knightswheelieriders

[Azonicben]

You could have saved the cost of the "machine" bought land and run a proper wheelie school to teach people properly and safely.

It's a novelty I certainly wouldn't be charging people for a go on it, I'd want payment from the event organiser and use it as a "free" attraction.

Not really a great one for arguing myself at least your not on the dole.
I may come to brands and erect my advertising hoarding around your machine, don't really need to ask you or pay you, I've paid once already to get my hoarding made up, as another professional business you'll understand
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[nowhere.elysium]

Heh. You emailed Korn? Good luck with that.

There's a few reasons that we fell upon you like rabid wolverines, dude:

1) learning to wheelie using a machine like that isn't going to teach people all of the balance and control skills that are necessary - if they are taught to do it on a bike that can't move, they're never going to be able to respond appropriately if their bike does something unexpected in the real world.

2) why should we pay to learn to do something that's free?

3) this site is not a place for commercial ventures to come whoring themselves. If you want to be part of the forum, that's great - we'll openly welcome you. If you start a profile just to go "I'm selling this service, check me", then yes, we'll rip you apart.


There's a reason that things like this are significantly more popular in the Americas: it's perfectly possible to just go out and purchase a motorbike without a license, totally legally: there's not even the requirement to do the basic course out there (I think it's called the MST, or something like that). As such, there's a lot of people that jump on a powerful bike straight away, realise they can't ride it for shit because there's no experience there, and want to jump-start their abilities by using simulators and stunting schools.
Im not trying to be nasty against you personally, but I think you're going to face an uphill struggle here: aside from the obvious anomalies, most of us are fairly experienced riders. I myself am not the most seasoned of bikers, but I'm not going to go near a simulator, purely because it gives an unrealistic representation of a skill that I'd like to develop myself.

This lack of realism that I keep referring to doesn't mean that I reckon if one just pins the throttle that you'll be able to wheelie your machine, I mean that it doesn't give any kind of credible indication as to dealing with changeable road conditions, other people on the road, weather, the speed at which you'll have to change direction when that corner in the distance comes up - all of these things are quite blithely ignored. The US (where this thing is popular) has got lots and lots of long straight roads, hence the love of Harleys. The UK has lots of twisty roads, hence the love of manouverable bikes.
If you can find some way of incorporating the need to turn and acknowledge our crap roads into this thing, then you may well succeed.

Until then, I remain sceptical.
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[Mr Hammers]

Your biggest mistake was just registering and immediately touting for business. I don't think you're spamming as much as some here do, but you have to understand the depth of feeling for those people that come here and just advertise.

It's a bike forum, so your 'ad' isn't as out of place as some we see here, but it would have been better to introduce yourself, make a few posts and then later bring up the subject of your machine and business.

This forum is dear to a lot of us, and some folk understandably get, quite protective of it and don't take kindly to it seemingly being used as advertising space for businesses that want to do it on the cheap, which unfortunately, is how your first post came across.

Stay on as a genuine member, not a business, and the advertising won't come across quite so cynically, but more of a 'heads up'.

Anyway, good luck with your machine, hope you do well out of it.

Edit: Plus everything nowhere said..
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