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A new rider kid I took out a few times earlier this year fancies himself a vlogger and hangs with the wrong bike crowd. He just crashed again like a moron. I'm glad smartphones and gopros weren't around when I started riding. This poo poo is why people say your first year or more of riding should be dedicated to learning how to control the vehicle and how to place yourself in the best possible situation on the roads. 1:00 for the action, 3:20 for the replay and alternate view. Also don't wear a fuckin' muppet helmet if there's a chance that you might actually look like a fuckin muppet.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M12ZLf8zLQ He has like 40 subs
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Nov 19, 2017 18:06
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Hey, at leased next year you can say you know someone that was in No Prisoners.
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Nov 19, 2017 18:28
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I wasn't even expecting the crash and the obvious red lights caused me to tense up. Dude needs to focus on riding instead of tossing a ton of distractions into the mix.
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Nov 19, 2017 18:36
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In it for the wrong reasons, good luck with death/injury.
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Nov 19, 2017 19:01
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so did he add the sick windshield and tank stickers and chop off one mirror or did the bike come that way
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Nov 19, 2017 19:06
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That bike was hosed up in a way I've never seen when I rode with him. His rear shock was completely toast and the rear wheel would literally bounce going into turns. Like drat near leaving the pavement. I dunno if he ever fixed it.
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Nov 19, 2017 19:09
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That Guzzi adv bike: The exhaust is always in the way of luggage on most any bike. The bag on that side just ends up with a cutout and a heat shield. Guzzis sell for way less and seem to have cheaper owners than BMWs on the whole. I imagine SW Motech will do fine with accessories for that bike since their stuff isn't usually crazy expensive. Touratech and AltRider, maybe not so much. Jazzzzz fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Nov 19, 2017 |
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Nov 19, 2017 20:25
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Chris Knight posted:New Guzzi adventure, I love it. Not my style of bike, but glad to see Galluzzi and crew have finally managed to get a wholly new design out to production. For those not up on Italian bike drama, Piaggio poached Miguel Galluzzi from Ducati (where he had designed the Monster and most of the Cagiva range) and put him in overall charge of their big-bike design, where he was responsible for the overall design of the Aprilia Shiver, Dorsoduro, and Mana and the styling of the RSV and Tuono, before turning to Guzzi. Gossip has it that they've basically spent the last three years at the Guzzi factory with a copy of "Bike Design For Dummies" and a baseball bat with a nail through it trying to get them to understand that things have moved on since the days of the underbone frame and maybe, just maybe, bikes can weigh less than cars. Things came to a head last year with the head of Guzzi's "Two Wheeled Operations" division quitting with, presumably, a lot of vivid hand gestures. The alleged Galluzzi-designed models up this point have either actually been effective reskins of ooooold designs (California, late-model V7, V9) or just straight-up concept bikes built at Aprilia around Guzzi engines (the... interesting looking V12 range):  V12 LM Concept  V12 X Concept  V12 Oh yeah, those stacked headlights? Miguel's got his old boss, Pierre Terreblanche (designer of the Ducati 999) working for him now too. Also the rumours that Piaggio were spreading was that while Aprilia had the old 8V engine they took the liberty of tweaking it a bit both production-wise and performance-wise, making both a bit more 21st-century. If these things actually make it to production with half-decent engines then that could be very interesting.
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Nov 19, 2017 22:40
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I like the skid plate attached to the exhaust because the engine is a stressed member.
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Nov 19, 2017 23:15
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nsaP posted:A new rider kid I took out a few times earlier this year fancies himself a vlogger and hangs with the wrong bike crowd. He just crashed again like a moron. I'm glad smartphones and gopros weren't around when I started riding. This poo poo is why people say your first year or more of riding should be dedicated to learning how to control the vehicle and how to place yourself in the best possible situation on the roads. I like how his buddy isn't the least bit surprised
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Nov 20, 2017 00:11
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i like how the guy calls himself "that GS dude" as if owning a GS500 is anything to brag about like, they're fine, but i'm shocked that anyone would do the whole define-your-personality-by-the-bike-you-ride thing with something so generic
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Nov 20, 2017 01:23
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Yeah, you know me. I'm that guy you always see around. The guy with the 1998 Toyota Tercel. they call me That Tercel Dude. lllllllaaaadies
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Nov 20, 2017 01:24
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nsaP posted:A new rider kid I took out a few times earlier this year fancies himself a vlogger and hangs with the wrong bike crowd. He just crashed again like a moron. I'm glad smartphones and gopros weren't around when I started riding. This poo poo is why people say your first year or more of riding should be dedicated to learning how to control the vehicle and how to place yourself in the best possible situation on the roads. I know adrenaline does weird things, but I can't get over him walking around to lay back down in the middle of the road.
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Nov 20, 2017 02:02
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I’m surprised he wrote himself into a corner with that YouTube name because that riding style screams “I’ll be off this GS500 and on a liter bike in a month”
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Nov 20, 2017 03:43
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There is definitely a subgroup of ersatz motvloggers who carry on with names they probably deprecated within weeks of starting out. There’s bound to be some guy on a half-dead 929RR somewhere with a YouTube channel called SymWolf150Dude. Paid like $100 for this jigglytext-and-dubstep intro reel that puts 50% of viewers off before they get to the “content”, ain’t going back now!
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Nov 20, 2017 04:32
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah, you know me. I'm that guy you always see around. The guy with the 1998 Toyota Tercel. they call me That Tercel Dude. lllllllaaaadies I owned a 98 tercel and it was the best car I've ever had 
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Nov 20, 2017 04:44
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’m surprised he wrote himself into a corner with that YouTube name because that riding style screams “I’ll be off this GS500 and on a liter bike in a month” Um, sir, GSX-R1000. His handle is just fine.
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Nov 20, 2017 05:23
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Not my style of bike, but glad to see Galluzzi and crew have finally managed to get a wholly new design out to production. That's some cool gossip, but christ those are some ugly loving concept bikes.
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Nov 20, 2017 06:16
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nsaP posted:He has like 40 subs 41 now  Now Billy Joel can do a show like Ewan did. Or Redneck Zombie Daryl
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Nov 20, 2017 18:22
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https://twitter.com/i/moments/932653395860697089
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Nov 20, 2017 18:55
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AKA a normal commute in Taiwan.
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Nov 20, 2017 19:10
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Brough do you even lift? P1050249 by King Dugga, on Flickr
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Nov 20, 2017 20:55
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captainOrbital posted:41 now 43  Can't wait to see what he does for hitting his lifelong dream of 50 subs!
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Nov 20, 2017 20:56
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Finger Prince posted:Brough do you even lift? This is like someone was trying to do the opposite of designing the bike. Like some kind of maverick Avant Garde bike designer trying to refute the foundations of bike design came up with it.
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Nov 20, 2017 21:01
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Slavvy posted:This is like someone was trying to do the opposite of designing the bike. Like some kind of maverick Avant Garde bike designer trying to refute the foundations of bike design came up with it. Almost as though it were designed by the combined forces of an English motorcycle enthusiast and a French designer.
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Nov 20, 2017 21:26
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And of course they're all wearing flipflops.
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Nov 20, 2017 22:12
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Slavvy posted:This is like someone was trying to do the opposite of designing the bike. Like some kind of maverick Avant Garde bike designer trying to refute the foundations of bike design came up with it. It's much prettier in the flesh, and of course apes the original SS100 pretty closely style-wise. Still not worth whatever the pricetag is, and I could tell that just by the plushness of the leather sofas at their stand at the London MCN show earlier this year. (A stand that was incidentally larger and better-appointed than the entire Piaggio Group's stand. Mind you Lexmoto had a bigger stand than both)
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Nov 20, 2017 22:19
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It's much prettier in the flesh, and of course apes the original SS100 pretty closely style-wise. Still not worth whatever the pricetag is, and I could tell that just by the plushness of the leather sofas at their stand at the London MCN show earlier this year. Forty-Five Thousand Pounds. AKA the price of a deposit on a one bedroom shoebox in suburban London. AKA the price of a damp garage in suburban London that you bought to park it in. AKA Are You loving Mental.
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Nov 20, 2017 22:41
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BbuDFbJHuTO/
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Nov 21, 2017 07:40
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Finger Prince posted:Forty-Five Thousand Pounds. AKA the price of a deposit on a one bedroom shoebox in suburban London. AKA the price of a damp garage in suburban London that you bought to park it in. AKA Are You loving Mental. It's not being marketed to you or me though. It's being marketed to the people who already own and rent out those shoeboxes and garages. Also that's like half the price of even the tattiest running original SS100 out there.
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Nov 22, 2017 21:48
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Ok team, time for a game of fill in the blanks! "I run race wets on my street bike because ________"
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Nov 22, 2017 22:50
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Slavvy posted:Ok team, time for a game of fill in the blanks! I really like replacing fairings with fake carbon fiber pieces.
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Nov 22, 2017 22:58
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It keeps me on the road when my fork oil drips all over the tires.
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Nov 22, 2017 23:03
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Slavvy posted:Ok team, time for a game of fill in the blanks! raindrops keep falling on my head.
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Nov 22, 2017 23:07
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I run race wets on my street bike because gixxer bro.
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Nov 22, 2017 23:14
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What really perplexes me is that he knew someone he could get some used wets from, and presumably kows what they're intended for, yet somehow avoided the common sense by osmosis you get when dealing with someone who isn't a massive idiot. Having never ridden a bike with wets, how do they behave in the dry? What kind of lifespan would you expect being ridden on the road? So many questions.
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Nov 22, 2017 23:24
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Are race wets not serviceable tires for street use? I know race tires in general are bad, and slicks are bad, and used tires are bad, but wouldn't that tire work ok?
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Nov 22, 2017 23:26
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I imagine they don't need to get as warm as slicks / tires not designed for the rain, but wouldn't they still have lovely life and probably need to warm up a bit to have traction?
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Nov 22, 2017 23:31
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From watching MotoGP I've learned that wets disintegrate pretty bloody quickly when they don't have water on the track to keep them cool. Obviously street riding not being as intense as that they must last longer, but you'd have to wonder how long...
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Nov 22, 2017 23:57
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I have to give a brother props: running race wets is a great way to deflect most of the criticisms you'd get for running race slicks while still reaping many of the benefits of being so hardcore that you run race tars on your street bike. Venn diagram: accomplished.
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Nov 22, 2017 23:59
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