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M42 posted:Two horizontally stacked round headlights are my fave. poo poo looks like a cyborg. That first one is sick! Snowdens Secret posted:
I like the super-stripped down look. A little front fairing ruins it for me.
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Snowdens Secret posted:If you can run a 1200cc twin in WSB presumably the rules do or can allow for 1100cc Triples. Good luck finding development money. Well you can run it but you're gonna get bummed in the gob by the 1000cc fours (inline or v) so it's doubtful what good it'll do them.
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BlackMK4 posted:Ugh, I LOVE the 999 front end. Well, it's no 749  (but seriously yeah I think that pair are the best looking Ducatis of the last ten years.)
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Nov 11, 2013 00:29
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Sagebrush posted:Well, it's no 749 Posting the biposto, gosh, what a plebe. Covert Ops Wizard posted:That first one is sick!
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Nov 11, 2013 01:28
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The triple should have triple headlights.
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Sagebrush posted:(but seriously yeah I think that pair are the best looking Ducatis of the last ten years.) Oh really? 
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KodiakRS posted:Oh really? Have you ever seen a panigale in person? Packed with senseless over-design and random shields and things because they were so obsessed with a certain look/mass centralisation that they didn't plan where half the parts would go. It really just isn't that great looking, and certainly lacks the ever-contemporary feel the 999 and 916 had. The rear pipe looping around and the cover over that look like a heamhoroid (sp?).
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Slavvy posted:Have you ever seen a panigale in person? Packed with senseless over-design and random shields and things because they were so obsessed with a certain look/mass centralisation that they didn't plan where half the parts would go. It really just isn't that great looking, and certainly lacks the ever-contemporary feel the 999 and 916 had. Panigale looks really good in person, the nose is perfect. Reminds me of this old honda prototype drawing I saw, looks like a shark.
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The Panigale nose is stunning but I'll agree with Slavvy about the middle half. The rear is only saved by that swingarm+wheel. Nidhg00670000 posted:The triple should have triple headlights. They did that with the Sprint. Triple exhausts, too. It is not considered a styling success.
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Nov 11, 2013 02:15
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No no, three round ones of course!
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This is the dream of many people with $90 haircuts. http://vimeo.com/43038579 seems fake but is real.
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HNasty posted:This is the dream of many people with $90 haircuts. http://vimeo.com/43038579 seems fake but is real. This is ridiculous and stupid beyond belief.
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The only thing that is ridiculous about it is that it doesn't cover the face as well.
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HNasty posted:This is the dream of many people with $90 haircuts. http://vimeo.com/43038579 seems fake but is real. Would love to see these malfunction on most of the bicyclists around here and inflate while they are riding.
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Snowdens Secret posted:Re: Triumph, the Triple's lights are supposed to look like a wrecked superbike. The original (actually 2nd gen, but no one remembers the first) double round headlights looked like a wrecked Daytona 955, which had double round headlights under a fairing (the early Triples are very much naked Daytonas with bars and cheaper engine internals.) This time when they decided they wanted a new look they had no superbike to strip, and they weren't going to get a good look from the Sprint or Tiger. I'll admit, before I bought my Triple I googled "Street Triple Daytona 675 headlight swap" or words to that effect on more than one occasion, and was disappointed to see that nobody had done it. I think that could look really cool, and yay, projectors. And yeah, I find the throttle quite snatchy myself, however I'm sure this is exacerbated by tending to be lower down in the rev range a lot during the break-in period, in that 5-6000 RPM lean hole (not that I've been strictly limiting myself). As I'm coming out of the run-in period now I wonder if I'll notice it less as I'll likely be spending more time at higher rev ranges.
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The airbag helmet is an interesting idea. Old news, and it hasn't evolved since that video came out last year, but they do appear to have a prototype that works and that's interesting. I wonder how they will address this? Or if it even came up in their research?  "Oh, that's motorcycle crashes. We are looking at bicycle accidents." VVVV since I started riding a motorcycle, I have been pretty uncomfortable with my little foam hat that I wear when I'm cycling. I kind of want to get a downhill helmet with the carbon chin bar.
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nsaP posted:The only thing that is ridiculous about it is that it doesn't cover the face as well. Most bicycle helmets don't do this at all though
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I guess the reasoning is that on a motorbike you're moving fast enough that any part of your head touching the ground is Very Bad. Whereas on a pushbike, landing on your face at low speeds is ugly and nasty but not that likely to kill you or brain damage you compared to bumping your skull on a kerb falling off.
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The progressive motorcycle show that's touring made its stop in Dallas: Here's my album from the show   
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Sagebrush posted:The airbag helmet is an interesting idea. Old news, and it hasn't evolved since that video came out last year, but they do appear to have a prototype that works and that's interesting. The big quiff-like thing over the top of the head is supposed to stop your face hitting the floor/car/wall. Although given the lower speeds and masses involved with bicycle crashes I wouldn't be surprised if that distribution of damage was slightly different (but equally wouldn't be surprised if it were exactly the same for that matter).
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Skreemer posted:The progressive motorcycle show that's touring made its stop in Dallas: Cool photos. I'm really sad that this bike show stopped coming to Houston. Even worse, it looks like they've basically stopped doing test rides.
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Here4DaGangBang posted:I'll admit, before I bought my Triple I googled "Street Triple Daytona 675 headlight swap" or words to that effect on more than one occasion, and was disappointed to see that nobody had done it. I think that could look really cool, and yay, projectors. http://thekneeslider.com/six-monkees-daytona-1050-speed-triple-full-fairing-superbike-conversion/ There's a natural lower ridge under the lights where you could split off the lower fairings, but I don't see a good line to trim the upper to not interfere with stock bars. For a while I thought about buying just the headlight assembly with no fairing at all and trying to see how it fit. Certainly would make for an angrier look 
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Sagebrush posted:The airbag helmet is an interesting idea. Old news, and it hasn't evolved since that video came out last year, but they do appear to have a prototype that works and that's interesting. It's $450 / €400 though.
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Snowdens Secret posted:http://thekneeslider.com/six-monkees-daytona-1050-speed-triple-full-fairing-superbike-conversion/ Yeah, seeing the shape of that assembly without the fairings I don't think it would work well at all, at least not with the flyscreen. Also the back of the headlights from a faired bike are going to look like they weren't meant to be seen by the outside world, so wouldn't look the best out on display.
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Triumph supremacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flb8tg9I988 That whole channel is pretty good. Here's another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEcUy--agT4 Stugazi fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Nov 11, 2013 |
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Stugazi posted:Triumph supremacy: We'll talk to you about anything, 24/7, but it'll still take three weeks to get there
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So a new Diavel can be a practical bike, it turns out. According to my friends, the pushbike is worth about $15K.
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Bad judgement, lots of luck http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e69_1384052615 from Reddit
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Can we take a moment to admire my new avatar, it's a thing of beauty built out of rage tears.
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HNasty posted:Can we take a moment to admire my new avatar, it's a thing of beauty built out of rage tears. Hahaha what did you do to deserve that?
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 I love me some full-faired 1125.
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Covert Ops Wizard posted:Hahaha what did you do to deserve that? I wish to god I knew but I'm gonna take credit anyway 
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clutchpuck posted:
About a hundred times better looking than factory. That still puts it a hundred times worse looking than a normal sportsbike. I'd love to ride one though.
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HNasty posted:I wish to god I knew but I'm gonna take credit anyway Admit it you bought that for yourself
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nsaP posted:Kudos to whoever bought that. I look over my shoulder every time I'm browsing CA at work now 
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hot sauce posted:I look over my shoulder every time I'm browsing CA at work now WebSense blocks all SA-hosted images at work here Of course this means post/quote/edit/reply buttons are blocked down to a single pixel too. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvmBLqjaZxY Inside-cylinder high-speed video, pretty cool.. _Dav fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Nov 12, 2013 |
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New rnmickeymouse video of someone panic braking in a turn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBils1cdNg4
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hot sauce posted:New rnmickeymouse video of someone panic braking in a turn. The slowmo of that is hilarious. Turn is over, time to GRAB HANDFUL OF BRAKE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY8RW8IsvxA Trying to figure out how to PERFECT THIS. HUGHNNGNNNNGNGNGNNNNGNGNNGNNGN UHNGNGNGNNGN Z3n fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Nov 12, 2013 |
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