legality of wheelies..

talking to Adie of this parish last night, and we got onto the subject
of wheelying on the highway.

it's my understanding that the witnessing officer dribble will quite
likely pull you over and inflict some kind of damage to ones credibilty,
along the lines of "not being in proper control of the vehicle".

which frankly is utter rubbish.I mean, if it was a deliberate quarter
mile lofty minger, it was pretty damned good control of the vehicle.

So if you could prove to the Magistrate that you could do it again,
repeatedly, at will or upon asking, could you get away with it?

I guess this is probably rhetorical, and the answer is "no - they'll do
you one way or another".

 

Can't use the front brake whilst wheeling is I think the reason given.

 

[snippy]

I bet you miss your VS800 now eh?

 

What tosh. You can use it fine (I spose cos I can't wheelie, yet) It
just won't have any effect on the speed of the bike

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Not on a shaftie you can't.

 

<straight answer>

I think they may draw the distinction between 'good' and 'proper' control.
While wheelies, stoppies, standing on seat etc... might indicate you have
good control over your steed of choice its not 'proper' control.

</straight answer>

 

"It Depends"

I can imagine a pro-bike copper, such as we know, pulling you
over and telling you that it was rubbish, and how to get it
right.

I can also imagine an anti-bike-I've-just-had-a-doughnut-and-
will-nick-anything-on-two-wheels having a fit of apopexy and
throwing a couple of books at you.

Depends if you then park the front wheel into the back of
a van...

 

Actually, yes, it feels very strange going round corners head first
rather than feet first, also, the B12 isn't conducive to keeping my
licence clean.

 

I expect the lack of lateral stability, the inability to quickly steer
around unexpected obstacles, and the inability to see where the ****
you're going might have something to do with it too.

 

YTC - it's counter steering that people say can't be done on shafties.

 

heh. Now have a go on a *sports* bike.

First time I got on Claire's ZXR, I felt as though my head
was directly above the front wheel.

 

But what about the coriolis effect.

 

you can't use the front brake whilst wheelying a shaftie, because
shafties can't wheely.

 

False memory syndrome.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, darsy said:

False. I was racing an Addy Lee on his GT550 who wheelied about 150
yards down the Cromwell Road past the Natural History Museum last year

 

"And /that/, officer, is why I was doing a sit-on-the-tank wheelie[1]."


[1] As if.

 

Rubbish. Have you never heard of the shaft effect? The rear of the bike
rises under power, so the harder you accelerate the more it rises. So well
before you get the power to wheelie, the rear has risen to the point it
loses traction and the back tyre spins.

 

Stories do circulate of people getting off by arguing that they were
in control. But, *if* you get pulled, I would expect the magistrate
to believe the copper that you're not in full control.

Mind you, plenty of coppers just grin when they see a biek pulling a
minger. (Isn't that right, JP?)

 

you must have been on crack, or something.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Cane said:

Thank you Cane, I was half way through writing a tirade of "I know what
I fucking saw" sort of nonsense. These Mornington Crescent wallahs
should get off their arses and get down to Glenburnie Road (SW17)[1]

[1]For the terminally lazy, that's the location of a specialist mental
hossie ;-)