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That has got to be the ugliest and most crappy looking bike I've ever seen in my life. (The Honda thing). (Not including rat bikes).
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ThatCguy posted:The K1600 GTL has been eating Honda's lunch in the Luxo-tourer market the past few years, so They're moving the oldwing's target more towards the harley demo for guys that want something nicer to cruise on. I know 5 guys that have already put deposits down on one. It's working. This is the mathematical opposite of a supermoto. If this thing crashed into a supermoto the answer would be 1.
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:This is the mathematical opposite of a supermoto. If this thing crashed into a supermoto the answer would be 1. Wouldn't it be 0?
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Dec 16, 2012 15:25
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I was thinking inverse fractions, and bike over bike would make one. If it's positive and negative, it would be zero.
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Slavvy posted:The principle is identical to variable-length runners in a car, just executed differently; I've never seen it in actuality though. I'll have to do some reading about the higher injectors though, it amazes me the benefits are enough that it overcomes the cost of adding an entire separate bank, wiring, airbox space etc etc For those that don't know, a longer intake tract gives you better power in the low RPM range. It creates more suction in the intake every time the piston sucks air in, so to speak, so the air starts moving faster, and then when the piston is coming back up and the intake valve is closing, the velocity of the fast moving air in the intake is higher so the air crams itself into the cylinder more under its own inertia. And a shorter intake allows more volume of air in so it's better at high RPM. So if your intake is variable length you can get better power all through whole RPM range. On a BMW S1000RR the upper tubes lift off to shorten the intake at somewhere between 9 and 11k I think.
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High Protein posted:
Is that.. an oil cooler up next to the headlight? I see what look like lines running up there. Interesting spot to put it.
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:This is the mathematical opposite of a supermoto. If this thing crashed into a supermoto the answer would be 1. lmao (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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So we're always having the beginner bike discussion with everyone throwing in their two cents. If you skim over those talks, here's my background: I started riding on an fz6 6 or 7 years ago (weekend warrior style), then after a few years, took a break for a couple years. I got back into it in the 2010 season. In 2011 I traded my "sister's" fz6 that she never rode for a Ninja 250, hoping she'd take to it more. She didn't really take to it, but I loved the little thing. It forgave my mistakes and gave me huge confidence even despite the old lovely tires on it. I rode the poo poo out of it last season and can confidently say it made me 100% better at riding. Unfortunately for these discussions, personal experience is usually all we have to work with. Well, not now. When I was messing with my youtube videos yesterday, I noticed that the first videos on my account were from a ride in the fall of 2010, 1 season after getting back into riding, but before the Ninja came along. I'm actually riding the fz6 that was traded in the videos. I haven't watched them since I put them up I'm sure. http://youtu.be/euMzxPie1n0?t=6m30s Watch this to see some piss poor riding.... I'm posting this at the expense of my ego because it really is night and day comparing my riding then and now. Skip thru that video (and the 2/2 follow up video) for various poo poo riding, including: terrible gear selection, terrible throttle control, poor shifting, multiple line corrections per turn...it goes on. The worst would be the gratuitous use of both lanes. It's pretty embarrassing, and the worst part is, I was still slow! I take those turns so much faster now, and in my own lane! I don't have any new video on that road to compare but if you want some find one of my route 22 videos in the related. Seriously new riders: Get a tiny bike. Now, when I hear people say "it only goes as fast as you tell it" and "it's all in the wrist" when talking about a 600, I imagine them riding like I was in that video. edit: maybe I should have put this in the MSF thread or the discussion thread...eh nsaP fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Dec 16, 2012 |
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High Protein posted:
More like a panigale/Buell hybrid :p They've done well to hide the reinforcement that surely runs along the top of the engine to stop it folding in the middle. It's almost like a honda hornet; I'd love it. Probably heavier than it looks though.
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I think that Honda is the best looking bike from those pictures. I'm scared I have brain cancer.
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I also went to the bike show in Seattle this weekend. Some of the cooler pics: There was a "moto gp" area - retired GP bikes - lots of lower level GP bikes, buy Nicky Hayden's 2011 ducati was there!          Look at them details!  Pedrosa is a midget  HP4  Honda  Drift triumph from the icon videos, NICKY APEX  Some crazy rally tiger  The best motorcycle in the world  675 Race bike  Gold wing control panel  Shame compartment on that new Honda  Just an M1 I think it's a detuned R1  M1 brakes  $37,000 (and lbs)  PIT STOP CHALLENGE  Villopoto's winning kawi
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Thanks both for the bike show pics.
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That pit stop challenge looks super fun.
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Dec 17, 2012 20:58
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU-ynRoqDEs some more road racing
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Dec 17, 2012 21:01
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Holy poo poo, do they get more points for being colossal tits to each other?
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Dec 17, 2012 21:23
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At those speeds, on roads that narrow, there's not exactly a lot of options for lines, so if you're not immediately back on the line after the pass you're going off, which leads to some REALLY aggressive passing. Every inch counts in a way that's not really true on your typical roadrace track.
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Aww man, kinda wish I would've gone this year just to check out the GP bikes.
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GlazedMcGuffin posted:Holy poo poo, do they get more points for being colossal tits to each other? I went this summer to watch a Irish Road Race with Echomadman and it's really something else. The Isle of Man is cool but not having a staggered start really makes for some crazy scenes.
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I'm not sure what that Nicky Hayden bike actually was. I think it was a frankenbike of some sort because it had a trellis steel upper frame.
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IIRC, Nicky held on to that frame until they dragged him kicking and screaming onto the CF one.
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I can just picture this: Crazy neon wearing Kentucky Kid cussing in his accent to a bunch of Guidos pulling him away and lifting him up onto the new bike, all the while a bunch of pastel wearing ducati heads are frowning behind 600 dollar shades. Oh and the mechanics are rattling off instructions in italian as fast as they can.
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Dec 18, 2012 02:22
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Somebody rides around this awesome thing around Brooklyn all the time.
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eggyolk posted:Somebody rides around this awesome thing around Brooklyn all the time. That is awesome.
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Wouldn't that thing just utterly destroy your balls with every slight vibration? You would pretty much be sitting on your nads.
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Found a few pictures from when I visited the technical museum in Stockholm this summer. It's a show bike, but still     
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Philanthropy! posted:Wouldn't that thing just utterly destroy your balls with every slight vibration? You would pretty much be sitting on your nads. He rides almost daily with a passenger. It's worth stopping every time he hits a red light.
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Collateral Damage posted:Found a few pictures from when I visited the technical museum in Stockholm this summer. It's a show bike, but still I normally gloss over bikes like this but... drat, I want that.
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eggyolk posted:Somebody rides around this awesome thing around Brooklyn all the time. I want to like this but for every one that gets 'finished' and ridden around there are like a thousand that get ruined and trashed or listed as 'project bikes' on CL for $$$$, many of which started out as perfectly viable runners before they were processed. Good on that guy for actually keeping it moving and here's hoping it's a genuine survivor and not a nice bike he acid washed and crap to get 'just the right patina' etc. (gently caress hipsters for making me jaded) This may be a silly question considering it's an artbike but why would you want/need that much chain slack on a hardtail?
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Snowdens Secret posted:This may be a silly question considering it's an artbike but why would you want/need that much chain slack on a hardtail? If you move that rear wheel back anymore it's going to hit that pointy rear fender. Looks like someone got lazy there.
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Considering how much tyres deform vertically at speed I can only assume that it has never actually been ridden like that, or at all.
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Since it's an art bike, probably not. Personally I wouldn't dare riding it with an exposed primary drive anyway.
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    This bike has been in the same spot unsecured for months now in a city where bikes get stolen near constantly. A good guard cat. e: or just a really awful bike
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That flake isn't that far off the current line of H-D's paint options. http://www.harley-davidson.com/en_US/Motorcycles/street-bob.html#!pnw and yeah Blasts are pretty terrible bikes but I bet you could make a pretty cool Mad Max looking all-roader out of one. Fix up a scrambler pipe: instant ground clearance. A cracked frame would be a proper send-off.
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ReelBigLizard posted:Considering how much tyres deform vertically at speed I can only assume that it has never actually been ridden like that, or at all. Stellan rides all his bikes, he seems like a really cool guy. I'm normally not much into those kind of bikes, but his just catch my attention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIXCsVQXGqo And here's one of his later creations, "The Harrier". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uwgK72coU
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Nothing about metal flake. Or orange peel.
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eggyolk posted:Somebody rides around this awesome thing around Brooklyn all the time. This is  I don't even careNidhg00670000 posted:And here's one of his later creations, "The Harrier". Oh, it's one of those center hub steering bikes! They're pretty neat, they have way less problems with suspension in a turn.
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Our sidecar rig is coming along nicely. Think we're gonna have it racing next spring. It started out like this:  And then it lost a few parts. Here it just got the top frame braces (removable) welded up.  And got the steering geometry finalized. That took some fuckin work. Sawzall, bend, weld, sawzall, bend, weld.  Got the new rear wheel with custom rim and spokes laced up.  Then part of the rear subframe and the sidecar chassis.   And the cherry on top, my complete racing suit, now that I finally found some appropriate 80s looking gloves:  +5hp right there.
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So... how safe is that going to be?
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A racing hack? Probably not at all!
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I'm not talking about the activity I'm talking about the welds...
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