So today I was riding along PCH on my R100R, and at a light I guy on a Ducat in full race leathers pulled up next to me and Revved his bike a few times. I'm used to running my R75 around town, and my R100R with it's high compression pistons is no slouch. When the light changed I hit the throttle hard and much to my surprise the front wheel came up a full foot off the ground for maybe 50 feet. Surprised the hell out of me. I didn't feel out of control, just not something I was expecting. After that I played around and popped the front wheel off the ground several times accelerating from a stop in first gear. Not that much, just a few inches to get the feel of it. I'll admit it... it was a lot of fun Later I was talking to someone at Neptunes Net and I overheard someone else say: "That's the guy who does wheelies on his BMW"
Can damage the input shaft of the transmission. Twists the front of the input. Never happened to me but that is how they got twisted is what I was told.
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Too right. Here's proof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgXyT7RQHxI&feature=player_detailpage Pathetic really
+1 hundered..... Becareful, you may blow your bottom end. At least that's what Brad said. Oh, did the guy on the Duc shit his pants? jenna-speak....was he surprised.?
My R100GS had a dream last night that it was an HPN like this one, or doth my sight deceive me? Is that not an R1100 FD with a rear disc? My ears tell me there are some differences between that engine and mine as well.
The burnout on dirt whilst wearing a flanel shirt is on the cutting room floor, so this wheelie wil have to do... Engine is a stock '78 RS by the way.
The r80G/S with low comp pistons has always popped the front end right up in first. I can't get it skip in 2nd even with the r100 pistons though. I ride wheelies at ever 3rd stop sign and have never had any problems with clutch, transmission, or drivetrain. As Jenna mentioned, if I keep the front end up for too long the oil light comes on. I burned up some rod bearings but I think that mighta been the donuts. <IFRAME height=315 src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JKvxDPUea1w" frameBorder=0 width=420 allowfullscreen></IFRAME> The scraping you hear is the water bottles mounted on the backs of the boxes bottoming out. I eventually tore off one of the water bottles.
did the same thing on saturday... van cut me off and was driving wayyy too slow. I was a few blocks from my house and really had to pee (of course getting worse as i get closer) the van moved and I hit the gas harder than I normally do and I was surprised when the front wheel came up about 2 feet. certainly made me pucker up a bit..
Love the direction this thread is going. It feels like I'm on the verge of something, possibly a new addiction, that's ethier going to be really good or really bad. So how about a technical question. My R100R has a Paralever, my first, so it's not susceptible to shaft jacking like the older airheads. I notice that most of the bikes wheelied in the thread have paralevers, and most are GSs. Would you guys say that it's easier to wheelie a GS, or Paralever bikes in general.
