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Title: Brilliance or insanity?
Post by: Ian on October 04, 2009, 09:57:15 PM

I cant make my mind up. Most of you have probably seen this video before....you cant help but admire the riding whatever

Title: Re: Brilliance or insanity?
Post by: guest18 on October 04, 2009, 10:15:17 PM

Skilled riding, but in a t-shirt? Insanity...  :(

Title: Re: Brilliance or insanity?
Post by: guest24 on October 05, 2009, 10:06:11 AM

It is very skilled riding. But to me it is also horribly anti-social  :o. How many cars had to take avoiding action to prevent a crash? It does nothing to further the image of all motorcyclists.

Don't get me wrong, bikes are fun, wheelies (for those of you that can do them  :'() are great, but it shouldn't be to the detriment of others.

Title: Re: Brilliance or insanity?
Post by: CHRIS211083 on October 05, 2009, 11:41:15 AM

** [Steve H] Someone has indicated the following clips contain accidents, dont view the clip if you find such things offensive **

Sorry i disagree....... wheelies are not good and will give you an instant 6points and a court case for loseing control of your motorcycle....not only that but it also wears your chain and sprockets quicker and if held too long cause major engine components to fail. it also costs you alot if you get it wrong!!! as for the riding...... stupide, hes going into a blind corner on the wrong side of the road. hell only get away with it so long.....................

heres a good clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WpklhXLN2c (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WpklhXLN2c)
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1tmTJNsk0
 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1tmTJNsk0)

Title: Re: Brilliance or insanity?
Post by: guest7 on October 07, 2009, 09:40:57 PM

What can you say? the riding in the supermoto clip is just plain stupid. Brilliant wheelies and great machine control, but so many risks taken... what a dolt  ::)

GC

Title: Re: Brilliance or insanity?
Post by: squirrelciv on October 09, 2009, 05:50:51 PM

What really boils my swede with things like this is the total arrogance of those riders. Absolutely no consideration for anyone else at all. What makes it worse is they rely on everyone else obeying the rules to do what they do. I mean if any of the car drivers were half as erratic, the biker would be toast.

Selfish, selfish, selfish! Not a skill I wish to emulate that's for sure.

Title: Re: Brilliance or insanity?
Post by: Gaylord on October 10, 2009, 10:22:18 AM

Hello chaps
Well what can one say? I have closely watched the video in question eleven times and now have it on my ipod. The ipod is now taped to the handlebars, so when riding along i can hone one wheeled steering style. This is all well and good you might say and jolly good fun too, but in following the action on the screen. I tend to be on the right hand side of the road, so i catch up cars very fast somehow hence the need for monowheel steering to get around them. Normally i would lend you my ipod to have a go yourselfs But it got damaged by the staff in the Casualty dept, removing it from my face. Its lucky i wear a open face helmet or my ipod would have been broken completly!

stay safe dont go out when iam.
Gaylord...

Title: Re: Brilliance or insanity?
Post by: guest7 on October 10, 2009, 11:26:33 AM

LOL  ;D

GC

Title: Re: Brilliance or insanity?
Post by: Richard on October 10, 2009, 10:54:13 PM

Lots of idiots out there.  Are these on MZs ?

Richard

Title: Re: Brilliance or insanity?
Post by: guest7 on October 11, 2009, 12:14:17 PM

That's from Box Hill I believe... it's a clip that's at least as old as the internet. The bloke on the RD really is a numpty eh?

For sheer bike-breaking brillance though, it has to be Seth Enslow landing his crosser on top of 6 other bikes during a messed up dune jump. He really is the best value. I'll try and track down the YouTube clip and add the link.

GC