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clutchpuck posted:I always figured they keep it on the pipe all the time and clutch for power to the wheel. Though I'd be curious to know the real answer When I raced MX it was all about staying in your powerband. Shifts were fast and nasty usually I didn't even drop the throttle when I clutched in. It was pretty much pin it to win it, a lot of the guys I raced with used quickturn or 1/4 turn throttles and were pinning it 90% of the time.
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clutchpuck posted:
Brilliant! Only those who know way more about the Prince bike than they should (ahem) can spot the differences. But then, there are probably not too many scale models of the CB400A floating around...
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clutchpuck posted:
This is great.
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Ziploc posted:Riding a bicycle in London is pretty rough. That guy is a loving twat aswell though, he must be hoarse all the time from shouting at oblivious drivers. A lot of those incidents were dangerous to him but a good few of them he was just shouting and bitching when he had plenty of space.
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Feb 26, 2012 21:48
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echomadman posted:That guy is a loving twat aswell though, he must be hoarse all the time from shouting at oblivious drivers. As a bicyclist who used to take my three year old son with me, those "close calls" are anything but. I tell you I feel so much safer on a motorcycle than I do on a bicycle.
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Crayvex posted:As a bicyclist who used to take my three year old son with me, those "close calls" are anything but. I tell you I feel so much safer on a motorcycle than I do on a bicycle. Agreed. This angry bicyclist would be a lot happier if he would just switch to a motorcycle. Lots less people getting the opportunity to try to kill him.
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Feb 26, 2012 22:04
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 I'd ride this. Probably the only Harley I could get excited about. http://www.harley-davidson.com/en_US/Motorcycles/iron-883.html#/c/gallery
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hayden. posted:
Shhhh....Wes Siler might hear you. Eighth year of the 1200C in this general config, and I still love the thing: 
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I took a trip today up near my favorite campground. I still don't have dirt wheels and it was kind of sketchy, there were a bunch of good sized rocks. I probably did 20-25 mi. offroad total. Aterward I stopped by the Pozo Saloon and found out Social Distortion will be playing there in a few months and they still had tickets. I picked some tickets for the show for my wife and I. Right before this shot I gently set the DRZ on it's side for a quick rest while cracking the mirror casing slightly. It was my only mishap of the day and I'm ok with that. Pics!  I found a trail to little grassy meadow that I'd never noticed in my truck. I took the time to go explore it and grab a smoke. 
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Feb 27, 2012 05:29
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The London bicyclist reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3nMnr8ZirI
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Can anyone link that animation of the crazy cyclist animation with the "perfect machine" riders talking to a car driver about how they're 100% efficient and whatnot? It's a music video of sorts.
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Crayvex posted:As a bicyclist who used to take my three year old son with me, those "close calls" are anything but. I tell you I feel so much safer on a motorcycle than I do on a bicycle. Agreed, I commuted for 10+ years on a bicycle, and I still do in the summer. A lot of cycle commuters get way too worked up about this poo poo. You're small, you're hard to see, people are stupid and oblivious - them's the breaks for the cycle commuter, anticipate it, ride around it. I cycle commuted in Kampala for 6 months, this guy would have had a nervous breakdown.
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eggyolk posted:Can anyone link that animation of the crazy cyclist animation with the "perfect machine" riders talking to a car driver about how they're 100% efficient and whatnot? It's a music video of sorts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s0XsulDXtk
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Spiffness posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s0XsulDXtk This is probably the greatest thing I've seen all month. Thanks for this!
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Marv Hushman posted:Shhhh....Wes Siler might hear you. Is that front tire headed the right direction?
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I thought the same thing when I first saw those tires. The siping looks backwards to me.
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angryhampster posted:Is that front tire headed the right direction? I see your point. They went to Michelin radials starting a couple years ago, and according to CW, it was an idea borrowed from the XR1200. They appear to be mounted correctly, as every other photo from this and prior years shows them the same. There are a handful of seemingly nonsensical justifications for it, but I'd bet it had more to do with playing suppliers against each other to drive down unit cost.
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echomadman posted:That guy is a loving twat aswell though, he must be hoarse all the time from shouting at oblivious drivers. He's definitely a twat and a lot of them he had plenty of time to safely avoid, but those people were still being assholes and violating (what I presume to be, not knowing UK road law) his road rights. I don't blame him for yelling, though when I'm on my bike (with or without motor) I usually just avoid and keep my mouth shut.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMe6rQMmPEc&list=FLqtJt9xEoJDFk-2CfAOf6eQ&feature=mh_lolz Onboard video from Stoner at the Sepang 2012 test.
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hayden. posted:Or you could, you know, just be a responsible adult that doesn't illegally assault people because they make a (admittedly careless) mistake. Dealing with lovely drivers is just a part of driving, car or motorcycle. It's just as lovely to vandalize cars as it is to be a crappy driver. not ALL of them:  Olde Weird Tip posted:The CB750 will, unfortunately go down in history as "the bike that hipsters killed". And to be fair to the hipsters, there was some ridiculous number manufactured; somewhere north of half a million. I know for a fact there's over 400,000 in North America alone. And besides, the old coots did it first, chopping up frames to make hardtails when they were NEW and cutting tails off to make Daytona race bikes like the factory CRs:   
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BlackMK4 posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMe6rQMmPEc&list=FLqtJt9xEoJDFk-2CfAOf6eQ&feature=mh_lolz I wonder why they blurred out the instruments.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:not ALL of them: Here's a good one. I would consider this worth it if it was like $200. 
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my friend is a complete fashion disaster yep, that's his cane sticking out of the back from when he got hit by a car   (watermark because it's from a guy who photographs all bikers on palomar)
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Other than the glasses that say "I'm an extra on the set of Friends" he looks decently normal. I for one cannot hate on someone rocking a Bandit.
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Xovaan posted:my friend is a complete fashion disaster Your friend is a cool dude.
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Dual sport helmet, sport touring bike with bags, and a track suit just looks so awesomely wacky to me. He wears those glasses because an old lady told him he "looked like a queer" while sporting them once. Now he refers to them as queer goggles. "At one point I couldn't tell if I was scraping my peg or the crank case. I love my dad's bike!" (his RC51 is totaled for the fifth time all as a result of elements against his favor so he's shelving it for an 80's VT500 Shadow while he builds it back up) I feel that he'd get along extremely well here if he actually knew how to use the Internet. He finally figured out how to send me picture messages and now won't stop flooding me with seductive pictures of himself licking various pieces of motorcycle gear 
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Xovaan posted:Dual sport helmet, sport touring bike with bags, and a track suit just looks so awesomely wacky to me. Buy that man an account
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BlackMK4 posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMe6rQMmPEc&list=FLqtJt9xEoJDFk-2CfAOf6eQ&feature=mh_lolz I know less than zero about GP bikes and racing in general. What's that red switch he hits with his left hand as he leaves the pits?
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Pit lane rev limiter I think?
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Kyon posted:On board with Casey Stoner Okay what are the little sweat band looking things around the brake and clutch master cylinders?
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Just so the fluids bouncing around dont catch the riders eye
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Yeah, that's a pit road speed limiter. Here's a short little video I edited up with all of the footage I shot in 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaNoneKzpE I really need to get my own Gopro. Constantly bumming them off of friends is a pain.
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I think Layer Dan is in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGIn34y24cE
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That's perfect. The guy that tripped on flat ground probably broke his professional lens too.
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Deeters posted:I think Layer Dan is in this video. Mootmoot is in that video, guess which one.
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Trick question: it's a double exposure and he appears twice.
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Olde Weird Tip posted:Pit lane rev limiter I think? Ah that makes sense, thanks. Very cool to learn about that and the fluid sweatband things. They got all kinds of fancy stuff!
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