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Nitrox posted:They're at the bottom of the ravine already.  Legdiian posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsxZ-R27dBA hahaha fantastic
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Never understood how people manage to do that poo poo, burnouts on a bike are like the easiest thing in the world. It's a vehicle that lets you use the front brake separate to the rear from the factory, literally doesn't get any easier than that.
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Oct 20, 2015 19:29
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Slavvy posted:Never understood how people manage to do that poo poo, burnouts on a bike are like the easiest thing in the world. It's a vehicle that lets you use the front brake separate to the rear from the factory, literally doesn't get any easier than that. Panic
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Oct 21, 2015 00:27
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First time I did a burnout on a bike my thinking was: Hold the front brake to stop it going anywhere Both feet on the ground to stop it falling over Give it a huge amount of gas and drop the clutch quick so the tyre spins up instantly instead of trying to drive the bike forward I guess the third one is where the difficulties lay?
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Oct 21, 2015 02:14
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Slavvy posted:First time I did a burnout on a bike my thinking was: This is what I always do, but no clutch. I just twist the throttle while holding the brake. That was on a 500 though, if that matters.
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Oct 21, 2015 02:39
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Well, if you slip the clutch trying to get it to spin you're gonna push the front end, at which point you freak out, dump the clutch, whiskey the throttle, the front end picks up, you shut the power off and jump on the front brake hard. Don't ask how I know. Also don't ask how I know that you can lock the front when the bike tries to pick up the front trying to do a rolling burnout and push the front completely locked up at 80mph as you wonder how you haven't lowsided yet.
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Oct 21, 2015 02:42
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BlackMK4 posted:Well, if you slip the clutch trying to get it to spin you're gonna push the front end, at which point you freak out, dump the clutch, whiskey the throttle, the front end picks up, you shut the power off and jump on the front brake hard.  I wish I had the kind of disposable income it takes to 'learn' stuff like that.
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Oct 21, 2015 02:51
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To be fair, I never crashed doing something dumb  edit: haven't crashed yet doing something dumb*
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Oct 21, 2015 02:58
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I only crash while doing mundane things like riding straight in gravel.
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Oct 21, 2015 03:06
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My brother in law does stuff with things and those things are light;     quote:Kawasaki H2. Weight is less than originals, but more important the panels are much stiffer. I'm a fan of my brother in law!
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Oct 21, 2015 03:08
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Left work early yesterday and went riding I think I'm going to start doing flex time... start work at 6am instead of 9 and leave at 2 then go ride a few days a week.
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Oct 21, 2015 03:21
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BlackMK4 posted:Well, if you slip the clutch trying to get it to spin you're gonna push the front end, at which point you freak out, dump the clutch, whiskey the throttle, the front end picks up, you shut the power off and jump on the front brake hard. I once started off from a stop light, only to have a bicyclist run the poo poo out of the red...I jumped on the front brake, planning to pull in the clutch and give it a fistful of throttle to give the dude a bit of what for, and...forgot to pull in the clutch. Did a nice rolling burnout slowly into the intersection, and that was the first time I saw a man poo poo himself in real time.
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Oct 21, 2015 05:11
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Z3n posted:I once started off from a stop light, only to have a bicyclist run the poo poo out of the red...I jumped on the front brake, planning to pull in the clutch and give it a fistful of throttle to give the dude a bit of what for, and...forgot to pull in the clutch. Did a nice rolling burnout slowly into the intersection, and that was the first time I saw a man poo poo himself in real time. That's hilarious. Wish there was video.
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Oct 21, 2015 05:24
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M42, is this you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP5qPvCAyfE 
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Collateral Damage posted:M42, is this you?
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Oct 21, 2015 14:59
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Collateral Damage posted:M42, is this you? Did she hand it over to Howard Wolowitz' mother?
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Collateral Damage posted:M42, is this you? to the max. That lady is awesome
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Collateral Damage posted:M42, is this you? Nah, M42 would have ridden the cat home.
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Oct 21, 2015 17:36
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Chichevache posted:Nah, M42 would have ridden the cat home. Truth! I once saved a turtle off the road like that
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Collateral Damage posted:Followup picture: This made my day.
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Collateral Damage posted:Followup picture: And now there are fleas in that helmet. Cute cat though.
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Shadowlz posted:And now there are fleas in that helmet. Cute cat though. Fleas don't jump from healthy animals onto synthetic poo poo I don't think.
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clutchpuck posted:Splitlath EBR's new brake setup. I was going to ask how the hell you even remove a wheel from this kind of setup, then remembered how to use Google. Is there any front wheel that isn't a massive chore to remove? This type looks especially bad because you can't disengage the calipers from the brake disc until you've already disconnected the wheel from the fork ends, but even regular front wheels look like kind of a faff. Even if it's one of those non-production pipe dream type things, surely some crazy engineer somewhere managed to figure out a front wheel that's as quick to remove as a rear ssa?
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Semi-related, I was googling the yamaha gts 1000 and the top autocomplete suggestion was "yamaha gts 1000 cafe racer": 
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Renaissance Robot posted:Semi-related, I was googling the yamaha gts 1000 and the top autocomplete suggestion was "yamaha gts 1000 cafe racer": Endurance bikes usually have a setup where the brakes pivot out of the way to make front wheel changes really quick. Also I now want a GTS1000 to turn into a naked because I think if it were done competently it would look absolutely phenomenal and from the future.
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Renaissance Robot posted:I was going to ask how the hell you even remove a wheel from this kind of setup, then remembered how to use Google. On my Buell XB it was really easy, all you had to do was remove the axle, move the wheel back far enough to get the rotor out of the caliper, and then remove the two bolts that connect the fender to the fork leg, after which the caliper could be rotated aside.
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Yeah. Uly's process is something like: get it up and get the fender off loosen the axle position the wheel undo one caliper bolt and pivot the caliper remove the axle push wheel up and back and it's free
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Slavvy posted:Endurance bikes usually have a setup where the brakes pivot out of the way to make front wheel changes really quick. A quick Google search gives some cool (in a 90s cyberpunk way) results.   I hear the handling was poo poo because Yamaha didn't fully commit to the radd suspension concept. But that's coming from the guy that designs radd suspensions. Slim Pickens fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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Slim Pickens posted:A quick Google search gives some cool (in a 90s cyberpunk way) results. No, you're 100% right. I remember reading an article by the guy who designed the suspension to start with and from what he said Yamaha basically just ran that poo poo into the ground and poisoned the idea for everyone else. They quite literally killed his dream and it was a little sad to read.
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I don't even know what you call that white thing, but it looks like Pingu made it out of packed snow.
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Oct 22, 2015 03:12
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That's pretty drat Radd.
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ChlamydiaJones posted:I'm a fan of my brother in law! My wife and I checked out the street version a few weeks back and that one was lighter than I thought too. She wants one badly.
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Slim Pickens posted:I hear the handling was poo poo because Yamaha didn't fully commit to the radd suspension concept. But that's coming from the guy that designs radd suspensions. If you remember where you read this I'd be interested to read it too, hearing engineers bitch about the big mc companies loving up the future of bikes is always fun.
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Angryboot posted:My wife and I checked out the street version a few weeks back and that one was lighter than I thought too. She wants one badly.  the Enabling Spouse Club is the best club.
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Renaissance Robot posted:If you remember where you read this I'd be interested to read it too, hearing engineers bitch about the big mc companies loving up the future of bikes is always fun. Bored at work, found this piece via random googling. The tl;dr is JapaneseCorporateCulture.txt  It's good to hear he's still in the game though. Seems like most of the UK based bike engineering enthusiasts active in the 70s stopped trying after running out of money. Slavvy posted:Also I now want a GTS1000 to turn into a naked because I think if it were done competently it would look absolutely phenomenal and from the future. Mostly I'm surprised anyone would think to cafe the gts, because it's fat as gently caress. But then again, so is the new tron bike
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He's so calm.
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