Can you do wheelie on a Harley?

[MadDuck]

......too right you can if your name is Matt.

What a damn awesome display was put on at the V8s yesterday. Not only can this guy wheelie a hog (and a buell) but he can stoppie and stand on the handle bars. I was a tad worried about the Leopard Skin seat though - thats just going a bit far!

The guy on the Ducati also gave us some great entertainment and when they came around Puke the opposite way to which its meant to be gone around I thought - you lucky beggers. Bear in mind this is after the drifting display they had just done.

A big up to the guys as I was asked today about how they did it and being such a knowledgeable person on all things wheelie I told everyone a bunch of bullocks and said "oh its easy really" little did they know I was in awe at such skill.

[dveus]

My names Mat, anyone want to lend me a Harley?

[MadDuck]

Hell NO! You know what those damn things cost?

[DEATH_INC.]

Not the same guy,but any excuse to post this piccy again

[White trash]

I wheelied an FXDC (That's a Superglide custom to you uninformed plebs) in the square at Martinborough. It involved standing on the pillion seat too.

[Sniper]

Why would you want to wheelie a Harley???

[GSVR]

Why would you want to wheelie a Harley???

Why would you want to wheelie anything. The police certainly take a dim veiw of it. Its just not the sort of thing a model citizen should be doing. Same with deliberately causing your vehicle to loose traction. Its just not a good look in these enlightened times.

[White trash]

Why would you want to wheelie a Harley???

Coz I can.

[White trash]

Why would you want to wheelie anything. The police certainly take a dim veiw of it. Its just not the sort of thing a model citizen should be doing. Same with deliberately causing your vehicle to loose traction. Its just not a good look in these enlightened times.

Obviously never done a wheelie?!

See this =====>White trash

I certainly hope it doesn't instill images of a model citizen, cause that wasn't the look I was going for.....

[Ixion]

Why would you want to wheelie anything. The police certainly take a dim veiw of it. Its just not the sort of thing a model citizen should be doing. Same with deliberately causing your vehicle to loose traction. Its just not a good look in these enlightened times.

At the risk of appearing ultra uncool, I also have to ask why people are so keen to wheelie street bikes.

I've wheelied a good many bikes (intentionally and otherwise) but I never could see the point of it.

I don't actually see that it's that dangerous, just doesn't seem to achieve anything

Off road is different, you have to do it all the time there to get the bike over obstacles (get the front over, the rest will follow). But on the road, apart from the odd case of getting up stairs or something it seems pointless.

Yes, I have done them , both intentionally and accidentally. It's not that hard , almost any bike can be wheelied if you are willing to accept some abuse of the clutch and transmission. Just doesn't seem any purpose to me.

[Sniper]

Coz I can.

Nice call, lol

[White trash]

At the risk of appearing ultra uncool, I also have to ask why people are so keen to wheelie street bikes.

Big risk, but you took it. Balls of steel you have.

I've wheelied a good many bikes (intentionally and otherwise) but I never could see the point of it.

I don't actually see that it's that dangerous, just doesn't seem to achieve anything

It makes chicks "bubbly" in the gusset mate, what more do you want?

Off road is different, you have to do it all the time there to get the bike over obstacles (get the front over, the rest will follow). But on the road, apart from the odd case of getting up stairs or something it seems pointless.

A Wellington Motorcyclist, know by many, loathed by all, has personally recounted to me an instance on a (get this!) XT550 where him and his mate were racing down the road and he gets into this turn a bit hot and runs wide. 160kays mate. So he runs wide, onto the wrong side of the road.

Wouldn't ya know it, there's a car coming the other way. A VW Beetle as it happens! So at 160, he hoists the front wheel and (no shit, this is with a straight face) he wheelies over the beetle.

At 160. All told with a straight face.

Now, WHAT, I ask you, do you have to say for THAT?

[Ixion]

A Wellington Motorcyclist, know by many, loathed by all, has personally recounted to me an instance on a (get this!) XT550 where him and his mate were racing down the road and he gets into this turn a bit hot and runs wide. 160kays mate. So he runs wide, onto the wrong side of the road.

Wouldn't ya know it, there's a car coming the other way. A VW Beetle as it happens! So at 160, he hoists the front wheel and (no shit, this is with a straight face) he wheelies over the beetle.

At 160. All told with a straight face.

Now, WHAT, I ask you, do you have to say for THAT?

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Well, that has to be the oddest of odd cases. I instanced climbing stairs, I wouldn't have thought of climbing beetles.

[Skyryder]

Big risk, but you took it. Balls of steel you have.



It makes chicks "bubbly" in the gusset mate, what more do you want?



A Wellington Motorcyclist, know by many, loathed by all, has personally recounted to me an instance on a (get this!) XT550 where him and his mate were racing down the road and he gets into this turn a bit hot and runs wide. 160kays mate. So he runs wide, onto the wrong side of the road.

Wouldn't ya know it, there's a car coming the other way. A VW Beetle as it happens! So at 160, he hoists the front wheel and (no shit, this is with a straight face) he wheelies over the beetle.

At 160. All told with a straight face.

Now, WHAT, I ask you, do you have to say for THAT?

Lucky for him the VW didn't do a wheelie. They can ya know, says I with fingers crossed behind my back.

Skyryder