01gsxstunter

anyone ever heard of doing 2nd gear wheelies on a katana? any suggestions besides a new bike?

FHL

You own the ugliest bike in production.

Lb3

FHL.. you suck at life.

mistaholiday

yea yea we know its ugly but he already knows ..this doode asked a question
about 2nd gear wee wees youl havata gear up in the rear cuz damn doode um...just ride to around 30ish im guessin for a katana hold in clutch raise rpms and dumpit goin round 30ish but if yer really gonna stunt a katanas a bad idea that bike is very heavy and will hurt more from endos
but if yer not gonna sell it shyet id still stunt that bitch round go down a tooth in the front and gear up like 5teeth in the back im guessing

Ruff

What do you mean "hurt more from endos"?

FHL

He means the Katana weighs almost as much as your mother.

Ruff

Ooohhhhh.....



And who the **** told you how much my mother weighed!?!?! Aside from the fact that we call her "Goldwing".

FHL

No one told me I was just joking.

Ruff

Heh! Me too,, dawg... Its all love on here. I can't stand my moms.


But if you talk bad about granny... well them thar be some fightin words.


My boy has an 01 Katana and he wants to stunt so bad it hurts. I don't know what to tell him aside from the usual "Trade it in or shoot it and get another bike." That's not an option... so I'm thinking that gearing the hell out of it is his only option... but what happens after that... No one is making a cage for a Kan-o-tuna... And what happens when he 12's it.... Damn thing just seems way to front end heavy to be stable up there. Oh well... should have done some research before he bought it.

01gsxstunter

too late, i already have 52tooth sproket in rear and down 2 in front. i can idle the bike up and ride slow wheelies, but i was wanting to know how to ride stable in second gear.

01gsxstunter

thanks for the complement, i will slow 12 circles around you!

MikeM

I get my 750 up in second by rolling at exactly(indicated lol) 30 mph, rev it up to 12, start bouncing and clutch on the second bounce. Since you have a 600 I would try that at 25 mph instead of 30.

Also a trick that not many katana stunters know is to take off the seat and put your left foot on the tail light bracket. This gets your weight higher up and farther back so its easier to wheelie on a fat oil pump. You will be able to get it up in second easily that way, maybe even third, but you should learn that in first gear first unless you're already used to foot in the bar wheelies.

headache

I went 1 down and 10 up on my Katana, it came up easy in 2nd at 30 mph clutching it sitting down. I also made some long frame sliders and drilled holes in the frame up close to the valve cover and attached them there, they saved the stator cover in my 50mph crash i had last week. :YEAH

01gsxstunter

whats your top speed since you changed the sprokets like that?

FHL

It accelerates like a civic with VTEC and has the top speed of a Geo Metro.

Hope I helped!

ags

yeah im with him...ive got a gs500 and i like all technical riding.....im waiting for my -2 +10 sprockets to come in the mail....hopefully i can work with it....if not...start saving money for something else. I just thought i would work with what i have first before dropping too much money. I can buy 3 gs's for the price of one '01 cbr oh yeah i think its only going to be able to go about 85 from what others have said :YEAH

Evel Knievel

it's a heavy bike but so what you want to have fun it will wheelie if you lean back far enough on the seat. I rode a katana for many years the old school GS and i could wheel it no problem. Once you are up find the balance point quicker or your are going over. It's not as short as most sportbikes so it takes some getting use to. But you can wheelie just about anything if you try hard enough and lean back. Peace bro and good luck!

:YEAH

Wheeliest

yeah i gear'd my 89 ninja zx6 +7 in the rear and it comes up in secound (power) at 4k rpms (30mph) wildly and its almost as ugly n heavy as a katana i top out at 125mph at 11.5k rpm. i'ma be postin a video of me wheelin the pos real soon n u guys are gonna be rollin... see'n this green beast on BP or i'll prolly loop out or somthing we'll see

iwannagixxer

vtec's are slow. si's are faster.


also, the katana isnt the ugliest. the interceptor is.


and like everyone else said, gear that *****!

Evel Knievel

I would agree the interceptor is the AMC pacer of motorcycles but i have owned some **** bikes myself 1983 FT 500 ascot hunk of **** it welded a part on the clutch side to another part and locked up. Doing wheelies of course

But the intercepter is the winner along with the old school yamaha SECA 550 and the 650 turbo crap!