Nice post Lannie , I am sure you could teach us all a thing or two about wheeling our Busa's.
Also, do you still practice your wheelies on the customers bikes?
no sir that was at a custumers request, i only showed people that said yo dude this bike
won't wheelie for #### man I paid 2500.0 and nothin' I said let me ride your bike you guys come up to cross county highway and i'll show ya what it'll do Any way Mr. Dickey now believes he's got the baddest M/c around he just can't ride
At this period I ran the service dept for the shop
and I #### you not people would stop by and have me a run somewhere with the best wheelie guy that ever saw
and beat them badly. I grew up doing wheelies #### dudw I was pullin' quarter mile wheelies on ts-50, 100's 185's 250's
tm-125 ,250 and the baddest big bore ever a 1973 tm-400 cyclone
in 1973 on a demo Z1B kaw (we sold Kaw too} i whipped a 12.12 stone stock now this wasn't a wheelie but my brother Gary had been turning 12.50's all night first run 12.12 I couln'nt touch both feet on the Ground
these stories I tell are tru call Mell Harris at American Suzuki ask him about Gentleman Jims and his sons out of Cincinnati he'll tell ya or Jerry monroe senior sevice tech
Mr. suzuki himself stood in our dealership twice
so you may choose not to believe me thats on you anyhow you can't make this stuff up cause I've backed my act up before and would do it again always up for a challange.
We may not sell m/c's anymore but we got out at agood time 1989 if you all would remember late eighties well lets say we sold more ATV the last five years of the 80's and in 86 or 87 they caved to the Consumer protection and put you can die on this well sales tanked, we closed Suzuki Of Cincinnati dealer # 0975 in oct. 1989 may it R I P I miss it so
but it saved a whole family we were in the high speed lane ready to crash and burn I know now looking back I'm lucky to be alive
some of you guys only ride ten year don't know what it's like to start a 1973 tm 400 or have the balls to ride it
or say a 1971 kaw H1750 triple two stroke
or a rotary suzuki 500 1974
or the first GSXR750 7986 I had one to ride
probably the most signicant M/c to date
or the gs -850G best of the ten best
1980's
or the t-500 TitaN twin suzukki didn't even have a fore cycle till 1977 Gs-750 this is where it catappulted Suzuki all a sudsen guys on Z1-B's where falling to a SUZUKI no more ring ding ding jokes Anyway there's people posting here about wheelies and wheeling a bike like the Hayabusa is a simple task try it on say a tm- 400 cyclone or a ts90
on a bile without no handling no lightweight
shoot footpegs didn't even fold we bent them griding in corners
the only motorcylce Suzuki made that a tried to wheelie a quater mile and fail on was the GV1400 Calvacade it only went 1/8 mile but I'll bet no body had done it before
i was so lucky the first motorcycle I ever had to pay for was myabusa so after all these years I'm back having a great time over 13,00 mile since 06-21-04
one last tidbit I flipped it 7 times in my first five years of doing wheelies
my last crash was 1975 Edgwater Raceway on the very first rm125 in the nation that night I had 10,000 people get what they came to see my ass gettin' ate up with the road rash sliding down that track 60% of my skin was gone I looked like a big pizza it'only hurt when I took a breath that was my last crash six months later I did complete
the quarter on the 125 but with full gear
so you kids out there that maybe bought a busa first bike a maybe you can't get it up let me tell you if your Dad don't own a suzuki shop this alone will slow your progess up, unless of course you don't get killed I've seen it several times. I'm forty five with more than thirty years experence riding bullcrap most of it now, for ten huggs u can buy the fastest accelerating stock motorcyle I ever rode I guess what I'm trying to convey is the bikes we own stop fast go fast and can handle the speeds coming up 70's the bikes couln't handle the speeds it kept everone honest the real fear of an H-1 coming out the gate sideways they had a mind of there own I remember those bikes they taught me respect for bikes never ride over your head if can't keep up stay at your pace the leaders will wait at the sign for you.
being alive and well is a lot the hayabusa could pound you in the ground so hard and that's just in first think what it would be like forth gear wfo how fast is a hayabusa in forth pretty much the same on one or two wheels say 145 mph on the modest side one slip u die
since i been seeing this board people have died
some of em just disappered trying to do as Biker boys
some can do things I never thought of .
all jumps and wheelies
that was my deal like evil
by far the craziest dude I've ever met
He told me don't do what I do kid you wind up breaking all your bones and I said if you would ride a suzuki you would't crash so much ,what can I say I was a kid
oh the memories
replacing parts is very expensive
and losing you life over doing something u seen before is really nuts be fore warned I do know what i speak of Trust me like u know me
but for me I can't quit so if I crash no more busa'.
see the chances we take everday plus we all want to do wheelies
Nobody ever listened to me then ,I expect none will now But if your fresh and don't know how to wheelie try an fa 50 suzki moped like bike yes it has done a quarter mile wheelie before of those u can master anything plus there only about 500 bucks a hollar and almost impossible to wheelie but it can be done teaches you the most important thing the good ole balance point once you madter that your on your way
end of rant
Lannie
sorry this post went long like this gosh thinking bout the old days I got into bench racing mode
