**** on a girl before doin' her...Tenny...where do you come up with sweet shiat like that??? CATWALK is a term from early days for bicycle stuntin'. From the side, because you are pedlling, you know...one foot up, one foot down, it looks like a cat walking on his hind legs trying to shake off the hemeroids. Wow, I just realised how old I'm getting

 

I'm 33 and spent my earily (pre-licence) years on a BMX bikes, grew up in New York, an hour from the city.
Rode a Mongoose at a local track on the BMX course, always for fun on practice days, never in competition. The time spent off the jumps was often on one wheel, front or rear but mostly rear.
Never, and I mean NEVER had I heard the term catwalk until I was about 28-29.
Weird...

 

Funny, when I lived in Modesto California I was about 4 years old and we referred to wheelies as just bringing the wheel up, and catwalks as pedaling the wheelie to hold it up.


It actually makes sense because then you can decypher just popping the wheel up and actually holding it there for a period of time.

 

That don't count. N.Y. and tri-state are too cool to user gay-*** tacky phrases. Oh..wait a minute...wasn't the term "catwalk" first used in the village?

 

I feel real out of place cause I dont know what the *** anyones talking about so I'm gonna leave this thread alone

 

well... ive lived in ny all my life and ive never heard "catwalk".... must be a canadian thing

 

Ive heard it called a catwalk before. But the kid who said it, his mom was canadian. Thats gotta be it.

 

I've been familiar with the term catwalk since the early 70's, if you could do a catwalk you where real cool back then, to us a catwalk is when someone can wheelie a motorcycle between 10 'oclock and 12 'o clock and ride it for city blocks at a time.

Here's another older stunt term > ' bunny hop' < a bunny hop is what you younger guys now call a stoppie...man how times have changed,
now where's my TZ750....

 

Bunny hop??? I hought that was when you get both wheels in the air at the same time??? Do you actually own a TZ750? 99% of riders nowadays wouldn't even know what that was

 

Na I don't own a TZ 750, I wish, they where really something in their day,
a mechanic I knew years back used to own one, I mentioned TZ750 because this mechanic who had one was nic named Cat because he could Catwalk a bike for long distances, the TZ 750 back then was doing an honest 180mph on the back straights wicked bike from the Kenny Roberts days.....

 

yep..the only bone stock bike ever to win a major motorcycle race, and by a privoteer. Man, I wish I had one!!!

 

you learn something new every day

 

fabes... what's up dawg??? Got a quastion for ya. You're the highway tail scrapin' kind'a'guy, what gear do you lift off for a highchair on a freeway, and how fast do you keep it at.

 

highchairs on the highway, second gear, 1 down 10 up gearing on a 929....

i pick it up about 40mph, run high rpms so you have engine brake.....

 

daaaammmmmnnnn...how's the landing at 100+mph in a highchair!!! I thought 80 or so was it??? What do I need to watch for before I find out for myself ?