wingnutthehutt
Fast Is Relative
Having ridden a LOT of different Speed Triples I'm going to have to go ahead and say: Not in a million years. First gear, yes. Second gear, no. Third Gear, maybe if you took it off a sweet jump.
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Speed Triple = 3rd gear power wheelie?
- Thread starter Squidly McSmearstain
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Brown81
Well-known member
according to my engineer dad
But seriously, having a serious boner for a Tuono, it's nice to see that in reality, I should also have a boner for the speed triple.
Squidly McSmearstain
Well-known member
What a fucking can of worms I opened......
Heading down the ramp from Alcosta onto 680 north. I entered the ramp in second gear and rolled on the throttle. I hit about 9,500 rpm and switched into third. I gave it full throttle and the front tire lifted off the ground a solid three or four inches.
If you're imagining a really cool eleven-o-clock wheelie you're talking to the wrong guy. I can't do it in first gear. I was quite surprised the front wheel came off the pavement at all in that gear. I thought it was cool.
Perhaps I should have started a thread asking if I should have bought this bike or the CB-1.
ohio
Active member
Can one have more than one boner at the same time? I must be doing it wrong. Shit, think of the things I could do with two boners at the same time! Ladies of SF, steel yourselves...
Squidly McSmearstain
Well-known member
I guess I was expecting too much from BARF. My thread humor in this case is complete fail.
Dorkhedeos
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Sorry to be such an attention whore.
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I think you just 1-UPed this guy
Squidly McSmearstain
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Brown81
Well-known member
Maybe the gearing was changed or something, but SOP at On One Wheel school was 2nd gear crack of the wrist at 35mph. I would have flipped it too except for the various safeguards.
gixxerjeff
Optimistic Underdog
What a fucking can of worms I opened......
I gave it full throttle and the front tire lifted off the ground a solid three or four inches.
Either that or the suspension just unloaded, providing that EPIC WHEELIE feeling.
All the while the front tire never left the ground.
I think On One Wheel still exists, I googled it last year. They still make at least one trip a year to Tracy. They had Speed Trips, with two loop-stoppers. An adjustable movable wheelie bar cut power to one cylinder if you got too high, and there was a link to rear brake at ludicrious heights.
wingnutthehutt
Fast Is Relative
What a fucking can of worms I opened......
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Perhaps I should have started a thread asking if I should have bought this bike or the CB-1.
Well, I can tell you that my CBR400 is quite capable of hefting the front tire with just throttle while going down the front straight at T-Hill. Maybe you should get a CB-1 to replace that limey hunk you're riding right now.
wingnutthehutt
Fast Is Relative
Yeah, I was the guy doing almost all the instructing for the last year, 2005-2006, before it was sold to the current owners. Hence how I've ridden so many of them.