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"For the sitting wheelies I start at about 15 miles per hour and go through the gears until :I'm
doing about 90 or 95. I can go about a mile or a mile and a quarter. I don't use the brake, Just
balance and throttle. It it starts to go over backwards, it's time to get off. If you go for the bra~e
arid don't make it in time, you may get caught under it. I've never gone over backwards on a big
one yet."
"For standing wheelies I start at 30 or 35 in third and go up to about 80:'
'When your eyes gellhis big-D1al's enough'
"lronrnan" has performed in front of
more people at one time than any other
motorcycle stun tm an. There were
almost 180,000 people at this year's
Ontario 500. He feels that his aCl
involves skill rather than just daring. He
has been teaching it to himself for six
years. He start~d out on, a Honda 9? and
~ldlng 011 the ~ is really dangerous beceuIe If you
bIgln to lose contrOl you. " - to get up .nd - . . . eround to
the side end get on, With aU that gear 011 you "",'\ get on 01
off CMlr the beck. I use • modified c:oal ""ovel and. leather
h8rness. At abOut 80 miles per hour I get off sideways, get to
the back, and sit dOwn."
slowly worked up to bIgger macDmes
un til now he is using a Trackmaster
framed 650 for his act. Learning and
living is a matter of not oyerstepping
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your bounds. "When your eyes get
THIS big
well, that's enough for
now."
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