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Sagebrush posted:how could anyone forget the c1? Why not go all the way if you're gonna enclose a BMW? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbdkZB9-Sd4
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Jan 27, 2022 07:47
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I'm sure it's super dumb and worthless in reality but it's also kind of neat, at least I thought so when I saw that thing on TV as a child. I could imagine one as a streamlined recumbent bicycle that could haul rear end on flat ground maybe (because three wheels are an inferior number of wheels)
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Jan 27, 2022 11:58
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Sagebrush posted:oh also, while we're on the topic of weird motorcycle space pods, let's not forget the LIT C1 In Neal Stephenson's sci-fi novel "the diamond age" vehicles using either half a lane or a full lane are mentioned, and full lane vehicles are treated as an expensive luxury by the author. There was an attempt at a gyro stabilised two-wheeler thing in the 1960's. It had outriggers though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTCVn4EByfI Personally I like things that lean into corners because it feels good. I'm not alone in this but the only non-motorcycle corner leaning thing I ever see in traffic are these things:  I think their main attraction is that you can drive them with a regular car licence and go faster than a class 1 moped (45km/h). I've never ever seen any of these:  I also strongly feel that three wheels is wrong and bad because wheels should always come in pairs unless it's a wheelbarrow. So pod bikes are cool I guess and I want to try one but not pay for one.
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Jan 27, 2022 21:49
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That's ingenious. It looks super sketchy at first I see no reason that wouldn't work fine if I understand it correctly from those pictures. I assume it's just an adapter that fits on a normal luggage rack? I had to look up local legality and as I understand it it's fine as long as the rearmost part of the protruding load is clearly marked with a little flag or something and total vehicle length is less than 24 meters. Lol. If I loaded my rear heavy commuter e-bike on my little honda like that it would probably become a wheelie machine, but with an added wheelie bar so that's no problem 
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Apr 23, 2022 05:48
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Russian Bear posted:For riding on bike paths and in the city, the only suspension you need is fattish tires (like 27.5x3, 700x50, even 26x2.4 ok) on an e-bike. Fight me. I homebrewed my current commuter ebike, mainly because anything store bought here is 250w and more importantly capped at 25 km/h. So I bought a 500W system and slapped on a sound old-ish 29:er I got for a fair price - anything store bought of comparable quality would have been at least twice the cost. I chose the wheel size primarily for the best tire selection (I ride on snow and ice a lot so tires are important) but I admit I like that it looks cool. I mostly ride with an assist limit which is pretty drat close 20 mph but I admit I'll pull out the stops sometimes when nobody's watching and I can go north of 40 km/h. I do pedal all the time, pretty hard when homeward bound since sweating is OK at that point. Pedalling is fun and I sure as poo poo need the exercise. I like and appreciate my squishy fork which lets me go faster and gently caress up more with less drama but it's a fair bit of maintenance and I wouldn't ever call it "necessary". If I were to build or buy or build another bike for the same purpose I'd go more for ruggedness/low maintenance and less for fun/performance. Winters here are really harsh on equipment what with salt water all over the bike paths. Nothing that spins or slides lasts long and anything that can corrode will.
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Aug 12, 2022 19:23
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Russian Bear posted:Got a pic? That sounds rad. Do you do spiky tires in the winter? I do, it is pretty great (when it's not broken) and I do.  I probably put 7000 km on the thing or so last year and things are bound to break so I shouldn't complain. Right now it needs new calipers since they're both leaking mineral oil onto discs and pads which isn't great for safety. Also really noisy. I have a pair sitting in a cardboard box on my workbench RN so it should be fine again shortly.
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Aug 12, 2022 21:50
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Finger Prince posted:In a city, an e-bike is vastly more useful and handy, and possibly even more fun (if easier to steal). It's just if you ever want to leave that their usefulness falls off a cliff. The exception to this is if you live somewhere with a functional train system (or even buses in some countries) that lets you bring bicycles onboard. I can bring an e-bike on the commuter trains outside rush hour for example, but I can't bring a motorcycle. There's a place I go on the regular that's 80km away which is a literal pain in the rear end on a bicycle and pushing the range on most e-bikes but the train/bike combo means it's only 10km in the saddle. Foldable scooters and all the other weird electric personal transportation devices are allowed on city buses, trams and subway here, which is the only reason I'd consider getting something like that if my daily travel habits included those.
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Aug 18, 2022 07:22
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man I'm super intrigued about that type of bike. Here they're sold as street legal mopeds and nerfed to 45km/h, but un-nerfing them seems trivial. Not sure if they can be registered here as an A1 class motorcycle though. Like you said, it's probably possible to ride them where a combustion dirtbike would be frowned upon. If studded winter tires in the relevant dimension(s) can be sourced, it would probably be a hoot on snow and ice in the winter when the motorcycle itch is otherwise hard to scratch, and the low weight is probably extra great if you drop it a lot which seems inevitable in those conditions. I saw a used one locally where the ad stated that a ball hitch carrier was included in the deal. That would make transporting it super easy since I already have a ball hitch on my car, and deadlifting 58kg should be doable. The battery is easily removable as well, right? That would make it even more doable. Might be a little hefty to carry like this, but it would be humorous: 
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Aug 30, 2022 11:27
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TotalLossBrain posted:Apparently it's the largest 2-stroke engine in a motorcycle, or so he claims. The numbers are kind of poo poo. https://youtu.be/aAQQwrrOklM
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Aug 31, 2022 08:40
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builds character posted:Won't they have issues with the batteries in the cold? Presumably they don't have any clever "keep it warm" stuff going on with those given the price/general use case? I would assume that it's potentially a bit of an issue but as long as the pack is easily removable there's simple and effective workaround. I winter commute on e-bikes and I just bring the batteries indoors when the bikes are parked in the cold. Even when it's -20C which is around my pain threshold riding is fine if you start out with a room temperature battery, since they give off a bit of heat from discharge they won't cool down too much. Adding a bit of battery insulation would be trivial on my bikes but I've never had the need.
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Aug 31, 2022 18:49
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That lean angle tho.
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Sep 3, 2022 13:41
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I've been thinking about this way too much. That seems completely insane. I don't know sport bike riding, never tried an R1 etc. I do know winter roads "close to the arctic circle" and road studded winter tires. I've even tried it on a motorcycle on one glorious occasion probably 25 years ago. On a 125 dual sport. At least 75% of my involuntary dismounts happened on that day. I just don't understand how it's humanly possible to come even close to using the power of a four cylinder sports bike with the traction you'd have - imagine riding on pea gravel if you are used to warmer climes. Accelerating, braking, turning and staying alive in general would be...complicated. Sure you could putter around safely enough but that's not a bike at all suitable for that type of riding. I'm just imagining the guy absolutely flying down those long, deserted straightaways you find in the northern boonies of scandinavia (looks like it in the picture), one unforeseen thing away from death. Stray reindeer are common up there, there are lots of bigger animals too, and they don't look both ways before crossing the road.
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Nov 30, 2022 06:30
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moxieman posted:Welcome to Cycle Asylum, friend. Thank you. Slavvys answer is probably closer to the truth than my fantasy of speed. If so he's just a silly man who would be way better served by a 125 dual sport than an R1. If I still lived up there where there's actual snow and no road salt I'd love to get into winter riding on something appropriate to the task. Come to think of it, when I was a conscript soldier we had guys on these attached to the battalion (?) zipping around with messages and small things:  AFAIK they have more modern bikes now but still exist.
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Nov 30, 2022 06:46
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 Yes. YES! Also school break next week so I'm off work. YEEEES!
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Feb 24, 2023 06:33
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extremely blessed ^^^^ I got a few cold dusty rides in last week and I'm grateful for it but winter's coming back hard. More than a foot of snow and temps down to -15C expected in the next few days here 
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Mar 6, 2023 23:11
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RightClickSaveAs posted:If it makes you feel any better, check back in in (checks calendar) 2-3 months when it will be 110 degrees fahrenheit It actually makes me feel better, thanks:) June-August means summer break so about 8 weeks off work for me, temps unlikely to go above 90f even if there's a heatwave. Nobody should pity me, least of all myself. It just feel soooo distant right now because I'm an impatient man-child I guess. I've ridden in 100+f once long ago on a rented bike in the tropics during local hot season. I had no real gear but wore all clothes I could muster so I was pretty covered up. It felt like sitting in a hair dryer jet or something and was pretty miserable.
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Mar 8, 2023 08:02
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. Riding season is backwards in AZ, although if you get out early enough in the summer you can still get some time in.
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Apr 8, 2023 05:00
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In case you don't read the terrible car stuff thread: https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rvfrxgal5i1r0uzl6.mp4
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May 31, 2023 07:16
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Beve Stuscemi posted:also a lot of them just dont I googled it out of curiosity and a common forum post theme is "just overfill the oil by a quart or something" Xakura posted:Miss Shilling's orifice Out of curiosity I googled this too. Neat.
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May 31, 2023 18:12
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crossposting from the OSHA thread https://i.imgur.com/vDjdO3f.mp4
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Jul 13, 2023 16:33
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What about R/C motorcycles though? This newly released toy looks awesome and I want to play with one (but not buy it because $$$) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2gE6Sdiaxg
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Aug 28, 2023 11:00
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looks like there are aftermarket wheels/tires available for that already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBNrS7jldb8&t=109s
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Aug 28, 2023 13:12
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I find this youtube channel mostly unwatchable, but I watched their snow Hayabusa video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5EyGA3WyYU
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Oct 24, 2023 14:22
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bike clip from the OSHA thread again https://i.imgur.com/eZhNama.mp4
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Nov 12, 2023 08:30
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I know that riding in nice weather usually makes me feel content and happy, why would a cow feel different?
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Nov 12, 2023 10:39
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OSHA thread in GBS delivers bike content for crossposting yet again:
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Dec 10, 2023 09:16
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https://i.imgur.com/JF3GmI8.mp4 is this not falling over an effect of those special harley kickstands?
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Dec 11, 2023 00:01
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Has this gem from the OSHA thread been posted yet? https://i.imgur.com/JzA085t.mp4 You can tell which vehicle he loves the most, I can empathise.
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Quoting from OSHA thread
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Jan 9, 2024 16:45
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Full face helmet good
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Jan 25, 2024 06:58
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One of my favorite youtube fabricators is building a fat tire minibike from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkmF7FAZBzkVI6oy8-0WGe6uq6fAG7K3G
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Feb 24, 2024 18:38
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Allen Millyard's latest project, the Norton Nemesis prototype, is something else. That fork/brake/fender casting is just  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBwMn1ookQE
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Mar 18, 2024 20:43
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Basically it. When I e-converted my first bike I had to lace the motor to a separately bought rim since I couldn't source what I wanted out of the box back then, but once I got that in order it probably took two hours of tinkering until I was outside for the first motorized test run. With a bunch of stuff jankily held in place with zip ties, hose clamps and tape (and not enough brakes). Getting the bike done took much, much longer and was way more involved. E: the bike is still not done if I'm being honest, and it's been about a decade now. Lol. I'm fixing to do it though
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Mar 24, 2024 05:34
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I think there's good reason for that. There's no universal form factors that would easily work in lots of motorcycles. I'm sure you could develop a kit that would work in one single bike model though, but there's probably not money to be made by doing it.
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Mar 24, 2024 05:55
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These two kits aren't terribly far off from what I think you say you want: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006059701315.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006618192238.html Or this bad boy with gears and everything so the sprocket is offset, hopefully closer to where it needs to go for good chain geometry: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006586866102.html There are battery builders on Ali too who will spot weld up a 72V or whatever pack with a BMS in the dimensions you specify. Sometimes the dimensions are a few mm off and you have to move the BMS cables around to make the pack fit in the allocated space. I know this from personal experience. I've been meaning to procure a nickel strip spot welder and learn doing this for myself for a long time but managed to procrastinate this through learning to take care of my battery packs so they last a long time.
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Mar 24, 2024 06:20
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It comes in the color "3000w" too! Seems like Ali is full of interesting e-moto parts. This kit has a 4kW nominal rated motor (at least in the e-bike world the peak effect at high torque is commonly significantly higher, nearly double nominal on my commuter bike). This motor has an offset sprocket too. You can get a liquid cooled variant of the motor but the one in the kit is air cooled which should probably be ok given 90%+ efficiency and street riding. Also bundled is controller, throttle, switches for the left hand and an lcd panel: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006064243537.html
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Mar 25, 2024 17:28
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As someone who was conscripted to crew armor in peactime decades ago, this is still nightmare fuel. ATGMs are scary as is, even worse if they can move about faster and more nimbly than anything else on the battlefield in silence. We never practiced against simulated drones because they weren't a thing back then but simulated ATGMs kicked our asses on the regular.
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From the OSHA thread again, sound on! https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_scgvq2lyqs1s1ddrj.mp4
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