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Phat_Albert posted:This describes me, and I'm guessing many of us to an absolute T: http://www.vimeo.com/20789680 That's a great video and makes me want to go wrench on something.
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mutt2jeff posted:I didnt damage it, if that what you are saying. If they really want to get bent out of shape about it, next time it would be a good idea from the to build it somewhere other than a motorcycle trial system and ORV park. I am not playing on their turf, they are in mine. You're fine man, doubtful he even watching the video, and even so you were smooth thru that little part. I haven't done much MTB lately but they ought be worried about pedestrians more than you as I remember. I liked the video, it's awesome that anyone is able to put out decent 720 shots like that.
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Thanks, I really like the camera, and the chest mount makes it even better. I am thinking of dropping it down to 480p so I can get 60fps though, its a little stuttery in spots. I should have bought the HD instead of the 960 so I could have my cake and eat it too.
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mutt2jeff posted:Thanks, I really like the camera, and the chest mount makes it even better. Oh, it was a chest mount. I was trying to work out where it was mounted.
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Mar 21, 2011 08:51
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mutt2jeff posted:Thanks, I really like the camera, and the chest mount makes it even better. I am thinking of dropping it down to 480p so I can get 60fps though, its a little stuttery in spots. I should have bought the HD instead of the 960 so I could have my cake and eat it too. Yeah I don't really see why people bother with the 960. I mean, I get that it's substantially cheaper but it's missing a lot of what makes the HeroHD so good in the first place. Now that the HeroBus addons are coming out it's even further neutered. I've considered the chest mount myself actually, I'm just wondering if it would really mess you up in an accident if you land on your front.. I could see it doing pretty nasty things to your chest. I really want to develop a way to mount mine to the chin bar of my helmet, with the lens in the actual centre of the helmet. I think that just could be the perfect mounting spot..
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Mar 21, 2011 09:13
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I toyed with chin bar mounting, and just couldn't come up with a decent way to do it on a dirt helmet. I do have it set up like that on my street helmet. I am not to worried about being hurt by the chest mount in a crash, the base is actually quite big, and I wear it over a compression suit anyways.
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Mar 21, 2011 09:26
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I've spilled with my chest mount more than a few times and it's always come out OK. I feel like it's safer there on my chest than it is strapped to my helmet which is always being whapped by trees and the like.
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Mar 21, 2011 16:43
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Phat_Albert posted:This describes me, and I'm guessing many of us to an absolute T: http://www.vimeo.com/20789680 That's a really cool video
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Mar 21, 2011 18:28
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Triumph noises. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaVkEhkOcXw Might be my imagination but my 02 sounds lighter than the 04. Bonus: In comments someone says they bought it and the original owner says 'ride safe'.
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A bloody gorgeous K100RS on the used bike pages this week.  
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Mar 21, 2011 21:55
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It's called Big Crash at Vietnamese Intersection in response to a Russian one, forget about the name or any crash, just watch the traffic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIFc6RmKUWU&
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Mar 22, 2011 01:01
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lancemantis posted:CBX Thanks... now I have to explain to my boss why I have to go home and change my pants.. rear end in a top hat 
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Did you know motorcycles can fly? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1NpZxn860M
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Did you know Barry Bostwick still had a career after that? that's more confusing than that scene
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ok, so, this is from the related. The guy arguing in the comments is pretty funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElS9BKSsezw&feature=related
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:ok, so, this is from the related. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWrWJZEQ1mg&feature=fvwrel&t=1m49s Featured video: BAD I've taken the liberty of condensing that video into one second for you.
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Ephphatha posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWrWJZEQ1mg&feature=fvwrel&t=1m49s No no, this is a bad idea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmLaLD7HbzY Watch half the people in the forum say 'that's actually pretty awesome, I'd like to that with -insert bike from the 70s or 60s or 30s or something-
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Mcqueen posted:That's a great video and makes me want to go wrench on something. Seriously. Now I'm sitting at work on a gorgeous day and I just want to go home and pull one of my bikes out and fix something that has been lingering...
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Phat_Albert posted:This describes me, and I'm guessing many of us to an absolute T: http://www.vimeo.com/20789680 I knew a guy just like that, he died a week or two ago. Total surprise, he wasn't that old. He owned a whole barn full of vintage/classic (50s-80s) BMWs and parts. Shelves and shelves of transmission cases and pistons and gas tanks, rows of frames hanging from rafters. He let me do some transmission work on my own bike at his shop once, (free) and even loaned me a spare transmission to ride about 1000 miles to a bike rally while mine was apart. (free) I'm in school now learning how to fix bikes so I can be like him when I grow up.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I knew a guy just like that, he died a week or two ago. Total surprise, he wasn't that old. He owned a whole barn full of vintage/classic (50s-80s) BMWs and parts. Shelves and shelves of transmission cases and pistons and gas tanks, rows of frames hanging from rafters. He let me do some transmission work on my own bike at his shop once, (free) and even loaned me a spare transmission to ride about 1000 miles to a bike rally while mine was apart. (free) I'm in school now learning how to fix bikes so I can be like him when I grow up. Are you at MMI in North PHX then?
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Today was the first day of open practice at the local MX track, and the first nice springs day we have had, so what was I to do but skiv off work and go ride? It was muddy, really muddy in the morning. The kind of mud that just sucks you down and instantly slows you. This isnt good when you combine it with a guy who is about 40 pounds to heavy to be riding a 125.  Fortunately the track dried out during the day, unfortunately I have already blown my top end by melting my piston ring to the piston. A combination of mercilessly flogging the bike and jetting a little too lean caused this:  I noticed it was down on power, then it was harder and harder to start. The top end was toast anyways, so I put in a few more laps and called it a day, just when the track was starting to get really good. This video is my final lap, you can tell I was way down on power, but I still made her sing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hkF12HKPzE I headed back to the shop, washed the bike, and did a compression test. 45 psi cold, down from 185. I am surprised it ran at all. Replaced the piston and now I am ready to do it again on Sunday! mutt2jeff fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Mar 24, 2011 |
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mutt2jeff posted:This video is my final lap, you can tell I was way down on power, but I still made her sing.
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More motorcycle class photos! My BMW K75 front brake fluid reservoir looked pretty nasty!  Having a pressurized brake bleeder makes it about a 15-20 minute total job for both calipers, holy crap I refuse to bleed brakes any other way, I may end up investing 120-130$ for one. It's pretty amazing what a difference there is in the brakes after, they used to squeek like crazy, the squeeking is virtually nonexistant now.  Since the job took so little time I ended up tearin up a fairly derelict 89 Hurricane (actually the instructors bike), drained the radiator, pulled the carbs off which were SUPER hard to get off, we ended up needing pry bars to get them off the engine, I was able to loosen up the valve cover, but removing it completely is another story, a lot of other crap is in the way   Another pic of the Honda CB360, they were fiddling and testing random parts on it like the charging system. 
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ReggieCelsius posted:very much liking this video.. it's got balls for a 125! too bad about the ring. Normally it does have balls, but not during my last lap, just momentum. I edited out the part where after I pulled off the track and on the pavement, I tried to pop the clutch and do a wheelie, it wouldn't even lift the tire in first gear. It seemed to make a little power right up by the rev limiter, and even that wasn't much. Compression was so low it wouldn't even idle. The melted piston is why I kept coming up short on the tabletops.
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 Yeah, I'm Ben Spies and I literally make my rotors glow red, what of it?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALiLCEMnXPw&feature=player_embedded Looking forward to this
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BlackMK4 posted:Are you at MMI in North PHX then? infraboy posted:Having a pressurized brake bleeder makes it about a 15-20 minute total job for both calipers, holy crap I refuse to bleed brakes any other way, I may end up investing 120-130$ for one. It's pretty amazing what a difference there is in the brakes after, they used to squeek like crazy, the squeeking is virtually nonexistant now.
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NitroSpazzz posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALiLCEMnXPw&feature=player_embedded Looks bonkers and friggen awesome.
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ADVrider is a great site, but there is quite a bit of crap to sift through in the reports section to find the real gems. I've been reading this one lately and these guys are fucken awesome: http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=653492
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I've been reading through this one while imagining my unemployed rear end getting a job as a motorcycle courier (they don't exist here). http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=375701
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Yeah. BMW barn is back in Vermont though. I still honestly don't see the advantage of these pumps, I bleed my brakes with less than a dollars worth of tubing. Using the pump already fitted to the bike (you know, the one you use to pump the brakes to stop). I can't even see that it's a speed/convenience thing, as I assume you have to wash out the pump and maintain it, and it takes seconds to hook up a length of tubing and start pumping/cracking the bleed nut. Can anyone explain the appeal? Is it more difficult when you have twin rotors? I only have a single on the front of my bike.
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Nomex posted:They're supposed to glow red, they're carbon brakes.
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Well if you were trying to outbrake Rossi, your rotors would glow like the sun, too. Edit: Also, I've read carbon brakes actually get better when they get hot, so braking performance probably wasn't lost at all. NitroSpazzz posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALiLCEMnXPw&feature=player_embedded Looks awesome, wish I didn't already know how it ends.
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Russian Bear posted:ADVrider is a great site, but there is quite a bit of crap to sift through in the reports section to find the real gems. I've been reading this one lately and these guys are fucken awesome: http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=653492 Kinda got a bad taste in my mouth from the FishFund/Luke guy. He had a previous ride report which albiet was pretty awesome all around and a good write up, eh started taking paypal donations and whatnot then later on just flaked on the report completely. Personally if I were taking paypal donations I would keep a log of what I spent it on, not just kinda bail after awhile and then 2 months later go "Oh yeah I'm back in the states now dudes, had a rocking time! kinda forgot what all I did down there so prob not going to finish the reports. Thanks!"  If you want a few other rockin adv ride reports though... Angola, it's not like they said. "I for one, have never updated my will before any other trip. And I wasn't alone. Out of the five of us that were going, three updated their wills and/or life insurance policies in the weeks before we left." - OP Took a little ride. - Rogue 1. Rogue 1's report is incredible. Good writing, good pictures. Dude goes from New York to way down Mexico way and back up to California. It's got bikes, it's got broads, it's got adventure. Really it's an amazing read all around probably the first huge ride report that really reeled me in and I read it all the way through.  Content: "lol txtin while totes dragin knee on the dragon, ttyl lmao"
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I didn't read the previous report but a couple people mentioned a "fiasco" with it. This one is pretty much up to date as of yesterday(typing it up as they're going along) and looks like they're funding everything themselves - Maybe Fishfund guy learned his lesson who knows. And i've read the Angola report. The update when they are riding on the beach with high tide coming in and the bikes breaking down was pretty intense, was definitely on the edge of my keyboard
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Silver posted:This is so loving cool.
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Russian Bear posted:I didn't read the previous report but a couple people mentioned a "fiasco" with it. This one is pretty much up to date as of yesterday(typing it up as they're going along) and looks like they're funding everything themselves - Maybe Fishfund guy learned his lesson who knows. Yeah, it was a good report for awhile, just flaked at the end. Also Luke reminds me of Tsaven Nava a lot so that's probably another reason I don't care for him. Decent report thus far and I don't wish him any ill will at all and hope he has a great time. I just don't care for him that much. Angola: FUUUCCCKKKK yeah you and me both. Since we don't see many ride reports on here wonder if we should crank up an ADV ride report link thread where if you find a good one post it and give a synopsis about what's in it or something. Could make for some interesting reading on some slow days. Content: Podium at the 2010 Laguna Seca round. Jorge(Spanish) won the race but when they play the winners national anthem it's the Italian National anthem of which Rossi(Italy) came in second. The faces make it.
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Advanced brake check technique instruction by Josh Herrin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nvZ_uFCY7M Article Article summary: "The incident that spurred the suspension was some on-track contact between Herrin and M4 Suzuki’s Dane Westby right before the finish line; close examination of the race footage showed Herrin’s elbow touching Westby’s front brake lever, causing Westby to go into a massive tankslapper that resulted in him being rammed from behind by Vesrah Suzuki’s Taylor Knapp, with Westby and Knapp going down in a horrific-looking crash at high speed. Luckily both riders suffered no major injuries." You know you're a badass when you can brake check someone by hitting another person's front brake at 180mph.
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