Who said you can't wheelie a shaftie?

I recently bought an old issue of Performance Bikes as it has a review
of the GSX in there... and one of the pics has someone hoisting a 'big
fat one' on said behemoth.

Discuss.

 

Only CS2+ though, before the you couldn't.

 

And You Would KKKnow ???

Twat/

 

If I had more balls to wrestle with it, I'd give it a go myself... but
it's so fecking hefty and heavy, I suspect this is one battle of wills
(or should that be wheelies), I'd lose. ;-)

 

And he would know what? That he doesn't want to "discuss" the issue? I
think he IS likely to know his own preferences. I can't see any
justification for the gratuitous racist insult or the other one for that
matter. Does DC stand for "Dumb ****" by any chance?

 

I think it's bollox that you can't wheelie a shaftie. Or some kind of
obscure biker/Photoshop joke. Think about all the times Charley
Boorman wheelies his GS on Long Way Down/Round. Or is that CGI?

 

He's nearer to the Equator, so the Coriolis effect lessens considerably.

 

Yes, but... with a shaftie you're getting direct drive to the rear
wheel with all but no slack.

So you crack the throttle open, the power is transferred to the back
wheel smoothly and immediately.

With a chain especially, there's a certain amount of slack which is
taken up when you crack the throttle - pretty sure it's this momentary
lapse of tension that helps 'snatch' the bike up onto its back wheel.

There's probably more to it than that, and someone will probably be
along in a minute to dismiss all I say and then give us the real
reasoning for why chain drive bikes are more willing to get up on
their back wheel than a shaftie.

 

Ever noticed the way old airhead boxers jack the back end up when they move
off? And the way chain-driven bikes squat a little when they accelerate?

The method of power transmission wouldn't matter if there was no rear
suspension.

 

That's why shafties can't wheelie. The shaft effect drives the front
wheel into the road, instead of lifting it.

 

What's to discuss?

I've seen Goldwings wheelied and I even managed (accidentally) to get the
front wheel of my VN 750 in the air. Both shafties and let's be right, this
IS about as regularly discuseed as which oil is best for a bike.Or I
hallucinated.

Now, having said that, I'm due to change the oil on.....


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Back when Moses was a boy a mad Finn by name Arto Nyeqvist ( probably
spelt it wrong) made his living by doing wheelies and god knows what
else on a Z1300.

Over the years I saw him wheelie everything from scooters to shaft
drive airhead beemers. Asked him about it in the pits at Le Mans once
whilst he was sat on a Z13 that was ticking over ( he called it
running in!) eating a tin of cold beans.

With a far away look in his eyes he remarked that there were only two
things on two wheels he had not been able to wheelie given the
inclination and a bit of practice, a velosolex and a mobylette.

Given he knows a bit more about it than most I go with his opinion on
this.

Boxerboy

 

Didnt Doug Domokos use a Zed 1300 as well ?

shaun

 

He never rode a Honda CB125TD or 125 Superdream or an MT-5 then.

 

Heres arti Nyquist

 

He did, and an FT500 Ascot too.

 

For examples:
Goldwing
R1200GS (3Km!)
Z1300
Ural

 

Hmm. Lots of mobile homes surrounding the runway. Not in Arkansas, was
it? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17509045/

 

*groan* not again.

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