which do you think is harder on a bike?

[Church6360]

So, which of these non street activities do you think is harder on a bike in general?
Granted each activity has certain types of damage that it is more likely to cause to the bike, but in general what do you think?

[pantablo]

I'd GUESS stunting. lots of high revs at a standstill...either one is hard on the bike though.

[Church6360]

yeah, it's kind of a toss up. especially since nothing happens instantly,  how much is one unit of stunting versus one unit of track time? you could count by the min i guess, but i don't feel that captures the true nature of things. and which is worse for breaks? pulling a bike down from straightaway speeds to enter a hair pin turn? or pulling a stoppie?
i dunno, i don't do either. i was just curious to see how people felt.

[The Buddha]

OK assuming you dont crash ... or discounting that ... stunting ... by far ... racing is actually not hard on a motor, you start it and warm it up for immensely long times and then get on it, and never lug it and in fact usually never over rev it either ... not bad at all ... and they use 0 weight too ...
Stunting OTOH ... wheelies can suck up air in the oil pump, stoppies as well, and the overall mix and everything can get messed up due to the fact that gravity is not helping you the way it was designed ... one set of cams is awash in oil and the other barely got any ... just bad situation ...
Cool.
Srinath.

[RVertigo]

Oil where it shouldn't be...  Dropping back on shocks...  Quick, High revs...  Lugging...

And... CRASHING.

Stunting has to be worse for a bike.

[Alphamazing]

Hmm. I interpreted the question as which requires more skill, which is harder to do on a bike. I chose racinge.

No doubt that stunting tears your bike up more, though. Racing requires more skill though.

I should have read the first post.

[Church6360]

hmmm... i had thought about the oil and other fluids going where they should not, but i didn't think about suspension being abused when landing from wheelies/ stoppies.

Crashing? both involve that.

skill was somthing i hwasn't thinking about, and i would argue that to do either well (racing, valentino rossi. stunting, christian phfier.) take alot of skill.

and i guess it really depends on how much and of what kind of racing/ stunting you do.

EDIT: i wish i had the time and resources to do a scientific study on this. could be interesting.

[Jake D]

Yeah, those motors like to get oil.  Stunting, for sure.  And that's really the only reason I don't still do a ton of stunts!

Hmm. I interpreted the question as which requires more skill, which is harder to do on a bike. I chose racinge.

No doubt that stunting tears your bike up more, though. Racing requires more skill though.

I should have read the first post.

Dolt!!