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I've been thinking about this, too. So far the most fun I have is on the cruiser when I'm not under pressure to perform anything (since it's a pig, and chasing my friends around in their audis through mountains requires me to be way too serious), and on the sport bike when I get to just ride on the highway in the carpool lane with enough breathing room that I'm not worried someone's going to pancake me for no goddamned reason. I was considering taking somethign to the track, but I know how I am with gokarts, racing games, or anything else with a closed circuit--I do it safely until I get bored and then I get more aggressive until I run out of engine or I run out of traction. On a bike that doesn't sound like fun to me. Not in my car, either, for that matter, though I'm way more comfortable with it. The dirt bike thing, on the other hand--I ended up riding the cruiser down some hairy diry roads on the way to hikes (in aforementioned mtns) and, while nerve wracking, it felt satisfying to accomplish.
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mutt2jeff posted:Really? Looked terribly boring to me, all they did was ride a bunch of fireroads. Tearing up a tight piece of single track is way more fun than screwing around on some roads. Even better is a really technical piece of single track that takes everything you got. See, while this is more impressive from a scenery and maybe riding standpoint, it looks tedious, challenging, and nervewracking. The fact that I don't do well with heights and those hills would make me lose my poo poo does not help. But the other video looks like no-pressure hooning around with friends. It seems like the difference having dinner at my girlfriend's parents' country club versus barbequeing with friends. Technically the food is better, but not a simple joy. Plus as someone with no dirt experience it's "hey this looks fun, I could do this!" versus "Oh my god, that's way above me."
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Gay Nudist Dad posted:Plus as someone with no dirt experience it's "hey this looks fun, I could do this!" versus "Oh my god, that's way above me." This is exactly why we don't let your sort into clubs. It taxes the poor dears! Better to give them a a simple meal of gruel on the veranda, where they can speak rudely to each other about goatherding, or carpentry, or whatever menial labor they occupy their time with.
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Gay Nudist Dad posted:See, while this is more impressive from a scenery and maybe riding standpoint, it looks tedious, challenging, and nervewracking. I would just say potentially nerve wracking and done only for scenery. Crawling around in 1st gear is not my definition of fun. For what it's worth this is where I teach new riders: http://contour.com/stories/richmond-track-clip shacked up with Brenda fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Feb 12, 2011 |
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Thats the great thing about that area, you get to ride fast, swoopy single track on the way in, do the hard technical stuff, then back to fast and swoopy on the way out. I should track down a video of the trail going up to that one.
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Devils backbone on your account is very close to where I live. I personally am not a fan of the first gear technical single track. It's fun on a mountain bike but just a chore on a dirtbike. I think it'd be great fun to have a trials bike for riding stuff like that. I've actually seen a few trials bikes up on some of those trails.
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I think its great fun, riding the toughest stuff that I can find. Guess I am lucky to have hooked up a bunch of guys who love the same thing. I dont consider it a chore at all, its takes the same amount of concentration on my part to ride fast single track as it does the hard slow stuff. But to me its a hell of a lot cooler to look back and say "I did Duncan Hill" and know that you have ridden some of the gnarliest poo poo in the state. Ok, smooth single track, same area. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjtJZ1JIueA
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Your second video is the sort of stuff I prefer riding. All the single track from the areas we ride went under in flooding and are either pretty much bog holes or completely ruined. Even riding down the fire roads was a chore that day as hidden around every corner was giant washouts where the track had been washed away or trees blocking the path where the trail had been turned into a river. Each to their own though, and thanks for the praise!
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:drat, I was looking for that bike for years to show to my design class. Way too late now but it would've been the perfect example of just how much theoretical re-engineering is possible in the motorcycle formula. Half of the crap I talked about in that class was in reference to the Britten V1000. 
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Tang_ posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0m50SDRdgE&hd=1 What really amazed me about that video was how still you were able to keep the helmet cam. Shows how well you were using your legs and torso to absorb the shocks and bumps. It DID look like a stupid amount of fun...
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hayden. posted:Thanks for taking a neat video and making it depressing you prick (just kidding sorta) Sorry I'm late. Also:  
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A bunch of guys on supermoto's doing.....well you can just watch and find out  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iENE1KMClKM&feature=related
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That reminds me how much the sun needs to come back out.
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Supermoto: Living on 1 wheel at a time
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Russian Bear posted:Supermoto: Living on 1 wheel at a time If supermotos were front wheel drive and had a reverse gear, their stoppies would be wheelies.
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:If supermotos were front wheel drive and had a reverse gear, their stoppies would be wheelies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDKZt2SouCA
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BlackMK4 posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDKZt2SouCA Witness squid genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7lxGCyam6M&NR=1 It's a shame he didn't gently caress up.
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Probably not worth its own thread: I went to the Timonium, MD motorcycle show today mainly because it was colder than I expected and I didn't go on the 4 hr+ ride I planned on. I've been in years past and it's usually a charming cornucopia of mildly interesting motorcycles, a giant harley area, and white trash. A few things fascinated me and I thought you might enjoy them as well. The first was that I actually saw/sat on the new triumph tiger 800. It feels good, smaller than I expected but the seat is comfy and the ergos are pretty solid. drat the handlebars are wide. Overall, the aesthetics of it are quite solid. The headlights give it a poo poo-eating troll-face quality and it looks overall nimbler than anything else in its class: DISCLAIMER: pics are from iphone, quality is...lacking  Click here for the full 1280x960 image. Then there were the show bikes...Being that this is largely a baltimore/north central MD crowd, they constitute alternating waves of Harleys with totally inexplicable paint jobs and hayabusas that make me feel culturally insensitive. There was a nice selection of restored british bikes though, which made me all   Click here for the full 1280x960 image. On another note, there was this Kawi W650 that some dude was just pleased as punch with himself over. He slapped a bunch of triumph logos on it and thought it was absolutely mind-blowing that a bike designed to look like a bonneville looked like a bonneville.  Click here for the full 1280x960 image. There was a 2005 thruxton that was understated and quite attractive.  Click here for the full 1280x960 image. Also, there were a whole selection of "mild custom" harleys that, as far as I could tell, just had an average amount of harley chrome and were entered in a show for no good reason. Example:  Click here for the full 1280x960 image. Lastly, there is one bike at every show that will inevitably be used as evidence to demonstrate someone's legal incompetence/insanity. I give you  The Michael Jackson tribute GSXR 750  Click here for the full 1280x960 image.  Click here for the full 960x1280 image.  addendumb: one trend I noticed this year was that everyoner has a "MC Charter" badass leather vest they're working. There must have been 15-20 different "biker gangs" represented with prospects, patched members and all. I enjoy Sons of Anarchy as much as the next guy, but I had no idea it was going to seriously spill over into motorcycle culture.  Apparently life really imitates art, so get ready for tons of "criminal" organizations with poorly designed vests to take over the roadways. I didn't take any photos because, well, they're criminal bikers and wouldn't take kindly to outsiders documenting their organization. 
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So these were real gangs or poser ones? I read somewhere that it's supposedly illegal to even display "MC" patches these days. If 15-20 different gangs were in one place, shouldn't they all be trying to kill one another until one gang has dominance over the show?
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Open Layer posted:A bunch of guys on supermoto's doing.....well you can just watch and find out I really miss my DRZ SM now 
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I have this feeling that if I ever "upgrade" to a 600 from the drz that I'll miss it to much. The answer? 690smc! (eventually)
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I was at a bike show and the "Blue Knights MC" had a stand. http://www.blueknights.org/ They are literally an MC for cops.
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niethan posted:I was at a bike show and the "Blue Knights MC" had a stand. Ex cops too. The ones I've met have been cool guys, Policemen rather than Police Officers, if you get my meaning.
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ohwandernearer posted:I enjoy Sons of Anarchy as much as the next guy, but I had no idea it was going to seriously spill over into motorcycle culture.
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Open Layer posted:A bunch of guys on supermoto's doing.....well you can just watch and find out Glad to see it isn't just our SM/DS group rides that pretty much just involve loving around and riding on/over whatever we feel like with wheelies and stoppies thrown in for good measure.
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Gnaghi posted:So these were real gangs or poser ones? I read somewhere that it's supposedly illegal to even display "MC" patches these days. If nine people wear the same outfit and 4 of them have drunk driving arrests, does that make them a gang? I don't know. Something tells me they aren't robbing any banks. However, this is baltimore so it's not like we have a lack of criminal enterprise. Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I don't know where you've been for the last 40 years, but that IS motorcycle culture in the USA. Those who don't ride Harleys and aren't complete asswipes are in the minority. I grew up 10 miles from the York PA harley factory and was pretty surrounded by Harley culture since I was little. However, I hadn't been born nearly 20 of the last 40 years. I know that Harleys are "Amurricun motorcycles." However, I stand by my observation that the sheer number of MC vests definitely has shot up in the last couple of years. If nothing else, this was evident because 75% of them looked brand loving new.
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Most of the MCs in Alabama are Christian groups. They're some of the nicest people you'd ever hope to meet if you're stuck on the side of the road somewhere. 
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ohwandernearer posted:However, I stand by my observation that the sheer number of MC vests definitely has shot up in the last couple of years. If nothing else, this was evident because 75% of them looked brand loving new. This is nothing new, I know of at least one club local to me that you can pretty much trace back to a bunch of guys watching 1991s non-hit Stone Cold... (If you haven't seen this gem, be sure to track down a copy, it's hilariously cheesy)
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ReelBigLizard posted:This is nothing new, I know of at least one club local to me that you can pretty much trace back to a bunch of guys watching 1991s non-hit Stone Cold... When the bad guy kicks the other bad guy in the balls? One of the best ball kicks in modern cinema!!
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Oh my god I love that movie Fuckin' spoilers dude. Seriously though, movie should be required watching for admission into this subforum.
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frozenphil posted:Most of the MCs in Alabama are Christian groups. They're some of the nicest people you'd ever hope to meet if you're stuck on the side of the road somewhere. 2nd this. I live in the Myrtle Beach area, the Mecca for motorcycle asshattery, but most of the MCs that i've seen are Christian clubs, who actually wear helmets, use their turn signals and generally follow good group riding etiquette.
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ohwandernearer posted:The Michael Jackson tribute GSXR 750 Good lord, I want that helmet.
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I think I need one of these circle ruts for training. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpfTC03vczw&feature=related
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I got dizzy watching that! I have seen another one on youtube with a figure 8 rut, also awesome!
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TheDon01 posted:I love the bashed in stuntin' tank.
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They can take my license when I get too old, but they'll never take the road from me man...
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Well-done video of some old school bikes (and gear). https://vimeo.com/19061363
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My ATGATT nerve is twitching, but the warm fuzzy feeling I get from that video has managed to supress it
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FuzzyWuzzyBear posted:Well-done video of some old school bikes (and gear). I was glad to see at 2:55 that I'm not the only one who likes to pretend I'm running when I ride.
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