re shaft drives and wheelies in article wrs wslack uucp wrs wslack uucp bill slack writes various posts about shafties can t do wheelies no mike it is imposible due to the shaft effect the centripital effects of the rotating shaft counteract any tendency for the front wheel to lift off the ground good point john a buddy of mine told me that same thing when i had my bmw r gs i dumped the clutch at rpm hey ito nly revved to or so and you know what he was right uh folks the shaft doesn t have diddleysquatpoop to do with it i can get the front wheel off the ground on my ferchrissake you may have been able to bounce the front up but not actually do a wheelie see the shaft effect unloads the rear susspension and effectivly loads the front this is why a shaft bike should accelerate if it starts scraping in a corner laz
