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To: Spktyr

I’d think trail bikes because they’re easier to do stunts on than racing bikes. My first ride on a Bultaco Alpina 350 started with a wheelie and I didn’t even know it till the guy who was helping me out told me what had happened once I came back down the street.


28 posted on 09/17/2011 2:52:18 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Check out the “stunter community”. The power of modern sportbikes make stunts stupidly easy.


31 posted on 09/17/2011 2:57:11 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I had one of those back in the early '70's. It was really fast when it ran but a nut kept falling off the crankshaft end and I could not get it to stay on even with Loctite.

Still remember pushing that POS off road uphill to a kegger in Colorado.

62 posted on 09/17/2011 3:26:39 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (How will the Rats keep power? They cheat!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

We have lots of ‘passive suicide’ types here who take their big ass racing bikes out on the highways and run a quarter mile on the back wheel.

Apparently it’s very possible.


88 posted on 09/17/2011 3:43:43 PM PDT by Salamander (Alice Cooper hit me with a stick.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

>>>I’d think trail bikes because they’re easier to do stunts on than racing bikes. My first ride on a Bultaco Alpina 350 started with a wheelie and I didn’t even know it till the guy who was helping me out told me what had happened once I came back down the street.<<<

My bet is they are sportbikes - and they are very easy to do tricks on. The epitomy of “fast” is the modern day 1000cc sportbike (hence the term “Literbike”). They will do 186 mph (300kph) stock off the show room floor - and that’s only because of manufacture’s agreements with european version of AMA. They can go faster. They put out about 180 bhp (weigh about 450lbs wet), redline around 13,750rpm, 0-60mph in about 3 seconds, and easily pass 100mph in first gear (six speed trany). They make all high-end stock sport cars (Corvettes, Mustangs, etc.) look silly off the starting line and there after - and for a fraction of the cost. But they’re not for eveyone.

There is an old saying: “The motorcycle is God’s way of weeding out the Gene Pool. The Literbike is God’s way of determining whether the weeding worked.” I love mine!


105 posted on 09/17/2011 3:57:59 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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