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Clubroom => Foto Forum => Topic started by: Graeme M on March 02, 2014, 07:38:26 pm
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Just had to share this photo of an XR200 winning the wheelie comp at Surfers Paradise raceway back in about 1980-ish. The guy was brilliant - wonder who he was?
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And doing it in style with thongs on ??? ;D straight from the beach
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Yep, and the missus in skimpy shorts and a little top - they'd not be out of place down on the esplanade.
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They look like they are having just the best time 8)
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Graeme ... was that on the same weekend they had speed week. ???? around Easter they had touring cars - bikes drags on the circuit and dirt track at night.
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it was any one with an xr 200... come on "anyone" can wheelie an xr 200. quote from ADB.. "we chained a black Labrador to it and it was doing 600m wheelies in 15 minutes"
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The photo was taken at a road race meeting at Surfers Paradise Raceway. For a few years there they had a wheelie competition in the lunchbreaks. Most of the riders were on roadies but there were always a handful of dirtbikes. And yeah, I guess an XR200 is pretty easy to wheelie. I think I have a photo somewhere of someone trying to wheelie a Ducati 750SS at one of these lunchtime shindigs, that looked like it took some effort. I think the best roadbike wheelie was by a guy called Tony on a GS1000S, I think he went on to have some success roadracing.
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I wheelied a cb750 years ago for a bet...scary... managed to pull off a couple of impressive wheelies, then took off down the road (id never ridden a big roadie and the power!!!) first corner I came to I nearly didn't make it and ive hardly ridden a roady since... yuz can keep em as far as im concerned....
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The photo was taken at a road race meeting at Surfers Paradise Raceway. For a few years there they had a wheelie competition in the lunchbreaks. Most of the riders were on roadies but there were always a handful of dirtbikes. And yeah, I guess an XR200 is pretty easy to wheelie. I think I have a photo somewhere of someone trying to wheelie a Ducati 750SS at one of these lunchtime shindigs, that looked like it took some effort. I think the best roadbike wheelie was by a guy called Tony on a GS1000S, I think he went on to have some success roadracing.
If its the same Tony as I think it is he could also get these XR 200's ( and most anything else ) cracking as well. He had access to some very trick parts from Honda back then.
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Nothing like a good MONO :)
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We had a bloke down here that used to go through the main
street doing a Mono a XV 750 Honda shaft drive..
He even went around the round about on the back wheel..
Once..
The Stig
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Me Old Mate Rat (RIP) won the wheelie contest at a road race meet in SA in the 80's on a Honda CB125 :o eveyone got bored waiting for him to finish ;D the longest slowest Mono 8)