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Having your hands above your heart while riding also significantly contributes to them falling asleep and/or getting cold. One of many reasons you only see choppers being ridden on the sunniest warmest weekend days
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Steakandchips posted:Are those Iron Cross decals/metal badges? Martytoof posted:How do you even ride a bike with your arms over your head?
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May 21, 2020 16:12
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:have y’all never seen a chopper before? No I mean I’ve seen them, I just can’t imagine riding one with my hands that high 
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May 21, 2020 16:17
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 Conversely, show me your lowest clip-ons.
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May 21, 2020 16:22
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Steakandchips posted:Are those Iron Cross decals/metal badges?  and looked it up. It's been more widely recognized as a generic paint by numbers outlaw biker thing for a long while now. You can get them preapplied to your GMC bumperNow if you see one with a swastika in the middle They Might be a Nazi
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May 21, 2020 16:32
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RightClickSaveAs posted:The iron cross is all over the place on vehicle bumpers in the US, I never really paid attention before but with the trend in emboldened nazis lately I'm more alert to those things, so I did a Yeah it was a big heavy metal thing in the 70s, so of course it bleeds over into performative masculinity everywhere else. It's mostly just a shock value thing - it doesn't necessarily mean Nazi any more than horns mean someone is a satanist.
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May 21, 2020 16:43
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Mild ape hangers can actually be pretty comfortable, but anything that puts your hands higher than your shoulders = no thanks
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May 21, 2020 18:01
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Is that different from the Maltese Cross? I remember watching Monster Garage as a kid and Jesse James put that poo poo all over his bikes and cars, and it's not like the Discovery Channel blurred it out. So either Jesse James was/is a white supremacists or like the above poster said it was just some machismo/performative masculinity thing, now being co-opted by Nazis.
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May 21, 2020 18:21
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Mister Speaker posted:
I did once see a cruiser with highway pegs almost that far forward, and clipons. Dude riding it was practically folded in half.
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MetaJew posted:Is that different from the Maltese Cross? I remember watching Monster Garage as a kid and Jesse James put that poo poo all over his bikes and cars, and it's not like the Discovery Channel blurred it out. So either Jesse James was/is a white supremacists or like the above poster said it was just some machismo/performative masculinity thing, now being co-opted by Nazis. the Maltese Cross (as seen on firefighting equipment, etc) is distinct from the Iron Cross (as seen on German military equipment), yes. Neither one is a Nazi symbol but the Iron Cross, being a german military decoration, is certainly at least Nazi-adjacent. I would say it's contextual, like how viking runes mean something different when they're tattooed onto a hippie earth mama vs onto a norwegian guy with a shaved head and combat boots.
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May 21, 2020 18:39
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Jazzzzz posted:Mild ape hangers can actually be pretty comfortable, but anything that puts your hands higher than your shoulders = no thanks This. I've owned two cruisers with apes and loved them. They're a lot more comfortable than clip ons with forward controls, especially if you're tall. The Iron Cross was a thing outlaw clubs adopted and eventually it spread to mainstream cruiser culture after all the chopper craze and sons of anarchy hit in the 2000s. I'm sure its also used in white supremacist adjacent poo poo, but that wasn't it's original origin.
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Sagebrush posted:the Maltese Cross (as seen on firefighting equipment, etc) is distinct from the Iron Cross (as seen on German military equipment), yes. Neither one is a Nazi symbol but the Iron Cross, being a german military decoration, is certainly at least Nazi-adjacent. This chopper was spotted in Norway (I'm Norwegian). I also thought the iron cross stuff was off-putting, I was just more shocked at a chopper with front brake discs.
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yeah i mean having TWO brakes on the layer dan lever is just asking to be flipped over the bars. you gotta have the front raked out like that to even have a chance of staying in control
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pun pundit posted:Found the weirdest Harley I've ever seen in a parking garage yesterday. Tiny fuel tank, weird old shifting system, speedometer by left knee, all the things you expect on an old modified Harley.... Except it had dual disc front brakes. This is a loving rad chopper because it's a super old Harley turned into a real and genuine self- built custom. It's not a pile of s&s $$$$ chrome put together by a company in Texas for idiot boomers, thus it's Ok In My Book. Shelvocke posted:Didn't Slavvy work on a Nazi cruiser owned by a Japanese guy who had no idea? I own the Nazi cruiser, still trying to sell it and now that the lockdown has lifted here it might actually find a loving fuhrer bunker to call home.
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As a piece of art, I love it.
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Slavvy posted:This is a loving rad chopper because it's a super old Harley turned into a real and genuine self- built custom. It's not a pile of s&s $$$$ chrome put together by a company in Texas for idiot boomers, thus it's Ok In My Book. Yeah, I was gonna say this as well. That thing is actually ridden. It's kind of extreme, but actually rideable and about as functional as a raked out hardtail can be. The builder pretty clearly knew how to make sure the front wheel had some stopping power and traction.
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May 21, 2020 22:30
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When you scrape the pegs going straight.
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When you even with that monster fairing have a fetish for having your rear end sprayed with road goop. Fenders ain't hard, it is possible to even make em stylish. Supradog fucked around with this message at 23:52 on May 21, 2020 |
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May 21, 2020 22:43
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When you brake hard and knock your teeth out
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May 21, 2020 22:52
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That BMW was never meant to be ridden farther than the distance between the back of a truck and the display stand it's sitting on that weekend. Someone did intend you ride these stupid things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdS0h681CLk
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May 21, 2020 22:55
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The rear tire wants to consume your genitals.
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I found a long lost cousin 
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Supradog posted:When you even with that monster fairing have a fetish for having you rear end spayed with road goop. I don't understand why builders hate fenders either
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while we're on the subject of stupid customs, i have been looking for a specific video of a terrible hayabusa trike conversion. it has the rear swingarm extended like eight feet and the two rear wheels are giant 48" donk wheels on a very narrow-set axle so the whole vehicle kind of looks like a dick and balls. the rider is a morbidly obese man wearing a t-shirt and no helmet and his passenger is an equally obese woman. it looks like it's in florida somewhere and the video is shot from a hotel balcony or somewhere about that height. please help me find it
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Supradog posted:I found a long lost cousin Please tell me that’s on a BW
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Sagebrush posted:while we're on the subject of stupid customs, i have been looking for a specific video of a terrible hayabusa trike conversion. it has the rear swingarm extended like eight feet and the two rear wheels are giant 48" donk wheels on a very narrow-set axle so the whole vehicle kind of looks like a dick and balls. the rider is a morbidly obese man wearing a t-shirt and no helmet and his passenger is an equally obese woman. it looks like it's in florida somewhere and the video is shot from a hotel balcony or somewhere about that height.  https://youtu.be/Ni0pONPYIv0 HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 02:35 on May 22, 2020 |
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May 22, 2020 02:30
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i watched the video twice and i still dont really understand how it turns
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Well I can’t wait to see what YouTube algorithm thinks I’m into now that I have THAT monstrosity in my view history...
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May 22, 2020 02:46
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It must have some sort of open diff to be able to turn like it does. That turn seemed pretty drama free for what that bike has going on
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May 22, 2020 03:01
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:This is not the one you asked for but when you search “busa trike,” a few look like this. nope, that is the exact video, i guess my brain just exaggerated everything (it's not as long as i remembered nor are the riders quite as fat, and it's shot from ground level) for some reason. weird. cheers. barf
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Counter point- they make that thing look like a reasonably sized motorcycle, and the busa very small. What did the poor busa ever do to deserve 99% of it's owners? 
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May 22, 2020 03:40
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Sagebrush posted:nor are the riders quite as fat How bad were you imagining? The rider's tits are as big as the passenger's. I'd say they're both about the same size as Razzled's av, and that is not a small dude
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May 22, 2020 03:59
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in my head they were both basically dripping off the bike, but they are still both pretty huge yeah. look at the size of those shoes
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I think the most charitable thing I can say is "it's different," for what that's worth, but I can't imagine walking into my garage, seeing that, and not instantly being incredibly ashamed to own it.
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mewse posted:I don't understand why builders hate fenders either I did see one builder do a modern take on a bathtub triumph:  It doesn't quite land for me, but I appreciate the effort.
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Renaissance Robot posted:I did see one builder do a modern take on a bathtub triumph: Something about this reminds me of that circle Aprilia whose name I can never remember.
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builds character posted:Something about this reminds me of that circle Aprilia whose name I can never remember. Moto 6.5
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Coydog posted:Counter point- they make that thing look like a reasonably sized motorcycle, and the busa very small. The busa had the doubly unfortunate situation of being “the bike with the highest number” for a long time, which attracts a certain type of rider who absolutely has to have the bike with the highest number. It also inherited the gs1100 throne of “top drag bike” meaning there were tons and tons of drag racing go-fast parts out there both used and new. You could buy a busa and immediately kit it out with a ton of drag parts, leading to a glut of them with stretched swing arms and front-end slam kits. Nitrous of course being the next option for the slightly more serious icy hot stunta. Nowadays the H2 and Panigale and bikes like that have the highest number crown but they’re nowhere near as affordable and are not making anywhere close to the dent in drag racing that the busa did.
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