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anyone do it on one of ours?
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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Not from a standing stop but I ride a road I call the rollercoaster and I come over the top of one big hill and ride a wheelie down the other side about 150' give or take.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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Loquacious
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Loquacious
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how did you set it down with out blowing the seals. they dont have enough power to power it down slow.
we should do this every weekend!
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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I just stayed in the power keeping the front light and as the hill ended at the bottom the ground just meets the tire gently just as I start up the next hill.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Loquacious
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Loquacious
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I popped mine up over 1 really fast hill here it kinda scared me. its more fun on the tiger
we should do this every weekend!
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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I have done this on this same hill so many times it is like 2nd nature for me. I even used to do it on my chopper. It is very steep and 3 hills in a row one meeting the next.I always lay on it at the bottom of the first then just blast through them.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Bar Shake
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I don't think you can do a wheelie from a stop with an America. Cruisers aren't really built for wheelies. Except a R-111 Roadster. Raw HP and torque overcomes gravity and physics. 
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Stickman Yogi
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I suppose if you were pointed up a nice, steep hill it MIGHT be possible... don't think I'd want to put my girl through that though. But yeah Paul, there's quite a bit on youtube of Kevin Carmichael doing crazy stuff on an R3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wQSPwJ4C-E
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Bullseye did it in Daredevil. 
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Learned Hand
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Learned Hand
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I jumped mine over a set of train tracks this summer only about a inch or two off the ground but both wheels were off the ground LOL
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Stickman Yogi
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Quote:
I jumped mine over a set of train tracks this summer only about a inch or two off the ground but both wheels were off the ground LOL
Fun stuff!!
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Learned Hand
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I've done it a few times. From a slow roll, with a clutch drop it will carry the front wheel for 50 feet or so. Not that impressive, but fun! 
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Loquacious
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Quote:
anyone do it on one of ours?
 yes ... standing on the rear-pegs 
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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Well, if you ask me, I think you guys are wheelie wastin' your time here!!!
(...you could be out wabbit huntin' instead, ya know!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Second Wind
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Second Wind
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Never pulled the wheel off the ground but have done a pretty nice burn out kind of. I dumped the clutch and spun the back tire for about three feet. With out using the front brake either.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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