmings around me in the Dilbert Cartoon hell I live in; it’s life at full volume, perfect colour with high resolution and 10,000 watts of amplification.

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