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    When and why did wheelies become illegal?

    Not a wind-up thread.

    Just wondering if anyone has any history on when/how/why wheelies or any other silly activity became such a big deal in the eyes of the law? History on the first recorded instance of someone being done for one or any other activity seen as hooning these days.


    Note that I know that in practice it depends on the place/time/officer involved. I'm not trying to get away with anything just curious about the exact question above.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McWild View Post
    Not a wind-up thread.

    Just wondering if anyone has any history on when/how/why wheelies or any other silly activity became such a big deal in the eyes of the law? History on the first recorded instance of someone being done for one or any other activity seen as hooning these days.


    Note that I know that in practice it depends on the place/time/officer involved. I'm not trying to get away with anything just curious about the exact question above.
    13 march 1983

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    Wow Nodrog you are so knowledgable and handsome thank you for such a fast, detailed and accurate response, 11/10 for you.

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    When and why did wheelies become So much fun?

    Fixed that for ya


    ...as they can't possibly be illegal!...aye?

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    Careless use of a motor vehicle. Don't ask.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nodrog View Post
    13 march 1983
    I beg to differ...was the 14th, but then you've always been a bit premature
    Quote Originally Posted by willytheekid View Post
    When and why did wheelies become So much fun?

    Fixed that for ya


    ...as they can't possibly be illegal!...aye?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback View Post
    Awesome use of a motor vehicle. Don't ask....don't tell
    ...The fuckin typos on here are seriously gettin out of hand



    Hmmm...just incase...checking

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    Nope!...just awesomeness!

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    I'd say 14th of December 1962 & it's because TPTB actively attempt to oppress anything that could possibly be considered fun & enjoyable... Mostly through jealousy
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    It's coz the system doesn't understand wheelies and the skill required to do one properly.

    Mind you, half the people doing them don't understand wheelies and the skill required to do them properly.

    I for one don't do them, as I don't understand them and the skill required to do them properly.

    I also don't care when others do wheelies, but think that if it goes wrong they have to just suck it up. It was their choice, they gotta own the consequences.

    That "It happens by accident officer" shite mostly just doesn't wash.

    Or why.

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    Quote Originally Posted by swarfie View Post
    but then you've always been a bit premature
    That's what Stirts told me about him as well
    "If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."


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    Quote Originally Posted by nodrog View Post
    13 march 1983
    that was a leap year so it was actually the 12th.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
    That's what Stirts told me about him as well
    like you've ever talked to a woman, except the ones in the mr whippy van, and at the pictures.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
    that was a leap year so it was actually the 12th.
    In a leap year both wheels are off the ground. This is a thread about wheelies, not leaps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
    like you've ever talked to a woman,
    I have too, but it was a long time ago and she was drunk and it was dark and I think she mistook me for someone else
    "If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."


    Quote Originally Posted by scracha View Post
    Even BP would shy away from cleaning up a sidecar oil spill.
    Quote Originally Posted by Warren Zevon
    Send Lawyers, guns and money, the shit has hit the fan

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    Are 'leaps' considered illegal?

    I did one recently when I was launched over one of Christchurch's famous earthquake repaired road works.

    Actually the term road works no longer applies here - they tend to do the work on the road, but it is mostly poor work and after the road does not technically work any better. It's a pet issus with me - reseal a damaged road with dips and bumps and the new seal has the same dips and bumps .......

    Someone is making a shit load of money out of our roads. Ironically one of the main contractors to the Council is a council owned business ....

    I say James - fetch me a pen and paper, I feel the need to scribe a letter to the newspaper.

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