XR200 - wheelie king

[Graeme M]

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?

[mick25]

And doing it in style with thongs on  straight from the beach

[Graeme M]

Yep, and the missus in skimpy shorts and a little top - they'd not be out of place down on the esplanade.

[HVA61]

They look like they are having just the best time

[oldfart]

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. 

[80-85 husky]

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"

[Graeme M]

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.

[80-85 husky]

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....

[Ted]

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.

[EBT]

Nothing like a good MONO 

[the stig]

    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
   
   

[shelpi]

Me Old Mate Rat (RIP) won the wheelie contest at a road race meet in SA in the 80's on a Honda CB125  eveyone got bored waiting for him to finish  the longest slowest Mono