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Why winning a MC race is cooler than winning a car race
Victory Wheelies
My friend ( and motor builder ) winning a club race at Road America. The data has the wheelie starting at 148 mph going for .25 mi. and setting down at 141mph
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11-28-2013, 04:08 PM
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What? I can do that with my 996! Seriously though, the MC guys do have the biggest balls on the motorsports planet.
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^^^^This. For sure.
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Buddy of mine tried that during a Track event....Over backwards, hospital time, bike totaled. His insurance company just lblew him off. No coverage for stupidity.......
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I was busy watching Anti-Gravity Man!
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Too bad he can't sell his excess testosterone. Not wishing bad upon them but also wonder how many of these guys are designated as organ donors.
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I road raced bikes for a couple seasons...even collected a few trophies. Street squids may deserve the organ donor label, but the road racers are generally a different sort and the squids get tired of (or can't afford) crashing at the track every weekend.
I never intentionally lofted a wheel on a motorcycle...I tend to prefer both tires in contact with the road.
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I raced 600 supersport in AMRRA & GPPRO (NE region) for 7 years and am a better auto racer for it for sure. Seeing that video brought back a lot of memories. Best times but also times better left in my youth. I can't imagine getting back up after some of my lowsides now and I was lucky enough never to break anything, just bumps and bruises. Usually when you go off on the track, you're walking away with a broken collarbone, that ones weak & breaks a lot.
As far as non-celebratory wheelies on track, they were just incidental to acceleration and you tried to keep the front down for control & acceleration. Once the front wheel leaves the ground, you cannot accelerate any harder (the whole bike will just pivot on the rear axle causing a bigger wheelie). The really fast guys always had their front ends down. Last edited by mpeastend; 11-29-2013 at 01:13 PM.. |
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LOL! i wasn't even seeing the barrier....
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