There's some crazy people out there

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.

Here's a mini documentary on a group in Baltimore:



Notice the young kids getting their start on bicycles.

This one is interesting/amazing too:



As an old fart I consider his mother to be irresponsible, but her kid is insightful for his age and living in Watts.
 
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 ?
 
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.
 
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.
Christ if I'd ever let on to my mum exactly how I'd got injured she would have killed me!!
I remember one time she'd just pulled up in her little Austin 1100 and I thought I'd impress her by doing a 180° on my home built tracker (mountain bikes weren't out then) behind her car as the road has just been dressed with grit
The result was me crashing into her car with my bike underneath her car 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣she went mental!
 
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.

"Made in England, Born Again in Texas"

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YES, IT GOT AN AIR FILTER.
 
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 ?
Pontificating on the interweb is where many will be.
 
No internet in my days, as soon as the sun was up us kids were gone, well after a feed first lol, kids did everything out doors getting into all sorts of troubles on the weekends, after school and holiday times and it was the same when we all left school and got jobs, leaving school at 15 and same with all the mates and unknown to each other we all brought dirt bikes (around the same time not long after leaving school) till we met up in our local bush lands, I am still riding with most of my mates to this day (50 years +), we all grew up poor and we worked hard to get our dirt bikes then road bikes when it was legal to ride on the road, but of course we didn't do that before we were legal to do so, well not much anyway till getting caught lol.
If we didn't have the money we all pool what we did have to buy drinks or a bit of pot or fuel for the bikes or all.
But kids today are spoil they get everything handed to them, computers, mobile phones, money to stay out of the parents hair and the parent wouldn't have any idea what their kids are up, so really nothing has change there, but youth crime is so bad these days, we never did that when we were growing up, yes we did get into trouble but we never stole cars or break into houses to look for car keys, didn't mug kids for their shoes or their mobile phones or pull knives, if we had a fight it be knuckles only, how thing have changed even my youngest daughter went off the rails when she was in high school and yet she blame us for being bad parents all because we didn't give into her, glad she woke up and realized she did wrong, peer pressure from other school mates.
I grew up with just living a simple life and I still live a simple life but kids today they want everything without working hard for it, if you didn't work hard in our days you went nowhere and got nothing.
At 65 years old now I still getting into minor troubles and still do things my wife has no idea with some of my old mates, just don't get caught lol had a few speeding tickets on the bike she know nothing about, but we grew up to respect, most bad kids have no respect at all for anyone or anything, they want, they take.

Ashley
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
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...

Open space where it's legal to ride no longer exists in my area AFAIK. Best I can tell, the wheelie riders are in cities where there is no open space.
 
You live in a detached world.
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.
Many motorcyclists do not know what game they are in - it is easy to become personally liable by officiating.

 
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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.
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!

My box stock 74 Trident will wheelie with me on it - of course my mind was thinking Norton shifting and banged into 1st instead of third with a handful of throttle.

I did some work on a guy's 79 Bonneville. It has huge dual disks up front. While test riding at about 30mph an a-hole pulled out in front of me. Brain stuck on Norton's (almost a) brake, grabbed a handful - that's my one and, I hope, only stoppie! I was damned near vertical before I let go! I'm WAY too big to do stoppies!
 
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