Excessive Display of Power
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Not being in proper control of your vehicle - the offence used
This is about the front whell being off the gorund preventing you from taking any immediate diversion rto being able to stop
Seen a few drive into cars etc when up on the back wheel - looks cool though
Car - youd have your hands off the wheel, on the phone etc
This is about the front whell being off the gorund preventing you from taking any immediate diversion rto being able to stop
Seen a few drive into cars etc when up on the back wheel - looks cool though
Car - youd have your hands off the wheel, on the phone etc
on the a217 where i used to live it was right about the change of jurisdiction (sp?) between two police forces and the bikers tended to take advantage of this as the police had to call ahead to get permission to enter the other area i believe. Once say a police car at the lights there, a biker pulled up either side of it, when the lights went green both bikers pulled huge wheelies and shot off leaving a very angry policeman behind.
Amusing if ungood.
Amusing if ungood.
nutcase said:
Dangerous Driving for wheelie-pullers? Madness streetcop, really. It should be embraced in NSL's, as it IS big and it IS clever. 
It IS clever..I agree...and I
at bikers who can perform such stunts... However, I don't like it on the public roads where mishaps can happen and it all goes tragically wrong...
Street
I once got stopped in London when I was much, much younger for going sideways in a Lotus-Cortina. The nice Mr. Plod said "Your rear tyres are bald". I said "no they're not, they're nearly new". He said "well, they will be bald in no time if you keep on driving like that, now clear off"
I took his point.
I took his point.
Streetcop said:
I was stopped and lectured for reckless driving for lighting the wheels up off the lights :hide:
What? I don't understand..
Street
Actually, I was stopped then asked what I might be done for to which I replied inqusitively 'reckless driving'. Just to set the scene, and this is no defence, it was pretty wet and one of the front/driven wheels unbeknownst to me was on a metal plate/grate/thing.
You see, I never even went over 5-10 mph with a wheel spinning and didn't exceed the 30 limit - good job there were no cameras there
My 2p's worth -
A burnout? Just makes the rider look a complete and utter ar###ole.
HOWEVER, a long wheelie away from the lights? Totally irrresponsible, downright dangerous, and absolutely BRILLIANT to watch! Always worth a serious toot of the horn or a hand-clap. I am very pro-BiB as you all know, but sorry, a PROPER wheelie is just TOO cool...
Themoss said:
My 2p's worth -
A burnout? Just makes the rider look a complete and utter ar###ole.
i like the doughnut burnouts where the rider does the circle and then takes off on the rear wheel,leaving a nice long black tyremark going up the road from it.....that does look cool to me
Themoss said:
HOWEVER, a long wheelie away from the lights? Totally irrresponsible, downright dangerous, and absolutely BRILLIANT to watch! Always worth a serious toot of the horn or a hand-clap. I am very pro-BiB as you all know, but sorry, a PROPER wheelie is just TOO cool...
i agree 100%,watching a good rider perform a well-executed one wheeled display of bravado is a real treat to watch and definatly results in much kudos to the rider from this 'metal box dweller'.
>> Edited by cortinaman on Saturday 7th August 06:21
Many moons ago, when someone i know was even more of a kid, and a whole lot dumber than he is now, he bought his first "blade".
He's always ridden bikes but the blade is a little bit faster (just a bit!!) than the other bikes he had owned, and so he took his time getting used to it.
After a particularly long day out he made his way home, and as bikers are apt to do, decided to show off his wheelie prowess to the pissed up birds waiting to get even more pissed up, as they tried to get into the local nightclub.
So rolling on the power, front wheel well into the night sky and a big stoopid cheesy grin from the bald one, directed at the now captivated females.
Cue PC Plod walking around the corner to be met with the sight of "Mr Trick unicyclist" hanging off the side of the erected bike.
Plod puts hand up to say "stop".
Ooops! Shit! What to do? Put the front down and pretend nothing happened occifer? Or option deux and keep it up there in an attempt to prevent the course of justice?
Option 2 is the chosen one and he does it. Keeps the front up for a good hundred yards until Pc Plod cant read the plate and hotfoots it back to "The Pit".
If you were at Santa Pod last year, thats the guy who wheelied the quarter at 120.........
He's always ridden bikes but the blade is a little bit faster (just a bit!!) than the other bikes he had owned, and so he took his time getting used to it.
After a particularly long day out he made his way home, and as bikers are apt to do, decided to show off his wheelie prowess to the pissed up birds waiting to get even more pissed up, as they tried to get into the local nightclub.
So rolling on the power, front wheel well into the night sky and a big stoopid cheesy grin from the bald one, directed at the now captivated females.
Cue PC Plod walking around the corner to be met with the sight of "Mr Trick unicyclist" hanging off the side of the erected bike.
Plod puts hand up to say "stop".
Ooops! Shit! What to do? Put the front down and pretend nothing happened occifer? Or option deux and keep it up there in an attempt to prevent the course of justice?
Option 2 is the chosen one and he does it. Keeps the front up for a good hundred yards until Pc Plod cant read the plate and hotfoots it back to "The Pit".
If you were at Santa Pod last year, thats the guy who wheelied the quarter at 120.........
lanciachris said:
on the a217 where i used to live it was right about the change of jurisdiction (sp?) between two police forces and the bikers tended to take advantage of this as the police had to call ahead to get permission to enter the other area i believe. Once say a police car at the lights there, a biker pulled up either side of it, when the lights went green both bikers pulled huge wheelies and shot off leaving a very angry policeman behind.
Amusing if ungood.
20plus years ago in Liverpool I had a 512BB. 0 to 60 in 5, to 100 in 12. Bib always seemed to be going the same place as me, but in those days they were lucky if they could get to 60 in 15. So standard traffic routine in a 30/40 city dual carriageway at the light with plod behind was 0 to 70 ish at max then hard on the brakes before they could go fast enough to pace me. Got stopped loads of times but never charged, no evidence that would stand in court. Yes, it's not clever but boy oh boy was it fun.
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