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[Wh|t3R@bb|t]

Right...so after a recent post (http://www.zx10r.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,8959.0.html) I decided to make the most of my lunch hour (well ok, its not technically as I work from home but it makes it sound better) and get on the bike and do some wheelie practice! Thanks to truescot and Horse (as always) 

I roll the bike out the garage and pop round to my friends sandwich shop for a quick bit of bacon courage and a brew.  "After all, this country was built on tea and I ain't going to war without one"....

20 mins later and back in the saddle I head for a well known car manufacturer plant to attempt this wheelies.  Lots of straight bits, roundabout, more straight bits.  So...stomach in my mouth...I start rolling....I am perf0rming a mantra into my helmet...."2nd Gear, 6-8k revs...throttle on....clutch in...clutch out".."2nd Gear, 6-8k revs...throttle on....clutch in...clutch out"..."2nd Gear, 6-8k revs...throttle on....clutch in...clutch out" 

Now....the first few times I did it...the bike just lurched a lot and made some funny sounds.  Not good...but finally...after trying to find the timing I managed to get it pretty close.  Now AndyJ always tells me its just the suspension expanding and nothing really happening.  So I try again until I can feel the front wheel go really light....its starting to happen.  I couple of times I definately got the wheel of the ground.

Not wanting to completely burn the clutch out and thinking I should go home...I open the bike up and fuck off towards the other exit to the estate.  Doing about 130-140....brake hard....over speed ramp...only thing left is do a right at the little lights...and I'm away....erm....NO!!!!

I turn right to be confronted by what can only be described as a bikers worse nightmare (esp 1 who has just been nearly 3 times the limit (50) and hooning around)....about 5 cop cars...2 unmarked cop cars and about 50 coppers.  Holy Mother of Christ and all the orphans....fuck fuck fuck. 

Right...pootle past Andy..no worries...even give them a nod!  Now, the next feeling is abit like that which you get when your driving examiner tells you to do an emergency stop.  A cross between sheer panic and relief that he's finally asked you.  The copper stands in my path and waves me to pull over....He walks over to me, with 2 other coppers in tow.  I flip MY BLACK AS FOOK VISOR up and switch my engine with the two NO BAFFLE AKKY CANS off.  He looks at the fledgling rozzer behind him who hands him some paperwork.

"Excuse me sir...sorry to stop you...but...?"  At this point I am waiting for him to make an example of me infront of the two new coppers and show them how to fill in all the necessary paperwork.  Speeding, Dangerous Driving, Due Care and Attention, Visor, Cans...etc etc!  I can feel my arse sucking the bike up my crack.

".....we are stopping people here today for help with a recent hijacking of a lorry?  I was wondering if you could help us".  Now you don't need to be a Sherlock Holmes or Inspector morse to work out how I was feeling....

"Sorry mate", I said...."..but I don't come here often, was just taking a shortcut home..sorry can't be of much help"...."  He smiled, and said he thanked me for my help.  Took my name and details to show he'd asked me and waved me off....with a passing comment of "Nice bike".  Ha ha...brilliant.

So I went passed the other army of police, who by this time has a queue of vehicles to ask the same question to....I felt relived and less picked on.

I get onto the roundabout and decide to go the quick way back...however in my haste to get away I had forgot to change gear....and was still sitting in 1st.  I accelarated with a fair bit of heavy right hand without realising this basic error.  Without any hesitation...UP COME THE FRONT WHEEL!!!  Like a trooper....I didn't know whether to shit myself or cry with elation!

....who'd have thunk it?  Things just never happen how you plan em   

[truescot]

Just be glad he didnt ask you if you have information about a pug 106 being turned over 

oh, also its not a case of clutch out its a case of let go of the clutch and let it ping out as apposed to releasing it fast

[GRNINJA]

  I can get it up .... my problem is the fear of keeping it up with out to much go .... or the skill to ride it out

I lack both 

[truescot]

I can get it up .... my problem is the fear of keeping it up with out to much go .... or the skill to ride it out

I lack both 

Well you are most of the way there, quite a few guys have a problem getting it up(especially ex squadies ), but keeping it up for long enuff is also a normal failing from what i have heard .  In truth its just one of those things that clicks one day.  I do have a little advantage when it comes to the balance, i suggest you all take up competition figure skating to get to my level

oh and i am sure you have the skill to ride it out, from what i understand you would shit on me on a race round a track

[GRNINJA]

I can Ice skate ... but not figure skate ya big jesse ........

i'll do me hockey skates and have a go at wheelie'n with them on .... thing it might be interesting on the landing though as the blade me slip of the pegs 

[Shotgun]

Titanium blades mate!! Lots of Sparks

[truescot]

I can Ice skate ... but not figure skate ya big jesse ........

i'll do me hockey skates and have a go at wheelie'n with them on .... thing it might be interesting on the landing though as the blade me slip of the pegs 

My parents made me do figure skating when i was younger (up to the age of about 14/15) and i was pretty good, i have competed against and beaten most of the current olympic skaters (one with the same name as me who also only lives about 25 miles away from me)

I have got to say it has given me so much...

1/ for kick boxing i can kick much higher and have better balance due to the skating
2/for judo and rugby i can instantly size up the balance point of the person comming at me (my partner in ice skating) and flip or throw them any way i want.
3/fro the bike, wheelieing and stoppieing i have great balance and am used to rotating points of perspective
4/ for my cv, i have had job interviews where the only reason they picked me was so they could ask if i really was a figure skater as well as rugby player kickboxer etc.
5/ woman love a man who can dance(come on girls back me up on this one )

the list goes on and on, so the real question is am i gonna force my son to do figure skating as well due to the advantages that it obviously gives??.  the answer HELL NO i think i will make him do gymnastics almost as many plusses and not such a slagging offence at school(altho the slagging hardened me up a bit too)

[GRNINJA]

and you could also just stab them in the neck with ya skate 

[truescot]

and you could also just stab them in the neck with ya skate 

I've seen worse man, as you can probably guess at a training session theres a lot of people jumping around at the ice rink, i saw a girl fall and slide across the ice as a bloke came crashing down off a jump and cut off her fingers

[GRNINJA]

nice one ....... arial finger slash 

[Wh|t3R@bb|t]

Stop hijacking my thread!!!

[truescot]

Stop hijacking my thread!!!

sorry, just trying to make the thread look innocent in case the polis happen to browse by, we honestly did it with your wellbeing in mind honest

i propose any thread in which people are obviously lying that they broke the law in any way (obviously they are lieing because no one here would break the law no matter how stupid that law is) we fill it with talk about flower arranging etc

[Si-10R]

Never wheelied the 10 in second but the little power wheelies from roundabouts are cool! What truescot says is true 1 day it clicks into place! On a good day i can ride out first gear to the red line 

As they tell you at school practice makes perfect! And stay away from the fuzz unless armed with doughnuts

[tony83]

i dont use clutch, if you got a 16t on the front all you need is about 60mph in 2nd, thottle off then whack it out to the stop, kinda bouncin it up then ride it out to the redline/ shiftlight. front comes down at 100-105 ish after you run out of revs/power tails off. got a speedohealer too so i know its not over-reading. i need to start changing up to third so i can hold on to them for longer...
 
or like the first one you just done 45-50ish in first then just wind it on fast, comes up less aggro than if you bounce it 2nd....

just my 2p worth

[truescot]

i dont use clutch, if you got a 16t on the front all you need is about 60mph in 2nd, thottle off then whack it out to the stop, kinda bouncin it up then ride it out to the redline/ shiftlight. front comes down at 100-105 ish after you run out of revs/power tails off. got a speedohealer too so i know its not over-reading. i need to start changing up to third so i can hold on to them for longer...
 
or like the first one you just done 45-50ish in first then just wind it on fast, comes up less aggro than if you bounce it 2nd....

just my 2p worth

you can do it with the standard 17t like that as well man