Larrakin behaviour!

[750Y]

redstar..

theres a right loony R1 up my way he shows off something rotton on the northern motorway with a 300m wheelie blue?

does he have anything unusual on his black helmet?
I've seen a lot of guys wheelying the r1.

[Antallica]

Originally posted by 750Y
redstar..


does he have anything unusual on his black helmet?
I've seen a lot of guys wheelying the r1.

It not like it's uncommon ... bit back heavy if you ask me.

[750Y]

... bit back heavy if you ask me.

haha

yeah and a bit to much air in the front tyre too.

[georgedubyabush]

I can just see the SCU team now...
"here we see one wheel track, then nothing, then another single wheel track ending at this brick wall... clearly a wheelstand followed very quickly by the rear wheel lifting under heavy braking... the rider clearly incorrectly applied power, then incorrectly applied the front brake, rider error obviously at fault.

"now we test the theory using a police bike"...

[Antallica]

Originally posted by georgedubyabush
I can just see the SCU team now...
"here we see one wheel track, then nothing, then another single wheel track ending at this brick wall... clearly a wheelstand followed very quickly by the rear wheel lifting under heavy braking... the rider clearly incorrectly applied power, then incorrectly applied the front brake, rider error obviously at fault.

"now we test the theory using a police bike"...

Was the bike ok!!??

[Coldkiwi]

Originally posted by georgedubyabush
I
"now we test the theory using a police bike"...

 

oh YES! I REALLY want to see that episode ! LOL!

[Kwaka-Kid]

motoracer: yeah mate! funny enuf i found the box of old zxr400 bits today in the garage AS I FIRED UP MY RVF400R FOR THE FIRST TIME, OMG IT SOUNDS SOOO SWEET

anyways yeah, good thing i didnt throw out but yeah jsut plastic bracket and stuff or somthinghey, i vagually remember slight plastic chip out of brackety thing, will try re-find tomorrow.  np

GO THE RVF! and i stripped it and made new exhaiust bracket (std one is attached 2 rear peg) and other stuff, moulding fairing/relocating reg/rec and rear master cylander for new fairing to go on (well really old, looks gay, but its mine! personalised)

[Duke of Rogan]

reviving an old thread here (that had gone off topic anyway)

I just witnessed a stoppie performed on one of them little 2-stroke mini-bikes / bucket racers that was being ridden by a motorcycle courier.

looked pretty funny, and I guess its quite safe on one of these machines.

I missed the wheelie attempt he tried earlier, but my work mate reckons he saw him try...

[Coldkiwi]

yeah.. i may have posted this elsewhere but I've seen a few couriers pulling wheelies and some very high stoppies on those street magics. Pretty simple to do with a wheel base that short. The suspension makes a horrid noise when they land the back wheel though!

Speaking of being badly behaved... I was getting frustrated with the cars today only doing 120 on the motorway. My time at Puke in the weekend appears to have given me a bad reference point for throttle control!!

 

[Big Dog]

Have given a few stoppies a go, in the interests of research.
It seems in real life that most stoppies are un intentional by products of desperate braking. .

I give these a miss because of my size and the crunching noise that goes with putting down a bike fitted out with a 160kg plus load.

To be fair if it weren't my only mode of transport I would still participate but can't afford to be off the road.

To those that can afford it and don't kill them selves or others

[fergie]

the closest thing to larrakin behaviour that i do is blast down the centre line past a row of cars, as i go past i imagine the cage drivers thoughts,,,,,,,,,here's some of them

'bastard!'

'wish i could do that'

'temporary citicen'

'wow that looks like fun'

'wish i could do that"

'boy do i wish i could do that'

 

any more guys?

[Duke of Rogan]

if knocking car side mirrors with my own counts as larrakin behaviour then put me down for a few of these (all while lane splitting of course)

sometimes I've felt like reaching out and deliberately knocking a cage mirror with my left hand, but so far I've resisted this urge.

[Marmoot]

wheelied a cruiser. No problem. Never stoppied it, though.....

[duckman]

Sounds like I'm the biggest wuss here so far. I can manage 1st gear clutch lifts but I'll be buggered if I can get a power lift going.

I think the over-riding factor is the fear of f*cking it up and having to pay the ka-zillion dolleros to put it all back together.

[Motoracer]

What sorta crusier was that Marmoot? I'd love to see anyone try n do a stoppie on a crusier. Its probably more possible to stoppie my dad's car (soft suspention) than to stoppie a crusier.

My new found toy, a 50 cc scooter is great fun for larrakin behaviour around town when I am doing courier runs. Wheelies are pretty fun but what I like doing the most is holding the throtle fully open when I am going through the green light and I am making a turn by going into a different street. What makes this maneuver special is that I am on full lean on the scooter, with sparks flying off the exhaust (right hand side) as I scrape it along the road . Too bad my crank case (left hand side) has a plastic cover cause I can't make any sparks doing a left'y .

After fixing my race bike, I'll spend some money on the scooter. eg put crash knobs (just in case). Deristrict the exhaust and make it go from 55 top speed to 75 . Probably lift the rear higher and stiffen the shock as I want to go faster round corners before scraping either side of my scooter. Brakes are quite nessasary as the front and rear drums can't do sh*t under braking but its probably going to be too costly to upgrade them. I guess I'll just have to dodge the obstical rather than braking for it .