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Pope Mobile posted:He's still not attractive* and has nothing going for him but bulge in his arms. poo poo, I can stubble within two days, Sorry Pope Mobile but you're no Ryan Gosling. If it makes you feel better his bicep tattoo is really lovely. That said, how creepy is that photo essay with the captions? One of them is hilarious just because the caption says he is "posing", despite the look on his face just emits pure disgust for the assholes invading his privacy.
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snail posted:That's what I meant. Try it in the chair right now, it'll make more sense. I tried this whilst actually on a bike yesterday and the foot movement thing is very helpful; it overrides my body's natural reluctance to lean off the side of a moving thing. edit: just watched the video, how in the name of god is he two feet off the ground what the christ. Total abscence of fear. Slavvy fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Jan 26, 2013 |
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Pope Mobile posted:He's still not attractive* and has nothing going for him but bulge in his arms. poo poo, I can stubble within two days, My girlfriend's friend was going to go to a Gosling marathon where they play 3 of his movies back to back with all scenes cut out except those with him. She didn't go because she would rather be home. Alone. In her room.
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Slavvy posted:I tried this whilst actually on a bike yesterday and the foot movement thing is very helpful; it overrides my body's natural reluctance to lean off the side of a moving thing. If you pay close attention to your weight distribution you might notice that it moves from your outside foot as your approach the corner to your inside foot as you accelerate out of it. As you figure out where to have your weight and when to shift it as you go thru the corner it will start making hanging off the bike feel a lot more natural. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk_tYr7grVc#t=6m13s (I tried to embed it but I got a dorna warning, though it doesn't show up if you click the link. Odd.) I was joking before about how watching racing made me an expert, but you can see this with how a lot of the GP bike riders brake now. In this clip you see Rossi on the outside hanging a leg way off the peg when braking for the corner. While Lorenzo next to him still has his foot on the peg, his weight distribution to the outside peg would be similar. It's a side note, but he's pretty much the anomaly as far as leg-off-peg riders goes these days. Pretty much all the other riders do it regardless of whether the benefit from it is real or placebo. Lorenzo has said he never found it comfortable, but you'll also hear from other riders that he brakes a lot differently to most. Others brake heavy and late, whereas Lorenzo brakes earlier and lighter, and holds more corner speed. At least, that's what I remember from interviews with Spies, Crutchlow and Dovi. nsaP fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Jan 26, 2013 |
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nsaP posted:If you pay close attention to your weight distribution you might notice that it moves from your outside foot as your approach the corner to your inside foot as you accelerate out of it. As you figure out where to have your weight and when to shift it as you go thru the corner it will start making hanging off the bike feel a lot more natural. I read an interview with stoner where he said the foot hanging off thing is involuntary, it's a byproduct of the rear of the bike wanting to lift off the ground under braking as he's tipping in, so when he takes his foot off the peg it shifts his weight rearward and further to the outside to mitigate that. I find it difficult to keep my weight off my wrists under braking whilst also doing all this other stuff, because to do that it feels like I just have to clamp onto the tank as hard as I can with my legs to keep my arms free. As soon as I move my leg or feet that clamping disappears and all my weight goes onto my wrists, loving with my steering and braking and upsetting the bike. Content  I was reading about the Jiminson in a magazine (harley barrels with matchless heads, mentioned on the page) and it made me look these up. They're unbelievably difficult to build. More here. http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/angloamerican.html
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Is it just me or does a disc brake on that style of bike/that bike look odd?
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Slavvy posted:edit: just watched the video, how in the name of god is he two feet off the ground what the christ. Total abscence of fear. Given most Australian racers, and I imagine globally, get started in motocross it's probably not all that surprising. The thing that always stands out to me when I'm at the track is no matter how fast I seem to be going, I'm always finding someone that's seconds faster than me (which at 200+ km/h is a lot of distance). The distance between the nub and the legend in motorcycling seems to be so much greater than in many other sports. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBPV1ZHBTIw
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Another road racing compilation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDgYq1DY4Ow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDgYq1DY4Ow
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I went to the Stockholm Bike Show today and tried to figure out how to use the DSLR I had borrowed. It resulted in a lot of lovely blurred pictures, but at least some of them turned out good. Full album (61 pics): http://imgur.com/a/XbrV1 Some choice ones:  Paging mootmoot  Vectrix electric superbike prototype.  Duke 390. It looks and feels so tiny, I bet it's a blast to ride.  BMW Buyers.jpg I swear I didn't see anyone under 50 around the BMWs except the SS1000R  Nice RR1000 scrambler.   CBX1000 engine, GSXR1000 front end, Ducati 996 rear.. Not good enough at bike spotting to figure out what the frame is from though. Another really nice Harley scrambler build.   I think this takes the prize for gaudiest goldwing ever. It had a matching camper in the background. Not festooned with leds like the bike, but the inside was made up in some goth/pirate theme with a smoke machine and laser projector.
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Collateral Damage posted:
Probably a Spondon frame
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echomadman posted:Probably a Spondon frame Which, also
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Welp, cya loosers, I'm going pro. 22 step video on how to ride like a pro. http://youtu.be/BgeZmbDpg5E edt: Super Roost. 
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Collateral Damage posted:
A hardtail scrambler doesn't seem like a very pleasant riding experience.
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This is as bad as the mountain dew paintjob on rev's bike, my fav part is the sign on the bus that says "weird stuff" lol
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How dare you. Nothing is as bad as my mountain dew paint job.
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HNasty posted:my fav part is the sign on the bus that says "weird stuff" lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFTTZ9E_e2Y
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HNasty posted:This is as bad as the mountain dew paintjob on rev's bike, my fav part is the sign on the bus that says "weird stuff" lol Yeah, no, that paintjob was tremendously bad. Like, war crime bad.
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Well I thought it was nice.  At least it's not another one of the fifty million near identical chopper builds.
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You're my hero. My cynical, MS-paint wielding hero.
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Hnasty for mod.
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I hunted and couldn't find it - Rev's Mountain Dew bike?
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Quoting the good Reverend.Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:About a month ago a local marketing company came to our shop and said they wanted to rent a cool bike to use in some promotional event. It was for Mountain Dew and it was some kinda mini wannabe version of the X-games or something. And they said the bike would be painted by some guy as part of a competition or random art display or something out in San Francisco. They'd pay us for it, so it sounded great to us. We gave them our CB350 race bike which was just gonna sit on a platform all winter anyway.
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Don't forget the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TbSwDKOw_M
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Shouting Melon posted:Oh, huh. Hm. Here's a photo of a really nice tricolour RC30 instead: Is that a shot you took? I just ask as a good friend of mine owns a nice RC30 in Perth, and I'm unsure of any others floating around.
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PuntCuncher posted:Is that a shot you took? I just ask as a good friend of mine owns a nice RC30 in Perth, and I'm unsure of any others floating around. Yeah, was just in the parking lot outside Coles in Mundaring. I've seen a couple of other RC30s here before, but that was the first one that was actually on the road.
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 Supposedly a police bike used in Australia edit:yes I realize KTM is made is Austria and not Australia NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Jan 28, 2013 |
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NitroSpazzz posted:
<domestic bike joke>
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Collateral Damage posted:
I see some of the V-Strom folks have joined Honda's design team.
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An actual police bike used in the UK. Took this at a music festival, didn't get to see them use it though
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Forty Two posted:An actual police bike used in the UK. Took this at a music festival, didn't get to see them use it though Seems legit, even for the Warwickshire Constabulary 
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NitroSpazzz posted:
The 4WD and the silver Mazda both have Victorian license plates on them, so it seems plausible. Maybe that's their pursuit bike (like how they've got hot hatches now for doing chases in urban areas)?
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That's quite a violation of the US Flag Code there.
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Philanthropy! posted:Seems legit, even for the Warwickshire Constabulary are those headers really being used as a kickstand?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:are those headers really being used as a kickstand?
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evil_bunnY posted:Clearly the most outrageous element of this picture. I'd say it's just barely ahead of the lack of a front fender.
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It's really that the seat looks pretty uncomfortable.
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Shouting Melon posted:The 4WD and the silver Mazda both have Victorian license plates on them, so it seems plausible. Maybe that's their pursuit bike (like how they've got hot hatches now for doing chases in urban areas)? I just saw one on Collins St in the city, dude was definitely a cop
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Maybe they've started some kind of anti-motard dong riding squad.
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