how is a wheelie/stoppie breaking the law?

**SPman** · 7th April 2006, 16:09

Originally Posted by lou

Most of the time it's carless driving

I suppose it would be........

**sAsLEX** · 7th April 2006, 16:11

Originally Posted by 2much

Yeah cause if it wasn't for the 'wankers' in thieir rotors, you'ld be allowed to do wheelies on the public roads legally? WTF?

Cause they're part of the group that initiated the "boy racer act", of which sustained loss of traction is a charge, never mentioned anything about being legally allowed to wheelie just put forward one law I have heard people get charged for wheelieing on.

Bite me!

**onearmedbandit** · 7th April 2006, 16:38

'Coz the last copper who gave me a ticket for it told me it was. Apparently only having one hand on the bars does not mean you have better control??

**loosebruce** · 7th April 2006, 16:45

Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

'Coz the last copper who gave me a ticket for it told me it was. Apparently only having one hand on the bars does not mean you have better control??

LOL nice one OAB.

Time and Place, lanesplitting at 160k on the back wheel is very much frowned upon, i dont know what the fine was for that though

being the only guy in 3 lanes and pulling a wheelie past an HP busy with someone else while looking at him tooting your horn, only got a sly grin and a slight headshake.

But yea you're not in full control of your bike, as Lou said, by the time you drop the front to get on the brakes chances are it's too late.

It's a valid law and to be honest i dont know why this thread exsist's, Kit, care to explain, i know youre smarter than this!!!!! You just trying to stir shit?

**bugjuice** · 7th April 2006, 16:48

cos I'm not talking about lane splitting on the back wheel, or doing wheelies past busy junctions or pedestrian crossings or in front of schools or malls. If you re-read what I asked, it was a plain empty road in broad daylight. what's the odds of just being 'waved on' so to speak.

Only cos I nearly did a wheelie the other day past an unmarked cop. If I had done it, would I be a few hundy shorter now? Was a dangerous place, wasn't exceeding a stupid speed, wasn't endangering myself or others in any way, so would I have been done for gettin it up?

**HDTboy** · 7th April 2006, 16:49

OAB, you could argue that your hand slipped off the clutch

**SPman** · 7th April 2006, 16:53

Originally Posted by scumdog

Carless Use: defined as "driving in a manner a normal prudent motorist would not"

OK - so people who don't drive cars are not normal prudent motorists.............is this new....?

**loosebruce** · 7th April 2006, 16:57

Oaky Buggy, at the end of the day the police still have a job to protect ourselves from ourlselves, so thousands of us aren't on ACC bleeding the scum arse govt. dry bumping our taxes up ten fold etc etc etc, whenever you pull a wheelie you are risking it, any number of things could go wrong, it takes so little to fuck up, i know believe me and so does Death, so does Jimmy, it doesn't take much, thats why it's not okay on the road, coz the cops are there to stop it, the track well they can't do much about it there.

**2much** · 7th April 2006, 16:59

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

Cause they're part of the group that initiated the "boy racer act", of which sustained loss of traction is a charge, never mentioned anything about being legally allowed to wheelie just put forward one law I have heard people get charged for wheelieing on.

Bite me!

Do you actually know of anyone who's been charged for that because of wheelies? All the cases of people getting caught that I'm aware of the charge has been 'careless use of a motor vehicle'.

If you ever have the misfortune to get busted and are charged with 'sustained loss of traction', then I suggest you thank the 'boy racers', because it's much better than getting charged with careless.

Edit: Kit, it's much like speeding. Sometimes you'll pass a cop at 120 and he'll ignore you, other times he'll ping you. Luck of the draw.

**hXc** · 7th April 2006, 17:08

Originally Posted by Devil

The thought about careless driving/riding in respect of wheelies came to me the other day after I had noticed 2 or 3 people riding mountain bike type unicycles around on the street. These people were in typical cyclist lycra, all the gears, on unicycles that appeared to have mountainbike tyres. Sure they'd be just as 'out of control' as a guy pulling a wheelie.

Police people, have you run into these uni-cyclists? They dont even have brakes.

Now I recall, at least two of them were on the riverhead highway...

Have you ever tried riding a unicycle? You are a lot more in control than you think. And a lot of those types of unicycles will have brakes. But the ones that don't: You just stop pedalling or slow down the pedalling. The pedals are connected to the axle so you stop pedalling, the wheel will stop instantly.

And unicyclists are very aware of their surroundings (like motorcyclists) and will usually be very nice people. Despite only having one wheel and looking very unstable, they're not.

**MSTRS:Me** · 7th April 2006, 17:10

Originally Posted by bugjuice

and you pop a wheelie off the lights, and you put the wheel down at 75kph* and continue.....*indicated

Well, it might be OK if you have a gearbox-driven speedo.....Those of us on real bikes wouldn't be sure that we weren't speeding too.

**MSTRS:Me** · 7th April 2006, 17:12

Originally Posted by hXc

Have you ever tried riding a unicycle? You are a lot more in control than you think. Despite only having one wheel and looking very unstable, they're not.

Yea right