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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Did someone actually make the ZTL brakes for Buell, or was it something they made in-house? I know most manufacturers shy away from doing their own brakes these days. They were done by Nissin, I think only the very first Buells with single-digit production numbers had home-made brakes (for some reason), but those weren't ZTL. 
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Yerok posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7HWGgNZ_nA Nah, not Harleyrider at all, every rider under the sun has done this. My friends had this same crash but on a ninja 250. What is notable is the uploader's comments. 
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thylacine posted:Some people like different things. This is the goon dilemma. I know this is a few pages back, but this is the post of the year. It should rightly become a thread tag line. nsaP posted:Nah, not Harleyrider at all, every rider under the sun has done this. Had it almost happen to me once when I was newer to riding. The voice inside my head screamed "Lean! fucker!" and I managed to avoid hitting th guardrail.
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MoraleHazard posted:I know this is a few pages back, but this is the post of the year. It should rightly become a thread tag line. That's not the full Goon Dilemma, it's "Some people like different things, and that's okay". Goons here can't accept 'that's okay', they have to convince all that they are the correct ones and everyone should think what they think. Anyone disagreeing is a personal affront that must be dealt with until everyone agrees with everyone. I remember when SomethingAwful was a forum where you could make fun of things. Now people are taking that kind of poo poo way too seriously. Now, that doesn't mean that you can't have fun with it though. For a recent example, the Grom. I really don't give two shits about the Grom, I doubt I'd buy one but it looks like it can be fun. What's more fun is maintaining a false vendetta against something to rile up others, it gives those Grom lovers someone to go against and a feeling of unity. Simply making fun of someone for dropping 4k on a pit bike is no fun, much more fun to make people think that you're frothing with rage at the thought that even one person might find that abomination of a 'motorcycle' cool. Makes me miss the old mootmoot and his scooter vendetta.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Why in the hell do people post their own videos of that kind of behavior? Covert Ops Wizard posted:Because they are so clueless about the skills or general knowledge needed to ride proficiently they don't realize how terrible they actually are. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://twitter.com/calcrutchlow/status/374487149758128128 
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nsaP posted:That's not the full Goon Dilemma, it's "Some people like different things, and that's okay". Goons here can't accept 'that's okay', they have to convince all that they are the correct ones and everyone should think what they think. Anyone disagreeing is a personal affront that must be dealt with until everyone agrees with everyone. The Grom owns.
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nsaP posted:That's not the full Goon Dilemma, it's "Some people like different things, and that's okay". Goons here can't accept 'that's okay', they have to convince all that they are the correct ones and everyone should think what they think. Anyone disagreeing is a personal affront that must be dealt with until everyone agrees with everyone.
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nsaP posted:That's not the full Goon Dilemma, it's "Some people like different things, and that's okay". Goons here can't accept 'that's okay', they have to convince all that they are the correct ones and everyone should think what they think. Anyone disagreeing is a personal affront that must be dealt with until everyone agrees with everyone. Maybe you should get a "Depends Muzzle" for the poo poo coming out of your old rear end mouth grandpa.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Look I don't care what SomethingAwful is as long as it's not friendly to Wes Siler. The only acceptable humor is MY HUMOR.
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nsaP posted:Nah, not Harleyrider at all, every rider under the sun has done this. My friends had this same crash but on a ninja 250. It's definitely happened to practically everyone. I think it's Harleyrider in the sense that your friend (I assume) was riding a ninja 250 because he/she was learning to ride, whereas this guy hopped on a big fuckoff Harley and decided he would be born-again wild. Then he acts like a giant manbaby about his total inadequacy instead of learning to ride. That to me is the Harley stereotype to a T. Linedance posted:Maybe you should get a "Depends Muzzle" for the poo poo coming out of your old rear end mouth grandpa. AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA. Fantastic.
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This is fascinating. It explains it so well.
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blackmanjew posted:Don't know why but all of a sudden I really, really want a 990 Super Duke. Yes, you do. You probably also don't want your motorbike license at the same time, but at least you'll have a grin from ear to ear as the officer puts you in cuffs and the tow truck is taking your bike away. I've promised my wife I'm going to resist test riding the 1290 when it arrives here, it might too hard to leave the store without being on a new KTM.
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blackmanjew posted:Don't know why but all of a sudden I really, really want a 990 Super Duke. I have similarly lustful thoughts about the 990 SMT. 
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snail posted:Yes, you do. You probably also don't want your motorbike license at the same time, but at least you'll have a grin from ear to ear as the officer puts you in cuffs and the tow truck is taking your bike away. I mentioned to my wife that I might not go racing and instead would buy a KTM 1290 and she immediately said that wasn't a possibility and that I was going racing if I liked it or not.
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Just a doodle about motorcycles the author made in a comic I was reading online:
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Here's the video of when I went through Times Square. Things to look for: -Cops not giving a gently caress except to keep people out of the street -A woman in body paint advertising something -Panhandlers with funny signs -A bride and groom (I never saw them, but someone told me the bride tried to get on his bike with him) -A bike courier almost getting wrecked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ5oKBVsLN8 Sidenote: I'm pretty sure you can't hear my DRZ at all in that. I never bothered revving the engine.
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Deeters posted:Here's the video of when I went through Times Square. Yall should have hit Time Square bosozoku style
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ought ten posted:Your poor rev limiter. Seems to be someone else around him doing that, he's on a Drz. Is bouncing off the rev limiter a "thing"? I've seen people do it as a joke, but never that consistent.
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Took some stills from a video of a ride I took recently, not bad for video stills.       
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HNasty posted:Took some stills from a video of a ride I took recently, not bad for video stills. Can't be you, it's not raining.
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HNasty posted:Took some stills from a video of a ride I took recently, not bad for video stills.  Those are really good. Very nice.
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HNasty posted:Took some stills from a video of a ride I took recently, not bad for video stills. You've got a mount that you use with a DSLR (or micro 4/3, or something like that), right? I'd be scared of losing my DSLR if I did that.
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Safety Dance posted:You've got a mount that you use with a DSLR (or micro 4/3, or something like that), right? I'd be scared of losing my DSLR if I did that. Nah these are from my chest mount go-pro
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Gopro 3 Black, correct? The black levels give it away, unless you did that in post.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Gopro 3 Black, correct? The black levels give it away, unless you did that in post. Just pressed Shift+S while playing the files in VLC
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HNasty posted:Nah these are from my chest mount go-pro Color me impressed.
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HNasty posted:Yall should have hit Time Square bosozoku style And all revved out a song in unison? I wish that group had the organization to pull it off. velocross posted:Seems to be someone else around him doing that, he's on a Drz. Is bouncing off the rev limiter a "thing"? I've seen people do it as a joke, but never that consistent. It's basically everyone else around me. Half the bikes in that ride had wide open exhausts.
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Deeters posted:It's basically everyone else around me. Half the bikes in that ride had wide open exhausts. That's seriously not you? I just thought you were joking about not touching the throttle. With all the m109s I figured the high-pitched one had to be you.
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Hietala posted:Just a doodle about motorcycles the author made in a comic I was reading online: FACE DOWN, rear end UP, THAT'S THE WAY WE LIKE TO... RIDE
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HNasty posted:Took some stills from a video of a ride I took recently, not bad for video stills. These are cool. I really need to change the settings on my GoPro off of fisheye lense - these look a whole lot better than what mine is putting out.
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First video review of the MT I've seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs3RTfu3QC8&hd=1
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HNasty posted:First video review of the MT I've seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs3RTfu3QC8&hd=1 Stunning engine and instrument cluster attached to an ugly-rear end bike.
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It'd be cool if Yamaha did a faired, or even semi-faired, version of the FZ-09. Kind of like the old SV650S or the Ninja 650/1000. I'm not particularly fond of naked bikes in the first place, and the new FZ-09 especially isn't winning any beauty pageants. I'm certainly attracted to the engine, price, and general characteristics of the bike, but man they really didn't put much effort into aesthetics (or the suspension, apparently). Hopefully they offer a version with a factory upgraded suspension, kind of like the Street Triple R - for a price, obviously. Guinness fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Sep 4, 2013 |
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Guinness posted:It'd be cool if Yamaha did a faired, or even semi-faired, version of the FZ-09. Kind of like the old SV650S or the Ninja 650/1000. I'm not particularly fond of naked bikes in the first place, and the new FZ-09 especially isn't winning any beauty pageants. It appears to be following the SV650 pattern pretty closely, which makes sense considering how successful that model was for Suzuki. I don't know if any Japanese make offers an up-specced naked bike in the same way the Europeans do though. It's always just been you get what you get, if you want a faster one you get the larger engined version.
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I quite like the look of the MT-09 to be honest. The only 2 things I don't like with it are the huge gap/sloped area from the top of the headlight to the tiny instrument cluster, and the silver frame on some of the colour options. The air scoops look a little out of place too, but I don't mind them too much though. Its as if they wanted them to extend down into radiator cowls or something, but just stopped instead. The headlight/instrument cluster looks like its begging for a fly screen. They show one in the MCN review video, but it looked far too small to bridge the gap. I think once they hit the public and we start seeing them with just a few simple things done, like a tail tidy, rear seat cowl/solo seat, removing the passenger pegs etc they will clean up nicely.
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