Wheelies in Orewa Grand Drive today?

[skippa1]

some people seem to have no sense of humor, adventure and nor are they able to laugh at their own sense of self importance. If certain people think they are going to wipe out mans will to dominate machine and do wheelies, stoppies, high speed runs or push the envelope a bit, by criticising, abusing or otherwise chastising those of us that like to live on the edge a little.....they are dreaming. It is human nature to try and push the envelope. Thats how products get developed and refined.....in fact if it wasnt an inbuilt human mechanisim, we would all be mute fetuses .......

Live a little.....

[Big Dave]

Live a little.....

Then work out how the ignore function on this site works.

[skippa1]

Then work out how the ignore function on this site works.

I will.....yes I will, I so will......

[White trash]

Has been tried before with varying success... http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...Bruce-and-DSS3

Dude. I have no problem with your crusade against what you to consider to be irresponsible riding behaviour and bad attitudes, but I'd thank you not to make insinuations to circumstances you know nothing about, about people you've never met.

Ta.

[onearmedbandit]

(And btw - I came within milliseconds of potentially being killed by a wheel-standing motorcyclist as I was turning into the Cold Kiwi rally a couple of years ago).

Was that due to the rider being an idiot or the wheelie? Is everyone who does a wheelie an idiot? Or only if they place other peoples lives at risk?

[DMNTD:Me]

http://www.break.com/index/bike-dest...d-wipeout.html

Take another look at this video and try to imagine how much worse it could have been.

In that particular video...you are 100% correct.

Personally i don't have problems with people doing wheelies etc as long as it can't affect others around them.

[Katman]

Was that due to the rider being an idiot or the wheelie? Is everyone who does a wheelie an idiot? Or only if they place other peoples lives at risk?

Just for the record, I don't have a problem with the act of wheel-standing per se - I don't fly into a paroxysm of rage every time I see Rossi doing one. Hell, I even have a number of people on my friends list who, if I was totally against wheel-stands, would probably not be there.

However, the problems that I do have with wheel-stands are;

a) when the performing of them places other road users at increased risk,
b) when the performance-gone-wrong of them adds to the burden we place on the ACC system which is already shafting us all indiscriminately,
c) when the performing of them strengthens the public's perception that we are a menace to society, thereby strengthening the government's resolve to get rid of us, and mostly,
d) publicly encouraging others to go out and wreck havoc by doing them.

[dipshit]

Dude. I have no problem with your crusade against what you to consider to be irresponsible riding behaviour and bad attitudes, but I'd thank you not to make insinuations to circumstances you know nothing about, about people you've never met.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

[toycollector10]

I once saw Andrew Stroud pull a wheelie at probably 300 plus kph down the full length of the main straight at Ruapuna on a Britten.

Anything less than that just doesn't cut it, try-hards.

P.S. Save it for the track.

[onearmedbandit]

I once saw Andrew Stroud pull a wheelie at probably 300 plus kph down the full length of the main straight at Ruapuna on a Britten.

Anything less than that just doesn't cut it, try-hards.

P.S. Save it for the track.

Was he doing it with one arm? And really, 300km/h+ on the main straight at Ruapuna?

[toycollector10]

Was he doing it with one arm? And really, 300km/h+ on the main straight at Ruapuna?

I don't know, it was just a guess. I can't get above about 95 MPH on that straight on my old shitter.

[beyond]

I once saw Andrew Stroud pull a wheelie at probably 300 plus kph down the full length of the main straight at Ruapuna on a Britten.

Anything less than that just doesn't cut it, try-hards.

P.S. Save it for the track.

Ummm, just a small point.... not everyone can own a Britten????

[jonbuoy]

some people seem to have no sense of humor, adventure and nor are they able to laugh at their own sense of self importance. If certain people think they are going to wipe out mans will to dominate machine and do wheelies, stoppies, high speed runs or push the envelope a bit, by criticising, abusing or otherwise chastising those of us that like to live on the edge a little.....they are dreaming. It is human nature to try and push the envelope. Thats how products get developed and refined.....in fact if it wasnt an inbuilt human mechanisim, we would all be mute fetuses .......

Live a little.....

The problem is a lot of riders don´t seem to understand there is a time and place, ie empty roads which there are a lot of in NZ. "Live a little" yes but have a search through the biker down/killed threads - then read back through some of their previous posts. I´ve ridden like a twat in the past as I´m sure Katman and other safety orientated posters. Some people get away with pushing it on the roads forever for others it takes the loss of a mate or a serious but survivable crash to wake them up. Push your envelope on your own bit of road or track and let me just "live" thanks.

[Big Dave]

P.S. Save it for the track.

Good advice - except you get chucked out of the track days I've observed for stunting. In fact one ride brief I saw jokingly said 'save that for the road'.

From a practical standpoint - being able to hoist the front wheel is a part of off-road and adventure riding. Clearing obstacles etc.

There are jackass places to practice and there are suitable places. Be good if the track was one of the suitable places - ironic that it isn't.

[lanci]

http://www.break.com/index/bike-dest...d-wipeout.html

Take another look at this video and try to imagine how much worse it could have been.

If you're struggling to figure it out, take a read of the thread that dipshit provided the link for about Bruce and Darryl's accident.

There's something malignantly evil about someone who purports to be a Christian motorcycle chaplain, encouraging people to place themselves at a higher degree of risk to injury or death while at the same imposing an increased threat of the same to others that share the road with them.

Christian? - my arse. Chaplain? - even arser. People like you make me fucking puke.

(And btw - I came within milliseconds of potentially being killed by a wheel-standing motorcyclist as I was turning into the Cold Kiwi rally a couple of years ago).

Christianity is all about hyprocrisy...