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[Taipan]

[Taipan]

[Horse]

Love the way he has to brake so hard for the first car - then takes his hands off the bars just at the point where the second car might move across.

[ZRX61]

oops...

[rodbargee]

Harsh

[Taipan]

[The Spin Doctor]

Does he really have to ask "whose fault was this"?

[The Spin Doctor]

But... I was told in no uncertain terms just the other day that counter-steering is the only way of getting a motorcycle round a bend.

[KungFooBob]

But... I was told in no uncertain terms just the other day that counter-steering is the only way of getting a motorcycle round a bend.

He is counter steering.

[The Spin Doctor]

I think the front wheel was supposed to be in contact with the ground though. Impressive control. Reminds me of Dave Taylor, the Wheelie King.

[Horse]

I think the front wheel was supposed to be in contact with the ground though. Impressive control. Reminds me of Dave Taylor, the Wheelie King.

I'll have to find it another time, but I've seen a sequence of pics of a BMX rider launching off a vertical ramp, countersteering in mid air to turn 180 and return front wheel first.

[Taipan]

I think the front wheel was supposed to be in contact with the ground though. Impressive control. Reminds me of Dave Taylor, the Wheelie King.

He used to have an electric motor on the front wheel to keep it spinning to maintain the gyroscopic effect...

[KungFooBob]

Doug Domokos was the wheelie king!

[Horse]

I think the front wheel was supposed to be in contact with the ground though. Impressive control. Reminds me of Dave Taylor, the Wheelie King.

He used to have an electric motor on the front wheel to keep it spinning to maintain the gyroscopic effect...

IIRC only for the IoM TT lap.

[Taipan]

I think the front wheel was supposed to be in contact with the ground though. Impressive control. Reminds me of Dave Taylor, the Wheelie King.

He used to have an electric motor on the front wheel to keep it spinning to maintain the gyroscopic effect...

IIRC only for the IoM TT lap.

ISTR reading about his brands hatch wheelie, but i guess IoM is more likely? I thought he failed that attempt though?

[Taipan]

Google found me this and i never knew Dougie Lampkin did that!

Twelve times FIM World Trials Champion, Dougie Lampkin added another achievement to his long list of attainments, when he successfully ‘wheelied’ his modified Vertigo around the 37 ¾ mile Isle of Man TT Mountain Course on Sunday 25th September. This is the first time it has been done continuously without the front wheel touching down until he crossed the finish line.

Previous attempts were made as early as 1976 by stunt rider, the late Dave Taylor on a Yamaha XS650. Taylor made various attempts over the years during TT week, however it was never documented and therefore assumed that he failed to complete a full circuit with the front wheel off the ground.

Known as The Wheelie King, his last attempt was in 1993. His daughter, Katie Taylor spoke to Trials Guru:

“Dad did his last wheelie attempt in 1993, but he did it with a broken wrist. He touched down because the rear brake link broke on his machine. By then he was suffering with terminal cancer quite severely. He had stomach cancer but by then it had spread to his throat. He also did this attempt all in the name of charity, riders for health, he was never paid for it”.

Taylor died in 1996 aged 53, he had been for many years a leading road safety campaigner in an effort to make motorcycle riding safer.

[Rockburner]

I think the front wheel was supposed to be in contact with the ground though. Impressive control. Reminds me of Dave Taylor, the Wheelie King.

He used to have an electric motor on the front wheel to keep it spinning to maintain the gyroscopic effect...

IIRC only for the IoM TT lap.

That's what I've read. He didn't normally need it, but 37 miles on one wheel... that front is definitely going to stop rotating.

[Taipan]

[Taipan]

[Taipan]