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It's been a *long* weekend of wrenching on the car so tonight I decided to let off some steam before passing out from exhaustion...
Down in an ultra-remote area I tried started with some wheelies... I don't know how many times I've tried, I just can't get it. The bike makes great power and has a 14 tooth front sprocket but I guess I'm just a nancy. I can get the wheel to bounce off the ground but even when (I feel like I'm) whacking the throttle wide open, but nothing happens.
After doing that for a short while I moved onto "standing Christ" or whatever they call standing on your gas tank...
I got the bike up to ~50MPH and got up on the seat.... let go of the bars and stood up straight, no sweat. I started thinking about getting up on the tank but the bike started getting squirelly cuz I was only doing ~25 - 30MPH. I tried it again but the road was too short to get enough speed. I tried to climb right up on the tank from the pegs but the clip-ons are too low even for someone lanky like me.
My last experiment was putting my butt up on the tank and sliding forward with my thighs against the clip-ons. Too easy, not to hard to ride like that either (in a straight line anyway).
Down in an ultra-remote area I tried started with some wheelies... I don't know how many times I've tried, I just can't get it. The bike makes great power and has a 14 tooth front sprocket but I guess I'm just a nancy. I can get the wheel to bounce off the ground but even when (I feel like I'm) whacking the throttle wide open, but nothing happens.
After doing that for a short while I moved onto "standing Christ" or whatever they call standing on your gas tank...
I got the bike up to ~50MPH and got up on the seat.... let go of the bars and stood up straight, no sweat. I started thinking about getting up on the tank but the bike started getting squirelly cuz I was only doing ~25 - 30MPH. I tried it again but the road was too short to get enough speed. I tried to climb right up on the tank from the pegs but the clip-ons are too low even for someone lanky like me.
My last experiment was putting my butt up on the tank and sliding forward with my thighs against the clip-ons. Too easy, not to hard to ride like that either (in a straight line anyway).