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M42 posted:I wanna know more about the one in front of it. Fine fine fine...   And bonus picture! 
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As terrible a ride as that probably is I still want on the Gigercycle.
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Nov 17, 2014 06:33
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What the gently caress is that juggling jester poo poo? That is on par with backyard tattooing.
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Nov 17, 2014 08:50
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Next gaming bike I want to see: Suzuki GSXR 1000 with Police Quest paint job.
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Nov 17, 2014 09:10
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HNasty posted:Just saw this, it's Ducatis, plural. Ducatae
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Nov 17, 2014 09:11
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Chichevache posted:As terrible a ride as that probably is I still want on the Gigercycle. I'm impressed with the builders' bucking the trend and sticking a skinny tyre on the back of it.
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Nov 17, 2014 09:29
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Ola posted:Next gaming bike I want to see: Suzuki GSXR 1000 with Police Quest paint job. Battletoads.
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Nov 17, 2014 14:52
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Anybody hear we're supposedly getting the KTM 390 Duke finally?
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Nov 17, 2014 16:06
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Slim Pickens posted:(even though it's annoying in traffic). I don't see a problem. If it annoys people, then they're noticing it. I don't have to look at my brake light.
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Nov 17, 2014 18:06
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Holy poo poo the guy in center front must've had a terrible accident.
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Nov 17, 2014 19:19
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Where did you find this? It is pretty cool.
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Nov 17, 2014 19:33
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Chichevache posted:Where did you find this? It is pretty cool. It was on imgur's front page today with a bunch of other old photos. The caption read "the first black biker club", but didn't have a source or any other info about them. edit: http://www.eastbaydragons.com/history.html I remember them being mentioned in Hunter S. Thompson's book about the Hell's Angels too. hot sauce fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Nov 17, 2014 |
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Nov 17, 2014 19:38
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Ducatae Much like cannoli and biscotti, Ducati is already plural. The singular is "Ducato".
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Nov 17, 2014 19:40
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captainOrbital posted:Much like cannoli and biscotti, Ducati is already plural. Which makes this Ducati: 
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Nov 17, 2014 19:49
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Slim Pickens posted:Bud's out fer a rip dere, eh? I'm a little late to the party but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-glHAzXi_M
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Nov 17, 2014 20:09
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You know, the ergos actually don't look too terrible on it. Looks similar to:  Definitely fugly but not as poo poo as something from OCC or BiggDawgzz. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Nov 17, 2014 |
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Nov 17, 2014 20:18
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:You know, the ergos actually don't look too terrible on it. Looks similar to: They had a 44 Chief and a 40 Knucklehead at the same event...    
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Nov 17, 2014 21:04
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The museum at Ft Bliss, Tx had an old Nazi Zundap. Pretty rad.              I am Engine! 
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Nov 17, 2014 21:20
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That's in remarkably good condition. Are there any Russian remnants? They had some pretty wacky machines.
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Nov 17, 2014 22:15
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Is that zundapp engine somehow related to the early BMW twins, or is the resemblance superficial and they just both happened to have the same configuration?
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Nov 17, 2014 22:19
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That Nazi palm tree is the most bizarre combination of icons I've ever seen. Now I want to see a sitcom about a Teutonic resort owner ruling over his guests in the tradition of Basil Fawlty. "Willkomen to Sandals Resort! Please leave your shoes at the door and immediately report to Guest Accommodations Services for processing!" Chichevache fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Nov 17, 2014 |
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Nov 17, 2014 22:48
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All guests should be happy to note that we have supplied complimentary Hugo Boss bath robes made from 100% natural anthrocapillum!
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Nov 17, 2014 22:52
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Slavvy posted:Is that zundapp engine somehow related to the early BMW twins, or is the resemblance superficial and they just both happened to have the same configuration? When I wiki'd it, it said they were four cylinder engines. So I guess with a flat four and shaft drive the Goldwing is its next of kin.
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clutchpuck posted:When I wiki'd it, it said they were four cylinder engines. So I guess with a flat four and shaft drive the Goldwing is its next of kin. That's very silly. Why would you associate the Japanese with the Nazis?
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Nov 17, 2014 23:44
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That particular Zündapp is not a flat four, although Zündapp did make a flat four. The boxer engines had no relation to BMWs that I'm aware of, there was no connection between the companies. I believe BMW came out with the first longitudinal boxer layout in 1923 and some other companies copied the overall layout. Back in the air cooled days, it was a good setup for cooling.
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Can someone help me identify exactly what went wrong in this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N3XbgPL2Qg It kind of looks to me like he twists the bars to the left and it just lowsides from there. The rider blames his lean angle, but it seems to me that he would have had room to correct if he so chose.
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Nov 18, 2014 07:34
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He was running it alright but stood it up and hit the brakes for some reason?? Dunno but he tucked the front. He seemed to have the corner like most others take it before doing that, but I'm just going on watching rnickeymouse vids.
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nsaP posted:He was running it alright but stood it up and hit the brakes for some reason?? Dunno but he tucked the front. He seemed to have the corner like most others take it before doing that, but I'm just going on watching rnickeymouse vids. I think the consensus from other vids is that the camber flattens out a bit at the exit to that corner which leads to people suddenly going off the edge of their tyres at that point, where it seems like they've made it safely round the corner.
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Nov 18, 2014 08:18
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What bugs me about that is that he's so intent on hamming it up for the camera that after his initial attempt fails he deliberately stands the bike up then tries to lean it over again, in the same corner, just to look cool.
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Nov 18, 2014 09:09
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Lots of lean angle, lots of input (watch what he does with the throttle right before it pushes the front and starts to slide), and lots of steering input. There is next to no warning when you lose the front unless you're very good at what you do. Either way, lean angle is a function of speed and line... vary one and you change the lean angle. Slow the gently caress down on the street. Also, as you start picking up corner speed there is this awkward transition period from dragging your knee on just a few corners and just a little bit to suddenly dragging your knee on a lot of corners and really hard to the point that it catches you off guard. You artificially start limiting your lean and running the exit of corners wide because you need the lean angle to run your line but your body position / mental wtf thinking is keeping you from picking your knee up. At this point you need to alter your body position.. and fine throttle control starts mattering a lot more than it used to as your actual margin for error on the tires is quickly disappearing. Normally there is a loving HUGE margin for error... even when leaned over with what almost all street riders will call a lot of lean angle. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Nov 18, 2014 |
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Nov 18, 2014 16:27
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Chichevache posted:Can someone help me identify exactly what went wrong in this video?
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So Crayvex sez: Where do you wanna go for lunch? I rattle off the usual haunts And he sez: Those suck, what else? And I sez: I've always wanted to eat in a restaurant with motorcycle parts hanging overhead in the form of gigantic model kit sprues. Do you know any place like that? And he sez: Yeah. Dismantled oil-in-frame Triumph, if you haven't guessed. 
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Marv Hushman posted:So Crayvex sez: Where do you wanna go for lunch? Ther's a burger place here like that, but it's a mini instead of a bike.
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Marv Hushman posted:So Crayvex sez: Where do you wanna go for lunch? Marv woke up the next morning and realized he had left his wallet at The Restaurant With No Name. He took a trip down to the place only to find a vacant lot where the building had been. Looking around he spots an old bum pushing a shopping cart. "Excuse me sir, do you know where The Restaurant With No Name is?" "It burned down ten years ago...." *or maybe* Does the restaurant have a name?
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Marv Hushman posted:So Crayvex sez: Where do you wanna go for lunch? Isn't oil in swing arm better?
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Chichevache posted:
He searched the parking lot for his car and ultimately discovered that all forms of transportation required reassembly, yet the world was now devoid of Exacto knives and Whitworth tools. For he had just eaten at a little restaurant we like to call...The Twilight Zone. 
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Slavvy posted:Ther's a burger place here like that, but it's a mini instead of a bike. Burger Fuel?
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Chichevache posted:Can someone help me identify exactly what went wrong in this video? Isn't that 'twist' just the front wheel going over because he ran out of tyre? If he pulled hard on the left handlebar (for some reason) like you suggested, I'm pretty sure countersteering would have stood the bike up. Which probably would have been worse, given his speed and proximity to a wall of rock. Smudgie Buggler fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Nov 19, 2014 |
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