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Now, technically a handbrake turn shouldn't work like this on a vehicle that doesn't have wheels, but don't argue with the Rule of Cool. Especially when you're in a setting that takes contemporary things and just dresses them up in a science fantasy veneer.
Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)
Looks like the other speeder gets to be removed first, then. And in a way unique to ground vehicles as well! I guess that's the real reason these weren't hoverbikes then. It'd be really hard to have a grapple get wrapped around an axle if there's no axle in the first place.
And hopefully the grappling hook exploded too! Pulling around a burning treadspeeder sounds like a problem. Of course, there's only the two jet troopers now, so maybe that's the next part of this scene: dealing with towed burning wreckage. It shouldn't be much of a problem on its own though since it's just rope; maybe Finn's got the rope wrapped around a foot or something so getting rid of the rope is the real challenge.
I don't think the players have beaten the "flaming wreckage per metre" record though. There'd need to be a lot more vehicles around for that to happen.
Transcript
Finn: What’s on our vehicle?
GM: Flags. Nets. A rope with grappling hook.
C-3PO: The nets maybe?
Finn: Too fiddly. I toss the hook. Aiming in front of the other speeder.
GM: Sure. Make a Throwing roll.
Finn: 10.
[SFX]: grunkgrunkgrunk... {the treadspeeder in pursuit}
[SFX]: thunk {the grappling hook hits the sand in front of it}
GM: Okay... it hits the ground ahead of the speeder.
Finn: The rope should catch in the tread and start spooling up.
[SFX]: grunkgrunkgrunk...
[SFX]: whip whip whip {the rope wraps around the treadspeeder’s tread}
Finn: Poe! Release the throttle, steer hard left, slam the handbrake, and release it!
GM: Jim, make a... Driving roll?
Poe: 19!
[SFX]: kthunk! {Poe slams the rudder of the speeder hard left}
Finn: Textbook handbrake turn! The rope should slingshot the speeder into the canyon wall.
[SFX]: wubwubwreoooww! {the speeder spins sharply left}
GM: ... I’m not gonna argue with that.
[SFX]: grunkgrunkgrunk...
[SFX]: twang! {the rope pulls taught and flings the treadspeeder sideways}
[SFX]: Krash!!
[SFX]: Kaboom!! {the treadspeeder slams into rocks and explodes}
Finn: Whooo!
Finn: Just like Thunder Road back home!
C-3PO: I genuinely don’t know whether to high-five you or turn you in.