I am mildly obsessed with the idea of hand shifted motorcycles. Now I don’t know a lot about them, I don’t own any motorcycles, and I would likely die a quick death atop one of them because I have the coordination of a drunken stilt walker on the best of days. The guy in this video obviously has the program pretty well locked down. He’s on his cool Harley chopper in the driveway showing his girlfriend how to do a burnout. The guy pulls three gears in the driveway to get the wheel speed up and make big smoke. He had a slight miscalculation when pulling third, though. His probelm? Horsepower.
The Harley engine doesn’t have the oats to keep the tire spinning at a fast enough speed for smokey fun so instead it grabs and launches him into the garage where it looks and sounds like he hit something. The best part of the whole thing? His girlfriend at the end with the rather unimpressed sounding, “Am I stopping it?” line. She apparently had never seen a burnout in person and we’re guessing she was not exactly impressed with this performance but it does make for a funny video.
You’ve got to admit that it looks pretty awesome when the dude is yanking the shifter from gear to gear. That’s a neat deal although it would scare me half to death to think about doing it while rolling down the highway or side streets!
I would have rather seen his floppy jeans get caught in the primary belt. Now that would be funny.
Not that hard, Brian! I rode a buddy’s panhead with suicide shift back in the day, but it had a foot clutch. Bro said”Just slip the clutch if ya gotta stop on a hill!” Northeast Ohio ain’t flat, brother! Fun in the country, sure death in the city! Good Times!!
OK, watched again, foot clutch, just no pedal. I’m about function over form!
This guy is a total boner! I’m willing to bet he’s a used car dealer who took that thing in on trade when the chopper bubble burst and those bikes went from a value of $50k to about $8.
I hope there was something expensive that softened his crash, so he could know twice what a dildo he actually is.
That stupid f’n thing doesn’t have a front brake…yeah that “custom chopper” looked real badass there, man that is so cool…
Did guys really used to build them like this back in the day or is this just American choppers bs? No front brake, no rear suspension, open primary. looks cool but Jesus Christ if it can’t even do a burnout in a driveway wtf was the point??
Best part of it all was when girlfriend/wife asks – Am I stopping it.
So I’m guessing he does a lot of stupid shit and gets her to film it – funny.
That’s what I was thinking. She is also as dumb as he is, with that dumbass remark. lol
Ugly, slow and sounds like the crude ancient POS it is.
Bet his neighbors LOVE him