"Nice stoppie. How's your neck?"

[phUnk]

That's what I would have said to the guy if he hadn't bolted after his crash.

I'm out on my CBR, riding down Foothill Drive today. Two lanes each way, a light every mile or two, and there's a fair amount of traffic. I see a guy way up ahead of me and he's doing something goofy. It looks like he's riding a scooter, but standing up on it.

So, I slice up the traffic to get a closer look. He's actually on a sportbike and he's standing up so he can see over the windscreen because he's doing a wheelie.

He's pretty good. He's got the standing wheelie going just slightly faster than the flow of traffic, and he's got room in front and behind him. The light in front of him turns red, so I gas it a bit to get up next to him at the light so I can give him some kind of "Nice action brah!"

He puts the wheelie down nice and smooth, switches into the left-hand only lane and busts out a stoppie about 20 feet from the intersection. Naturally, I was thinking "!"

Until he flipped right the fuck over the front onto his fat stupid head!

I bust over into that lane to try to shield him from traffic while he's down, but he jumps right up. He picks up his bike, ignores the hanging body panel and busted-off frame slider and pushes his motorcycles across incoming traffic, onto the sidewalk where he hops back on the bike and coasts down the hill.

I wonder if the purple faux-fur covering his gas tank protected it in the crash?

[truth]

What color fur do you have?

FYI: the check is offically in the mail...I spaced it bro, my bad.

[shirk]

hahha yes the faux fur is all the protection those guys need.
Was he sporting a faux fur helmet?

[bagtagley]

A buddy was driving on a basically empty interstate in Ohio, when a dude on a superbike comes up real fast behind him. The guy begins to pass, slows down and starts doing tricks next to my friend. He jumped off the side and slid on his feet, he did some wheelies, etc. then took off.

Anyway, that guy had fur on his gas tank too. AND, I saw a demo at an AMA Superbike race with a bunch of guys on furry motorcycles doing stoppies into each other and the like. They were amazingly good, but their bikes were trashed from wrecking so much. Maybe he was in one of those stunt "clubs"?

The End.

[Yeti]

Last summer I was passed while going 90 on the local highway here in Maine (we have just one) by a wheelie-rocking sportbike. Later that month, I saw another (same guy?) in stop-and-go traffic downtown, picking up his front wheel head-high and dropping it repeatedly while waiting for traffic to flow better.

Must be an expensive way of life.

[InspectorGadget]

Squid!

Was the dumb-ass wearing helmet? With or without fur?

[phUnk]

What color fur do you have?

FYI: the check is offically in the mail...I spaced it bro, my bad.

No problem buddy. I knew you were good for it.

[truth]

No problem buddy. I knew you were good for it.

That hurt.

[Spats]

Yes, fur on your bike says either "Street stunt crew" or "wannabe". I think it started with the Starboyz in Ohio back around 2000-2001.

[Cornholio]

That crew, or some remenent of it, still plays around here. You'll see 'em out in rush hour, smoking between lanes of cars doing wheelies at well over 100mph.

It's fun to watch, but I always have this anticipatory queasy feeling.