Quite frankly your attitude sucks fella and insulting people and being ageist won't win you any friends here.
To you maybe but I'm calling BS on that one. Have you done any short circuit racing? I'll take a guess and say you haven't, please correct me if I'm wrong. Any experienced racer will tell you wheelies slow you down and waste time, they're for show not go. If wheelies are your bag then that's fine, I've no problem with that and nor should anyone else but going back to your original post regarding the ST's inability to wheelie off the throttle. Mods will certainly deliver more power but if wheelies were as important a part of my riding experience as they are to yours then I wouldn't have started with a ST and that's an observation not a criticism.
Why didn't the o.p.get a z1300 like arto nyquist did if thats what he likes , big wheelies? Ffs. Fuck me? The kids these days. Lol
Now there's a guy who could wheelie! I posted up a video link to his exploits a while back but can't seem to find it.
I WOULD SAY YOU ARE ON THE WRONG FORUM AND NOT NEEDED HERE. YOU WANT TO WHEELIE SOD OF AND DO IT. HERE WE ASK A QUESTION AND ACCEPT THE COMMENTS. jOE.
Really strange post. Looks like you have the wrong bike, or want to do things you just can't despite you are young and braver than anybody else. When I was younger and way stupider I could lift the front Wheel of a BMW K100 RT. Now I try not to fall with the 2 wheels glued on the road. About modifying a machine for more power, why not, but with the objective to wheelie ... Just get a cheap trial. Some spoke about skills.. sorry I have to agree with them Jean-Claude Olivier, president of Yamaha France at the time.
I was SO looking forward to reading the post when he A. Blew up the motor. B. Was in hospital after crashing trying to wheelie. But then he descended into personal insults and frankly I was sick of reading the bullshit anyway so I hit the ignore button.
Yipes this took a wrong turn somewhere. To the O.P. youth is a wonderful thing. Enjoy yourself. Have fun. But do try to be careful. What I meant when I said age forms our view was with age comes wisdom. Now I'd like to say more but I have to go out and cash my social security check. Then have my cane polished. Busy busy
I read that you tried this on a parking lot. Good. Please stay there if this is what you are going to do. The very notion of doing a wheelie goes against everything that being a competent rider (on the road) is all about. The rules we have here in the UK to prevent you from doing this are there not to protect you, but to protect me, my wife and my children from you. It's really impressive that you know how fast your bike goes after the first day of having it. And it's really really impressive that you can do a wheelie. But please don't do either of these things on the public road. I can't wheelie either. But then I was toilet trained at 2; now that's impressive!
I’ve been riding bikes for approaching 48 years and as far as I can recall I’ve never done a wheelie, can’t say I feel like I’ve missed out or feel any less of a biker.
yo, op enjoy your machine. ride the shit out of it. you only live once, and none of us are getting out of here alive. use your time.
I agree. If you want to do stuff like wheelie then do it in the right place. Before lockdown a few mates and I were having breakfast in a popular Sussex bike cafe. We heard a mean machine heading towards us in the main road. They must have been giving it some with the Doppler effect and all. Anyway this bike had enough grunt to wheelie outside the cafe (at speed) but unfortunately the twat lost it. He and a very expensive bike went bouncing down the road. The bike was a right off. The guy’s girlfriend, who had arrived before, was screaming as she ran down the road to see him. Amazingly he was ok. Embarrassed as hell. £15K the worse off. But ok. I would have liked for him to get points and a fine as we were sat at a table by the road. Had the bike flipped towards us we could have been injured or killed. He was a twat.
Like I said earlier in the thread... there's a time and place! I'll never knock anyone for wanting to wheelie or whatever floats your boat. But when you do things where you could potentially damage or hurt another party for the sake of showing off, then your just a nob
