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echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

schmunkey posted:

The real problem is that she wasn't in the passenger seat.

I kid. Seriously though, was she alright? Where did the pics come from?

That was outside the ace cafe in london

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echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

Blackaxis posted:

I know what you are talking about. It's Eddie Spencer on a gp bike vs. a honda sabre vs. some old rear end z-car.

Youtube is broken but I'll try to find it.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8523255830100598394

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

RC212V posted:

Does he take the fairing off to fit all the turbo stuff on or something?

the unfaired one is his busa

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
Its a streetfighter, you can have turbo kits on faired bikes too. That was just his asthetic preference for the busa.

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
Spent christmas and new years in thailand, snapped a few bike pics while there.
Choppah

Rental scooters,

CB400, this is a "Big" bike over there, only foreigners really ride anything over 200CC

The bad rear end made in china dirtbike i rented. about 8 euros a day, 200ccs of dirt road eating fury.

More faggy scooter paintjobs.

You see guys on the 110cc scooters pulling these trailers all the time, i saw one towing a jetski and a banana boat on 2 trailers, this was the only sportbike i saw on trailer duty though

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
that dog is having the time of his life.

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

raffie posted:

Irish road racing anyone? These guys have the biggest balls in the world of motorcycle racing.

Ulster GP
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QuO2WFVZPVw&feature=related

Mid Antrim
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qgwHYQHSI3Y

heres some crappy phone camera footage of the practice session in athea last year, you cant beat being 2 feet away from bikes going flat out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUnHio2BoKQ

echomadman fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Dec 14, 2007

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
Took the f650 up some forestry roads today, the tyres are a bit too street orientated (front is pretty worn too) so it was a bit hairy in places but fun and the forestry land is 5 minutes up the road. I might get some more offroad biased tyres for it once i get the SV back on the road.
lovely mobile phone camera pic

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echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
more pics in http://team-cephalopod.com/images/
was riding around this part of Clare, from my place to a mates house with a few forestry detours on the way.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.814383,-8.614655&spn=0.144008,0.32135&t=h&z=12&om=0

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
At least your mic picked up your exhaust note. mine just distorts any mics I've tried to record the sound with.
Here's an example of my local traffic and me driving towards home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf10A5kp__E

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
me last month after riding to work in freezing fog.

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echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
Crappy phone pics of a mates Z1000, just been tuned to suit cans/air filter and a 4degree ignition advance, putting 130hp to the back wheel but the ingnition advance makes the midrange really something over the stock setup.


echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

4/20 NEVER FORGET posted:

Here is another good one

http://youtube.com/watch?v=A8_BYLDXMUE

and that capirossi crash wasn't even that bad, pussy

hahah, loving dinnerplate rear sprocket, started in second gear, throttle pinned. dumbasses for putting him on that bike for his first ever ride

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YMkCCXmkThw

haha i thought these things were only for cruisers.

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

4/20 NEVER FORGET posted:

This is a bad accident

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDZETubIe7k

from the related videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Rcrqy0dzs&feature=related

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
gently caress, were you hurt raffie?

I was at a road racing meet today, have some poo poo phone camera footage on my youtube channel, should have higher res videos later in the week from one of the lads archos.

The last race of the day, open class technically but it was all litrebikes and some 600zs's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQeSD49yiTY
other video uploading at the moment

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
some pics of us fitting up the new subframe for my buddy's blade, just back from being blasted and zincked, he gave it a few coats of black paint. now we're just waiting for the R1 tailpiece to come back from the painters and i can get it out of my garage



check out our professional spraybooth


meh, no ones going to see it


fit up is nice, note battery box made from an old toolbox


seat on and wiring/shock reservoir/battery box out of the way


back into my tidy garage until the fairings and front mudgaurd arrive

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

Jharkov posted:

....they rev to the moon,

you say that like its a bad thing, revving the poo poo out of my old inline 4 250 was one of my favourite things in all my motorcycle experience.

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWjaP-UC7IE

motogp promo for the race at Indy this weekend.

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

4/20 NEVER FORGET posted:

The one flaw the bike has is it was dropped in a driveway so it has a tiny rash spot on the fairing and the engine case on the side you can't see in the pics. When that happened it bent the clutch lever, which I cleaned up as best as I could but it definitely needs a new one. What would you recommend for a aftermarket replacement?

Pazzo's are awesome, a mate has them on his Fireblade and they're the comfiest, most easily adjusted levers of all the bikes i've ridden

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

Mr. Clark2 posted:

Could someone please explain "backing it in"? I see this phrase used occasionally but I have no clue what it means.



edit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-YPEBlQ5tw


echomadman fucked around with this message at 19:13 on May 22, 2009

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
one of the guys at work just finished converting his 525exc to a sumo and making it road legal, had a quick spin around the yard on it, holy poo poo what a fun bike.

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
pics of another buddys current bikes.
his z1000, this thing has every bolt on or drop in mod possible, zx9 engine bits: cams and flywheel i think, Powercommander, full system.

his Blade streetfighter, personally i dont like a lot of the asthetics, but hey, its still a cool bike, i think thats a honda car wheel on a vfr swinger with a bike tyre crammed onto it. since that pic he's fitted an MV Agusta tail and exhausts to replace the R1 race fairing tail and laser mv agusta-knockoff pipes.

his ludicrous GSXR 1100 streetfighter, about to get cams, ignition advance and dynojet kit. Again i think its a minger but fighters are a pretty love em or hate em experience in my book. its mostly the tailpiece on this one, i hate that "german" style that looks like you've been rearended

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
some pics from the Athea road races today.
Victory wheelies


clearing the grid


gif of start
[IMG]http://img.waffleimages.com/a7c0d4f5e7e5a72940f19eaacffa800b1fe8ce58/[gickr.com]_bdb2c236-a3cf-2f34-a1ef-0ce4d4ce8163.gif#via=salr[/IMG]

old 2smokes

are loud

but tempermental


some videos will be on youtube soon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd9uMs2jkWQ

echomadman fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Jun 28, 2009

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
edited and cropped a few more pics from the races sunday, this is the last corner leading onto the home straight, Intense battle for 1st and second between Keith Amor (24) and Ryan Farquhar(77) Farquhar closed up on him in the corners but the last straight is a steep uphill section and horsepower wins out every time.
dont know if linking from picasaweb albums works here but you can view the gallery here
http://picasaweb.google.com/echomadman/AtheaLastRace

last lap.





edit
found a video of this race from across the road. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eId2oknhdU
same time as this pic was taken

changed to my own hosting

echomadman fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Jul 2, 2009

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKqpvriKZuA
norton commando transformer.

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
That busa looks retarded, at least its ugly rear end has an aerodynamic purpose, that gixxer tail just looks wrong tacked on the back there.


some video from the road racing last weekend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J0R0KhNCbk

edit: onboard vid from a previous years racing at the same village
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHLkUBt-S50

echomadman fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Aug 1, 2009

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

Cabledude posted:

Hell if we could get our 250's up like that I would have a :smug: face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPX8kuRdPWM
edit also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St-gLJak0S8

echomadman fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Dec 7, 2009

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

Endless Mike posted:

Got an S1000RR and it's the middle of the winter? No problem!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHPOw-Xmm4o
i prefer this
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/92090/motorbike_ice_roadracing/

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

Ola posted:

How hard can it really be to get two wheel drive on a bike? If you have the forkless steering as pictured above, you could have a sprocket there too somewhere. And front wheel drive cars manage to put power to a steering wheel, so why not on a bike?

I suppose the answer is lots of mechanical complexity and weight for no real advantage. Engineering rationality! :argh:

I saw an american guy riding a ktm with 2wd in a documentary about last years Erzber rodeo.
some info on it here.
http://cycl.info/bikes/ktm/2wd/

edit.. thats from 2004. but watch Tougher than Iron, i'm pretty sure it was in that.

echomadman fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Apr 13, 2010

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
Went to a drag racing event yesterday, it was run on closed public roads which is awesome, however their fancy new wireless timing gear was hosed so after two hours of sitting around they just let everyone do fun runs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7NUkH2CTgs
crappy mobile phone video. the camber on the road had interesting effects on the guys in the right hand lane, there were a few hair raising moments when guys veered right over into the hard shoulder.
there's another one on in may, hopefully they'll have working timing and i'll have a better camers for that one.

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/ducati-multistrada-1200-s/1225985/

Jay Leno reviews new Multistrada, loads of cool gizmos but man i wouldn't like to be buying one second hand in a few years time, so much poo poo to go wrong.

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/nw200/

Last race of the day at the NW200 just about to start

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
Got a text off one of the lads. his engine had started making a slight knocking yesterday, on the way home while overtaking two cars, this happened.


managed to keep it upright and get stopped despite the oil all over his brakes, wheels, red hot headers (end of a 25 mile commute) and legs. was about a mile from his house, and his girlfriend heard the bang from their yard.

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

echomadman posted:

Got a text off one of the lads. his engine had started making a slight knocking yesterday, on the way home while overtaking two cars, this happened.


managed to keep it upright and get stopped despite the oil all over his brakes, wheels, red hot headers (end of a 25 mile commute) and legs. was about a mile from his house, and his girlfriend heard the bang from their yard.

we dropped the engine on this bike a few days ago so i have some better pics of the carnage, luckily he's halfway through a streetfighter build so he has a ton of spare parts around, including an engine.
here's the bike as it was the day before the incident, was awaiting a gsxr frontend swap to make a sort of Suzuki/Honda/Suzuki sandwich


somethings not right here


there's your problem right there.


this is the middle part of the con-rod wedged in the block


view from front

echomadman fucked around with this message at 14:48 on May 26, 2010

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
Lap of the Ring on an S1000RR
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=EjdOTr-rKi4

edit: video wont embed and url wont parse, copy & paste to watch

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHl8uDMlsAw
ain't no thing to crash your drz there though.

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

Jabs posted:

So. Badass.

And completely, astonishingly beautiful, in an Art Deco way. The sort of thing that a hero from a pulp serial from the 30's would ride. Or Batman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeNLMN_RqSI

he was on jaylenosgarage a few weeks ago, dude is mental in a hilarious way, jay seems a bit scared of him
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/rocket-ii-trike/1233750/

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2010/08/the_hells_angels_take_a_mini-b.html

Funny documentary about the uk chapter of the Hells Angels in the 70's.

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echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

2ndclasscitizen posted:

New world 1km wheelie speed record:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQgAK6-_8ek&feature=player_embedded

181mph. Balls. Of. Steel.

Hey, i know that guy, he lives round here

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