Inexperience

[Travis Bickle]

So I was hooning back home from the Chinese last night, turned a corner at a T-junction and accelerated away at full throttle. I was on my insurance bike so a bit unfamiliar (GSR750). There's a bit in the road where it humps ever so slightly to cross a river. I think I must have been in third gear, must have just hit the power band at the exact same time I went over the brow but the front wheel like completely took off. Shook me up a tad. I've done wheelies on it in first and second gear before but never in third, and certainly never without actually trying to. Just took me completely unawares.

In reality it was probably just a little bunny hop or something LOL but it lifted much higher than anything else I've done so far (still learning) so the fact that it came unexpected added to the drama.

Glad I didn't drop it, it's a £600 excess if I damage it LOL.
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Must Go Faster
1999 Yamaha FZS600 Fazer

[Travis Bickle]

*Invites wheelies chit chat and banter*
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Must Go Faster
1999 Yamaha FZS600 Fazer

[andyscooter]

there is a bridge by me I try to jump


managed it a few times
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gilera runner vxr200 (chavped)
if its spelt wrong its my fat fingers and daft auto correct on my tablet

[FretGrinder]

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Yamaha MT-09

ಠ_ಠ

[stinkwheel]

When I was in the university bike club in Edinburgh, a mate used to have a route planned round the Scottish Borders which took in every ford and humpback bridge he could cram in. The only way you'll get the front wheel up on a Bantam!

My wife used to take great delight in popping the front wheel up over bridges/speedhumps on her YB100 until I pointed out that the only thing holding the fork stanchions in at full extension is friction.

I once hit the crest of a practically invisible humpback bridge at 120mph (having panic braked down from 150) on a fully luggaged up VFR750. It was halfway along a totally flat, vanishing-point straight on a totally flat, featureless area where the road went over a railway. Both wheels were in the air for an uncomfortably long period. Long enough to notice, think about and correct my slightly nose-down attitude by opening the throttle more. Got a double screetch like an aeroplane landing when the wheels touched back down.

Not recommended but works wonders for your sphincter tone.!
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[chickenstrip]

A mate of mine, way back, took a blind hump back bridge at full pelt, having never been there before. Think he was on his GS550. The other mate who was following him, who related this tale to me, said he had let the first mate go ahead a bit, cos he was a nutter and it was never wise to be too close to him, found him parked up on the other side of the main road he'd just steamed across, skidding and wobbling on his landing on the other side, with traffic going past either side of him. He'd pulled over, having regained control and avoiding being squished, by some miracle, put the bike on its stand, and was found sitting on the kerb with his head in his hands, shaking from head to foot

I don't care if this is entirely accurate - I have no reason not to trust the mate who told me about it, he was a level-headed, usually very understated kind of chap. But of such tales legends are made, and the first mate was certainly a legend in our little circle of bikers...just for all the wrong reasons I could write a book about his escapades.
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Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[Ribenapigeon]

If only the sign had warned me it would take a week for my bolloks to redescend I might have actually heeded the advice to slow down
A980

https://goo.gl/maps/Qw1ZpUQPW6TbgToE8

Cracking road mind

[Easy-X]

The only unexpected air I found on the faux-cruiser was sticking my leg out while stopped for some traffic and uselessly finding fresh air above a drain cover that had sunk in the road.

Probably would have ended up dropping a real bike!
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[c_dug]

When my dad got re-married back in 2008, his best man (my uncle) told a story about them being on a bike when they were teenagers back in the early 80s.

My dad was riding with my uncle pillion, down some country lanes in Kent. They rounded a corner to see a hump back bridge some way ahead, to which my uncle said "Go for it!".

My dad went for it and they hit the bridge at about 80 odd.

The bike took off way higher than either of them had anticipated, and the bike rocked back perfectly by sheer luck, landing gracefully on the back wheel like something out of a movie. At that point my dad noticed, worryingly, that my uncle didn't appear to be on the bike any more.

After slowing a little, my dad turned around on his seat, to see my uncle, wide-eyed, perched upon the top box.

Cool story

Less cool, I bunny-hopped the front wheel away from the traffic lights this morning in front of about half a dozen other bikes. The traction control on Ze Beemer acts as a crude and pretty harsh anti-wheely. A little enthusiastic on the throttle and instead of a controlled wheely, you get a hard Boing, Boing.
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I am a bellend, I am a man of constant sorrow, I am a gummy bear, I am a rock.

[MCN]

Poor obs.
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