wheelies

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

What!? I thought you can just power wheelie a ninja... can't do that on an SV.

I've done a couple of small wheelies away from the lights.

you can but lee rides like a girl!

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

What!? I thought you can just power wheelie a ninja... can't do that on an SV.

I beg to differ!!

I have done several power wheelies but never a full, intentional, front well off the floor and hold it types!

Even had the front come up (and go down again!) under acceleration in first, second and third gears!!

The funniest time I was on a bike when a wheelie was 'performed' was the other week!

I was still nowhere near full fitness/strength but went on the back of Ian's (chutz) bike (had to get my fix somehow!!). Some cretin car driver pulled right across our path at a set of traffic lights - it was our right of way & he just didn't look at all! Ian yanked on the anchors to avoid me being sent skittling up the road for the second time in as many months and before you could blink, he'd accelerated away to prevent the idiot behind us from wiping us out! Next thing I knew I was sat on the pillion seat thinking I was in an 'odd' position and the engine was making a lot of noise!
Then I heard the insane laughter coming from inside Ian's lid!!
Rapidly followed by mine!!

Originally Posted by leesimons

Not quite the same mate.

My SV used to wheelie off the throttle in first and 2nd too at a push and would powerwheelie all the time. The Ninja will wheelie in first and second off the throttle BUT, and here's the but... On the SV, you can wheelie at 20mph in first. On the Ninja because the powerband is higher in the rev range, to wheelie off the throttle you are doing about 40mph+... which is a little scary and dangerous for someone who's not good at wheelies! If you wanted to clutch it up, you could do that at much lower speeds but my confidence / skill level is not high enough to do that.

Oh, and Joe, f**k off

lmfao

Originally Posted by keithd

strewth! is he wheelying for an hour at a time?

or is it wheelieing

I don't have my SV now I think I did bad things to it whilst on the rear wheel for too long !

Oh, and I have wheelied every bike I have had. The hardest being the
1984 VF 1000F Honda, the bike weighed around the 17 tonne mark.
I have never wheelied with anyone on the back, I might be a bit of an idiot
but if I throw it down the road then it's just me that gets damaged.
The R6 is way too savage to wheelie in first, but from 70kmh (45mph) in second.......WOOOOOHOOOOO! and putting the front down and hearing the tyre chirp at 145kmh.

The last bike I wheelied was my Grifter!

[Spiderman]

Only once on the Sv and that was by "accident". well the guy in the car was about to crunch my leg as he wasnt looking so i had to twist it hard to get away.... and wooo up it came.
If the twit hadnt proceeded to get out his car i would have kept trying them all the way home

But i wann do wheelie school this year at some point, £300 for a day i think but at least i get to learn on a 1200 bandit with anti-flip bars out the back of it. Cant wait

Clutched the Hornet up pulling away from lights, etc a few times. Only about a foot or so. Unintentional and frighteningly easy the first time. Only had the bike a day

They tell me she'll power up in 2nd at about 6000rpm from a closed throttle but I'm too chicken to try that

I try not to do 'em, though, as it's not big and not clever

Everybody that knows me, knows that I don't wheelie

Originally Posted by BigApe

Everybody that knows me, knows that I don't wheelie any more without falling off in front of scooter boys

True, true!!