Originally Posted by
livedarklions
The more I think about this unweight the back wheel stuff, the less sense it makes. Taken to its extreme, putting the rear wheel in the air puts the frame and rider in the air with a lot of god only knows what lateral momentum while all of the weight is on the fork and front wheel. That sounds like the bike could actually jack knife like a semi.
GCN or probably GMBN did a few segments on endo where they forced their bikes to endo with hilarious results.
It's real. The lateral momentum is also real. In fact, you can get catapulted up and laterally at the same time.