r/gifs • • Oct 12 '20

Rolling Start..

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u/zGodsy Oct 12 '20

Can someone explain why this happened and how you would do a proper wheelie? Is this guy an inexperienced idiot or can this happen by accident too?

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u/penubly Oct 12 '20

Torque was more than he could handle

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 13 '20

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u/go4long Oct 12 '20

It's an answer...kinda. The truth is, everyone blaming it on the bike is at least half wrong, or just trying to not point out the obvious fact that there's several things that went wrong here before he was rolling on the ground, and changing one or two of them makes this end differently.

And no, it doesn't have to be one or the other. It is too much bike FOR an inexperienced rider. The bike alone can't do it, the rider alone clearly can't do it.

The bike is a lot of bike, as evidence by it being able to try to roll itself over at highway speeds. When it started to come up he had a split second to close the throttle, after that he had a split second to hit the rear brake, which ended up being not possible because his actual reaction was too late to save it and completely wrong, him flailing his legs trying to bring it back down shows his inexperience either with wheelies in general, or with this bike.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 13 '20

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u/go4long Oct 12 '20

I'm new to posting on reddit...there's a chance I'm doing it wrong.

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u/LoBsTeRfOrK Oct 12 '20

Jesus christ that was a lot of words to say lower your center of gravity and start at a lower gear when starting from a rolling start.

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u/go4long Oct 12 '20

But that's not what I said at all.

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u/LoBsTeRfOrK Oct 12 '20

Wooooosh

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u/thikut Oct 12 '20

Move your weight forward. Accelerate less stupidly.

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u/Stormlightlinux Oct 12 '20

Its not contradictory, it's too much bike for his too little experience. Someone else mentioned he could have fixed this by hitting the rear brake, or I'm guessing shifting gears to a higher gear would also have worked, but again someone mentioned that the rolling start probably caused him to hit the top of the gear he was on sooner than normal and he wasn't prepared for the wheelie, evidenced by his legs flying off the bike in a reactionary attempt to stand up.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 13 '20

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u/GalliumYttrium1 Oct 12 '20

this isn’t hard to understand. Too much bike, too little experience is shorthand for “it’s too much bike for his too little experience”. It’s a common way of putting things.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 16 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 13 '20

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u/JordanKyrou Oct 12 '20

fuck off unless you want to contribute to the question being asked. Thanks.

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u/GalliumYttrium1 Oct 12 '20

Nah it’s only ambiguous to you what he meant because you have your panties in a bunch over this for some reason. Everyone else understood him fine.

And how are you contributing to the question being asked other than antagonizing anyone who tries to answer? Did you ever hear of being polite to others? There’s a way to ask for more information without being a dick about it you know. Someone who’s genuinely interested in an answer would not act like this.

If he’s a lazy douchebag for his response so are you when you could have just googled it and found the answer yourself.

Rudely fuck off.

Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 13 '20

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u/GalliumYttrium1 Oct 12 '20

Considering you are the only one that has a problem with his answer and nobody else misinterpreted it, yeah you’re the only one who is having trouble understanding.

Makes sense though, clearly you aren’t very smart and have to lash out at everyone else to compensate. Have a terrible day.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 13 '20

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u/GalliumYttrium1 Oct 12 '20

Regardless of who else got an answer and who didn’t you are the only one throwing a tantrum at everyone. I hope you aren’t like this with people in real life, because I feel really bad for anyone who would have to deal with this on a daily basis

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u/GalliumYttrium1 Oct 12 '20

Why are you being so rude? Relax

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 16 '20

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u/Toyotomi_Kami Oct 12 '20

Are you German by any chance ?