I just don't get it

Many have have seen this video before...but I only just came across it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzh0rtyCfFU

Really, what are these people thinking. I can understand one idiot....but what about the 100 or so watching and cheering this bloke on? Whant could possibly be going through their brains (assuming that they have one)....although it would be questionable.

I just simply don't get it....mabe I am the oddone out.

 

That one almost made me cry.

 

Oh. the inhumanity!

 

Spent a few hours fixing a mixture screw on that bike...another genius rider can be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGNzI0wlK1E

 

The best part was when the bike spit hot oil on the guy's leg. It was like the bike was saying F you before it died.

 

LOL!!!

 

What a pity XJ motors are so tough, I would have loved to see it throw a piston up has a##

Double stupid to spray water on burning gasoline too

 

Why? Guess he's just too cool.

 

I didn't know these xj bikes equipped with self defense flame thrower option

 

My guess is it only died because it overheated. Put a box fan on it and it would probably still be running.
Now I'm not so worried about redlining mine!

 

Good point.

 

simply pointless, what a waste.

CN

 

what a genius! I would have beat his ass for running his bike into my truck!

CN

 

It's a shame the tank didn't catch fire and explode thus freeing the world of two morons. As far as the crowd ... IQs lower with the size of the group. Shame on Lock Tight.

 

I feel sick to my stomach after watching that.

 

Just sick

 

Well, I feel encouraged.

that took 5 mins of redline.

 

lets all get together and say it at the same time. Ready ? JACKASS

 

It is pretty obvius that these guys don't think about bikes the way we do.

For them, it is only a machine, and a machine doesn't have any feeling so it can't be abused, litterally, it can be used for any kind of self gratification.

For us, it is a totally different story!

 

Any which way you look at it, it costs money tp buy/mantain a bike....irrespective of its age. It is a mentality issue and what is frightening is that it is bad enough to have a couple of jackass....but a whole crowd????

 

Don't you know that a crowd is as stupid as its most stupid individual ?

 

The unedited time coulda been 15 minutes - anybody know ??

And to think we run a box fan while tuning, at idle !!

 

Based on the color scheme i don't think that bike had a happy life.

 

Uhhmm really. This is the kind of person that can blow up a beautiful machine to make their insecure ego feel better.

They should waste their money on a Harley.

Someone pls explain this kind of thing and straight pipes too me.

I live where there is a bike rally every year and my wife gets me in to several fights each year with people that trailer their bikes in every year. I am a late 80's modelk BMW fan for touring and bought an xj for my wife.

I have been stomping the hell out of street bikes on the maxim I am restoring for my wife and loving how Yamaha made the 85 700 maxim quiet and powerful.

Really please let me know what makes you rev an aircooled engine rill it blows and waste the time and money it costs for a bike this old.

 

I doubt that those involved...biker and crowd combined would have the interlect to read,understand and comprehend let alone response to any of the comments made here.

 

He lit a cigarette when he started.

At 2:59 when he starts the burnout he doesn't have the cigarette anymore.

As a smoker, I know that it takes roughly 6 minutes to smoke a cigarette.

So we know at least some creative editing was done.

Also, they probably didn't check the valve clearances before they started, it looks like they burn a valve about 2 minutes in.

 

^ This... And Ron's exploding fuel tank comment, pretty much sum up my feelings on the matter. Shameful behaviour & sadly the kind of thing that gets noticed by "outsiders" and forms their mental image of what bikers are like, when really what they're seeing is what retards with motorbikes are like.

I'm surprised there were so many people watching & cheering too, I mean I love a good burnout to finish off a dead rear tyre & no doubt a lot of people do, but that's just pointless vandalism not to mention a waste of a good bike (even if it was a breaker).

I'm not one to wish any living thing any ills usually but it's really quite sad that the idiot on the throttle didn't get some serious injuries for his efforts, perhaps castration by a flying chunk of con rod.... Would have been sort of like Darwinism at work had he been "selected against" in that way [/rant]

 

His hat is on backwards.
And it most likely is the headgear that he wears when he is actually riding on 2 wheels - 'nuff said. :?

 

This is at a bike rally, do you see the patches on their backs. They do it at alot of Harley only rallies. It seems pretty obvious that they dont like Jap bikes. Ah eyes wide open.

 

It's the crank...

 

That made me sick.

Coming from someone who owns a Harley, I'm pretty sure the reason these asses destroyed this perfectly good bike is because not one of their Harleys could keep up with it.

And so they got angry, and killed it.



RIP 700 Seca.

 

really

 

I'll be the first one to say that there's nothing really like a Harley. There's a personality there that no other bike really has.

At the same time though, while I've ridden some really, really fast Harleys, they're only MAYBE as quick as an entry level sportbike. And that's a Harley that's had tons & tons of work done.

 

Oh, ok

 

Actually, that's kinda true. It's called Deindividuation, and we see it all the time in large groups (sporting events, street mobs, etc). Essentially, when you are anonymous in a crowd, you'll behave like everyone else in the crowd. All it takes is one to act like a moron and the rest follow suit even if it's something they wouldn't normally do.

Did a thesis on it. It's surprisingly common.

 

Never follow your leaders blindly.

 

i have seen a couple videos of people doing this to yamaha maxims or secas and they all last at least 5 mins at full throttle. that is pretty good. actually every one i have seen would have kept running if the hoses wouldnt have melted and wires and things like that. they have all just caught fire then they stopped running them. the engines themselves didnt actually blow up just the stuff on the outside that couldnt take the extreme heat. so these bikes are far better than what u see in this video. if u would put a fan in front of them who knows how long you could abuse them. no harley or any v-twin for that matter would take that abuse.