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Those 80's/90's parts bin bikes are always interesting.
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Interesting. I've seen multiple cx650's but they were all cut up and trashed, always wondered what a silverwing was meant to look like. They made a jdm 400cc version too which are more common, they don't have the big fairing but still designated gl400 silverwing.
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Apr 23, 2021 23:43
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If you photoshopped out the man and showed someone that picture, their brain would accurately reconstruct his appearance by inference from the bike alone, like a really crap blindsight.
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Jul 14, 2021 03:09
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Scooter fart wizard has an amazing bookshelf and board game collection probably. Honestly if you could rig up some kind of semi-automated harvesting method and pressurized the methane in something other than a victorian glass fucken...thing then that wouldn't be too bad if the alternative is an e-bike. Low efficiency, low energy so a small air cooled engine with low power but it's better than pedalling.
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Jul 14, 2021 19:45
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Sagebrush posted:Neat thread idea. This bike is so staggeringly perfect I think it's safe to assume that it wouldn't be able to function because they didn't leave space for some vital thing like starting or cooling systems.
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Jul 15, 2021 03:23
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LimaBiker posted:Ooh, aside from that odd downward stance, that thing looks really cool Worth bearing in mind that 1986 was bang in the middle of the era where big power and high tech were a thing but knowing how to build a bike that handles was very much not yet a thing.
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Jul 18, 2021 19:05
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LimaBiker posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3OQTU-kE2s A modern bike will 100% do the exact same thing, you just need to be going much faster, because they've successfully pushed the death wobble speed higher than horsepower usually allows you to go. Really fast stuff like superbikes and GP bikes are basically all shake at high speeds and yes, tuned mass dampers are in play in motogp as an attempt to maintain stability at 350 without sacrificing too much agility and roll rate.
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Jul 18, 2021 20:17
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Very, very cool, almost like a Yamaha take on a pantah.
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Oct 16, 2021 20:33
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Supradog posted:One of the last of a dying breed These are cool but also kind of a nightmare. For a much better but less glamorous bike with an identical engine, check out the vj22 rgv250.
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Dec 4, 2021 00:38
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There's always parallelogrammo 
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Jan 7, 2022 02:20
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Chris Knight posted:Your Robin is missing a wheel! You beat me while I was literally searching for a pic of a robin
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Jan 20, 2022 18:01
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The best part is there's an air cooled, longitudinally mounted inline four under that.
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Jan 25, 2022 18:49
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It's always funny when people try to do some kind of avant garde stuff but they're not nerds (at least not the right kind) so they can't see the hideously pedestrian wheels and suspension that jump out at you like dogs balls.
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Jan 27, 2022 18:43
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VJ22  Unreliable as gently caress and I still don't care.
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Jun 18, 2022 21:14
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Nah, the nsr250 was quite dependable. Of course they are the one with an NLA crankshaft, this will ultimately end with the owners of the last two complete engines competing in a deathmatch. All the rest were terrible yes. The Aprilia was particularly bad because it married the rgv engine to Italian electrics and build quality.
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Jun 18, 2022 21:33
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Sagebrush posted:Looks dumb as poo poo imo. And probably unrideable. With unrideable ergonomics to boot!
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Jan 10, 2023 19:52
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I'm going to controversially say this thing will never see any sales and if it does, it won't live up to the specs Also everything about the geometry and ergonomics of that picture looks hosed
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Feb 26, 2023 07:41
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We've got overhead cam at home!
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Jun 24, 2023 18:51
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Camnecting rods There's functionally no difference to a chain drive cause you can see it's got the gears at the bottom, it can't spin backwards or anything Beve Stuscemi posted:Cramshaft Excellent
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Jun 25, 2023 03:03
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Lol BMW 'solved' this 'problem' I'm not gonna link it here but suffice it to say their engineers are the dwarves from oglaf and will engineer the gently caress out of anything whether you want them to or not Slavvy fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Jul 22, 2023 |
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Jul 22, 2023 23:01
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*45 minutes later* so simple!
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Jul 28, 2023 20:39
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Have you considered that by making something 3x as complicated and time consuming, they've realized a massive 1% performance improvement under favourable circumstances?
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Jul 28, 2023 22:02
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It's beautiful
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Sep 22, 2023 20:02
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If only it didn't look like 1970's hospital equipment
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Jan 12, 2024 23:24
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Sagebrush posted:R1150R. Revolting
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Jan 12, 2024 23:31
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Magnificent
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Feb 10, 2024 02:32
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Schnell Explosion
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Feb 10, 2024 02:39
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In the grim darkness of the British Isles, wank is sometimes used as an adjective It's weird I know
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Feb 12, 2024 19:33
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Never heard of him but I'm also not Australian
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Feb 14, 2024 23:09
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To me the Falco always looked like a de-lamed firestorm, it was like a reversal of what Honda usually do - make a big list of the salient features of a competing bike and build something that ticks those boxes, but Italian.
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Feb 18, 2024 00:24
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The second and last one survive on the R1 to this day
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Yeah it's just an oil level sensor
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