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epswing posted:Hey what the hell is that anyways? It's from porn. I think it's a weird promo still image from a series? It was posted back in GBS a very extremely long time ago, and in my mid-20s brain I thought it was hilarious and looked like The Predator, and with ten bucks burning a hole in my pocket I changed whatever I had before to that cropped image. Enough people have gone "hey Strife I hate your avatar" that I haven't felt the need to change it. Clearly it's memorable.
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Oibignose posted:Just saw this upcoming Suzuki GSXS 8S on my youtube feed. The usual parallel twin 270 modern standard but this bike looks great. Heavier than the hornet and less powerful but I prefer it. If you painted that orange it would be a KTM.
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Oibignose posted:Just saw this upcoming Suzuki GSXS 8S on my youtube feed. The usual parallel twin 270 modern standard but this bike looks great. Heavier than the hornet and less powerful but I prefer it. Boo, a gsx without an inline 4. The ~2008 KTM Duke headlight looks good in blue though.
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Oibignose posted:Just saw this upcoming Suzuki GSXS 8S on my youtube feed. The usual parallel twin 270 modern standard but this bike looks great. Heavier than the hornet and less powerful but I prefer it. That said I do like where the budget middleweight class is at now.
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Oibignose posted:Just saw this upcoming Suzuki GSXS 8S on my youtube feed. The usual parallel twin 270 modern standard but this bike looks great. Heavier than the hornet and less powerful but I prefer it. I like this, I think it's much less confused and busy than a ktm or MT. busalover posted:I like Bimota's new KB4 RC This looks horrifying, like an AI generated hand in motorcycle form.
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I also do not like that Bimota at all. The AI generated hand is a great analogy, because all the individual little details of it look fine by themselves, but combined they form a monstrosity that doesn't make any sense. Seriously what do motorcycle designers these days have against smooth surfaces? Motorcycles don't all have to look like you dragged an electromagnet through a scrap yard!
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Nov 8, 2022 17:23
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Strife posted:It's from porn. I think it's a weird promo still image from a series? It was posted back in GBS a very extremely long time ago, and in my mid-20s brain I thought it was hilarious and looked like The Predator, and with ten bucks burning a hole in my pocket I changed whatever I had before to that cropped image. Enough people have gone "hey Strife I hate your avatar" that I haven't felt the need to change it. Clearly it's memorable. That is Vanessa Lane getting fishhooked by Tory Lane and I cannot stress how much I loving hate that my brain retains information like that instead of actually useful things like family birthdays or the name of someone who was just introduced to me five minutes ago
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Nov 8, 2022 18:53
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Slavvy posted:I like this, I think it's much less confused and busy than a ktm or MT. Agree with both of these. I'm a little biased towards the Suz immediately because that blue is so pretty. Still love how KTM's look though hell yeah. For the second one, I usually like all bikes at first glance but this one got a "dang son" out of me.
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Nov 8, 2022 19:00
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Also they put the same engine in the V-Strom.   I think it looks cool.
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Strife posted:Enough people have gone "hey Strife I hate your avatar" that I haven't felt the need to change it. Clearly it's memorable.
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Rolo posted:Also they put the same engine in the V-Strom. Don't they mean P-Strom
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Nov 8, 2022 19:24
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Rolo posted:Also they put the same engine in the V-Strom. The yellow and blue one looks cool. Not enough bright colors in motorcycles anymore. Not a fan of the briefcase-sized exhaust but that's inevitable these days.
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I owned an older snub-nosed vstrom, and I can't even look at any of them after they added a beak, man is that ugly. It already has a front fender wtf.
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busalover posted:I like Bimota's new KB4 RC What's going on with the half filled lol at bigger sidepods than mercedes F1
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Oh my god Suzuki put the brake lights on the fender what the christ   
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More like GSX-BS
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Phy posted:Don't they mean P-Strom
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The law that you have to have a reflector at the rearmost point of the bike (which is why they all have the dangling plastic bits on the tail) is stupid and outdated. Why does it even exist? Is it some dumb idea that cars will hit your rear tire if there isn't a reflector/lamp as the furthest thing back?
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busalover posted:I like Bimota's new KB4 RC This is so heinously bad, I can't even.
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Xakura posted:What's going on with the half filled The giant sideducts are there to redirect airflow to the radiator under the seat  
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Sagebrush posted:The law that you have to have a reflector at the rearmost point of the bike (which is why they all have the dangling plastic bits on the tail) is stupid and outdated. I'm not defending it, but any alternative effectively boils down to "bikes don't need a rear reflector". That might be fine, but really it just exists as a "well it's better than nothing" scenario if your tail light fails.
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Xakura posted:What's going on with the half filled You can put the overflow wherever you like because it works on suction, that is not an unusual location at all. What's unusual is how they managed to snort so much cocaine that nobody remembered to even try to cover it up or style it in some way, it's just a lovely tank sitting exposed right there.
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Finger Prince posted:I'm not defending it, but any alternative effectively boils down to "bikes don't need a rear reflector". That might be fine, but really it just exists as a "well it's better than nothing" scenario if your tail light fails. How about "motorcycles must have a reflector at the rearmost point of the frame or bodywork?"
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I just watched an interview with 2 chaps from Suzuki talking about the new 8S and everything they said about how it filled a gap in the market and why they created it made me hope the interviewer would say "but you had the GSX-S 750..." but nope. It's like they aren't allowed to mention it exists.
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Sagebrush posted:How about "motorcycles must have a reflector at the rearmost point of the frame or bodywork?" That's one solution, but no guarantee the reflector will actually visible in that location, which kind of defeats the purpose of mandating one. Someone could get creative by making an integrated brake light and reflector, it's something that can be designed around for sure, but also you could technically glue one under the seat or behind the undertail exhaust or something and call it a day and still be legal. In that case you might as well not have one.
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Lungboy posted:I just watched an interview with 2 chaps from Suzuki talking about the new 8S and everything they said about how it filled a gap in the market and why they created it made me hope the interviewer would say "but you had the GSX-S 750..." but nope. It's like they aren't allowed to mention it exists. Probably too hard to make it pass newer emissions or something.
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Finger Prince posted:That's one solution, but no guarantee the reflector will actually visible in that location, which kind of defeats the purpose of mandating one. Someone could get creative by making an integrated brake light and reflector, it's something that can be designed around for sure, but also you could technically glue one under the seat or behind the undertail exhaust or something and call it a day and still be legal. In that case you might as well not have one. Regulations cope with stuff like this all the time. "Reflector must be attached to the rearmost part of the motorcycle and visible unobstructed from the rear" etc etc blah blah. They don't have to describe exactly what it fits on, just the result that's needed.
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Ohhhh boy. They'd be bonkers not to bring this to the US.
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Russian Bear posted:Ohhhh boy. They'd be bonkers not to bring this to the US. Looks good to me
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busalover posted:Eh. I'd still prefer a Tenere. Nice to have options, especially since you can’t actually get a tenere right now.
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Finger Prince posted:That's one solution, but no guarantee the reflector will actually visible in that location, which kind of defeats the purpose of mandating one. Someone could get creative by making an integrated brake light and reflector, it's something that can be designed around for sure, but also you could technically glue one under the seat or behind the undertail exhaust or something and call it a day and still be legal. In that case you might as well not have one. You couldn't glue it under the seat or behind the exhaust because then it would not be the rearmost point of the vehicle. You could easily also say "the reflector must be fully visible from 45 degrees left and right of the central axis of the vehicle, 30 degrees above, and 20 degrees below" or the like. Basically the thing that's stupid is saying "the farthest rear point of the entire vehicle, including the rear wheel, must have a reflector/lamp on it" when I don't think that actually increases safety at all over having one eight inches further forwards on the tail of the bike. knox_harrington posted:Regulations cope with stuff like this all the time.
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Russian Bear posted:Ohhhh boy. They'd be bonkers not to bring this to the US. They're also doing a CL500 scrambler based on the Rebel's aesthetics  Cowards dropped the exhaust down under the engine instead of running it inside the knee, but maybe there's just not as much ability to do that with the catalytic converter requirement. I like it a lot more than the stock Rebel otherwise. Phy fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Nov 9, 2022 |
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Phy posted:They're also doing a CL500 scrambler based on the Rebel's aesthetics This looks like it would be an excellent bike tbh, the rebel but with normal foot positioning and less dumb tires is a recipe for fun I reckon.
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That would be a great starter bike.
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Russian Bear posted:Ohhhh boy. They'd be bonkers not to bring this to the US. 524lbs. 38hp. Ride Red.
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right arm posted:524lbs. 38hp. Ride Red. You're making that up surely
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Slavvy posted:You're making that up surely 90hp (same engine as the hornet) and 460lb (wet) allegedly. Not terrible but could they get one of these “middle weights” into low 400s? That would be a game changer. Even the Desert X is a porker.
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