Green Bike
 

I was driving my FD to Pittsburgh and was on the cell phone (hands free of course) on a pretty important call. I was rounding a corner getting ready to go up a long (1/2 mile at least) hill when I see a Green bike coming up behind me. I was doing about 70 so I downshifted to 4th and dumped it up to about 90 just to get his attention. As the road straightens, it opens to 3 lanes..the far right lane is for slow trucks. I change lanes to the center and the bike pulls up beside my and we're doing about 80 due to traffic in front of me. I hear him rev and think he wants to race. I glance over and he lifts the front tire and blows past me. He rode a wheelie all the way to the top of the hill (again about 1/2 mile). He was still on the back tire as he went out of site. I was a little nervous about doing 80 in a 55 and I was on all 4 wheels. This guy was a nut...but it was pretty cool watching the bike doing over 100 on the back tire for so long.

My buddy/coworker in Vegas made an hour and a half trip in 15-20 minutes on his bike one time, he said it scared the shit outta him cause he was going through a valley and the crosswinds about made him lose it. Another time he was doing a wheelie at 90mph on the onramp, and the cop got the whole thing on tape, haha. And THIS guy was our safety rep. His nickname is Crazy Otto by the way...

there's a guy that lives in the town next to mine, nickname's Dizzo (sounds like a tool, right?), anyway, he's got some sort of sponsorship, i'll try and post a link to his webpage. there's video of him weaving through rush hour traffic at 120 on the back wheel of his bike. there's a reason why i'll never ride, much less own, a crotch rocket...i'd be in a body bag in under an hour

http://www.scootertrashst.com/index2.html

there's the link to his webpage

So he was averaging like 245mph the whole way???? LOL

I will never understand why people think that wheelies are in the slightest bit difficult? Now if you can do wheelies in a tight circle (e.g. 20 ft radius skid pad, etc.) that would be something. But getting a bike's front tire off the ground and riding around is easy and any decent rider can do it with no issues. One can pretty easily ride a wheeie until the engine seizes from oil starvation if they were so inclined. I can teach any (decent) rider how to perform extended wheelies in an evening. The only REAL reason to ever do a wheelie is when crossing the finish line when getting wood. :)

So it isn't the difficulty... It's doing it in traffic at 100+ mph. I thought it was interesting...I don't see that too often.

I'll disagree with wheelies being easy. There are two types of wheelies, a power wheelie and a balanced wheelie. Yes it's easy to bring the front end up off the ground and use the engines power to keep it there for a short period of time, but you will continue to increase speed and eventually have to bring it down or the engine will run out of power to hold it there.....these are the easy ones.

The hard ones are balance wheelies. These are the ones that you get the front end up in the air and bring the bike to the balance point where you can ride it all day long at the same speed (or close to it). Riding the balance point is like trying to balance 600lbs on a marble, not too easy. One wrong move on these and you're done.