Tomac Riding Wheelies

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Bultaco 3/8/2015 7:33am
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Herein illustrates the difference between the chosen few and the rest of us mere mortals. As oshow said, Tomacs manual of those rollers was "badass".
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JW381 3/8/2015 8:49am
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I was truly speechless! Yet screaming!
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The Colorado Kid!!!

That was a thing of beauty

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chrisbuehler 3/8/2015 9:23am
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X2. There was a scene in TGO Industrial Strength where James goes WFO through deep ass whoops. Much deeper than what Eli was hitting but it made me think of that
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IceMan446 3/8/2015 9:26am
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chrisbuehler wrote:
X2. There was a scene in TGO Industrial Strength where James goes WFO through deep ass whoops. Much deeper than what Eli was hitting but it...
X2. There was a scene in TGO Industrial Strength where James goes WFO through deep ass whoops. Much deeper than what Eli was hitting but it made me think of that
I remember that.

James is one of the chosen few.
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IWreckALot 3/8/2015 10:46am
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The question is, was Tomac gaining time on RD by doing that? And how much time if so? One little kicker or rock or inconsistency in a face for that to get sideways real quick. Although, it DIDN'T happen.

Respect for the talent though. It looked like he got past 12:00 on that one pass through it. I know I would have been waiting on the medical unit if I were to attempt anything like that.
cowboysfromhell 3/8/2015 11:58am
3/8/2015 11:58am
I remember one year Pastrana did something similar, and he turned his head and looked over at the camera man
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If you watched the Slo-Mo looking at the right side of the bike, you can see his foot working the rear brake. I could not take my eyes off his foot to see anything else the first three times I watched the DVR playback.

Mad Skills.

Me, I be hanging off the bars Superman style wondering how much is it going to hurt and how much is going to cost me.
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axo1961 3/8/2015 2:40pm
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Was there and it was ridiculous the speed he was doing that...lap after lap.
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mark_swart 3/9/2015 1:24am
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yzjs7 wrote:
Definitely the highlight of the race for me. He almost had the bike straight up.
I thought the same thing! And I assumed it was an accident the first time I noticed, but then he kept doing it and it was obviously fast and worked for him. Totally mindblowing in slow motion.
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mehow2g 3/9/2015 1:39am
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Not saying Tomac is the next JS but he certainly is the only rider ive seen who reminds me of him, wouldnt surprise me if Tomac is a big JS fan.
neverwasfastenuf 3/9/2015 2:08am
3/9/2015 2:08am
He made it look easy. Tomac has the skills and just needs to put it all together on a regular basis.
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FIREfish148 3/9/2015 4:23am
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Love it when I'm watching the race and something like that happens. How bubba-esque was that!?
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IWreckALot 3/9/2015 4:32am
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neverwasfastenuf wrote:
He made it look easy. Tomac has the skills and just needs to put it all together on a regular basis.
I really hope next season is his season to get the consistency down. He's learning a lot this year.

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Sandwarrior752 3/9/2015 4:37am
3/9/2015 4:37am
That was so beautifull. Tomac is unreal how he pulls that off. During the Lille sx there was this 'whoops dragonback double' type of thing and we where sitting right in front of it and he did it there also. Wheelying the whole thing without his front wheel ever touching a whoop. This guy is so talented !
Harry Backmon 3/9/2015 5:13am
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IWreckALot wrote:
The question is, was Tomac gaining time on RD by doing that? And how much time if so? One little kicker or rock or inconsistency in...
The question is, was Tomac gaining time on RD by doing that? And how much time if so? One little kicker or rock or inconsistency in a face for that to get sideways real quick. Although, it DIDN'T happen.

Respect for the talent though. It looked like he got past 12:00 on that one pass through it. I know I would have been waiting on the medical unit if I were to attempt anything like that.
That straight was right in front of our seats. He was definitely making time on RD5. I believe he would have caught him with a couple more laps, but the race is 20 laps for a reason.

I was very impressed by RD5 and Marvin Musquin. Both looked smooth and in control. Marvin was especially fast and smooth.

Weston was hitting the whoops so fast that everyone else looked slow after he did them. And that straight Tomac was wheelying down, Peick was going so fast that the little step up just before the triple was throwing him onto the race of the jump. When I first saw him do it I thought for sure he was going down, but he made it one smooth motion. Very cool.
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BD233 3/9/2015 8:12am
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Tomac will be a beast outdoors this year. He's got that 450 down now. He probably has more raw speed than anyone out there.
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Camp332 3/9/2015 8:16am
3/9/2015 8:16am
I had one of those uncontrollable giggle moments when I saw that sickness. Eli Bromac kills shit Bro!
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Micahdogg 3/9/2015 8:19am
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I woke my wife up to show her those mad skills and she also didn't seem to care. Smile
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Micahdogg wrote:
I woke my wife up to show her those mad skills and she also didn't seem to care. Smile
I was going to email it to some of my non-moto friends, but then I thought to myself - are they really my friends?

TriRacer27 3/9/2015 8:43am
3/9/2015 8:43am
Agree. That was so cool to watch.

And who cares if it was faster or slower, it's just flat out cool. i don't blame him for doing it even if it was slower. I did that once on accident and after making it out the other side and saw I was still in 1 piece I had to laugh out loud at how fun it was, even though it scared me shitless. (And I was probably not even going half the speed he was).

It's gotta just feel GOOD to do that, know what I mean. To go that fast into a whoop section and just slap it into submission like that.
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G-man 3/9/2015 9:13am
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Awesome display of throttle control.
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Reminded me of Travis that one year.
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WhipMeister 3/9/2015 9:14am
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RF145 wrote:
If you watched the Slo-Mo looking at the right side of the bike, you can see his foot working the rear brake. I could not take...
If you watched the Slo-Mo looking at the right side of the bike, you can see his foot working the rear brake. I could not take my eyes off his foot to see anything else the first three times I watched the DVR playback.

Mad Skills.

Me, I be hanging off the bars Superman style wondering how much is it going to hurt and how much is going to cost me.
Yep. Me, too. I immediately looked there to see if he was going to have to tap.

Must've been doing some training in Baltimore or Atlanta. Shocked
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Skuzzy29 3/9/2015 9:22am
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willie838 3/9/2015 10:10am
3/9/2015 10:10am
he'll be a title threat as soon as he smooths out. super fast but not at putting entire races together mistake free.

him and tc41 definitely appear to be charging hardest whenever they end up on camera.

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