Harley stunt riders in front of San Diego Harley-Davidson. Prior to a twerking contest, there were a number of Harley stunt riders
doing their thing on Morena Blvd just in front of San Diego Harley while regular auto traffic was also on the street.
Not certain what the name of the Harley stunt riders was, but, they but on a great show. personally, I think it would’ve been much wiser to either get a permit to close the street for a short period of time or to do the motorcycle stunt events in the San Diego Harley-Davidson parking area.
Luckily, there was no close calls, but, in an accident with a stunt rider and the passenger automobile would make headlines and be an absolute disaster for the San Diego motorcycle community.
Police Chase Motorcycle Rider
Here are some addition photos from this event:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
A wheelie on a motorized vehicle is nothing new. In drag racing they are considered a problem, robbing power that could be used to accelerate the vehicle faster, and many classes of drag racing use wheelie bars to prevent them.
But those are for vehicles specifically built for drag racing, which rarely are street-legal, or unmodified from stock. In contrast, since at least the 1970s, some motorcycles straight from the showroom floor were able to be wheelied.
The “12 o’clock” is a very high wheelie, past the normal balance point of the motorcycle. A variation of this is the “coaster”, in which the bike is balanced without the acting force of the motor, that is, with the clutch pulled in. The motorcycle is pulled so far back beyond the balance point of the wheel that the rider must constantly ride the rear brake to keep his machine from falling over backwards, causing him to slow down. A rider can pull in the clutch to create the effect of a wheelie with no engine noise. Conversely, some riders will pull in the clutch and peg the engine on its rev-limiter, called a “rev-limiter coaster”.
The opposite of the 12 o’clock is a wheelie in which momentum is used to lean forward, lifting the rear wheel while continuing to move forward at a high speed — this is called a “nose wheelie”.
A wheelie performed by two or more men on the same motorcycle is called “man-dom”.
In the late 1980s and continuing today, motorcycles, and especially sportbikes, have become lighter and more powerful, and have therefore become easier to wheelie. Other stunts have also become possible if not easy with the advancement of motorcycle technology. As Martin Child wrote in Bike, “With lighter, shorter, better-braked bikes on the market, the stoppie has never been so easy for so many.”[1] But at the same time, the cost of a motorcycle has remained relatively low compared to other street-legal vehicles with similar power-to-weight ratios.
In the 1990s some riders made performing stunts the primary focus of their riding. A wheelie or other stunt was not just something to do while riding, it became the main goal in riding.
