do literbikes really wheelie this easy?
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RE: do literbikes really wheelie this easy?
the video won't load up for me right now for some reason, but i'm pretty sure i've seen it before. the one i'm thinking of is a guy on a turbo R1, and every time he gets on the throttle the front end looks like it wants to go to the moon. personally, i think it would be annoying to havea bike that's so powerful it would just launch the front wheel up like that every time i gave it too much throttle. it looks like it's hard to handle also, like the bike is in control rather than the rider.
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RE: do literbikes really wheelie this easy?
My guess, after seeing the video and attempting to extraced and decipher any relevant input from the posts that followed yours is that the responders to your post assume the rider in the video was not trying very hard to wheelie the bike, and that such behavior from a literbike is atypical.
As someone who has only ridden cruisers, dualsports, and 600s, I have asked similar questions about literbike power, and even after viewing the responses to your question, still have no well-articulated answer coming from a rider of a literbike who knows how to impart his experience to those of us who have not ridden them, but are curious about their power. My impression after all my searching is that literbikes are easy to wheelie, but maybe not as easy to accidentally wheelie as those of us may think who have been conditioned to think of literbikes as nearly limitless in power.
I really don't know the answer to your question, even after all the asking I have done. But my impression from deciphering the answers I have seen is that literbikes are very easy to wheelie, and they can be wheelied accidentally by those riding carelessly, but someone riding responsibly won't wheelie the bike. The R1 in your video is probably easier to wheelie than other bikes, and easier to accidentally wheelie, but I am guessing the rider there was trying to pop all those wheelies and probably could have easily ridden around without bringing up the front wheel. Riding the lane divider on one wheel between two vehicles on a one-lane road in order to pass a truck at nearly 300 kph indicates that the R1 rider exemplifies the zenith of human recklessness and stupidity, and my bet was that all those wheelies were intentional fun, not unanticipated effects of having an unearthly powerful bike.
As someone who has only ridden cruisers, dualsports, and 600s, I have asked similar questions about literbike power, and even after viewing the responses to your question, still have no well-articulated answer coming from a rider of a literbike who knows how to impart his experience to those of us who have not ridden them, but are curious about their power. My impression after all my searching is that literbikes are easy to wheelie, but maybe not as easy to accidentally wheelie as those of us may think who have been conditioned to think of literbikes as nearly limitless in power.
I really don't know the answer to your question, even after all the asking I have done. But my impression from deciphering the answers I have seen is that literbikes are very easy to wheelie, and they can be wheelied accidentally by those riding carelessly, but someone riding responsibly won't wheelie the bike. The R1 in your video is probably easier to wheelie than other bikes, and easier to accidentally wheelie, but I am guessing the rider there was trying to pop all those wheelies and probably could have easily ridden around without bringing up the front wheel. Riding the lane divider on one wheel between two vehicles on a one-lane road in order to pass a truck at nearly 300 kph indicates that the R1 rider exemplifies the zenith of human recklessness and stupidity, and my bet was that all those wheelies were intentional fun, not unanticipated effects of having an unearthly powerful bike.
