"Showboating" is a nice word. "Recklessly putting people's lives at risk" would be more accurate imo. It's not just his selfish ass that is in danger if he falls over. The highway isn't the place for popping wheelies. That said, I have seen several cases now about this audio recording of cops bullshit and it is clearly a twisting of the law.

Here's the longer version for convenience:

>> ^NordlichReiter:

Just keep riding. It's safer that way. Then when the cop signals his lights you pull over and take your ticket.


no way. You pop a wheelie and ramp that bitch

that deer is a wheelie-poppin little dood

"Betcha can't do a wheelie all the way down the deck..."

Look at the turns, when he turns right, the simulator tilts him to the left, but the horizon on screen stays horizontal. So what you experience is being thrown out to the side around a bend, but the world still looks horizontal from your chair. This is what you'd expect from a formula 1 car isnt' it? If it was a bike, you'd expect the horizon on screen to tilt and the chair to angle you into the turn, not away from it. Forward acceleration throws you back, hence the chair falls back, no wheelies involved. Similarly braking throws you forward so you're hanging from your safety harness.

It's going up and down because it's not an F1 simulator.
It's MotoGP, and the backward tilting is from wheelies, and the dipping is from corner braking forces.

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by NicoleBee.

Sorry pete!

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*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Motorcycle-Wheelie-Crash-at-90-MPH-Helmet-Cam

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by SlipperyPete. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Motorcycle-Wheelie-Crash-at-90-MPH-Helmet-Cam

I think that's the rollers gaining on the tires when it comes off power. Basically it's coming down from what it wants to do, which is wheelie.

>> ^BoneRemake:
wtf is that at the end ? letting the air out of a bladder ? cant be the tires ?

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Ah, Ducatisti! Haha. I actually worked at a Ducati dealership in the mid nineties. They actually sent me to service school in Fairfield, NJ to learn to work on the 916. They're a little to fast and agile for me, not to mention a little uncompromizing for the touring I like to do. Fabulous bikes though. I work with a guy who has a basement full of them, and is building a 70's one frame up right now from an old 750ss that somebody brutalized into a chopper. He's making a nasty cafe out of it.

Do you race motard? I'll behave myself because apparently you're quite mad! I've never raced, but I'm mot putting it out of my head that I might get out there some day. I'd like to do one of the schools, like penguin I think it's called, and I king Keith Code has a school and there's that California one you always see in the back of the bike mags. That and a couple of track days.


I've had the 748S since 2000 and it was joined by the 600SS in 2005 purely to race. The club that I belong to (Ducati Sporting Club UK) started its own race series so I had to have a go as trackdays were getting too competitive. If you're interested, I blogged a load of stuff on my website at the time: http://www.horrible.demon.co.uk/bikes/racing2005.htm

I stopped racing in 2007 after getting torpedoed from behind at about 90mph and that broke me and the bike; one collarbone and a few ribs for me and the bike was trashed. I rebuilt it once the collarbone had healed but it was a year later that I went back and raced - I came 7th (out of 38) so didn't do too bad for a year out!

The Hypermotard is strictly for wheelies^H^H road riding. It's an animal! Best bike I've ever owned and always makes me smile.

I've been to the Ducati factory in Bologna five times now and ended up organising the factory trips for the club which were quite popular! It's an amazing place, really interesting to see such a small factory at work on such a well-known name. Well worth doing if you can, even if you're not that much of a Ducati fan!

Some bike pictures:
Racing Pics
Bike pics

Ah, Ducatisti! Haha. I actually worked at a Ducati dealership in the mid nineties. They actually sent me to service school in Fairfield, NJ to learn to work on the 916. They're a little to fast and agile for me, not to mention a little uncompromizing for the touring I like to do. Fabulous bikes though. I work with a guy who has a basement full of them, and is building a 70's one frame up right now from an old 750ss that somebody brutalized into a chopper. He's making a nasty cafe out of it.

Do you race motard? I'll behave myself because apparently you're quite mad! I've never raced, but I'm mot putting it out of my head that I might get out there some day. I'd like to do one of the schools, like penguin I think it's called, and I king Keith Code has a school and there's that California one you always see in the back of the bike mags. That and a couple of track days.

Hey check out this odd dupe situation, the dramatic difference between the dates and votes...


http://www.videosift.com/video/Oh-hes-off-the-trackwaitwhat-is-he-doing

http://www.videosift.com/video/Valentino_Rossi_Toilet_Break





In reply to this comment by antonye:
In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hey Antonye, thanks for all your great contributions to the *wheels channel. What are you riding these days. Street or just track?

Hi,
Thanks for the comment! I love adding some of the great racing I watch onto the Sift as it deserves a much wider audience
As for me, I'm riding both street and track still, but have not raced this year. I have 3 bikes: Ducati Hypermotard 1100S (wheelies), Ducati 748S (fast road), Ducati 600SS with 620ie engine (race). Can you spot the theme?
Antony

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hey Antonye, thanks for all your great contributions to the *wheels channel. What are you riding these days. Street or just track?

Hi,
Thanks for the comment! I love adding some of the great racing I watch onto the Sift as it deserves a much wider audience
As for me, I'm riding both street and track still, but have not raced this year. I have 3 bikes: Ducati Hypermotard 1100S (wheelies), Ducati 748S (fast road), Ducati 600SS with 620ie engine (race). Can you spot the theme?
Antony

I dont know if I'll ever get the hang of tipping.

When I was in Chicago, I had to buy luggage. Went to luggage shop and the guy behind the counter had to go down to the store room to get a wheelie-suitcase for me. Should I have tipped him? Is that considered a service like wait staff or something? Could he have been molesting a voodoo doll of me for the last five years?

I just tipped my taxi driver, the fare was €8 (for about two miles) so I gave him €10. I thought that was generous.