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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5955238524895101958 Yes that's me. Yes it was stupid. Yes it was fun.
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deathlee posted:i found some terrible cameraphone pictures: Is that a Carl Thompson Bass?
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Sep 8, 2006 16:49
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6193830116215137642 Welcome to my backyard.
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Sep 22, 2006 10:25
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I should get video of my RM250. It sounds MUCH meaner. though it would probally dig ruts in my yard.
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Sep 22, 2006 12:59
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The generator in my dad's last boat was a flat twin. The first time I heard him start it up the only thing on my mind was "is it a bmw?" IIRC it was an onan.
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Dec 16, 2006 18:08
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The dream 50 is a 50cc single 4 stroke. They are NOT street legal. They are also quite expensive. And the motor is unique to the dream 50. The honda solo appears to use the monkeybike/xr50/c50-70-90 motor. Honda isn't selling anything street legal here with the "fiddy" engine in it. Though you can buy chinese clones that use that motor. The chinese clone motors dont' have a bad reputation.
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Dec 22, 2006 20:53
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http://www.badcatracing.com/video.html And you thought sidecars were all Urals and beemers. http://www.steveenglish.com/2006Photos/December/PembreyfromDaveBrown/slides/IMG_0548.html http://www.steveenglish.com/2006Photos/December/PembreyfromDaveBrown/slides/IMG_0554.html http://www.steveenglish.com/2006Photos/December/PembreyfromDaveBrown/slides/IMG_0446.html
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Jan 4, 2007 02:07
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I've seen the video before. IIRC it's a CR500, and it is "deep" water. If you watch the back end of the bike you can see it bobbing around. It's not the first I've heard of this trick either. When I asked about it on a CR500 board the answer was that it just takes commitment, if you roll off the throttle at all, you sink.
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Jan 15, 2007 23:32
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If he's not touching bottom, it doesn't matter how deep it is. It's just as impressive if it's 20' or 6". The story I heard was that it's 9'. It's the exact same thing that the quad people do, or the snowmobile people do.
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Jan 16, 2007 00:19
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mutt2jeff posted:Does anyone happen to know what tires those are? Rumor has it that Pirelli makes them, but I haven't been able to track down any information on them. Other Multistrada owners and I must know. I read the original article that came from. Those are cheng shin tires. I don't recall if he ran tubes or not.
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Apr 27, 2007 15:20
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Heavy braking puts more load on a fork than a stoppie. A stoppie's loads are limited to 1 g. So... figure 600lbs. With the back tire near the ground, you can see almost three times for force. Depending of course on the height of the CG. Like mentioned, there was something very wrong with those forks to cause them to fail like that. "stunting" won't do it. That's an interesting note about the setscrew though.... I'd expect those to be a press fit, not something that needs a setscrew.
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May 8, 2007 01:33
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Trials bikes make great trail bikes. :-) IIRC in a recent issue of dirt rider they compared trials tires to hard dirt tires. Trials tires are good in most any condition. On even non trials bikes. The big 4 tried to get the US into trials bikes in the 70's, and failed. hard. now there's lots of little companys who buy big 4 motors and make trials bikes. It's still a very, very small industry. They are light bikes. Around 200lbs. A lot of the agilty you see is due to the way the suspension is setup. They have very little rebound damping, and very soft springs. That lets you bounce the bike quite high.
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Jul 7, 2007 18:48
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Spiffness posted:"Scooters are motorcycles for men who want to feel the wind in their vaginas" - somebody somewhere sometime. Well mine is a moped.  The wind whistling is a pleasant accompaniment to my high powered weed wacker.
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Mar 29, 2013 19:30
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I am jealous on levels that are hard to describe. You've gone and bought a pile of awesome. Welcome to tuning hell. :-)
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Slavvy posted:Interestingly the last person I spoke to who had ever owned one of these had it in the early 90's, was an old man with a beard, and he said that the tuning was a breeze! Well, if you keep the stock airbox.. sure. But if you want to get the full 120hp from the motor, you need to do some funny things to make the carbs work right. The carbs are squeezed in between the fairings and the engine sides, so if you completely remove the spider like airbox (it has four legs...) you end up with strange airflow to the carbs, and the subsequent odd tuning problems. DefaultPeanut posted:Pile of something. It has been sitting since 2002, but the fuel still smells king of like fuel and the tank is rust free. It has kickin' compression though! Tuning hell? Nah! I would take this over a rack on a KZ or CB of the same era. I'll make some videos of going through the thing so you can vicariously live through me to a time from before I was born! At least the carbs are on the side of the motor. I can't wait to hear that thing run. I'll give you one suggestion. Avon Roadriders.
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Apr 2, 2013 15:13
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kloa posted:Yea it looked like a newbie mistake at first, but then you can see the kickstand make a white skid line on the road before the crash. That would be a newbie mistake.... But everyone forgets something sometime. Watching someone do that is scary as hell. I was riding behind some friends, and I saw their kickstand was down. Just as we went into a left hander. I was completely powerless to do anything. I saw the sparks, I saw him fight, I saw his girlfriend struggle... and then I watched the bike launch off into a ravine. He said he thought some car had hit him from behind. He couldn't figure out why the bike wouldn't turn. Both people broke bones. :-(
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Apr 15, 2013 17:10
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BlackMK4 posted:
I need to see this in action...
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Apr 16, 2013 04:52
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n8r posted:Four stroke bikes definitely take a bit more touch - especially when you are talking about larger displacements. You also have the problem of people pumping on the throttle when they start it. My buddys KTM640 you could STAND on the kicker. And you'd just stand there, against compression. If the engine was warm, it would hold you there indefinitely. Cold, you might sink down over five minutes.
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Apr 19, 2013 15:06
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Yeah, there are certainly techniques to each bike, and even different techniques in the same model depending on level of tune or lack of maintenance. As n8r said, you also get the people who are dead set that they need to wrench the throttle open when they kick the bike, which generally doesnt help anything. Nope. No hot-start either. It was the super-comp version or something. It was a special butterfly version of the 640. Aluminum subframe, no decomp, no charging system, but with AC off the stator to power tail/brake/headlights.
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Apr 19, 2013 16:20
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Skreemer posted:If it's the one I'm thinking of(KTM 620 supercomp with wonderfully 90's graphics?): That's the one. :-) I almost lost my motorcycles in a flood yesterday... That was my driveway at 10am. 
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Apr 19, 2013 19:17
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Xovaan posted:But the question is why, of all bikes, a loving Bandit. Rule 34... I'm certain that's part of a series. I'll bet there's a honda 50, a RV90, and a FZR in the bunch. I refuse to go looking for it.
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May 1, 2013 07:49
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Would order a poster sized one of the RV90 I have a VERY large format printer at my disposal. This is requiring great restraint to not do the search, then produce such poster.
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May 1, 2013 15:44
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nsaP posted:Short memory on this forum. If you'll recall "Hardly Ridden" rider KrazieK logs as many miles as 20 goons. One exception does not change the stereotype.
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I think it has more to do with the narrow engine. The width is more constrained by how wide the rider is instead of how wide the engine is. modern (even not so modern) sportbikes have to figure out how to keep the bike narrow despite having a 4 piston wide monstrosity across the middle. Not so with ducati.
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