This is absolutely brilliant
No matter what you think about it from a Law & Order perspective, these are some skilled people! There are lots of YouTube videos of various groups. The guy in this one added a really cool effect even though the fireworks themselves are probably illegal. Of course, the rider is probably not licenced and the bike is probably not registered for the street, so if caught (unlikely), there would be LOTS of charges.This is absolutely brilliant
This is absolutely brilliant
Christ if I'd ever let on to my mum exactly how I'd got injured she would have killed me!!And you never done crazy things when you were young, young and silly, danger, getting hurt, what could happen, if they did get hurt they think twice about doing it again, well maybe lol, if you fall off you get back up and try again and how many young ones do crazy things with their parents permission and how many parents do know what their kids get up too once they leave the house.
If they did get hurt would they be honest in telling how it did happen really, it just happen really mum, honest.
Pontificating on the interweb is where many will be.You can get yourself into enough trouble with a motorcycle without being silly. A fall of a few feet is enough to break an arm or a leg, and who picks-up the tab ? Insurance costs are killing motorcycle racing, globally. Most insurance is underwritten by Lloyd's Of London. Insurance is gambling, and in gambling, the house always wins. When having fun becomes too expensive, where will we be ?
You live in a detached world.You can get yourself into enough trouble with a motorcycle without being silly. A fall of a few feet is enough to break an arm or a leg, and who picks-up the tab ? Insurance costs are killing motorcycle racing, globally. Most insurance is underwritten by Lloyd's Of London. Insurance is gambling, and in gambling, the house always wins. When having fun becomes too expensive, where will we be ?
You never heard of Charles Darwin? Much as the modern world tries to deny it he was right.You can get yourself into enough trouble with a motorcycle without being silly. A fall of a few feet is enough to break an arm or a leg, and who picks-up the tab ? Insurance costs are killing motorcycle racing, globally. Most insurance is underwritten by Lloyd's Of London. Insurance is gambling, and in gambling, the house always wins. When having fun becomes too expensive, where will we be ?
My stepson got his dirt bike at 9 years old. He and his friends all rode in a in a large tract of land with permission of the owner. Today, that's all houses and shopping malls. In theory they pushed their bikes there, in reality...I remember back to when I first started riding there were fields and open spaces. I had a power line easement that ran a few blocks from my house and I could ride for miles and never ride on the street (we pushed our bikes across). I wonder if the urban riders are doing a lot of the crazy stuff we used to do in the dirt without access to the dirt. Those fields and open spaces have been developed and it is now wall to wall houses.
Right on SOME things, not on everything.You never heard of Charles Darwin? Much as the modern world tries to deny it he was right.
In Australia, the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport wanted to become the controlling body of all motor sport in Australia. They claimed ownership of the intellectual property related to risk management. I became involved in writing 'Guide for managing risk in motor sport' in conjunction with Standards Australia - it is now a public document - no individual organisation owns it. Motorcycle road racing is in danger of being finished by insurance costs. The only way to minimise insurance costs is to provide evidence that risks are being minimised to a tolerable level.You live in a detached world.
Only ever wrecked on the street one time - 70mph, not hurt. Lost the rear end in a tight turn. Needed a left foot peg rubber, left handlebar grip, shoe polish on my leather jacket elbow, hole patched in my jeans but my insulated underwear were fine (it was winter), and toilet paper!I've been hurt at least eight different ways on motorcycles, sometimes my fault, sometimes the bike's fault, sometimes other people's fault.
I've never been hurt doing wheelies, and I only ever blew out one pair of seals coming down too hard. I pretty quickly learned each bike's power band and "wheelie characteristics", and NEVER did them in traffic (because that typically means cops aren't far away).
I only do them from low speed start, and will never intentionally try a "stoppie".
As "Dirty" Harry Callaghan said, "A man's got to know his limitations"
...oh, yeah, I've only owned ONE Commando that I could wheelie on throttle alone - the '74 Monoshock 850 with the Megacycle 560-00 cam & radiused lifters, which I built in 2010.