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Old 07-09-2010, 11:18 AM   #4
Chris Hill
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Default Re: What would you do in a bumper scraping wheelstand?

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Originally Posted by Travis Miller View Post
A few years ago a local S/S racer here in Louisville broke his wheelie bars and started to climb way too high. Realizing something was wrong he put his shifter into high gear, skipping second gear. Still under power the car settled down smoothly after the transmission shifted into high gear. All that was damaged was the broken wheelie bars.
I've done this exact same thing too and it works. We did this before wheelie bars were legal. The wheelstand was a gradual up,up, up, not all at once.
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