Crazy Poles

[Hank]

This video had me laughing out loud.   Holy crap are they tough on equipment.   Kinda long but entertaining.

[greatbuffalo]

I found these idiots last year. One of them has a video where they're playing a bit of "I bet you can't". They were taking on impossible hill climbs and throwing their bikes away.

I was waiting for on of them to chuck their bike over that quarry drop.

I also like the way they edit out faces cause you know what they are doing and the places they go are illegal.

[Hank]

Idiots is definitely an apt description.    I watched a couple more of their videos and they were all the same, pretty funny but they make you cringe.

[Fletch]

I've ridden with people like that...

[Lonesome Dave]

I think you are people like that! 

[Fletch]

I think you are people like that! 

You may be right, but don't tell everyone

[greatbuffalo]

Just saw the thread title. I don't think they are Russian. I think they are Polish or Czech.

[Bogus Jim]

I wonder, do these guys really need a throttle cable. They could just safety wire the carb slide in the wide open position.

[Hank]

Yup, they are Polish

[Hank]

I wonder, do these guys really need a throttle cable. They could just safety wire the carb slide in the wide open position.

No kidding.    "How to kill a four stroke in 20 hours or less".   BRAAAPP B B B B B B B BBBB  B   as it bounces off the rev limiter.

[greatbuffalo]

They do keep it on the limiter

[Fletch]

had a similar discussion with a sportbike guy the other night. are today's engines just that good or what?? seems you can run them on the limiter forever and they don't really ever break?

[Hank]

I think it depends on the brand / model.   Titanium 5 valve Yamahas, not so much, especially if they have a few miles on the valves.   This is my brother in law's 426 after a brief but fateful encounter with the limiter.





We decided not to fix it

[Fletch]

ouch...  seems like the sportbikes are almost indestructible? unless you wheelie them a long ways, I saw a few examples of rods stuck to cranks from that.

[Hank]

Yeah you almost never hear of sportbikes "blowing up", you're right.   Even with nitrous and turbos and all the other shit people do to them.   Its probably because there is no place in the known universe you can keep them pegged for more than about 12 seconds, unlike our Polish heroes and their thumpers, who seem to manage it for minutes at a time, multiple times an hour lol.

I know the local Suzuki shop has seen its share of cases of wheelie induced oil starvation in sportbikes though..   What were they thinking putting the oil pickup in the center of the engine case, it needs to be in the back corner!