The Public and wheelies don't mix.

[biggeeman]

Why are wheelies frowned upon by certain public members?
Giving the finger and stuff why.

I do know they are illegal so what.

What's the big deal it's not like their on there phone
Pulling out n front of folk
Not indicating
Throwing rubbish out if windows.
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[Clutchy]

Because kittens
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[N cee thirty]

Because it could go wrong and kill millions of kittens, or in Lukevfr's case, hit a lamp post and kill yourself.
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[CaNsA]

Because... different from the norm.

[Sload]

To be boring because https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wheelie+crash&oq=wheelie+crash&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3370j0j3&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

You are not in full control of the vehicle and sometimes crap just happens. plus many would consider it an antisocial and irresponsible act.

Oh and kittens.
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[stevo as b4]

Because of stunt spectacles at places like Bassets pole a good few years ago, when eager crowds would line the sides of the roads, watching and waiting for some bikers to perform silly antics in front of them.

It sometimes goes very wrong as you'd expect. It's no different really to when crowds used to line the sides of Rally stages, waiting for a car to come over a muddy crest at 120mph in the air, and then try to run out of the way if it was off line etc. It's just stupid to perform like a twat on the public highway especially in front of groups of people, who know no better really!

[Ste]

Why are you bothered about people on their phones?

And lol at comparison to rubbish being thrown out of windows.

[biggeeman]

[quote="Ste"]Why are you bothered about people on their phones?

I'm not, they should not be bothered either
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[Poseidon]

I can't speak for the population as a whole, but from a personal viewpoint, it's a lot like people wheel spinning their cars. When it's done properly, (wheelies of the well controlled stand-up type or wheelspins in a high performance car with white smoke billowing off the tyres) I'm genuinely impressed by the spectacle. But typically the wheelies I see are done by some drip on a 125 with the noisiest exhaust imaginable, who manages to get his front wheel 18inches off the ground for about 1.5 seconds, or it's a wheelspin being done by some shitbox 1.0 with a widebore, with the wheels making the sound of a pig being done up the rectum for all of 1.5seconds before disappearing (slowly) into the distance. I'm really not impressed by it.

Roll-on wheelies are great though. The triumph is a major lump, so I never really pushed it too hard. Every now and then someone on a supersport of some description would pull up alongside me, give me a nod and then wind it on and tear away from me, sometimes with some incidental front end lift. Felt great when I first had a go on a bike that would do that (although cacked my pants when the front end lifted in 5th at over 100mph as I went over a small crest on a mountain road). I rarely did it deliberately, but enjoyed it nonetheless.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Because the general population are morons.
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

Guy pulled off seaways last week and wheelied his speed triple about ten yards then it started to go. Came so fucking close - inches close - to losing it and colliding with a big fuck off road sign. Tool quotient was red lining.
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[Suntan Sid]

The public and bikes don't mix!
The vast majority of non motorcyclists hate anyone and everything to do with motorbikes!
My own take on it is, although they'd never admit it, they would love to ride a bike, but either they've not got the bottle, their mum told 'em they can't have one, or peer pressure dictates their lifestyle!
Unfortunately, for these lesser mortals, a wheelie is just one, fcukin', big which, with any luck, will send them over the edge, to foam at the mouth, rage, rant and generally hate their miserable existence, even more than they do already!
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[Llama-Farmer]

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People are entitled to frown upon it. Christ, I feel the rage rise when I'm walking and someone is waving an umbrella around, walking like a zombie while texting or stopping dead in front of me. None are likely to result in kitten death but they're all chuffing annoying and anti-social.
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[biggeeman]

[quote="Wafer_Thin_Ham"]

The wAAAAwwwwoooooorrrrr

Lol nailed it.
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[c_dug]

Some twonk on an srad of some sort tried wheelying past me today, he failed to lift the front at all. I thought he was a twat.

On the other hand, when I had my gpz500 a ducati 996 pulled up along side me at some traffic lights. I pulled away flat out. He wheelied passed me at 10'o'clock like I was standing still. I was hard over it for months.
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[deadwolf]

I saw a village kid wheelie a C90 two weeks ago, he revved intermittently for ten seconds before pulling off the actual feat. I kept thinking that I should have been impressed because it'd probably take me years of practice to even raise a C90 a foot, but the dozens of stunt videos I've seen on Youtube has probably made me jaded.

The fact that the C90's little engine practically wheezed rather than roared during the wheelie didn't seem to help. Reckon a proper wheelie with a big bike and lots of accompanying backing soundtrack would look/sound the dog's bollocks though.
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[anthony_r6]

Wheelies on public roads around other people and cars is putting others are risk. There was a lot of factors that could cause the stunt to go awry. If it was even slightly socially accepted, you'd have idiots doing it all over the place, and a ton of people wrecking their bikes, or hurting others from trying to show off.

Given the stopping power for a bike is on the front, having it off the ground puts you out of control should something unexpected happen.

It's frowned upon, and rightfully so.
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