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Coydog posted:Self care is saying "you know what? I think I won't watch no prisoners this time". Somebody fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Jul 2, 2020 |
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Martytoof posted:Yeah 15:50 I'm noping out as a car flips and rolls over a guy. drat you can see the people are running to help then the car tips over and they slow down like "no point now"
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Jul 2, 2020 19:19
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  what do we have here?  My brother signed up for the local MSF course, and there was a single spot left. I took my class 10 years ago, so I figured it wouldn’t hurt to refresh my basics, and getting to ride the TW200 for 2 days was worth the cheap class price. These things were dope and fun as hell - gonna miss them 
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Jul 2, 2020 19:24
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I guess I can edit posts. And I also guess it’s easy to accidentally do in the awful app I’m leaving it as a quote though lol
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Jul 2, 2020 19:24
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kloa posted:
I'm honestly shocked anybody makes street-focused tires in those sizes They didn't have any TWs when I did my MSF in October but I got a XT250 which was a blast
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Jul 2, 2020 19:42
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MomJeans420 posted:drat you can see the people are running to help then the car tips over and they slow down like "no point now" I see the car roll onto and then off of him, then he gets up on the far side of the car from the camera and runs away from the camera to the right down another street. I suppose that could be an occupant of the car exiting the car and running away but it looks like the motorcyclist to me.
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Jul 2, 2020 20:05
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Rider safety film starring Peter Fonda and Evel Knievel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eFNcbltDnM Evel is ATGATT.
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Jul 2, 2020 20:13
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I've seen that; when they were like "always leathers" I was like yeah screw the past, was not better.
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Jul 2, 2020 20:17
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I cant help but see past the idiocy of most of the clips. Stunting on open roads in traffic, going way too fast in twisty mountain roads, going too fast in slow traffic. I'll never understand. Obviously some of these poor folks are just blindsided and had no chance but so many of these are completely avoidable. I honestly think a three day MSF course should include one full day of watching no prisoners to keep illustrating what these folks are doing wrong. It might scare some folks from riding at all. Also, never ride a motorcycle in asia or russia. 23:07 I was really hoping the guy was going to bring it all the way around and ride off again. Verman fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jul 2, 2020 |
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Jul 2, 2020 20:36
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I rode a TW200 at my MSF and I fuckin loved it. If I ever move back to Canada I'm gonna get one and put on spiked tires and those outrigger skis they use in Norway and ride it all year round.
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Jul 2, 2020 21:01
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'Sup TW200 learner bike crew? Did my test at Rider Training Institute ten years ago and picked the teewee. Loved it. I was poorly-equipped though and got the laces of my Vietnam-era jungle boots caught in the footpeg and fell over at a stop. They let me keep the piece of clutch lever that snapped off; I've still got it somewhere.
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Jul 2, 2020 21:17
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Verman posted:I cant help but see past the idiocy of most of the clips. Stunting on open roads in traffic, going way too fast in twisty mountain roads, going too fast in slow traffic. I'll never understand. Obviously some of these poor folks are just blindsided and had no chance but so many of these are completely avoidable. I've ridden in Russia/Ukraine and plan on doing a southeast asia bike trip. Defensive riding will stop majority of those collisions, trust me.
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Jul 2, 2020 21:58
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Mister Speaker posted:'Sup TW200 learner bike crew? Did my test at Rider Training Institute ten years ago and picked the teewee. Loved it. I was poorly-equipped though and got the laces of my Vietnam-era jungle boots caught in the footpeg and fell over at a stop. They let me keep the piece of clutch lever that snapped off; I've still got it somewhere. I really regret not doing my RTI on the TW200. The CBR125 I used was so annoying -- it literally wouldn't shift into neutral unless I turned the bike off.
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Jul 2, 2020 22:33
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Nitrox posted:Eastern Europe doesn't have much in the way of enforcement. Traffic police is pretty toothless and will only spend most of their energy on easy revenue collection. The riding/driving tests and study materials are better than ones in the US. But people just do idiotic poo poo on the roads, because they are used to not being punished for it. Notice the crippling lack of turn signals in many dashcam videos. Then notice how everyone seem to ignore the middle lane and freey drive on the opposite side of the road or sidewalk at every opportunity. Combined with lack of stop signs or coherent enforceable speed limit, it's basically a mosh pit. Bicycles and pedestrians get hit at a much higher rate as well. There is also an issue of people simply buying a driving license and learning as they go. This sounds like paradise, much better than riding along alternating between staring at the speedo and searching for hidden revenue collectors. Heavily enforced speed limits have no effect on the moron danger coefficient I can tell you that much.
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Jul 2, 2020 22:50
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FBS posted:I'm honestly shocked anybody makes street-focused tires in those sizes Well, the VanVan exists, which is just a street TW for the most part, so there’s at least one other application. But I can see MSF courses alone supporting a couple mfrs making those sizes.
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Jul 2, 2020 23:00
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The TW200 in an MSF class is like cheating. It's the easiest bike to ride I've ever owned.FBS posted:I'm honestly shocked anybody makes street-focused tires in those sizes Yep they are made specifically for the TW200, Bridgestone TW203/TW204. Shinko makes the SR428 for the VanVan which also fits the Tdub, essentially the same tread pattern. I had the tw203/204 combo on my first Tdub and if you squint real hard it looks a bit like a supermoto. Best tire combo IMO is a Shinko 244 "Golden Boy" front and a stock rear. The stock front is absolute trash, remove it and burn it so it does not curse another motorcycle.
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Jul 2, 2020 23:56
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PeterCat posted:Rider safety film starring Peter Fonda and Evel Knievel. "If a car cuts you off, your braking and downshifting will slow you much more quickly than a car" God, was that actually true in the 70s?
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Jul 3, 2020 00:21
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FBS posted:"If a car cuts you off, your braking and downshifting will slow you much more quickly than a car" That was true well into the 90's.
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Jul 3, 2020 00:48
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Cars in the 70’s had drum brakes all around. If you had 4 wheel disc brakes you were driving something very exotic.
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Jul 3, 2020 01:51
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Gorson posted:The TW200 in an MSF class is like cheating. It's the easiest bike to ride I've ever owned. At my MSF it was one TW200 and every other bike was a small Japanese cruiser of some sort. I picked the TW and I definitely had the easiest/best time of anyone there. It was such a joy to use it for the weekend.
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Jul 3, 2020 02:02
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Cars in the 70’s had drum brakes all around. If you had 4 wheel disc brakes you were driving something very exotic. Volvos but yeah those were probably a little exotic then.
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Jul 3, 2020 02:03
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Got to work on this for a bit yesterday: It was uuuh not very well built.
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Jul 3, 2020 02:30
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It literally looks like a custom bike someone built And not in a good way
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Jul 3, 2020 02:49
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Slavvy posted:Got to work on this for a bit yesterday: Forget the Commando, I want to see more of the K1.
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Jul 3, 2020 03:12
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ought ten posted:Forget the Commando, I want to see more of the K1. 
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Jul 3, 2020 17:57
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Twenty bucks
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Jul 3, 2020 18:07
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everything else there aside, is it even possible to bore an SV650 out to 1000cc?
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Jul 3, 2020 18:11
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Definitely not. There are 700cc kits that are at the absolute limit of the cylinder walls. Remember the 650 is already a bored out 400
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Jul 3, 2020 18:20
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Maybe it's an open-concept engine. Infinite displacement.
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Jul 3, 2020 18:25
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I want to shoot him all right
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Jul 3, 2020 19:18
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FBS posted:I want to shoot him all right High probability of missing due to the glare and reflection off the swingarm.
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Jul 3, 2020 19:48
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ought ten posted:Forget the Commando, I want to see more of the K1. I saw one on the road in the usual Hot Dog Stand colors once, never seen it in blue
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Jul 3, 2020 21:34
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wonder what shenanigans have gone on to use what looks like the stock rear swingarm in the rear to fit that huge tire. im going to guess someone put a floor jack between the two arms until it fit. also lmao at the lovely stock dampening rod forks still being there. that thing must be terrifying to ride
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Jul 3, 2020 22:44
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I found the listing I’m the chain tension 
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Jul 3, 2020 23:45
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ought ten posted:Forget the Commando, I want to see more of the K1. lovely potato pic is all I have:  I have worked on it and I'm sorry to say it's basically a k1000 with a mound of elephant turds poured on top. Just utterly, utterly awful and the riding experience, which is just the usual 80's BMW terribleness, nowhere near makes up for every single little thing being a three hour job. I was totally disappointed, never meet your heroes I guess.
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Jul 4, 2020 02:45
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Slavvy posted:lovely potato pic is all I have: My uncle had one of those in the 80s, same yellow and blue colours and everything. It looked like the future to me when I was 10.
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Jul 4, 2020 03:39
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I found the listing lol that chain is flaccid
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Jul 4, 2020 04:32
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:lol that chain is flaccid What chain do you see that fat tire??
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I'm the missing license plate.
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