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If I rode out to where I once took a spill, I'd probably take another one.
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freebooter posted:Next challenge - I'm not going to do that because I'd be following your photo in that carpark with my own photo in that carpark...
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Photos in a carpark it is. The carpool dropped me off at 0200. I geared up, and tried to leave. My rear wheel was on that patch of sand. Bike went straight over. Broke off the clutch lever and shifter. I made it home without stopping, because I ran a couple of red lights. It was 3am, ok?   your bike next to something out of season I passed some campaign signs and a house with Christmas lights still up.edit: Thankfully, the image didn't attach. babyeatingpsychopath fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Jan 22, 2013 |
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I don't see any pictures there  VVVV I would guess that either one or the other wasn't completely broken off. Either he had a nub of clutch lever to get it started, and stayed in one gear the whole time, or he had a nub of shifter and crash-shifted into first without using the clutch. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jan 22, 2013 |
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How did you make it anywhere with no clutch lever and no shifter
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epalm posted:How did you make it anywhere with no clutch lever and no shifter I had my work tools, so I got the bike into 1st with a pair of pliers while the bike was off. I disabled the clutch switch and roll-started the bike, then just stalled it out once I got home. 1st was loud and annoying, but I can get up to like 65, so it wasn't necessarily an issue for the couple of miles back to the house.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:
Christmas tree farmz. The pictures do not do justice to how nuts the fog was getting here. Maybe 30 ft. visibility most of the way.   The next challenge has a theme! Geometry Manmade, natural, whatever.
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 The metal sculptures in the background are pretty geometric. Shot's bad, but I took this about five minutes after dropping my bike mid U-turn. Didn't give myself enough room to turn, fixated on the rapidly-approaching curb, and down I went. Luckily the handlebar, hard bag, and my ankle broke the fall, so there's only cosmetic damage on the bag. Was planning on practicing low-speed maneuvers this weekend anyway. Next one: Your bike next to a large piece of technology
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Monkey Wrangler posted:
Not a serious entry but in this pic of my bike:  you can see the white pillar on the right which contains one of the inlet trunks for my office, which currently has just over a terabit of bandwidth flowing through it. They probably won't let me move my bike into one of the machine rooms to take a more suitable picture though...
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Not a serious entry but in this pic of my bike: Mmmm, though that s1000rr is a serious piece of technology 
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Monkey Wrangler posted:
I asked, they won't let me roll the SV in to get a shot in front of the fastest computer in the world
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Requesting a shot from inside or underneath the Arecibo dish.
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Bucephalus posted:Requesting a shot from inside or underneath the Arecibo dish. Wouldn't underneath it be somewhere in Thailand?
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No. It's suspended above ground.
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Since no one else is posting anything, I declare the USNS Mercy hospital ship to be a large piece of technology. At 69,000 tons and 900 feet long she is definitely large, and this seems pretty high tech to me: quote:Patient Capacity:  Apparently she normally lives in San Diego so I'm not sure what she's doing up here. e: I looked it up and she's been docked here under "routine maintenance" since at least 2010. The next challenge is something larger than life. Your town has the world's largest doughnut? Great, go get it. I will also accept things like a man in a giant baseball costume, or a big inflatable gorilla -- it just has to be larger than the thing it's representing.
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Oh my goooooooooooooooood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s_big_things
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I'll grab the Big Orange and Big Red Elephant from that list later on today if nobody else has put anything up by then.
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I've got one I was meaning to take for the big piece of technology that also fits in nicely with that, I'll get the photo at some point today.
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  Your bike in front of the "Welcome to ______ " sign in your area!
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Shimrod posted:
I don't know... that elephant is looking pretty life-sized... 
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Yeah but the the price of a pine is massive!
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lol, it's really not that huge, and it's dodgy as gently caress. Just check out the tail.
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Good job I caught your post, Shimrod! You'll just have to forgive the quality, only camera I've got is the Skype one on the front of my Kindle. An animal on your bike. Bonus points if it's not a dog. Extra super-duper bonus points if it's wild!
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I'll long distance high-five anyone that has a Ninja and finds a turtle.
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Can't claim it in the game as it's a pre-taken photo. But aww, this little guy just wanted to go on my ride to work one morning. 
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SaNChEzZ posted:The hell is a pine? Australian short form for pineapple maybe? I'm more worried about Scallop Haven's famous fruit smoothies. Mmmm pineapple scallop smoothie...
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SaNChEzZ posted:The hell is a pine? I'm going to assume Pineapple, I can't say I've ever been into that supermarket. It's a shithole.
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Wootcannon posted:
No one is posting this so here you go: something that was recently an animal on top of my bike.  This was taken about half an hour before the engine blew up. Notice the oil leaking onto the cooling fins? I didn't at the time  Your bike at a point more than 500 feet above where it lives.. Find the altitude of your house, dig up a topographical map, and find a place on it at least 500 feet higher. Ride there and take a picture so we can appreciate/mock the beauty/drudgery of your local terrain. This will probably be on a hill or mountain of some kind. Your smartphone's GPS unit will be a big help here. Apologies in advance to anyone who parks their bike in Kansas or on top of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
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As I recall you used to call bullshit on other people, and you now posted a picture of a sandwich and called it an animal. I know it hurts that your bike died but this isn't the way to grieve...
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Hey, nobody specified whether it had to be an entire animal, or only an animal, or whether the animal was supposed to be alive or dead. (If anyone wants to be all technical about it and post a whole live animal on their bike they can go ahead, but I figured I would take the initiative since it's been nearly 3 weeks since the last post and no one even bothered to go and put their dog or cat on their bike) (also this challenge is a RIDING challenge instead of a "find poo poo and put it on your motorcycle" challenge)
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Sagebrush posted:
I live 25 meters above sea level. The highest point that I can get my bike to is 172 meters above sea level. 500 feet is 152 meters. I can't even cheat and use a building, as the tallest building is only 120 meters tall. This challenge is completely impossible to win in my country. drat.
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I found this handy page if anyone is struggling to work out how high up they are. I'd have done this but I'm already 600 feet above sea level and the closest place for me to do it is a tedious rear end ride along the motorway. The one day I'm off too http://www.daftlogic.com/sandbox-google-maps-find-altitude.htm ReformedNiceGuy fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Mar 1, 2013 |
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Great. I'm 4500 miles from my bike right now, but I used to climb 1000' every day on the way to work. Depending on ice and some other stuff, I could probably have gotten 5000' with a couple hours' trip. Now I'm in a country with WONDERFUL roads and am specifically prohibited (on threat of deportation) from operating any motor vehicle.
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Sagebrush posted:(also this challenge is a RIDING challenge instead of a "find poo poo and put it on your motorcycle" challenge) Not my fault no-one had the balls to ride through a safari park .
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Great. I'm 4500 miles from my bike right now, but I used to climb 1000' every day on the way to work. Depending on ice and some other stuff, I could probably have gotten 5000' with a couple hours' trip. Now I'm in a country with WONDERFUL roads and am specifically prohibited (on threat of deportation) from operating any motor vehicle. There is a story behind this that I would be fascinated to hear. The deportation part anyway.
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Got caught bangin a car 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Got caught bangin a car Read this as "Got caught banging *in* a car" and was about to call BS. But no, what you said makes sense.
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