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Old 12-01-2010, 12:00 PM
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Don't worry, I won't. I don't need all that weight slamming on the frontend.
I love the videos showing them losing it and the bike flipping over and over pieces flying everywhere. Glad someone else is paying for the "fun".
 
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Good luck. Post a video of your attempts.
Funny, don't think I want video of "attempts". Maybe after I succeed.
 
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Originally Posted by BLKnCHRME09Deluxe
It's just not gonna happen 750lbs of bike with a belt not chain = slippage!

I tried it once and my belt slipped.... CLUNK! CLUNK! ... after i heard that i never tried it again....lol.. true story.

Sure miss the days of my CBR and wheelies.
Ya sure that sound wasn't those Fish-Tail Wheelie Bars dragging?
 
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Originally Posted by PanHeadRich
Ya sure that sound wasn't those Fish-Tail Wheelie Bars dragging?
I actually tried it when i had my 28.5"ers installed with beachbars too.... lol... I remember poppen the clutch and hearing the "CLUNK!" "CLUNK!" at first i thought i lost my tranny. But then figured it had to be my belt slippen.
I know a couple of other guys who tried it too and they had the same thing happen with them too. They tell me after the fact though....lol.
 
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Weird I dump the clutch on my bike a lot... sometimes from redline and other times at decent throttle and I've never had my belt slip... the rear tire on the other hand slides all over the place but not the belt.
 
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Originally Posted by BLKnCHRME09Deluxe
I actually tried it when i had my 28.5"ers installed with beachbars too.... lol... I remember poppen the clutch and hearing the "CLUNK!" "CLUNK!" at first i thought i lost my tranny. But then figured it had to be my belt slippen.
I know a couple of other guys who tried it too and they had the same thing happen with them too. They tell me after the fact though....lol.
Man, that has to be hard on the belt. My 97 FLSTS has a primary chain, but secondary belt. I've tried it too but just get a lil' burnout. No slippage on the secondary belt though.

We just need to put a fat babe on back, then we can wheelie
 
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where are you sitting when you try it?

move your feet back to passenger pegs, get up off the seat, and bounce back as you pop the clutch... I can't imagine with your engine stats, that you couldn't get the front end up.

I never even thought about trying on my fatty... but that is how "the kids be doing it"...
I aint' trying though!!!!
 
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Originally Posted by Matt990724
where are you sitting when you try it?

move your feet back to passenger pegs, get up off the seat, and bounce back as you pop the clutch... I can't imagine with your engine stats, that you couldn't get the front end up.

I never even thought about trying on my fatty... but that is how "the kids be doing it"...
I aint' trying though!!!!
Man i've done a bazillion wheelies in my short life.... I started on a crotch rocket(CBR600). So im very familliar on how to do a wheelie.. I wouldn't try it now again on my bike after hearing what i did. And besides like mentioned above i am runnen 39" cholos now...lol... i just tried it to see what would happen. And now i know... I got it out of my system.

Yea, i do see alot of the kids doing things nowadays (parking lot stunts) that we never tried back then.. like standing on the rear peg-doing a wheelie-goin in a circle-5 miles per/hour... And yes i sometimes get a kick out of seeing that stuff.

I like watchen the new generation doing things on motorcycles/bikes/skateboards/ect... they have alot of imagination.
 
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I like the fat chick idea that could work
 
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I can't believe I took the bait! That was funny!
 


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