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I don't really know the best place to post this but I'm pretty excited about it. Before & After of an adventure trailer my brother and I built. Mostly his design but put a lot of work in on it and think it turned out pretty nice. Some more pics including shots of the cabin interior and a dog
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Sep 26, 2016 14:04
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Slavvy posted:Yup. It may not be super sleek and futuristic and poo poo but at least everything is cohesively shaped and laid out instead of just a scattergun of random angular plastic bullshit everywhere like practically every modern 'naked' bike.
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Sep 26, 2016 14:28
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Tree Dude posted:I don't really know the best place to post this but I'm pretty excited about it. Awesome stuff. 
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Sep 26, 2016 15:06
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Dope. I met someone at the track that had a similar setup. They took a long boat trailer, installed a prefab camper bit up front, and used the space behind for two trackbikes. Hauled by a big ole f350. Probably the best setup I've seen so far.
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Sep 26, 2016 15:09
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:It's an accurate sign of the times when that round thing looks good compared to every other modern bike. It means that every other modern bike is a hideous piece of poo poo. You can't be serious. Looks good?? You're on drugs. Bad ones that make you go blind.
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Sep 26, 2016 15:13
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Slavvy posted:Good. I'm not asking you to like it, I'm asking you to respect it because actual effort was put in and it was designed by one guy with a very particular vision instead of a focus group populated by middle aged men with speed dealer sunglasses. There is absolutely something to be said for a cohesive design vision vs. design by committee, but I tend to be a form follows function kinda guy and, to me, that bike just screams "I want to design a bike that looks retro-futuristic/have been watching too many episodes of the Jetsons. We can figure out how to make an actual working bike out of this after I'm done with my pretty drawings". Even if the bike wasn't designed with function in mind first, good design ages well. Twenty years after it came out, that bike is 100% kitsch. This is versus something like the Britten, which was built around using the engine as a stressed frame member (function), used a completely different design language than anything from its era, AND still looks cool as gently caress.
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Sep 26, 2016 17:28
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Slavvy posted:Good. I'm not asking you to like it, I'm asking you to respect it because actual effort was put in and it was designed by one guy with a very particular vision instead of a focus group populated by middle aged men with speed dealer sunglasses. Do you have Ducati posters in your garage? How do you feel about kickstands mounted on engine cases?
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Sep 26, 2016 17:54
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Slavvy posted:Anime is for idiot manbabies so I'm gonna say This looks like what would happen if you based your bikes aesthetic on a toddlers crayon drawing. I'm not a big fan of the angular plastic modern naked bike stuff either, but this just one just looks corny.
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Sep 26, 2016 18:02
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Marxalot posted:Do you have Ducati posters in your garage? 
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Sep 26, 2016 18:09
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I hope the bolts holding that up aren't italian.
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Sep 26, 2016 19:30
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Buhbuhj posted:I hope the bolts holding that up aren't italian. I wouldn't worry about the bolts, but the drywaller and framer probably was. Because there are traditionally a lot of Italians in the construction industry, you see. I'm sure they all do quality work.
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Sep 26, 2016 20:04
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Tree Dude posted:I don't really know the best place to post this but I'm pretty excited about it. This is awesome, nice work!
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Sep 26, 2016 20:06
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Linedance posted:You can't be serious. Looks good?? You're on drugs. Bad ones that make you go blind. Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:compared to It looks like a bulbous turd but it's better than most bikes today.
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Sep 26, 2016 20:42
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Linedance posted:I wouldn't worry about the bolts, but the drywaller and framer probably was. Because there are traditionally a lot of Italians in the construction industry, you see. I'm sure they all do quality work. That's in Britain so it's solid brick holding it up, put up by solid Irishmen wearing solid tweed jackets. No Groverhausen allowed here. (IIRC it's held up by three fairly chunky hooks, so it's around 60kgs per hook assuming it's dry - even shonky American "Iunno, slap some 2x4s and plasterboard somewhere" construction can hold that up if it's done right)
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Sep 26, 2016 20:51
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I think it's sad that the bike's on a wall, and not on the road.
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Sep 26, 2016 21:17
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Nfcknblvbl posted:I think it's sad that the bike's on a wall, and not on the road. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say it's winter.
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Sep 26, 2016 21:36
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It's mounted so the hole punched in the lower cases by the kickstand isn't draining oil across the wall.
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Sep 26, 2016 21:54
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Tree Dude posted:I don't really know the best place to post this but I'm pretty excited about it. So how far from the rally do you unload?
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Sep 26, 2016 22:01
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clutchpuck posted:So how far from the rally do you unload? Ouch!
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Sep 26, 2016 22:19
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clutchpuck posted:So how far from the rally do you unload? 
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Sep 26, 2016 22:20
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LOL clutchpuck I would not be able to relax on that couch with the loving Duc of Damocles hanging over my poo poo. I'd sit down for like 3 minutes and just not be able to concentrate on The Young Ones or the IT Crowd or whatever you people are watching.
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Sep 26, 2016 22:32
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captainOrbital posted:LOL clutchpuck Ducs of Hazard.
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Sep 26, 2016 22:48
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbl1KAdwQTM
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Sep 26, 2016 23:46
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This video really has everything a good motorcycle video needs.
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Sep 27, 2016 00:12
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Really 'idiot' is redundant in that description, they could have just said 'GSX_'
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Sep 27, 2016 00:34
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Videos like that make me wonder how many riders wipe out on purpose to get some YouTube revenue though I'm probably giving this guy wayyyyy too much credit.
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Sep 27, 2016 00:37
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whoa. WHOA. poo poo. OH MY GOD. I don't buy blaming that entirely on the throttle lock, that was 100% him getting spooked and then target fixating his way over that drop off
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Sep 27, 2016 00:38
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Jazzzzz posted:whoa. WHOA. poo poo. OH MY GOD. He never looked through the corner. He looked straight ahead the whole time. Guy needs to take an MSF class.
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Sep 27, 2016 00:41
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shoulda just layer dan'd
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Sep 27, 2016 00:44
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It looks like the video took place in New Zealand, and he's an American, so left-side-drive may have messed him up a bit.
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Sep 27, 2016 00:48
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Sure, but he was going slow enough that he probably could have just clamped down and locked the wheels and still kept the bike upright.
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Sep 27, 2016 00:56
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Seems like nobody told him he can clutch it
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Sep 27, 2016 00:57
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Lucky he just looks stupid, someone that is that terrible at riding is a severe accident waiting to happen.
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Sep 27, 2016 01:31
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Sagebrush posted:Sure, but he was going slow enough that he probably could have just clamped down and locked the wheels and still kept the bike upright. Digging through the comments he says a few times that "he was hitting the front and rear brakes but the ABS kept the wheels rolling because the throttle was still open". As clutchpuck called out, he could've pulled the loving clutch in too. Video was titled appropriately
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Sep 27, 2016 01:54
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Or turned? He could have turned?
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Sep 27, 2016 02:04
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Well, let's not get too crazy here
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Sep 27, 2016 02:10
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Or turned? He could have turned? But... How?
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I wish he would've committed and tried to land it standing up.
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Whiskey
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