Topic: Burnouts

[Phxmark123]

How the hell do you hold the front brake and twist the throttle at the same time to do a burnout?

[my78k]

Well on my CBR it is super easy...of course it is dual caliper etc so requires far less grab. On the CB750 the one time I did it I cheated and put my front wheel against my buddy's garage door...it was ok though I was getting him back for leaving 2 long patches in MY driveway from his pickup one drunken evening! I found the CB just didn't have the grab I needed and tended to roll a bit.

Dennis

[heffay]

whats up squidly? 

two fingers on each... i'll give you one guess where your thumb goes.

[my78k]

now now Heff....sorta sounds like you may have some experience in this field?!?!?! 

Dennis

[Raul CB750K1]

Recently I had to change my worn GZ250 rear tire, so I thought it was a great time to do a burnout. My garage door is smooth -very easy to lock the rear wheel while braking- so I thought that it was a good place to do a burnout.

Pulled the clutch, revved the bike with the brake pulled and released the clutch. The wheel did a slight burnout but kept going forward. I put the front wheel against the wall and tried again. Now it did slid a little, but I was concerned about why was I abusing the clutch.

Even when the rear wheel was going to be replaced, I couldn't help but wonder what was that funny in doing burnouts.

[heffay]

agreed raul... it does have a bit of cool factor... but as soon as it gets excessive, it starts to bother me. 

i'm serious every time i rant about the environment at any burnout contest... burning rubber, noxious fumes, particulates, heat. 

donate the tire to a commercial roofing company... at least there is a purpose.




sorry, i'll just leave the soapbox over there for someone else.    >

[Phxmark123]

I dont plan on doing it, I would rather wear out my tires on the road sightseeing. Don't make much sense to me....wow, cool...smoke... I just couldn't figure it out.

[Raul CB750K1]

The particulates ist not my bigger concern. If you burn a tyre doing a burnout there is no difference with wearing it in the course of many miles. Only that all the particulates are thrown together at the same time in the same place.

If the "cool factor" is what you are looking for, I vote for wheelies. At least it takes some skill from the rider. For the burnout, you only need a powerful engine and a powerful brake.

Before considering burnouts, just search in youtube. There are hundreds of burnouts went wrong.


When I had to replace my car's tyres, I also thought about doing some slides. Went to an empty parking lot, accelerated, turned and pulled the hand brake. The thing didn't want to skill. Tried harder but nothing. It was pointless to ruin the hand brake or the clutch for that, so I gave up.


I wonder how can anybody do burnouts or wheel skidding with a vehicle they love. Obviously, I could have tried harder both times, but the reward didn't seem to me worth the risk.


Nevertheless, lend me your car or bike and rest assured I will make some smoke..... 

[fuzzybutt]

i've tried many times to do a burnout with my 750, i grab front brake, rev it and dump the clutch and the front tire immediately pops up off the ground and the bike drags my ass up the street till i can get it under control.

[754]

A few things that help,

Strong clutch

Hopped up engine

Longer swingarm

you have to want to rev the crap out of it and abuse it.. but if you have it broke loose with enough torque to keep it going it is less hard on it, you can keep the revs down..

[scunny]

I could do it on my 500

[754]

Dude is that a tire ? or an O-ring..??













running...... ... are those boots your final answer..

[scunny]

that wheel is just spinning to fast for you 
check out my platform shoes, haha so cool(it was the 70s)

[mystic_1]

i've tried many times to do a burnout with my 750, i grab front brake, rev it and dump the clutch and the front tire immediately pops up off the ground and the bike drags my ass up the street till i can get it under control.

Are you sitting on the bike when you do this?  Stand up and get your weight off the seat if you can.

mystic_1

[eengler2]

First, don't "pop" the clutch. While holding the brake, start letting out the clutch while feeding it throttle. Now, bounce on the seat a little to unload the rear. The rear will start to spin. Finally, let out the clutch and give it as much throttle as you want

[martino1972]

but be carefull,if the rear tire decides to hook up,your making a back flip

[mrbreeze]

My old Kawi Zbike would do wheelies or burn outs at the drop of a hat but you really have to work at it on the 750 Honda.Mine is not a pumped motor...could use a clutch upgrade and I also don't think the weight distribution from the factory was in favor of letting the rear tire cut loose compared to other bikes. Some will argue....I'm just stating the facts on mine.

[texaninseattle]

I could do it on my 500

nice water puddle under the tire LMAO

[peten]

using bleach would make more smoke; would also be more noxious. just my .02

[troppo]

using bleach would make more smoke; would also be more noxious. just my .02

photocopier ink makes great smoke too, just make sure you dont have any expensive cars anywhere behind you when you dump that clutch

[Terry in Australia]

I nearly got fired from my first job after retiring from the Army when a burnout on my Suzuki GS1000S in the office carpark turned into a wheelie and I nearly plowed into the managing directors shiny new Mercedes.

Luckily he'd been a bit of a "boy" in his younger days and laughed it off, but the operations manager wasn't impressed. Oh well, the sales manager and the office girls thought it was hilarious, ha ha! Cheers, Terry.  

[QuikSilver]

not too hard. i could do it on my 350f when it was bone stock.

pull in clutch
put in 1st
put your feet down and stand on them, taking your weight off the seat of the bike.
pull in the front brake
lean forward and put your weight down on your hands on the handlebars
slowly roll the throttle while letting off the clutch and feel it out.

she'll go

[mrbreeze]

not too hard. i could do it on my 350f when it was bone stock.

pull in clutch
put in 1st
put your feet down and stand on them, taking your weight off the seat of the bike.
pull in the front brake
lean forward and put your weight down on your hands on the handlebars
slowly roll the throttle while letting off the clutch and feel it out.

she'll go

Thats what I mean...too much work!!! The Z bike would do a rolling burn-out with no problem!!!

[Shenanigans]

Rain and a super worn rear tire will make any bike seem like it has the power to do rolling burnouts. 

[my78k]

When I crack the throttle on the CBR while pulling away and am not putting ALL my weight on the back tire it will smoke pretty good with no brake whatsoever. I was riding the other day with a buddy who just got his license and a Volusia 800 and he thought his bike was fast (first one for him) and he thought that since he had an 800 my 600 was puny and couldn't keep up. Well I pulled away at the light and (purposely) spun the back wheel right through the intersection and still blew him away. The next light I did a controlled launch and I could barely see him in my mirrors after just a few seconds.

Dennis