K11 Owners Group

ducatipaso · airhead butcher Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 694

let's just get this out in the open right here and now. You CAN wheelie K bikes, and here are photos to prove it. Feel free to add your own pictures. Cool

beemeerr11 · Flying Brick Rider Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 168

Ducatipaso,
I'm a fan of the Wheelie, and can wheelie my trail bike in my opinion at random, I've grown up on dirt bikes.
My K11LT is the first road bike that more than anything I'm NOT confident to wheelie, just for the pure fact that I expect to drop the clutch and hear crunch crunch snap, not like a chain driven bike.

We had the police attend one of our tail bike meetings (when we were looking at search & rescue) and one of the police that attended loved the K11LT as they were police bikes here in AUS, he thought that they were one of the best bikes to ride on dirt (as far as dirt roads and road bikes go) but his only complaint was that after numerous Wheelies the front fairing mounting brackets break, no complaint about drive shaft failure.
Lou
95LT

Sugar · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:58 am Post subject:

I feel worried doing a wheelie on a dirtbike (I've always hated unicycles ever since that clown frightened me at the circus when I was a wee young lad), I would never consider doing one on my K-bike, I love it too much to disrespect it.
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Flying Duck · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject:

Ran across this the other day. It's a cop doing a wheelie on a K75RTP. I guess you can do that stuff if you're not picking up the maintenance tab.

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ducatipaso · airhead butcher Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 694

damnit now I want a pic of myself doing this!

ride out into the sticks: $1
lunch for cameraman: $10
clutch wear for first 5 tries: $100
broken driveshaft parts: $1000

but the pic would be priceless Cool

SoloK11 · Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

What about power wheelies in first? Especially if you rock and pull it back you can get it up for a good half second.. and there's no risk of flippin over like the sport bikes...

Flying Duck · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:08 am Post subject:

Here's a couple of K1100LT wheelie pics

Notice the lack of a helmet in the second one. Shocked

That guy has brass ones.

I've seen Allen's K11RS with the K12 engine. That thing could pop a wheelie easily.
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86 custom K100
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crimbo · Guest

Try these....

http://www.bmrider.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=261

Pictureman · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject: Wheelies

Anyone who wheelies a K1100 deserves to be horsewhipped for cruelty to such a fine bit of machinery.
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SoloK11 · Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

I've always been told you can't wheelie the K11's because they're too heavy, and I would never do a clutch wheelie and damage my clutch and driveshaft, but last night I did a power wheelie in first and got the front wheel WAY up. I'm gonna get a picture soon. I've been playing with it for a while and getting it up three to inches but this time i really used momentum and pulled it back while going from 3k rpm to the wall, in first, and it came up at least three and a half feet.

Sugar · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject:

Don't forget to include pics of the repair bill
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ducatipaso · airhead butcher Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 694

bigalfromwigan · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:45 am Post subject:

So THATS what it is! And there was me thinking it was the road conditions...

I guess I need to work on this one to impress the cagers!

Zille · Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 9 Location: Berlin/ Germany

Did you know that our k11 is on tv? besides some "scifi movies" it's quite often to see in a music video from aerosmith... "AMAZING"

mystic red k11rs... it does wheelie Smile

and they f*** on it Cool

but the video is quite good... of course because of the bike Laughing

i got it on dvd, but is it allowed to post some "parts" of it? i would have to cut it a litle Wink

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sev · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Bulgaria Sofia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAYPUG4RwVs

and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSsg9b8WIA

Off the grid · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:23 pm Post subject:

1. Aerosmith rocks.

2. That guy is a fking moron.
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Klinker · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject:

Flying Duck · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:04 pm Post subject:

Off the grid · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:46 am Post subject:

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rydor · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:11 am Post subject:

I can do that. /lie