Accidental wheelies?

[ducpainter]

oh go burst my bubble that i had more HP now. but i did know i had less torque. cc=lb/ft.

please tell me it's still lighter or are they using british pounds to measure the weight now

[Spidey]

Tell that to Pedrosa

He can't even do a proper wheelie dance (see below), that f'n humorless runt.  He just flips the thing over and is done.  Zero style points. 

[Slide Panda]

please tell me it's still lighter or are they using british pounds to measure the weight now

They've gone back to using stone and the Hundredweight benchmarks

He can't even do a proper wheelie dance (see below), that f'n humorless runt.  He just flips the thing over and is done.  Zero style points. 

Hurmorless?  I got plenty of humor out of that...  I might only have laughed harder if Hayden had actually smote him on the spot after there little '07 meeting...

That anyone 'we' know doing the dance?

[Spidey]

That anyone 'we' know doing the dance?

Nah, it's the same AFM class that DanTheMan and I raced in, but from five or ten years back. 

[DucofWestwood]

I did it.  Very first day I commuted to work on my bike.  (Prior to that the only riding I had really done was in a parking lot.)  Riding home at rush hour on Santa Monica Blvd.  Accidentally stalled coming away from a stop-light, with a long line of cars behind me.  Got really nervous, heart racing, blood pressure rising, managed to find the right controls to restart the bike, let the clutch out too quickly (due to my nerves), and up goes the front end.  Freaked the hell out of me.  All was fine though, the front wheel immediately came back down and I rode off.  But for the next week or so I got really nervous anytime I had to let out the clutch. 

Haven't tried to repeat the experience and don't intend to anytime soon.

By the way, I ride what is (I think) the least powerful Monster ... a 2003 M620.  So it doesn't take much power to do it!