Did I spin or???

[royalstar09]

I know who knows....we were not riding it

BUT today while out for a ride I really "lit" into the bike from a rolling start at a yield intersection. It really felt like the back end broke loose. This is a really heavy bike and it caught me off guard. Nice clean dry pavement. Will these bikes break the rear wheel from a rolling start??? Or was I imagining it

[BuddyRich]

I do it a lot here in TX. I think its the roads. Take off (dead stop) from an intersection and nail it part way thru the turn and the rear will start sliding out. Oh yea, you can feel it. Made a turn today to the right at an intersection but was a roll thru as there was no cross traffic, about 10 or so nailed it some and could feel it starting to slide out so I backed off it a bit. That tar and chip crap they use here is slick even dry.

[wes0778]

I know who knows....we were not riding it

BUT today while out for a ride I really "lit" into the bike from a rolling start at a yield intersection. It really felt like the back end broke loose. This is a really heavy bike and it caught me off guard. Nice clean dry pavement. Will these bikes break the rear wheel from a rolling start??? Or was I imagining it

 

Don't think you are imagining it!!! and I'm told that a G2 is even capable of lifting the front wheel a few inches if you get after it hard enough form a rolling start:shock3:.

[Freebird]

Yes, I've done it a few times and I agree that it has to be a certain road surface.

 

I also know that it is very true that they will pull the front wheel off the ground.

[BuddyRich]

Yep, Did that the other day thru an intersection. Didn't even know it was in the air till I pulled in the clutch and let off to shift. Front dropped about a foot. Glad there was no one around to give me a ticket.

[royalstar09]

I like to think i am slightly intelligent, and dfinetly "thought" it broke loose. I choose to not have that happen ever again

[friesman]

Youll get used to it and start liking it.......soon.....thats how the rest of us started. And now we are all addicted.....

 

Brian

[Caveman]

Yep, I do it rolling into the parking garage at work and can even hear the echo of squeeling rubber.

[Snaggletooth]

There was the time I was stopped at an intersection waiting for the light to turn green and the bike started to rev up all by itself and I started smelling gas. I looked down and saw I was sitting in a good sized puddle of gas. A float had hung up and was blowing fuel out the overflow like crazy. The bike was up to about 4,500 when the light turned green. Time to move or get run over.

 

So off I went with a gas slick rear tire on an asphalt street. Most interesting launch on this bike I have ever had. It had to be entertaining for the folks behind me.

[CaptainJoe]

With a little chlorox you will easily do some of the prettiest Volumeous White Cloud Burnouts imaginable.

 

Heck you coud even get a Pinto to d a burnout with that stuff...

 

 

Don't ask me how I know...

[Yammer Dan]

1st Gen will pull the front wheel and do burnouts. I'm not being smart (this time) but 2nd Gens are same motor don't see why they wouldn't. My rear tires only last about 4k.

[Ponch]

We were in North Texas a few years ago at night. LoneStarMedic was behind me about two hundred yards. I saw his light go out (I thought). It didn't go out it went up. He grabbed an unexpected wheelie on his 86'. He rather enjoyed it.

[Guest Swifty]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxSisnpvqhs]YouTube - Boys will be boys[/ame]

[dingy]

Depending on road surface, I will either pull the front end up about 18" in 2nd gear, or the rear end will break loose on the bike, when I hit a hard up shift at about 9,000 RPM.

 

 

That is why the engine is back out, and back in, this winter. It should do that in 3rd now !!

 

 

Gary