Re: [ST] WHEELIES ON ST.

[Garry Simmons <garrysimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have the stones to wheelie a street bike. Used to do it all the time on dual-sport bikes and dirt bikes when I was young. Crashing is expensive. One bad wheelie can easily cost $1000 in rashed plastic, busted levers and pegs and other dinged bits. Crashing hurts too much at my age. Old guys don't bounce well. And if the crash doesn't hurt me, the wife surely will if I bring home a wadded up bike from trying to wheelie. Not to mention the grief the front end of the bike goes through when you just drop the front end hard (because you don't have the skills to set it down softly yet).

Or maybe I just need to grow a set.

Garry
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