break.com— At a fund raiser some guy thinks it would be cool to surprise everyone by rolling inside on a motorcycle and doing a wheelie. It does not go well.
Jul 28, 2008View in Crawl 4
Showing off without the proper skills will cost ya every single time. I find that kind of 'lamer meets bad end showing off' to be the funniest stuff there is. Watching some one trip and fall will make me bust a gut every time, even if someone gets hurt, it's hilarious to me.
Yeah, you'd think that. I also thought that until it happened to me. When you're weight is thrown backwards like that, it's pretty hard to avoid pulling the throttle further back as you're trying to hang on for dear life.
No, you apply rear brake to kill a wheelie. Grabbing clutch helps too. Dropping throttle can't hurt, but won't help much either. If you have already brought the bike up so fast that you're in danger of looping it then even if you drop power the bike will have way more than enough momentum to keep going over the top. Engine braking would likely not be a factor fast enough -- at any rate, rear brake would be faster. Even if you had full throttle on, the brake will overpower the engine powering the rear wheel. The bike as a whole has forward momentum. The part you can stop the fastest is the rear wheel (and the only part still on the ground). The forward momentum of the bike as a whole will overcome the rotational momentum of the bike. Of course, this is academic. That guy lost it way before any of these handy tips could have helped. Once his feet left the pegs his fate was sealed.To his credit, he stayed with it; didn't give up; and stayed on his feet... But gotta fail him for practicing a stunt with bystanders in front of the bike. Nobody got hurt. I wonder if they forgave him for being a moron.
Closed AccountJul 29, 2008
Showing off without the proper skills will cost ya every single time. I find that kind of 'lamer meets bad end showing off' to be the funniest stuff there is. Watching some one trip and fall will make me bust a gut every time, even if someone gets hurt, it's hilarious to me.
onjiJul 30, 2008
Please submit that to Digg.I long to digg it.
abomonogJul 30, 2008
Nah, they're just cheering their own survival.
freakydingoJul 30, 2008
Yeah, you'd think that. I also thought that until it happened to me. When you're weight is thrown backwards like that, it's pretty hard to avoid pulling the throttle further back as you're trying to hang on for dear life.
shaunzioJul 31, 2008
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offroadchickeeAug 11, 2008
Well, it was an enclosed room...I don't know how they were expecting that to go well.
noahspurrierOct 30, 2008
No, you apply rear brake to kill a wheelie. Grabbing clutch helps too. Dropping throttle can't hurt, but won't help much either. If you have already brought the bike up so fast that you're in danger of looping it then even if you drop power the bike will have way more than enough momentum to keep going over the top. Engine braking would likely not be a factor fast enough -- at any rate, rear brake would be faster. Even if you had full throttle on, the brake will overpower the engine powering the rear wheel. The bike as a whole has forward momentum. The part you can stop the fastest is the rear wheel (and the only part still on the ground). The forward momentum of the bike as a whole will overcome the rotational momentum of the bike. Of course, this is academic. That guy lost it way before any of these handy tips could have helped. Once his feet left the pegs his fate was sealed.To his credit, he stayed with it; didn't give up; and stayed on his feet... But gotta fail him for practicing a stunt with bystanders in front of the bike. Nobody got hurt. I wonder if they forgave him for being a moron.