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The tests are run at idle so they juke the idle stats. At least that's how it was done in Kentucky before we got rid of emission testing. I'm all for it in theory but in practice it was stupid. The old cars that had poo poo coming out the tailpipe were exempt from the testing, whereas a 2 year old car was called in to sit there and pay the 40 bucks or w/e.
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From the pfy.gif thread: JaysonAych posted:It was actually a group of squids being lovely to other motorists, and that cop was the only one nearby to deal with it. When the shitheads refused to comply with orders to stop and started getting aggressive with the cop, the cop felt it best to leave the area since there were 50 of them and he didn't have back up. The waver is taunting the cop as he's leaving.
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Collateral Damage posted:What's the reason for the stumble anyway? Trying to jimmy their way through the ever tighter emission regulations? The lean spots you feel in modern bikes are where the EPA measures emissions, so pretty much. I'll take an easy to fix problem any day over the manufacturers just making the whole thing weaker. 
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I don't know about other countries but NZ/Aus have regulations where noise testing is done at x rpm based on engine size and number of cylinders so there's often a dead spot there too.
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So an aftermarket map is the only way to fix that BS problem?
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Slavvy posted:I don't know about other countries but NZ/Aus have regulations where noise testing is done at x rpm based on engine size and number of cylinders so there's often a dead spot there too. That's why the R6, ZX10R, and some others taper the throttle bodies closed at high rpm... and why a tune will pick up 10-30whp with them. Here is a bone stock 2013 ZX6R and after just a tune. At the wheel.  Odette posted:So an aftermarket map is the only way to fix that BS problem? Yes, but it's worth it. Just like having your suspension set up properly. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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Feb 19, 2015 23:26
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captainOrbital posted:Maybe they can add it to the 2015 Season Motorcycle Racing Thread Done! Finally. But no poll http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3701869 Now we can talk about Bayliss and testing and transformed ducatis to our heart's content!! That poll could be done with a new "Current Rides" thread. I know we have one that covers that mostly but it's old like all the megathreads here.
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Feb 20, 2015 00:39
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Holy poo poo https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1012358215444474
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Feb 20, 2015 01:12
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What I'm getting from this is that the insane brazil lanesplitter motormouth guy is a cop.
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Feb 20, 2015 01:34
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You should probably give people a heads up that you watch someone die in this.
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Feb 20, 2015 02:16
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Cop is a good shot on the move. Not only do you see the guy die, but you get a nice view of the blood fountain out of the guys neck with his carotid severed.
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`Nemesis posted:Cop is a good shot on the move. My first thought. My second thought was: escaping (presumably) deadly criminal in traffic is less important than making sure the bike is on the stand instead of just hitting kill and tossing it.
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Feb 20, 2015 03:14
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Man that is dicey firing off shots like that in traffic. I wonder if any bystanders got hit?
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Coredump posted:Man that is dicey firing off shots like that in traffic. I wonder if any bystanders got hit? I wonder what the gently caress that guy did in order to justify shooting in a traffic jam like that. 
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Feb 20, 2015 05:34
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According to Liveleak that happened in Chile and the the dead guy was a car thief. Hopefully by car thief they mean car jacker.
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Feb 20, 2015 06:00
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Life's cheap in a country like Brazil, dude probably just stole
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Feb 20, 2015 06:03
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Slim Pickens posted:Life's cheap in a country like Brazil, dude probably just stole The video isn't from Brazil.
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fdb_1422924247 He was just a car thief. This was in Chile but South America is not the USA. We riot over people getting shot running away. They get shot by undercover cops running and it's normal. Liveleak is full of kids robbing someone for some cash or a watch then taking off and getting shot by an undercover as they flee.
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nsaP posted:South America is not the USA. Really? 
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There's also this video, which  shows a guy being shot and killed http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=06f_1381668990 This is from Brazil.. a motorcycle rider with a helmet cam gets bike jacked, and some random cop shows up and guns down the thief right before he rides away. The bad guy never saw the cop coming - that would never fly in the US, but hey different countries do things differently, and i honestly can't be upset at all about a criminal with a gun getting killed.
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Chichevache posted:Really? I got banned for posting a pic of an ISIS dude with a guy he was going to behead, so i' am playing it easy. If anyone wants to see undercover cops killing robber teens you can get on irc and I'll find about 20 liveleak vids for ya
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Slavvy posted:My first thought. If Chilean police bureaucracy are anything like American police/military, the cop would probably get a demerit or official mark on his record for scratching a department vehicle. Like when I was in the marines, I remember this non-infantry 1stSgt bitching out a PFC for having a ripped uniform and not shaving. This was in Iraq, he had just come in off a 2-day patrol, and had been in a firefight hours beforehand. I know a guy who got an official black mark for accidentally firing a machine gun while he was loading it, while we were training to use machine guns using blanks.
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BlackMK4 posted:What? The stumble is due to the fuel mapping... a Power Commander is used to augment the stock map. I could have sworn I read somewhere that there was an option in the ECU settings to disable it though, thus altering the fuel mapping in that part of the rev range? I must be misremembering if that's not the case.
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Ripoff posted:I wonder what the gently caress that guy did in order to justify shooting in a traffic jam like that.
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Feb 20, 2015 09:04
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 title of the imgur post was "don't ride too close behind semis"
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also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz4ZGqfwNEM
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hot sauce posted:
I think another lesson to learn is that your visor shouldn't be up while riding.
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Me on my YZ80 and my roommate on my YZ125 after a 32 degree day of riding in the corn.
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`Nemesis posted:This is from Brazil.. a motorcycle rider with a helmet cam gets bike jacked, and some random cop shows up and guns down the thief right before he rides away. The bad guy never saw the cop coming - that would never fly in the US, but hey different countries do things differently, and i honestly can't be upset at all about a criminal with a gun getting killed.
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Nfcknblvbl posted:I think another lesson to learn is that your visor shouldn't be up while riding. I'll take the risk because no way.
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This is holy poo poo disturbing that cops are just running and shooting people for stealing cars on a busy freeway, but I also can't help thinking how goddamn awesome it would be to be in a dirt bike swat team just riding over everything around me and shooting everything around me.
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The gunshots were so muffled I couldn't really tell what was happening. Then the driver is just streaming blood. Jesus.
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Pics from the Toronto motorcycle show:  Beautiful, beautiful Indians  I dunno, seemed hamfisting the clarity and vibrance sliders in Lightroom seemed appropriate here.  Blah      Meh  oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about (if I could only get the red right without everything looking reddish)   So sweet  What are you doing, stop doing that.  Stop looking at me like that.  oh... ~sparkly~....   ROBOHONDA DEPLOY MISSILES  STAND ASIDE CITIZEN Ok boys, hold on to your pants: MV Agusta Something Turismo Corsa Something Italian and Mountany Sounding    unf...... It's like someone took an original Multistrada and made it beautiful... and fits like a personally tailored glove. I now have a new bike to lust after that I can't afford. (also holy crap those shots weren't great to begin with but they really didn't survive the conversion to jpg. Either that or my laptop monitor is baaad. Probably both) Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Linedance posted:
The fact that you don't control this bike by shoving your arms into those side flare things disappoints me a bit.
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Linedance posted:
The contrast between these two is perfect. I checked out the NM4 at the show in DC. That thing is crazy looking, I wonder how it rides.
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Linedance posted:What are you doing, stop doing that.
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That mountainy Agusta looks like a nightmare. Even more so than the Caponord or Ulysses. Content, redline the ulysses every day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7xvi6GL9Fk clutchpuck fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:That's how I feel about so many bikes. I just do not get how anyone can think FZs or that Kawi or all the Street Triples are anything but hideous. All those bikes are hideous incoherent mishmashes of ugly pointy shapes. Except for the older Street Triples which had some ugly round shapes too. Add S1000R to this.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:That's how I feel about so many bikes. I just do not get how anyone can think FZs or that Kawi or all the Street Triples are anything but hideous. All those bikes are hideous incoherent mishmashes of ugly pointy shapes. Except for the older Street Triples which had some ugly round shapes too. I disagree, the Z1000 looks sick. It's like a pissed off bug or something. All the nice mechanical bits are semi visible as well. I'm glad it doesn't have a single circular headlight and smooth curves like every other naked bike. 
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:That's how I feel about so many bikes. I just do not get how anyone can think FZs or that Kawi or all the Street Triples are anything but hideous. All those bikes are hideous incoherent mishmashes of ugly pointy shapes. Except for the older Street Triples which had some ugly round shapes too. I guess I didn't quite get across what I meant. Because it started that way, like eww, so ugly and brutish. Stop making me look at your hideous visage. And then I fell in love. I don't know what it is about that bike. It's so nasty but I'm just drawn to it, I can't explain it. It's ugly in a way that BMWs only wish they could pull off. A literal gorilla-insect in a bug green sparkly suit. I won't argue with anyone who thinks it's awful, in fact I agree, but it's somehow good awful. Yamaha and Suzuki are seriously lacking in the ridiculous cartoon bike department. Honda has the above "I'm piloting an anime robot" bike (literally the only interesting looking thing they produce), Kawi has this gruesome sparkly Z1000... Even BMW has toned down their  look - the F800R is single headlight now, and the naked S1000 is kind of generic.
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