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its all nice on rice posted:Evolution would have you believe that this Harley would evolve into a working motorcycle. Instead, it just sits there, leaking oil. Maybe its decedents, but it's doomed.
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Renaissance Robot posted:As a refutation of Intelligent Design, may I present the Italian electrical system I have a 69 Ducati 160 which has some of its lights running off moped style AC current from the magneto and some of the lights running off the DC 6v battery. And the tail light will get DC sometimes and AC sometimes, depending on which setting the handlebar light switch is on. And the ignition runs off the magneto. What's the battery for? Just to take up space, apparently. This is by design.
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I take it back; god exists, and he's an utter dick
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:And the tail light will get DC sometimes and AC sometimes, depending on which setting the handlebar light switch is on. This is amazing.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:What's the battery for? Just to take up space, apparently. This is by design. Wasn't this a Vespa thing way back when some regulation required the bike to have a battery even though it didn't need one?
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It's almost as if they'd rather spend time drinking espresso and catcalling women than fixing the designs of electrical systems.
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N is for Nipples posted:Wasn't this a Vespa thing way back when some regulation required the bike to have a battery even though it didn't need one?
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captainOrbital posted:It's almost as if they'd rather spend time drinking espresso and catcalling women than fixing the designs of electrical systems. It's just going to get bought by people who take them to drink espresso and hope for passive attention from women, anyway. So, it's kind of fitting.
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What the gently caress is the problem with these bagger-waddling assholes who are suddenly putting megawatt sound systems in their shitpiles. Is it that their loving open pipes can only be heard in the next town, so they need a system playing something suitably badass like Luke Bryan or some other prissy faux-country twaddle so they can be heard in the next loving county? My city (Salem MA) has a charity run shortly before Halloween every year, and it is loving retards-on-parade. Everybody gets drunk by 10AM and drags out their driveway jewelry with 2-year-old oil, 6-year-old brake fluid, underinflated, dry-rotted tires - but the chrome is loving blinding - and half the Electrotard Ultra riders had bags full of amps and 6X9s so loud it was drowning out their lovely potato factories. Is this the new version of HURRR CHOPPA CHOPPA!!1! gently caress me. The_Raven fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Nov 21, 2016 |
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The_Raven posted:What the gently caress is the problem with these bagger-waddling assholes who are suddenly putting megawatt sound systems in their shitpiles. Is it that their loving open pipes can only be heard in the next town, so they need a system playing something suitably badass like Luke Bryan or some other prissy faux-country twaddle so they can be heard in the next loving county? I wonder how many of those guys have killed the stators on their bikes trying to run bigger systemzzzzz
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Jazzzzz posted:I wonder how many of those guys have killed the stators on their bikes trying to run bigger systemzzzzz None of them I saw were in flames, so not enough. The only casualty I saw that day was a guy on a '90s R1 who blew a coolant line or head gasket while doing a burnout, rest assured he got a full ration of poo poo from the bar-and-grill crew as they passed.
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That's why the Milwaukee 8 engines run a higher output stator.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I have a 77 Vespa moped whose ignition source coil is grounded through the brake light. When the brake light goes out and you grab the brakes, it kills the ignition. This is by design. My '08 Genuine Stella - a Vespa PX clone made in a 1980s Vespa factory in India by an Indian company, LML - has the taillight run off DC when the engine is off and off AC when the engine is running. There's a "switching module" at the front of the bike that senses AC output and changes it over. This is kind of clever, actually, since it has weak stator output and this (almost) helps with the charging system. But it also catches fire. Italian design, Indian manufacturing! Thankfully the ignition system is wholly separate from the lighting system so when your reg/rec fails and takes the battery and everything with it, you can still get home... with hand signals. And it retains the kickstart, so when the patched-on electric start drains your battery, you can still get moving. But you're still hosed when the CDI or the ignition coil go out. When.
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The_Raven posted:What the gently caress is the problem with these bagger-waddling assholes who are suddenly putting megawatt sound systems in their shitpiles. Is it that their loving open pipes can only be heard in the next town, so they need a system playing something suitably badass like Luke Bryan or some other prissy faux-country twaddle so they can be heard in the next loving county? Did I ask this already? I'm going to do another H-D demo ride specifically so I can play music from my phone over the blue-teeth on those massive stereos. Anny good suggestions for my playlist? I was thinking Stand and Deliver by Adam and the Ants would be a good start. Maybe some Against Me! would be good too, although that is like some rockin', catchy 90s-style punk, so it may be unwittingly enjoyed. Pizzicato 5 would have to end up on the list too.
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Nov 22, 2016 19:33
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Yanni and Enya
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Five hour run of that gummy bear song.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVd5o8wedO8
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The Real McCoy, obviously.  Jim Silly-Balls posted:Yanni and Enya This is very good, too. Those sound system and straight pipes idiots are the very same that give me loads of greif for putting in earplugs before I ride. Like endless scolding at how unsafe earplugs are, and how you can't "hear the cagers" around you. Even without the pipes and loud music, it's like these morons think they are bats, dodging danger by sound waves alone. With the music and exhausts, I'm surprised they can hear anything, ever, on or off the bikes. Ride the bike you love, sure, just don't be an rear end in a top hat about it. Plus, they load up their overbuilt stators or whatever, and I'm over here running high level mathmatics to figure out how to juggle my 70 watt flood lights, heated grips, and a 76watt heated jacket without murdering the 690. 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Yanni You know, I have to be there too. Also, I can't think of a single song that references gummi bears in any way. Thankfully.
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I don't know a gummi bears song (don't post it), but that reminds me that Aqua exists. You need to be playing every track by Aqua as loud as the system will allow. COME ON HARLEY, LET'S GO PARTY
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Coydog posted:I don't know a gummi bears song (don't post it), but that reminds me that Aqua exists. You need to be playing every track by Aqua as loud as the system will allow. Along those lines I was thinking of the song Sugarboy by...Miss Papaya? It's the worst song in the world, like worse than you're imagining, and it's also not on Spotify, I think. On the other side of that coin, of course, is World Clique.
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You need to play Ugly Boy by Die Antwoord.
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OMG why is everyone stealing from the Aphex Twin? Oh drat I should far up Illustrator and design a shirt for blipshift around the theme: Aphex V-Twin.
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captainOrbital posted:Did I ask this already? I'm going to do another H-D demo ride specifically so I can play music from my phone over the blue-teeth on those massive stereos. Anny good suggestions for my playlist? I was thinking Stand and Deliver by Adam and the Ants would be a good start. Maybe some Against Me! would be good too, although that is like some rockin', catchy 90s-style punk, so it may be unwittingly enjoyed. Pizzicato 5 would have to end up on the list too. Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's version of Over the Rainbow or Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry Be Happy. There are no other options.
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captainOrbital posted:Oh drat I should far up Illustrator and design a shirt for blipshift around the theme: Aphex V-Twin. I want to see this. captainOrbital posted:Along those lines I was thinking of the song Sugarboy by...Miss Papaya? It's the worst song in the world, like worse than you're imagining, and it's also not on Spotify, I think. On the other side of that coin, of course, is World Clique. I know that eventually I'll cave and look these up, but my resolve is strong... for now.
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World Clique is a record by Dee Lite, which is a perfect bridge between the synth-pop and new wave (think B52s) of the 80s and the ravey European dance stuff that peaked (in the States) with the likes of Underworld. I like that record, but then again I enjoy the synth-pop and new wave of the 80s and the 90s style of more thoughtful dance music like Underworld.
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There's loads of stuff you could play... Some very gay Chicago house, some awful eurodance like Cascada or similar, but I wonder if that's just too obvious. Maybe go with something like Public Enemy and Wu Tang, maybe mix in some dirty south like Ludacris or something.
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I had a coworker that used to blast teen girl pop stuff out of his bagger's stereo.
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Finger Prince posted:Maybe go with something like Public Enemy and Wu Tang, maybe mix in some dirty south like Ludacris or something. So, like every bagger/busa in Atlanta?
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This gets my vote. It's pretty catchy.
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"Vis-a-vis the learnéd putzy..." That is pretty catchy, drat. I can't for the life of me find it on Spotify, though.
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We're probably all on DHS watchlists for clicking that link
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Declaring jihad on these apexes, amirite?
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Coydog posted:Declaring jihad on these apexes, amirite? Jihad on cages. *puts a Jerry can on a Buell Blast and rides off without gear*
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Coydog posted:I don't know a gummi bears song (don't post it), Look it up on youtube and you'll remember it. It's hampsterdance tier annoying. Here's what I'd go with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFNPYNxJPlY&t=21s
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captainOrbital posted:Aphex V-Twin. yes
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One of the most amazing biking experiences in my life was being part of a group of twenty or so bikes filtering through about 3 miles of solid traffic behind a Goldwing with Ride of the Valkyrie blasting on it's stereo.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:One of the most amazing biking experiences in my life was being part of a group of twenty or so bikes filtering through about 3 miles of solid traffic behind a Goldwing with Ride of the Valkyrie blasting on it's stereo. Welp, this owns.
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