Ok, what's quicker off the mark ...

I know. I'm going on experience rather than theory though.

Could be. Could be the geometry of the bikes concerned or something.

I just know my ~45bhp SZR used to do it all the time, and I only seem
to get it on the 'blade when there's standing water or a bit of diesel
or whatever. I can't remember my Bandit doing it much at all, even on
much less sticky tyres - the OE Macadams slid a lot in the wet,
especially on manhole covers etc., but I don't remember them spinning
up.

Could have been me being ham-fisted after recently passing my test, of
course.

 

which was next to impossible on the SZR. You could get the front off
the ground, but only by the less-than-mechanically-sympathetic method
of revving the **** out of it and dumping the clutch. It would *just
about* bounce up of the forks, but only a little.

But the rear would spin up easily, in the wet.

 

Ah, yes

 

Kevin Seal wrote

Innit eh.

 

ah, but I'm not talking about 1st - the SZR would spin up in the wet
in 2nd, and maybe even 3rd.

 

I really want one.

Luckily, for taste's sake, I can't justify the expense.

 

May of been a combination of a number of factors. Overall weight, weight
distribution, tyres, condition of rear shock can all have a bearing on the
amount of grip available at the rear wheel.

--
Alex
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I'd only just passed my test, so that's a given.

 

Surely a tall first gear should be less likely to spin up the rear?

 

Champ wrote

Heh. good advice, but i'll go for the ZX-12R ta

Nice write up this week in MCN about bike 0-60 times. the quote I like
is

"When the bike is wheelying and spinning up the rear simultaneously,
you've just about got your take off right"

Cheers,

Paul.

 

darsy says...

You are BRC AICMFF IAM certificates.

 

When I used to wheelie my ZX10 [1] by dumping the clutch, it would
spin the wheel up to about 6 or 7k and then pick the front up.
Lovely.

[1] the late 80s/early 90s lardy bus, not the 2004 ZX10R shit kicker

 

Sounds like a quote from Tony Foale from twenty-odd years ago.

 

Ah, jolly good - as long as we're clear on that.

 

no, no - I didn't know what I was doing.

 

darsy says...

And you do now?

 

I'll try it tomorrow.

 

Doesnotcompute wrote

Extra apostrophe ?

HTH ;-)

Paul.

 

of course not!

 

(Sigh)

You just have to explain *everything* round here these days...

Look, in a willy-waggling competition 0-60 times are absolutely
*crucial*, OK? Yes, yes, yes, he might, in his Porsche, (only *might*)
be quicker that you over any given course. BUT! 0-60 mate! "0.00000015"

OK?