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Shimrod posted:That is fantastic.
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Sixteen year old me thinks this is awesome. Adult me is rolling his eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vQEtq9LYBY It's photoluminescent rimtape energized by UV LEDs on the forks/swing
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Collateral Damage posted:Sixteen year old me thinks this is awesome. Adult me is rolling his eyes. Holy poo poo, adult me is already planning to put this in the budget when I get a sumo  (the production on that video is pretty terrible though) The Royal Nonesuch fucked around with this message at 16:05 on May 5, 2013 |
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May 5, 2013 16:03
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YES! Advancements in rim tape technology! I am unironically excited about that.
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Collateral Damage posted:Sixteen year old me thinks this is awesome. Adult me is rolling his eyes. Adult me is already thinking about ways you can make that change colour depending on speed.
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May 5, 2013 17:11
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I want that but in bi-colour wheels, combined with that EL paint on the rest of the panels on my bike, in luminescent KTM orange.
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Collateral Damage posted:Sixteen year old me thinks this is awesome. Adult me is rolling his eyes. loving sold! I unironically love that and want it. quote:Adult me is already thinking about ways you can make that change colour depending on speed. Really? How?
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May 5, 2013 18:57
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Backov posted:Really? How?  Relativistic Doppler light effects obviously.
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Best engine sounds still? the TZ750. http://youtu.be/vgjXjcTB_pQ?t=1m
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Sagebrush posted:1.8 miles per hour sounds like a blast. Snowdens Secret posted:It may be slow, but when you get where you're going, you really appreciate what a long, strange trip it's been Well done to you both.
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May 5, 2013 21:27
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Went out on my bike earlier and came across this fella with his Monster 600.  After 18 months of riding bikes, he ended up in an accident that left him paralysed, that was 40 years ago. Since then, he's been modifying bikes for side-car wheelchair action. Dude loves his bikes.
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May 6, 2013 00:21
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I wonder where he sources a Ducati gearbox with a reverse gear.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Adult me is already thinking about ways you can make that change colour depending on speed. Surely there'd be different phosphors that would only react to certain wavelengths of UV Right?
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Motsew posted:Went out on my bike earlier and came across this fella with his Monster 600. That's so loving rad, also like how he's got the chopped front end so it still feels right for him*. Also ATGATT *I assume that's what it's for
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Safety Dance posted:I wonder where he sources a Ducati gearbox with a reverse gear. He doesn't, it has no reverse gear. Can't remember how he explained it but he basically pushes it or something.
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May 6, 2013 10:38
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Holy poo poo that dude owns. I like the transplanted front end
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Motsew posted:Went out on my bike earlier and came across this fella with his Monster 600. 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Holy poo poo that dude owns. I like the transplanted front end I wish this was somehow reclassified as a mobility scooter just so that guy could tear rear end around the mall and do burnouts in the grocery store aisles
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theperminator posted:Surely there'd be different phosphors that would only react to certain wavelengths of UV Right? Yeah, basically, just rig up different UV LEDs dependent on speed. However there are also phosphors that will emit a different frequency dependent on the amount of UV exposure they've had, but IIRC they're not very bright. ElMaligno posted:
This also works but the foreshortening effect of relativistic speeds on a bike will shorten the wheelbase and make you vulnerable to tankslappers. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxm3YQdF8io
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Motsew posted:
That's awesome! He can take a passenger as well, although some hand holds would help.
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Anybody got a link to that video of the bosozuku guys playing little tunes with their exhaust? It's a few guys sitting on their bikes blipping their throttles, kind of like the exhaust version of that drat Yakety Sax song.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Yeah, basically, just rig up different UV LEDs dependent on speed. However there are also phosphors that will emit a different frequency dependent on the amount of UV exposure they've had, but IIRC they're not very bright. That's a shame, an effect like that would be pretty drat awesome. Hopefully someone can get it done before we run out of oil/start riding hoverbikes.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Anybody got a link to that video of the bosozuku guys playing little tunes with their exhaust? It's a few guys sitting on their bikes blipping their throttles, kind of like the exhaust version of that drat Yakety Sax song. basically any boso video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AdbbhVhan8
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That just reminds me of the video posted a while back of the freaky dude in a gimp suit gooning it on a dirtbike. He did something similar with the throttle.
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Collateral Damage posted:That just reminds me of the video posted a while back of the freaky dude in a gimp suit gooning it on a dirtbike. He did something similar with the throttle. Once you have seen motocross training, you can never unsee it.
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Snowdens Secret posted:basically any boso video The best is when you get just one of them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LRNiz6GrTg http://youtu.be/yrGf-p9eZ3I?t=28s E: This guy is pro-mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScT-taLHLss Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 15:39 on May 7, 2013 |
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Japanese subcultures. 
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This is so loving weird to me.
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What kind of fairing is that? It looks like they're all using the exact same model.
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Craigu Vetteru?
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Don't give a gently caress, I wanna make a bosu bike.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Craigu Vetteru? Vettaro Windajammaru
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Vettaro Windajammaru You win.
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I want to break free-ee, I want to braaake free
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Wootcannon posted:I want to break free-ee, I want to braaake free I've watched this vid a bunch of times and I still can't understand how it can go wrong in that way. Drop the bike, sure. But how do you overcome the front brake by doing a skid on a 600? He must only barely be grabbing the brakes for that to be possible. And then somehow forgets to just let go of the gas.
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Not used to operating the controls with opposite hands, messes up a bit, freaks out and fucks up even more?
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Slavvy posted:I've watched this vid a bunch of times and I still can't understand how it can go wrong in that way. Drop the bike, sure. But how do you overcome the front brake by doing a skid on a 600? He must only barely be grabbing the brakes for that to be possible. And then somehow forgets to just let go of the gas. Looks like it wheelied a bit and jumped forward once the braking wheel was off the ground. That little bit of unexpected lurch plus hand on the throttle lead to whacking it wide open and slipping off the brake lever. After that, what you see is what you get.
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Consider that in normal braking, there's a substantial weight shift onto the front wheel that keeps it planted. Here, there's no weight on the seat and the bike isn't moving so there's very little pushing the front tire into the ground. That and what the people above me said.
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Sagebrush posted:Consider that in normal braking, there's a substantial weight shift onto the front wheel that keeps it planted. Here, there's no weight on the seat and the bike isn't moving so there's very little pushing the front tire into the ground. I don't understand. Why is it that on a bike with considerably more torque and a larger rear contact patch I can sit with the front brake grabbed, give it a fistful of revs and drop the clutch and it just sits there wheelspinning? Aside from the obvious difficulty of operating the controls in reverse and not being able to control the mass of the bike with your legs I don't see the difference.
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