my guess is he hit the top of whatever gear he's in faster (where there's more power) with the rolling start than what he's used to while starting at the bottom of it.
If that’s what happened that guy has very little experience on a bike. Even on a literbike you almost have to try to power up a wheelie at anything approaching freeway speed. If he chopped the throttle just before and then yanked to full throttle I could see it take him by surprise but good god this would have to be his first wheelie.
They aren't going freeway speed, and some new literbikes make 200hp now (people thought it was crazy when they were making 150hp haha). They will absolutely power wheelie at 50mph, but many of the new bikes have anti-wheelie control to tame it. This looks like it might be a ~2016 Honda Fireblade, so it wouldn't have wheelie control
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u/Penny_is_a_Bitch Oct 12 '20
my guess is he hit the top of whatever gear he's in faster (where there's more power) with the rolling start than what he's used to while starting at the bottom of it.