Cycle Pics: Hatsune Mikuni

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Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

Jabs posted:

seriously?
Have you *met* us?

:hifive:

*wheelies away on 17HP '80's 250cc UJM at twice the legal speed limit...for a residential zone*

Haha, you're right. Of course I dont want to start a shitstorm, but I just think its a slippery slope.

# ? May 26, 2010 02:37

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# ? May 21, 2024 03:24

Slim Pickens: Jan 12, 2007; Grimey Drawer

Bike porn, including what seems to be a cafe sumo?

Really awesome pictures of awesome bikes here:

http://www.hornbeckerphoto.com/onemotorcycle/

# ? May 26, 2010 03:01

Zool: Mar 21, 2005; The motard rap
for all my riders
at the track
Dirt hardpacked
corner workers better
step back

Thats pretty bitchin!

# ? May 26, 2010 14:15

echomadman: Aug 24, 2004; Nap Ghost

echomadman posted:

Got a text off one of the lads. his engine had started making a slight knocking yesterday, on the way home while overtaking two cars, this happened.

managed to keep it upright and get stopped despite the oil all over his brakes, wheels, red hot headers (end of a 25 mile commute) and legs. was about a mile from his house, and his girlfriend heard the bang from their yard.

we dropped the engine on this bike a few days ago so i have some better pics of the carnage, luckily he's halfway through a streetfighter build so he has a ton of spare parts around, including an engine.
here's the bike as it was the day before the incident, was awaiting a gsxr frontend swap to make a sort of Suzuki/Honda/Suzuki sandwich

somethings not right here

there's your problem right there.

this is the middle part of the con-rod wedged in the block

view from front

echomadman fucked around with this message at 14:48 on May 26, 2010

# ? May 26, 2010 14:45

Silver: May 12, 2001; Suzuki lover number one!

Z3n posted:

I do recommend breaking yourself of the habit of hugging the centerline in left handed corners though, it only takes one close encounter with a mirror to make you really regret that choice. Or going face first into a bumper.

# ? May 26, 2010 15:21

frozenphil: Mar 13, 2003; YOU CANNOT MAKE A MISTAKE SO BIG THAT 80 GRIT CAN'T FIX IT!

Crosspost from AI's You put what on your car thread:

# ? May 26, 2010 16:11

Z3n: Jul 21, 2007; I think the point is Z3n is a space cowboy on the edge of a frontier unknown to man, he's out there pushing the limits, trail braking into the abyss. Finding out where the edge of the razor is, turning to face the darkness and revving his 690 into it's vast gaze. You gotta live this to learn it bro.

Silver posted:

I thought about digging up that gif...oh shakey, what won't you do? (Besides win a WSBK race in the last 2 years...)

# ? May 26, 2010 16:29

2ndclasscitizen: Jan 2, 2009; by Y Kant Ozma Post

Z3n posted:

I thought about digging up that gif...oh shakey, what won't you do? (Besides win a WSBK race in the last 2 years...)

FB be the shizzle. So much tits and free poo poo. Come back Shakey!

# ? May 26, 2010 18:16

Z3n: Jul 21, 2007; I think the point is Z3n is a space cowboy on the edge of a frontier unknown to man, he's out there pushing the limits, trail braking into the abyss. Finding out where the edge of the razor is, turning to face the darkness and revving his 690 into it's vast gaze. You gotta live this to learn it bro.

2ndclasscitizen posted:

FB be the shizzle. So much tits and free poo poo. Come back Shakey!

I'm still a bigger fan of performance bikes, but that's only because they spend all their time going over crazy projects and poo poo.

# ? May 26, 2010 18:49

FlerpNerpin: Apr 17, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzlN2zC8PU

Youtube posted:

The funniest part of all the HD bashing is that the ones doing the bashing can't afford to ride a real bike so the settle for the rice burners. I think the biggest compliment a rice burner manufacturers can pay HD is to realize that the only way they survive in this competitive world is tp produce bikes that copy the style and looks of the HD. The yad to adopt the v-twin engine to even get attention and then started producing bikes that were nearly a carbon copy of a HD Heritage.

Counterpoint:

FlerpNerpin fucked around with this message at 19:34 on May 26, 2010

# ? May 26, 2010 19:22

GI Joe jobs: Jun 25, 2005; 🎅🤜🤛👷

I saw a specialist for my busted wrist; 8 weeks until I can ride again. :smith:

I have an impacted fracture which rotated the fragment of the radius 35 degrees up.

# ? May 27, 2010 02:12

TheCosmicMuffet: Jun 21, 2009; by Shine

it snows sometimes, in England.

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# ? May 27, 2010 20:33

PadreScout: Mar 14, 2008

TheCosmicMuffet posted:

it snows sometimes, in England.

Holy loving poo poo. I believe I just jizzed in my pants.

# ? May 27, 2010 20:38

hayden.: Sep 11, 2007; here's a goat on a pig or something

What's the point of keeping the front tire a motorcycle tire? May as well convert it to a car tire for more traction seeing how you won't be leaning.

# ? May 28, 2010 02:58

Slim Pickens: Jan 12, 2007; Grimey Drawer

Looks like a superduke tank and radiator shrouds.

# ? May 28, 2010 03:36

blugu64: Jul 17, 2006; Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

What kind of maintenance is required for something like that? Looks like quite a bit.

# ? May 28, 2010 05:29

niethan: Nov 22, 2005; Don't be scared, homie!

hayden. posted:

What's the point of keeping the front tire a motorcycle tire? May as well convert it to a car tire for more traction seeing how you won't be leaning.

You'd need a new fork. The rest of the system is installed pretty easily if I remember correctly, so having to switch out the fork would be quite a lot of extra hassle

# ? May 28, 2010 07:11

TheFonz: Aug 3, 2002; <3

I swear I saw the same type of poo poo with a ski front that looked a lot more livable.

# ? May 28, 2010 08:24

the letter b: Apr 21, 2003; ...no more disruptive than Insight.

TheFonz posted:

I swear I saw the same type of poo poo with a ski front that looked a lot more livable.

SwitchTraxx/SnoXcycle!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0qNgFWVfyE

the letter b fucked around with this message at 10:37 on May 28, 2010

# ? May 28, 2010 10:35

Saga: Aug 17, 2009

2ndclasscitizen posted:

FB be the shizzle. So much tits and free poo poo. Come back Shakey!

Admittedly they had an irredeemable hard-on for Cagiva, first-generation Bloor Triumphs (it made no sense even in 1994 - Trident = top sportsbike! :aaa:

) and anything with "Ducati" on it, but the "Sports Reports" era FB was a magazine for bikers (as opposed to advertisers and marketing executives) by bikers. It was the antithesis of today's PB, which is pretty much embodied by the awful, wanky loving �200 pattern levers they tell everyone to buy. Now of course FB's owned by Future Publishing and is indistinguishable from the rest of the awfulness.

Speaking of cunning stunts, I love the Carnage vid where Frosty lands a wheelie on Schiller's bike at about 80 mph and smashes his fingers to pieces. Wonder if there's a .gif of that one?

# ? May 28, 2010 15:03

Z3n: Jul 21, 2007; I think the point is Z3n is a space cowboy on the edge of a frontier unknown to man, he's out there pushing the limits, trail braking into the abyss. Finding out where the edge of the razor is, turning to face the darkness and revving his 690 into it's vast gaze. You gotta live this to learn it bro.

I have to love PB because I never would have heard about Durbahn if not for them.

What, you haven't heard of Durbahn?

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It's a CBR, you say...

Well, yes. It's stripped, all CF, home made TC driven by Motec ECUs, lighter than anything else, for dedicated trackday riding...only a 1.5ish gallon tank because that's all you need. Plus a bunch of other crazy poo poo.

Love Durbahn.

Z3n fucked around with this message at 16:35 on May 28, 2010

# ? May 28, 2010 16:18

Saga: Aug 17, 2009

I have heard of Durbahn...you obviously have a lot more money than me!

# ? May 28, 2010 17:08

Z3n: Jul 21, 2007; I think the point is Z3n is a space cowboy on the edge of a frontier unknown to man, he's out there pushing the limits, trail braking into the abyss. Finding out where the edge of the razor is, turning to face the darkness and revving his 690 into it's vast gaze. You gotta live this to learn it bro.

Saga posted:

I have heard of Durbahn...you obviously have a lot more money than me!

Haha, that's not my bike. I'd figured that you would have heard of Durbahn but he's basically an unknown in the states. His stuff is the ultimate in :fap:

, understated and totally ballistic insane.

http://durbahn.de/ for other insanity.

If I were a dedicated trackday warrior, maybe I could afford Durbahn stuff...with racing, forget it.

# ? May 28, 2010 17:30