a dangerous practice

[gfun]

A5209 nr Parbold

Friends I have just heard of a dangerous practice being engaged in by terrible motorcycle people.

On the A5209 Nr Parbold there is a safety camera that covers traffic in both directions.

This road is well know to motor cyclists who travel at reckless speeds due to the challenging twists and turns – however since the arrival of the safety camera they have take up a new sport of 'pulling wheelie' whilst travelling towards the camera, waving & traveling well over the prescribed speed limit.

Obviously the rear number plate is hidden so these drivers cannot be traced.

I am however shocked that the local constabulary have not published the many hundred photographs to demonstrate how dangerous this practice is and try to find out the identity of the riders.

Is it that they are worried that it will encourage the practice?

Thankfully the camera is making the road a much safer place.

[gh0st]

gfun said:

Thankfully the camera is making the road a much safer place.

Really? How many drunk drivers / joyriders has it caught?

[hedders]

How long will it be before we all have hinged license plates in our cars i wonder?

[zorro]

gfun said:

terrible motorcycle people.

Absolutely priceless this has to be a bite..

[regmolehusband]

Fun - but don't call them safety cameras!!!! Use quotes.

[rsvnigel]

Excellent troll.

[Don]

Lighten up gh0st...its a bit of fun...

Made me laugh anyway...

Are they actually managing to hold a wheelie far enough not to get flashed? And of course...I agree with serious point being made...the camera can't be making the road safer if its become the target of "sport".

BTW: To our biking friends: Wheelies look to me like it would be something quite difficult to do safely...is it hard to maintain the correct balance...and are you fully in control of the bike during it? Seems to me if you needed to turn or stop having the front wheel airborne wouldn't be helpful...and therefore it is something not to be done on the public road...

Would you agree?

[rsvnigel]

With a bit of practice they're quite easy, the front comes back down quickly enough with either a dab of the rear brake of just from rolling off the throttle.

[Busa_Rush]

Motorcycle News recently had i think either a Fireblade or an R1 racing a VW Golf with two engines, the bike won obviously but it also did it on one wheel - it wheelied whilst beating the Golf, can't remember if it was quarter mile or first to 120mph or something like that.

[gfun]

personaly my claim to fame is pulling a power slide wheelie at Oulton park from druids to just under the b-bridge - provided you are on the right kit its very easy (tz 350G)