Wheelie
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Woodaddict
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one of the motorcycle magazines had a cover with NT doing wheelie.
I saw that article....good desktop photo.
A buddy of mine can wheelie anything....even an 1800 Goldwing. It is not about power, but about technique.I saw that and it looked good on paper
This is a fact!!!I saw that article....good desktop photo.
Wheelie can be done on almost any motorcycle.
So, this video gives meaning to be careful buying a used bike!! BB
Phil Tarman
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That's impressively insane!
One of the guys I scored at the end of the HW3 Rally yesterday had taken his Goldwing (an 1800) up a road that his GPS told him would get to a bonus location. It started as paved, went to dirt, then rocks, then after he topped a hill, turned to dirt with ruts. He had a car tire on the rear and that was bad enough in the ruts until it started raining. It took him 3 hours to get turned around and ride back out. Then he figured out that he'd misread the directions to the bonus. He finished without many points.
After I finished scoring him, he told me that what had made it all worse was that on Friday after he'd finished tech inspection, he'd taken his 'Wing out to an area just east of Grand Junction, between I-70 and the Book Cliffs, and ridden up a dirt road into some dunes. He'd decided to ride up one of the dunes to take a picture for his son (they'd ridden in the area back a few years). He got part way up the dune and got to thinking that nobody knew where he was, nobody would be able to see him if he needed help and he didn't know what was on the other side of the top. So he stopped, started to back down the dune and his car tire threw the bike down. He broke the right side driver's footpeg off.
So, he rode the whole rally (for him about 1300 miles) and will ride all the way home to South Carolina without a footpeg.
One of the guys I scored at the end of the HW3 Rally yesterday had taken his Goldwing (an 1800) up a road that his GPS told him would get to a bonus location. It started as paved, went to dirt, then rocks, then after he topped a hill, turned to dirt with ruts. He had a car tire on the rear and that was bad enough in the ruts until it started raining. It took him 3 hours to get turned around and ride back out. Then he figured out that he'd misread the directions to the bonus. He finished without many points.
After I finished scoring him, he told me that what had made it all worse was that on Friday after he'd finished tech inspection, he'd taken his 'Wing out to an area just east of Grand Junction, between I-70 and the Book Cliffs, and ridden up a dirt road into some dunes. He'd decided to ride up one of the dunes to take a picture for his son (they'd ridden in the area back a few years). He got part way up the dune and got to thinking that nobody knew where he was, nobody would be able to see him if he needed help and he didn't know what was on the other side of the top. So he stopped, started to back down the dune and his car tire threw the bike down. He broke the right side driver's footpeg off.
So, he rode the whole rally (for him about 1300 miles) and will ride all the way home to South Carolina without a footpeg.
IIRC, that rider who did the wheelie on the NT for the motorcycle magazine, crashed it. He wasn't badly hurt and the NT held up pretty well. I remember seeing a series of photos taken during and after the wheelie showing him losing it. I'm sure it was embarrassing for him, a professional doing a review/shoot for a magazine to have that happen.
I have cracked the throttle a few times and the front wheel come off the ground without meaning to at times. It is a bit frighting if you're not ready for it.
Thanks and thats cool.
I've done 5 short wheelies, like it's 12-18 inches off the ground for maybe 3 feet. Nothing crazy that's for sure. But I think it would be easy enough to go for it!
So what part of Canada are you from Avi eh?
So what part of Canada are you from Avi eh?
Im from Toronto.I've done 5 short wheelies, like it's 12-18 inches off the ground for maybe 3 feet. Nothing crazy that's for sure. But I think it would be easy enough to go for it!
So what part of Canada are you from Avi eh?
