after seeing many people on here bitch bout stunts some of us do i thought id throw out this little story...

during my recent trip to vermont, i rode with a person i have never roade with before... at our first stop for dinner, i was full and rested and felt like playing so as they were getting ready i did a little slow speed drivimg practice then proceeded to do a 5mph to 6000ish rpm rolling burnout... at the emd of the burnout was a curb, i braked......then throttled up onto sidewalk turned and hoped back off of it.... durring the day i would weave throgh the dotted lines on interstates doing 70mph.... i really just consider this all training and bettering my skills...

that night this guy proceeds to tell me i am wreckless.....im alot of things but i use my head and pick time and place to act up a little.,...so i turned to my father... hey Dad am i wreckless.... his response no but you sure are destructive , you can break anything (i cant argue that) i ask my 2 buddies (retired leo) they say wreckless no, you just ride hard and have alot of experince but we wouldnt consider your riding wreckless at all.....

so to those who think burnouts and such are wreckless, how do react when a bad situation arises since youve never played around.....doing these "childish" acts is enjoying yourself and preparing you for some unexpected scenerios that appear everyday on the street.....


i say stay a kid as long as you can, enjoy your ride how ever you please, just use some common sense as to when and where you do...

 

I think the only off the wall stuff you mentioned is the weaving between the dotted lines. You could get a reckless driving ticket for that. The other stuff is just low speed stuff that shouldn't be of any concern to anyone. Entertaining, yes. I like to watch someone do a burnout. I don't like to do that with my scooter though. I guess I'm just cheap and don't want to have to buy another back tire so soon.

 

and the weeving is the best tranning for that animal or that piece of junk muffler or a car that all of the sudden is in your way..... tires...... i may have lost 1000 miles per change since the motor build.... well worth the fun imho

 

I sometimes do the weaving-between-the-dashed-lines too. With my front tire only, of course, and I haven't tried it on my Road King much over 50-55 (don't think it would work after that anyway, one dash at a time). One of the guys in the group I ride with on Wednesday nights told me I'm scary. (he rides a softail and the little time I've spent on one of those would make me think it would seem scary, too)

I agree, though, that practice hones the skills and makes them second-nature. The burnout bit leave me a little baffled, though, as to any sort of applicability to real-life safety situations.

 

I grew up riding a dirt bike. At age 45, I still ride off road on a KX500 punched out to 520cc. One can learn a lot about control in an out of control environment. I have done things on my Sportsters that make people think I'm an idiot. But all they do is ride from bar to bar....... or is that beer to beer?

 

Hey hotpursuit, that was you? We've been looking for you. Please send me your address so I can mail you a ticket[8D]

 

have you ever hit gravel and steered into the slide? or something slippery...... when i do burnouts and she drifts on you i just steer and ride it out.... sometimes i wiggle the bars and make a nice serpentine patch down the road... i used to do alot of rear brake lock ups on purpose, i learn from it too... just like msf says once your start a skid with rear tire dont let off or you could be high sided.... you CAN let off the brake and NOT high side if you do it the right way.....

gwcrim..... best quote.... right on bro... "one can learn alot about control in an out of control envroment"


dawg..... i did it on purpose hoping youd stop me and we could of swapped patches....lol ill send ya my address, if you ride down here to pittsburgh ta do some riding....

 

Yep, I will say i do some of that stuff, myself. I have not done a burnout on this bike, but did a couple in my youth, LOL. I like to do the swerve in and out of the dotted line 'maneuver', LOL. I agree that it helps you practice avoiding something in your immediate path. The craziest I get now, though, is riding with no hands. Not a big deal, but I am starting to see at what speed it becomes uncomfortable, and then go a little more. So far, 45 mph is tops. But that is increasing.

I use to ride trials when I was a teen. On all of my previous metric bikes, I had no trouble popping the bike up over curbs. With the Harley, however, I haven't been able to get the two wheel off the ground 'pop', yet. The bike is really heavy, and I have apes on the bike. If I try to pull them to lift the front wheel, they relocate, LOL. So, I have not tried that much. LOL

 

Can't say I haven't.

Also can't say I've never gone down when I'd liked to stay up, either.

Next time I get into a tank-slapper I'll guarantee you I won't lock onto the handlebars to try and stop it. As a result I slid down the road for what seemed like ten minutes one time, steering occasionally with my hands to keep my feet out in front not knowing what might be coming my way and not wanting to start rolling. Walked back quite a ways to the bike in the ditch but couldn't roust it. After going to town to get checked out went back with a pickup and a buddy to pick it up and couldn't find it. Thought somebody else got it "for me." Was very surprised to see was looking in the wrong place. It was a lot further down the road than I'd remembered. Been quite lucky a few times now and hope I'm done needing to...

Practice fringe stuff and try to avoid it otherwise.

 

preference i guess. cant see smokin the rubber off my tires and the unneccesssary hi rev's. but im an old dude so...............