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orinth posted:You're supposed to zip the jacket to the pants, that's the idea of a 2-piece  5 bucks says the chick on the R1 put a foot down to stop and either broke a heel or turned her ankle, dumping the bike and coming off the back end after losing her balance.
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inolen posted:Especially seat stander circles, where you have to use the clutch/handbrake at the same time with the same hand. I don't care much about stunting one way or another as long as it's not on the road, but what kind of bike are you riding that you have a clutch and a brake on the same handgrip? Do you have to run a lever for the rear brake or something?
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Aug 29, 2006 00:42
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Phat_Albert posted:Thats drat impressive IF and only IF the water is more than 2 feet deep. Its tough to tell if he is just driving through shallow water really fast, or actually hydroplaning over deep stuff. That water's not more than 8 inches deep, he's just riding in a field with standing water from a few days of rain. My backyard with lovely drainage looks like that right now, and the water's not more than 4" deep anywhere.
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Jan 16, 2007 01:40
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JESUS H CHRIST Saw this over on ADVRider - it's a vid of some guys doing some incredibly trick riding on trials bikes, including riding over the the arches of a suspension bridge. Turn down the volume, the soundtrack sucks rear end.
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Jan 18, 2007 05:37
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Guy on Sportster pops wheelie, brings it down, slams on his rear brake in the middle of a puddle, promptly high-sides http://youtube.com/watch?v=G7wH7WDUvF0&mode=related&search
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Feb 2, 2007 03:06
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raffie posted:More crazy Japanese gymkhana action. Impressive. When the rider on the red bike loses it about halfway through the clip - was he on his front brake a little heavily? Can't quite make out what his right hand is doing, but it looks like he locked the front wheel and tucked it. Am I seeing things correctly?
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Feb 18, 2007 22:57
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^^^f u budday^^rope kid posted:Why does he have cans taped over his cans?
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J Greedy posted:You think your chromed out stretched out 'Busa with the fat rear tire is cool? I posted that poo poo back in V1 of this thread and I still don't understand what those idiots were thinking making that bike. It's gotta have the turning radius of a semi.
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May 3, 2007 06:30
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Phat_Albert posted:Because trials riding involves real skill, practice, coordination, etc etc etc. To be fair, some of the more advanced tricks I've seen done at "stunta" demonstrations require a bit of skill and coordination as well. I'm not impressed by wheelies or stoppies or highchairs, etc., but some of the tricks Christian Pfeiffer does are pretty  . Then again, he's a trials rider.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erlnXv-39o8
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDHJNG2PngQ Electric drag bike, runs an 8.51 at 155something, and sounds weird as hell doing it. Has a webpage at http://www.killacycle.com
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HOLY BALLS - trials video from France this past January. I'd kill myself trying the smallest fraction of what these guys are doing. Vid's almost 20 minutes long and has a Megadeth soundtrack, so you might want to turn your volume down if you can't take Mustaine singing like he's squeezing one off for that long. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x125dj_indoor-de-toulouse-toni-bou-adam-ra_sport
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Aug 31, 2007 06:12
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R-Type posted:Never, ever get caught in the sonic boom wash of a ZX-14. I dig the fatback sticking out between his 2-piece - I'm guessing he probably had some nasty plumber's crack going on when he was actually on the bike (PS zip your loving suit together)
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Oct 12, 2007 02:49
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WTFBEES posted:Bad loving rear end. Same here. Luckily they show you the times in the credit roll - the bike won. It's also somehow comforting to know that lovely rap-rock soundtracks for motorsports-related web video clips are pretty much de rigueur the world over. edit: the wheelie he pulls as he comes through that last turn is loving epic
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Oct 26, 2007 02:17
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The donkabusa is possibly the dumbest motorcycle related thing I have ever seen The kawabusa on the other hand is loving awesome - one of the bike rags had an article on it but I'll be damned if I can remember which one. It's a Hayabusa motor, and I *think* the swingarm as well, shoehorned onto a modified ZRX frame with a GSX-R front end and tail section. It is, effectively, what Suzuki should've made the B-King. Instead, we wound up with something that looks like it's modeled off the notebook sketches of a 12 year old crackhead.
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Dec 15, 2007 04:26
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Trintintin posted:It's unfair starter bikes are starting to look so sexy. The resale value on my ninja500 is plummeting daily. if you're in the US, you probably won't have to worry about these bikes making it to us 
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Dec 20, 2007 17:49
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old man post re: the mulholland video from a couple of days ago - why would you ride a standup wheelie as slowly as possible anywhere on that road, much less on the outside edge of a tight turn that's right next to a loving cliff? goddamned kids better stay off my lawn
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builds character posted:Confused because that's not a picture of the Aprilia sxv 550. they sound so loving good with the akro can on them
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Given the bridge was actively coming down as he was riding at 70mph (his words) towards it, I'm not going to argue his instinct to layer dan and get as low as possible vs. staying upright and braking hard with bits of shredded metal flying around and the bridge itself coming down to take-your-head-off level. If any video comes out we can dissect it til the cows come home, but this doesn't sound like the typical "a car pulled out 300 feet in front of me while I was traveling 25mph so I put the bike on its side" layer dan story
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I had to layer down
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That's some Alanis Morissette levels of irony right there
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Sep 24, 2016 03:54
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maybe she was the free ride after he'd already paid isn't it 
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Sep 24, 2016 04:17
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never seen it before; 20 seconds in I wanted to punch him in the face
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Sep 24, 2016 20:36
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Slavvy posted:Anime is for idiot manbabies so I'm gonna say "Designed as a sleek town motorcycle". Funny, to me it looks more like a suppository with wheels and mirrors. http://www.motorcyclenews.com/bike-reviews/aprilia/moto-6.5/1995/
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Sep 25, 2016 23:07
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Slavvy posted:Good. I'm not asking you to like it, I'm asking you to respect it because actual effort was put in and it was designed by one guy with a very particular vision instead of a focus group populated by middle aged men with speed dealer sunglasses. There is absolutely something to be said for a cohesive design vision vs. design by committee, but I tend to be a form follows function kinda guy and, to me, that bike just screams "I want to design a bike that looks retro-futuristic/have been watching too many episodes of the Jetsons. We can figure out how to make an actual working bike out of this after I'm done with my pretty drawings". Even if the bike wasn't designed with function in mind first, good design ages well. Twenty years after it came out, that bike is 100% kitsch. This is versus something like the Britten, which was built around using the engine as a stressed frame member (function), used a completely different design language than anything from its era, AND still looks cool as gently caress.
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Sep 26, 2016 17:28
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whoa. WHOA. poo poo. OH MY GOD. I don't buy blaming that entirely on the throttle lock, that was 100% him getting spooked and then target fixating his way over that drop off
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Sep 27, 2016 00:38
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shoulda just layer dan'd
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Sagebrush posted:Sure, but he was going slow enough that he probably could have just clamped down and locked the wheels and still kept the bike upright. Digging through the comments he says a few times that "he was hitting the front and rear brakes but the ABS kept the wheels rolling because the throttle was still open". As clutchpuck called out, he could've pulled the loving clutch in too. Video was titled appropriately
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Sep 27, 2016 01:54
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Sounds like he wrote it after watching David Lynch's Dune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMBb_tPPA8E&t=23s
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Sep 30, 2016 05:28
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What did those guys do that had a motorcycle cop shooting at them from the bike in the middle of a neighborhood? The article linked in the video 404s
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This is the country where a man invented an anti-carjacking device that includes a flamethrower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLhWzMOccTg
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fekking prawns meng
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chpI77Hv6bk "There's probably geese poop all over my pit bike."
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I like the new transformer Yamahas 
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Oct 6, 2016 03:50
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what's the other one, one of the new Africa Twins?
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Oct 14, 2016 00:24
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small puddle, my rear end. why would the dude bother to lie about it? it's not like a bent rod from water + bullshit in the intake is going to be a warranty claim anyway.
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Oct 24, 2016 16:15
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Squeezing the brake lever only to have it go all the way to the handle and you not slow down is a big pucker moment. On my old GS500 I had the caliper bolts back out on the highway and didn't notice until I went to exit that it was just dangling down there at the end of the fork leg. Luckily it was a long offramp and the rear still worked.
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Oct 28, 2016 03:23
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who knew Veuve Clicquot went so well with two-smoke
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I don't think he caught a rut, he slowed down/stopped on an angle and couldn't reach the ground. Same thing would have happened on any tall bike, but if it didn't weigh 600 lbs he might have been able to catch it without breaking his ankle. When I had the 690 I managed to bury the rear wheel in some sand and it was a major bitch trying to pull 300+ lbs of bike and gas out. I don't even want to think about getting something like a GS or a Super Ten stuck. That said, it's the rider, not the bike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUG1G0QTExc
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I didn't even know there was such a thing as a 450 Adventure / 450 Rally - I thought that was some sort of 690 Dakar kit. When he went flying by on the test runs at the rally park, the exhaust note said I was WAY off base.
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Reflection of the headlight that you can catch in the window made it look like it doesn't have the "angel eye" or whatever the gently caress you call the LED ring around the headlight like the prototype did. Hope that's not the case
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