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Tsaven Nava posted:Was he on a Ninja 250 or something? How the hell could a police cruiser keep up with almost any production sportbike? It's a CBR of some sort. Dude just can't ride for poo poo, from the way the cop caught up when he was approaching the hills, he had to be braking rather than
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abigserve posted:Check us out guys, we can go up gutters and onto dirt with our streetbikes, can your gixxers do that I've seen a gixxer do an awesome slide into a gutter and then jump up onto the dirt. It looked so happy tumbling through the mud.
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Jun 17, 2010 17:09
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Zool posted:I've seen a gixxer do an awesome slide into a gutter and then jump up onto the dirt. It looked so happy tumbling through the mud. What about the 675 that went for a swim? It just wanted to do a stream crossing.
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Jun 17, 2010 18:20
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2ndclasscitizen posted:Yes. My '82 GS550 has seen sidewalk action because I was pissed about lane closure on a couple of occasions, I can't imagine how much of a nuisance I'd be on a bike designed to create a nuisance.
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Jun 17, 2010 21:21
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check me out, I can do a 10 mile commute that is 99% motorway day in and day out, can your supermoto do that?  cuz I'm getting sick of doing it on mine (ok so mine is more a supermoto-lite), I could use some wind and weather protection.
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Jun 17, 2010 22:17
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The Bandit sees dirt and gravel regularly. If you arent taking your streetbike off-road now and again, you dont know what you're missing out on.
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Jun 17, 2010 22:32
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[not in any way a loving spoiler]my post was sarcastic, I ride a dirt-orientated dr650[/lol i am wit king with my spoiler] (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 18, 2010 01:04
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I can't really hate too much on the hypermotard. It's a street bike with the styling and riding position of a supermoto bike, which really isn't a bad thing. I can hate on it being compared to an ACTUAL supermoto bike though.
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Jun 18, 2010 01:59
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I think thats the general consensus, that the hypermotard is great as a standard, but as a supermoto, its laughably huge.
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Phat_Albert posted:I think thats the general consensus, that the hypermotard is great as a standard, but as a supermoto, its laughably huge. I don't know why it has that tiny rear end tank too. Makes no sense.
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Jun 18, 2010 15:14
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There is a weekly Car and Motorcycle show on the 101 Highway, in downtown Encinitas (a city in San Diego's North County) and I try and go there very week of summer. Here's some highlights from last night. All of the shots are on my flickr= http://www.flickr.com/photos/26270920@N03/      
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Jun 18, 2010 21:16
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I love them all so much 
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Jun 19, 2010 01:05
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IOM TT video with only engine sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGChhWq8frs
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Jun 19, 2010 17:20
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bung posted:IOM TT video with only engine sounds. I swear every TT video I watch looks like it's overcranked. Road racing is insane,
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Jun 19, 2010 18:01
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bung posted:IOM TT video with only engine sounds. The way the front of the bike wobbles when they're at speed, my god..  
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Jun 19, 2010 18:10
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They seem to exist in a different phase of time. Like a second to us is a minute to them. And obviously what appears as huge runoff sand pits flexible crash barriers padded with tires to them seems to me, and please let me know if I'm not the only one, almost exactly like solid brick houses and big, quite immovable trees.
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Jun 19, 2010 18:46
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Ola posted:They seem to exist in a different phase of time. Like a second to us is a minute to them. And obviously what appears as huge runoff sand pits flexible crash barriers padded with tires to them seems to me, and please let me know if I'm not the only one, almost exactly like solid brick houses and big, quite immovable trees. Don't forget light poles, telephone booths, bollards, signs, fences, stone walls and sheep 
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Jun 19, 2010 18:56
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 I love this pic but would like it in larger res to use as desktop background (just the rider on the bike). Anyone seen it before? I hope it's part of some press material from Yamaha (rider's wearing Yamaha leathers) but my googling is weak :/
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ReelBigLizard posted:I swear every TT video I watch looks like it's overcranked. Road racing is insane, Undercranked.
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Jun 19, 2010 21:52
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The flyby at 2:52, jesus gently caress. 
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Jun 19, 2010 22:13
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Ringo R posted:
dump it in http://www.tineye.com/ when its working again
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Jun 19, 2010 23:46
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bung posted:IOM TT video with only engine sounds. When you're watching John McGuiness race is when you realise that there will always be something to aspire to. Holy poo poo. E: Scratch that, anything IOM TT shows the maximum potential you have on the street. Budgie fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jun 20, 2010 |
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Jun 20, 2010 00:51
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Budgie posted:When you're watching John McGuiness race is when you realise that there will always be something to aspire to. Holy poo poo. Dude, I can't even make those corners with an XBOX 360 controller.
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Jun 20, 2010 00:57
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Marv Hushman posted:Dude, I can't even make those corners with an XBOX 360 controller. I'm sure I could take them on my KLR.
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Ringo R posted:
It's from the Summer 2010 issue of Superbike magazine from the UK.
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Retarded Pimp posted:The flyby at 2:52, jesus gently caress. yup, should see scratch marks on the road, about 10ft long where the belly pan's scrape along as the bikes bottom out. Makes a nice loud cracking sound when it happens too 
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Icon's Death or Glory. The best thing isn't so much the bike, but the press release for it: "2100cc's of air-cooled twin stuffed into a Detroit Bros gooseneck frame. The handformed aluminum seat low enough to decapitate quizitive roadside squirrels. Suspended by an Ohlins front and a Ohlins rear, the D/G rides like a straight line American dream. In the vein of our Midwest upbringing, where anything more curved than ruler is best left in the closet. The ability to turn bikes, as we've found through countless hours of research, is highly overrated. Ground clearance and functioning brakes are also non essentials, best left as accouterments on 'fancy' Japanese models. No, in America we like our machinery overpowered and underthought. Performance that can be measured a quarter mile at a time. Anything longer and our miniscule attention spans go into sleep mode. Thankfully bikes like the D/G are within the easy grasp of any blue blooded tax payer. All you need is a fully equipped machine shop, ten grand worth of welding equipment, an Ebay account, and a complete lack of common sense. All traits that the Icon garage team has in spades". Sums up the chopper scene pretty well.
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Slim Pickens posted:Icon's Death or Glory.  This has to be a joke, it reads like something Jeremy Clarkson would write for it.
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AncientTV posted:
Yea I was wondering too... but nope, that's what it says right on the Icon website. wow. http://www.rideicon.com/bikes.jsp?bike=9
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I saw it on pipeburn, and I like the first paragraph of his post about it. One of the first thing that caught my eye was the plastic toy mirror, so I asked Icon's design director Kurt Walter whether it was there to be ironic, he replied "I built a 2100cc powered rigid death machine virtually incapable of turning or stopping yet equipped with Ohlins forks on billet Attack triples. Garnishing it with a mirror stolen from my daughter's Barbie bike just seemed appropriate. So yeah, I suppose the mirror is - ironic, sarcastic, humorous, ridiculous, stupid... all of the above".
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Slim Pickens posted:ironic, sarcastic, humorous, ridiculous, stupid
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Kris Krome (lol) built something that's actually kind of neat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28h5RjfrB6M#t=06m13s The Re-Flex-Tion (lol) is a Triumph based bike with a pretty wicked articulating front end. The entire bike is polished stainless, no chrome what-so-ever. Yeah, it's completely useless, but at least it's something different.  Click here for the full 1024x768 image. frozenphil fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jun 21, 2010 |
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frozenphil posted:Kris Krome (lol) built something that's actually kind of neat. 
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Slim Pickens posted:Icon's Death or Glory. I'm kinda wondering about the ergonomics of it. If you're sitting on the seat, arms wrapped around the engine and fuel tank to be on the bars, with your feet in front of you stretched to the pegs - how do you turn?
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Aargh posted:I'm kinda wondering about the ergonomics of it. If you're sitting on the seat, arms wrapped around the engine and fuel tank to be on the bars, with your feet in front of you stretched to the pegs - how do you turn? There's no turns at the strip.
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Ringo R posted:
Here's the top 2 results by size. Shame the largest one is cropped all retarded.  1280x800 799x450
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He's "into the wild" alright... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzg0rcMvypM
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Terminal posted:He's "into the wild" alright... Music selection is top notch.
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That bike's alright I guess, but check out my custom virago, bro. Anyways, I think it was Zool that wanted to see a vintage supermoto. Just ran across this today. 
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Terminal posted:He's "into the wild" alright... Shame about the seat placement, though. I got about 35 seconds into the video before the laughing started. (of course it's trying to get away from him!) Slim Pickens posted:Kenny Rogers fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Jun 22, 2010 |
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