Becman

I talked a lot of about this topic with Kevin Carmichael and AC Farias. They definitely saw that Doug Domokus did the first 12'o clock wheelies on his 6 cilindered Z1000. When we talking about only the big bike stunting.

Anybody has got another information?

SmurfKilla

Damn thats a serious sprocket on that dirtbike !! Is that Doug Domokus ??

DSOG Thomas

definately the starboyz... come on!

238mph

A Z1000 was a four cylinder not a 6.... and in 1974 there were a bunch
of us in North Carolina that did 12 o'clocks and mile long wheelies... I'm not
saying we were the first... I just know that in 1974 we were doing them...
I was in college, and we did shows in the parking lots clear back then.

However we never did all the stunts they do today, like high chairs, etc...
Just wheelies... oh, and we all rode Kawasaki Z-1s (900 cc) which came out
years before the Z1000

bruno_z

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that's one OG up here...how old are you?

238mph

I'm 51 and still riding like I did as a kid... can't seem to give it up...

I'm only good on long wheelies... can't do any of the new cool stuff....
circles... God I wish I could do circles...

I ride a Kawasaki ZX12-R... mile long wheelies no problem.

SmurfKilla

Damn 1974 ??? That is some serious OG time...Now go buy a f4i and rock some circles....

238mph

You'd think that after doing wheelies for 30 years I could do a damn circle!!!

I'm too afraid of dropping the 12... big $$$ to fix... guess I need a 600
that I can toss around... hahahaha maybe a 250...

SmurfKilla

Hahaha, 30 years of stunts is some serious seat time...
It would almost be worth getting yourself a 600 and givin it a try....

SK

SmurfKilla

Hahaha, 30 years of stunts is some serious seat time...
It would almost be worth getting yourself a 600 and givin it a try....

SK

DSOG Thomas

yeah i agree

Becman

Yeah, there is the score. The 6 cilindered one was the Z 1300. Excuse me for the mistake! But you definitely heard about Domokus.
Have you got some fotos or footages in the early times?
How knows who was the stuntrider in the first Mad-max movie, who did burnouts and making wheelies in the scene? I think it was Domokus too.

Becman

It is interesting that you never tried the circle. But as I see for being first is the most difficult thing. When I can suggest you, try to do it on a small dirtbike, like DT 125. To push the bike in a circle it is a serious body work in the first steps. In your age it is easy to hurt. Farias has got a lot of difficulties too with his back, caused by heavy bikes. He prefers riding small bikes riding for fun.
The young riders learning circles in some weeks/days because they pushed to do, cause everybody does it. When I started learning circles in 2002, no one did it in our country. I needed 3 years for learning, but I doesn't do it perfect till today.

238mph

That was my point... if you do someting over and over for 30 years, you
get real good at that... but if you don't try to learn NEW things,
you never really grow in that area... I sort of went off more on drag racing
and other areas... not stunting...

Now I'm fabricating a 12 o'clock bar for the ZX12-R... with a rear brake
built right into the bar.

When I fall, and even get just get a little roadrash, it takes longer to heal
up... I'd give anything to be 18 again...

I have a pic somewhere of riding my Honda CBX down the interstate on
the back wheel... that was the first bike I could wheelie for miles on end...
I bought it new in 1979... and sold it 1980 to buy an ultralight aircraft.
By the way a CBX WAS a 6 cylinder... air cooled.

238mph

This picture is real old and worn, so when it was scanned and enlarged it
didn't come out good... but in the pic you can see the 3 pipes on the
one side of the front tire... and three are on the other side.

Taken somewhere in '79 or '80.... geez you guys make me feel old!!!

Becman

That's really nice to see. And did you make stunt shows in that early time?
Or that was only your hobby?

238mph

Oh we did "shows" whenever enough hot chicks were around... but nothing
organized... that just didn't exist back then... and I was a full time college
student...

Those were great times back then... it was fun to run from cops, not a
felony like it is now...

None of them had copters... and radios didn't link to other units etc... not
like all this high tech stuff.

One time the North Carolina Highway Patrol got this new "pursuit" car... and
decided to chase three of us... long story short, he burned up the motor
trying to keep up. He rolled to a stop and got out... We stopped to make
sure he was ok... and once he waved, we saluted him and took off.

We had RESPECT for cops, even though we didn't like them... and if we
ever saw one broke down or whatever, we stopped to help.

Becman

Yeah it was the golden age. In Hungary in my country they chase me some times. But with most of the droids (cop) I am in good relation. Some cops coming to my training area and watching my stunts. Last time I tried the "pursuit" bike a 92' XJ 600. You can imagine how fast this bike is with 250 kilos. I made some short wheelies but they ask me the bike back shortly.

I am not wearing a numberplate when I go to practise, only when I go to city to manage anything. Here they have no choppers, only cars and old bikes.

When it is fancy for you come and live in Hungary.

-Ludo

thats ound so cool back then, i'd love to know what it was like.
wish it was like that with the cops now.
over here we have un marked cop cars that sneak up on you with on bord video camara's, but we ride with no plates as well. thanks for that trip back in time, its like the cannonball run all over agein

blastmaster

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