| Author | Message | ||
     Biknut |
i'll be driving along on lbj freeway in dallas, say about 65 or 70 in my work and i'll get passed by eather a single bike of a group of sport bikes and the lead bike is cruzing at about 75 or 80 on one wheel. i see someone doing this every other week. it dosn't bother me, but i never used to see people doing it so much in the past. if i was any good at wheelies i'd probably be doing it too. | ||
| Glitch |
Squids! The lot of 'em. | ||
| Wyckedflesh |
No, generally I see one bike followed by two stunting with one or two playing rear gaurd. Course around here, that doesn't last long cause traffic runs them over. | ||
| Tucsonxb9s |
On the way home last Friday, 'round midnight, I saw some headlights closing in on me fast. I looked down at my speedo, and I was doing about 60...ten over the posted limit. I'm riding close to the center line (just in case a desert critter decided to bolt in front of me) and this guy on a Yamakawazuki bolts past me on the right. He gives me a little left hand wave and flies by. A group of a dozen or so riders behind him blow by me on BOTH sides! No gear...just jeans, T-shirts, and helmets. Thank God I didn't panic or change my line! It was also a good thing that they were passing me before my right hand turn off to my home. It would've been a mess! | ||
| Blake |
Haven't seen anything like that out here in East Texas. I do see the odd squid in a t-shirt, shorts, and sneakers though. | ||
| Charlieboy6649 |
So Cal has many 60-100 mph one wheel riders all over the freeways. See it every time I'm there... | ||
| Sandblast |
Yep, any one need a race bike let me know, I run into them pretty often (supersports with bent parts and no plastic  . Say, any one want to help pay my insurance bill? | ||
| Robr |
You can see quite a bit of that here in northern NJ of late. Squids for sure but ones with baggy pants and "rap" attire. I think some of it relates to the new popularity of stunt riding. They regulary scare the sh*t out of the cagers in rush hour traffic. Cant't imagine it being good for the rest of us. Rob | ||
| Deerhunter17 |
Here in MD we got a special breed. 2 Weeks ago one of them made a splash, so to speak. He was one of a group of riders that were performing stunts for a web site out of Baltimore. For his special trick, he and one of his buddies decided to air out the willy. They performed 80 plus MPH wheelies with ... helmet, tee shirt, and shoes.... no pants of any kind. The two half naked wheelie experts were in the right lane, while a camera car rode along side in the left. They where trailed by 5 other riders, and a car or two blocking traffic. Well as luck would have it, this 21 year old extreme sports wanabe, either went off to the shoulder, put the front down to gain control, or put it down then looked to the left to verify the camera guys got his wheelie, and went off the road. Bad news was that a rollback style tow truck was sitting there, just about to complete a pick up, when the bike, well actually, the rider struck the back of it. Yes it was as bad as you could imagine. The bike went beneath the bed of the tow truck, along with the riders lower half... I don't know if was the same group, but there have been numerous mentions of 6-8 bikes riding wheelies up the highway in the 80 to 100 + mph range. A few months earlier one went down on the beltway, and the van that was behind him ran him over...ven if I could do a high speed wheelie,... I think not! | ||
| Reepicheep |
When we were in the family minivan on the way to SC we had a pack blow buy us. Sportbike squids with iron cross leather jackets, some sort of club. After generally creating moderate levels of traffic hazzards with abrubt and impolite traffic maneuvers (nothing worse then a rainstorm would cause), one of them pulled up right next to me. He must have not been paying attention to the Buell sticker on the back of the Sienna minivan, and was expecting to freak out some hapless family on vacation. He failed. He pulled up beside us, gave me this big "look at me, I am some sort of freak, look at me look at me look at me" stare, and proceeded to do a little skitching off the side of his beat up inline four. Yawn. If he was expecting to freak me out, he failed. At best, the wife and I thought it was somewhere between funny and pathetic. The only thing he showed me was that he has a very high need for attention, that he does not care much about his bike, that he is rude and tedious, and that he must not have much of a life worth being cautious with. In terms of benefit versus risk, it was all risk. You want to impress me? Hold a *perfect* line, composed on the bike and smooth as silk, through something like deals gap at a brisk but reasonable speed. Then you will have well and truely impressed me. | ||
| Philip |
i live and work just off the 610 loop here in houston and you can hear packs of bikes running the loop all night every night. around midnight till 4 or 5 in the am. packs of three bikes up to twenty or more. i did it once with eight other bikes but 130 on the m-2 was not even close to keep up! don't need that any more! cops seem helpless to stop it and from shat i hear they don't even try. i does sound good when a couple of ducati's and sv 1000's bellow through. |
