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Z3n posted:Then why do you care what anyone else thinks? Are they going to change the way you feel about it? Are they going to devalue your involvement in it? For me, the answer to those questions is no, so...who cares how much fun people make? Who cares what old bitter curmudgeons or random people on the internet think? I know you're trying to play captain keepin' it real here, but you're just so off base it isn't funny. Yes, this closed-minded and immature mentality you guys share does devalue my involvement. It isn't specific to the SomethingAwful forums, it's shared by a large portion of the motorcycle community, which hurts our room for expansion and growth. I feel we're cast in a rather unfair spotlight so I try to speak up and hopefully make some positive impact. Anyways, with that said, here are some recent videos I like to watch: http://www.vimeo.com/6922721 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x67ts1_stunt-new-training-jorian-636-full_sport http://www.vimeo.com/8561170
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Stunters at least don't hurt anyone else, Critical Mass does more financial damage than all the stunters in CA combined every month.
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inolen posted:I know you're trying to play captain keepin' it real here, but you're just so off base it isn't funny. Yes, this closed-minded and immature mentality you guys share does devalue my involvement. It isn't specific to the SomethingAwful forums, it's shared by a large portion of the motorcycle community, which hurts our room for expansion and growth. I feel we're cast in a rather unfair spotlight so I try to speak up and hopefully make some positive impact. Cool poo poo. I'd never be able to do some of that stuff. There are definitely strong parallels between the stunter world and the skateboarding world. The style just seems similar - even the clothing.
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Well, to be fair anytime someone bashes on stunting, inolen, you do come outta the woodwork and get all butthurt about it. But eh it's the internet a lot of people do that about various things, you're passionate about it, which is a very good thing. Other than that, it's basically if you don't do it, you don't understand it. I mean how many "crews" can I watch doing highchairs and circle wheelies before I get bored? But that's just me, again if you're in the sport you see the technical aspect of it. For example, in the Jersey Shore thread they were talking about Pauly D and his DJ'ing and how it was all textbook mixes then some guy comes in and goes "YEAH WELL HIS poo poo IS ALL WEAK AND STUFF AND CHECK OUT THIS VID OF THE BEST DJ EVER" and I watched that vid and was going  because it loving sucked. But I guess the guy was making up his own beats or something like that. Anyhow, it's just like this, the technical aspect is lost on those of us not in the sport.I've been wow'ed a few times by Stuntas, ok not a few times, but Jason Britton made me go "holy poo poo" because he was that good and broke out of the box of circle wheelies, stoppies, and high chairs. But that's just me, it does take skill and I don't take away from that, it's just not my thing.  Content...
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I wish I got this in before the whole huge stunting argument, but my favorite part of that bmw video had to have been them unloading it out of the truck. It made me happy to see all of them all as sketched out as I am every time I roll a motorcycle out of a truck bed. Him riding it back in however, was way to easy looking.
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:I'm on the verge of repairing my own vehicle for the first time in my life for the simple reason that it does not have a computer in it (except for the fuel injection system... *sigh*). The more poo poo you put in these things the faster we reach that event horizon in the future where you crash land on an alien planet in the past where nazis somehow won WWII, and you try to build your time machine, but there's too many steps involved in recreating the technology, so you end up having to bleach your hair and raise a sub aryan brood in Italian Sumatra, because, sure you can get the part where you use an old style chemical battery as a capacitor, but you have no idea how to ... look, the point is, gently caress computers. They lead to flappy paddle gearboxes, which lead to kissing men. I'd totally watch this movie btw.
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inolen posted:I know you're trying to play captain keepin' it real here, but you're just so off base it isn't funny. Yes, this closed-minded and immature mentality you guys share does devalue my involvement. It isn't specific to the SomethingAwful forums, it's shared by a large portion of the motorcycle community, which hurts our room for expansion and growth. I feel we're cast in a rather unfair spotlight so I try to speak up and hopefully make some positive impact. The netbook I'm on chokes pretty hard on flash, so it's hard to watch the videos, I'll check them out tomorrow. But honestly: Don't you think the "unfair light" has less to do with people talking poo poo on the internet and a lot more to do with the fact that stunters are still widely seen as those jackasses pulling standups on the freeway or blocking traffic? In my experience, either people don't care what you do in parking lots or enjoy it. There's no censure of stunters for being stunters, it's because stunting as a whole has never done anything to shed that image of being a bunch of immature hardasses who do nothing but gently caress around on the street. And stunters doing minor poo poo like forum invasions, or major poo poo posting videos of them doing standups (and crashing!) on the bay bridge doesn't really do you guys any favors. Where's the outcry against those guys? In drat near a thousand posts on BARF, at no time did ANY stunter come in a say "Hey, it was loving irresponsible to do that poo poo". Neither did anyone on stuntride in another 150 or so posts there. Do you see the problem here? When I went in and suggested that maybe people should choose their spots more carefully, because if he'd been hurt seriously he could have died on the bridge before medical could have gotten to him, I was called a cop and a human being. We spend a lot of time talking about safety, about responsible riding, about tracks, about training and gear. The reason stunters are seen as a group of irresponsible jerks is because there's no visible effort in the community to encourage more responsible behavior. If you want to see change in the views of the community, change the image of stunters. Be prepared to be real unpopular for it too. The people you should really be pissed at are the people in YOUR community that are loving it up for you. To provide some real content for this though:  Click here for the full 1280x857 image. It's gorgeous. http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/bikes/2010-bimota-db8-biposto/ And cheap! Only 35,000$! Go Bimota!
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Wonder if I should use this as my avatar: I gotta edit it to make it cleaner, but I think it's funny non the less.
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Z3n posted:stuff ... he said keeping it real without irony. Why are you still having this discussion? Trick riding would be awesome if it weren't called stunting and mysteriously embraced by fringe hiphop culture. I do not care about anything that Ludacris cares about--that's not a coincidence, that's a policy. It's the same way that, no matter how much I might like a harley, I'm not going to just jump in and become part of that culture for fear it will make me retarded like catching AIDS from a gay toilet seat makes you gay. And same for sport bikes in general, furthermore I
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I kind of skipped those last few pages, but it's -9 out and all I can think of is ice racing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u58jLA1zd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjxGxTEAmUo I really hope something will be frozen when I get home again.
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Watch the VFR being assembled! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djWpWVnFz8I
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I just love it when the ads match up to the picture:
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Hub centered steering had my befuddled until I watched this video and it all made sense! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjsWtFOMLcI
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S1000RR Stunter Drama: http://forums.13x.com/showthread.php?t=241296 Kinda funny. Kinda. Bonus on track review from another user/racer: http://forums.13x.com/showthread.php?t=241773
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CSi-NA-EJ7 posted:Hub centered steering had my befuddled until I watched this video and it all made sense! Same, now it makes sense and is pretty cool. That tach though I really want for some reason.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Same, now it makes sense and is pretty cool. That tach though I really want for some reason. Just buy a KOSO RX2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa9oa5B4FUs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLNX-MVvjKM&NR=1 Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jan 30, 2010 |
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CSi-NA-EJ7 posted:Hub centered steering had my befuddled until I watched this video and it all made sense!
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It costs more so it makes your Bimota seem better
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Endless Mike posted:What advantages are there to this over regular steering? It seems like it's adding several extra points of failure.
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Revenant.Eagle posted:S1000RR Stunter Drama: What a bunch of fuckwits. Endless Mike posted:What advantages are there to this over regular steering? It seems like it's adding several extra points of failure. It separates the steering and braking forces, as well as maintaining constant geometry through the suspension movement. 2ndclasscitizen fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jan 31, 2010 |
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2ndclasscitizen posted:What a bunch of fuckwits. Thats the WERA board for you.  Its like SA... but with some really wealthy and athletic people that ride motorcycles really really fast.
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Revenant.Eagle posted:Thats the WERA board for you. One of those guys has 27,000 posts, jesus christ.
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2ndclasscitizen posted:What a bunch of fuckwits.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJEbhpzPtRc Sorry if it's old, but he makes funny sounds. Oooeraaaoouurghh! I've managed to flip over my bike just like that when I rode right into a ditch. It was dark. Edit: Super cool guy http://bikerpunks.com/mediaviewer/2421/bad-day-for-the-attention-whore.html Ringo R fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Jan 31, 2010 |
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Bikes at the boat show: Click here for the full 800x634 image.  Click here for the full 800x574 image. Fun Motors of Longview, for all your Italian two-wheeler needs. Is it wrong of me to want to stuff the 95hp 750cc twin from picture 1 into the scooter in picture 2? Edit: If it's not wrong, which would be better, pink or orange? On the one hand, the girlypink one would be more ironic, but on the other hand, safety orange would be good because a 95-horsepower Vespa would be a danger to everyone in sight. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Jan 31, 2010 |
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Phat_Albert posted:
Helmet's still good, there wasn't anything in it when it hit the ground!
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Delivery McGee posted:
Not at all. I have an lx150 that I desperately want to throw some crazy poo poo in. One of these days...
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Endless Mike posted:What advantages are there to this over regular steering? It seems like it's adding several extra points of failure. It looks cool as gently caress. 
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Not as good as this though. That paintjob gives me serious horn. Must be a prick to change the belts on these things.
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Like any Bimota ever gets driven enough to get to a service interval.
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2ndclasscitizen posted:Not as good as this though. Sorry, you're wrong. It looks WAY better in black. It would look even better if they would black out the swingarms as well, instead of leaving them red.
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2ndclasscitizen posted:Not as good as this though. I have wood for this smattering of metal and carbon fiber.
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Bimota's website doesn't work. Did they fold?
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Jack the Smack posted:Bimota's website doesn't work. Did they fold?
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Jack the Smack posted:Bimota's website doesn't work. Did they fold? They obviously didnt outsource the website design. EDIT: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Tsaven Nava posted:Sorry, you're wrong. It looks WAY better in black. It would look even better if they would black out the swingarms as well, instead of leaving them red. Dark gunmetal grey.
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