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Reading this thread again made me want to make my bike look less like a pile. This is a good thing.
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Silver posted:This guy is loving awesome. "Famous last words" seems very apt here
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Nov 14, 2008 18:04
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Z3n posted:That triumph just makes me think drat those dudes don't give a gently caress
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Nov 17, 2008 07:50
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Silver posted:Whoa. That was way funnier than it had any right to be
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Nov 18, 2008 22:58
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Jack the Smack posted:Well, I assume everyone reading this has seen the ending to the Myspace video. I laugh way too hard at videos like that. I think it makes me a bad person.
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Dec 4, 2008 20:00
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FlyinDoc posted:Great thing about keeping those shenanigans to the racetrack is that there's nothing around to hit. Except those pesky walls
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Dec 11, 2008 07:13
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This is how REAL MEN deal with winter: (edit: by breaking tables, apparently, oops)
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Jul 30, 2009 21:13
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Doctor Zero posted:Fantastic! I'd love to get one of those. They actually sell Urals in the U.S. but they're almost as overpriced as Harleys
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Jul 31, 2009 22:43
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Christoff posted:That's not funny and gently caress the guy that made that
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Sep 4, 2009 22:26
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MrKatharsis posted:Then where would your precious rust free used vehicles come from? California comes to mind
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Sep 17, 2009 23:02
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Spiffness posted:http://www.break.com/index/showoff-biker-wrecks-new-custom-harley.html What a dumb mother fucker
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Sep 23, 2009 22:00
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Zool posted:Using more rear brake is not going to do diddley for you if you tuck the front in a straight line. He crashed because he doesn't know how to ride a motorcycle. He held the wheelie for 32 seconds on the previous try I'm guessing. Or it was 32 seconds away from 12 o clock 
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Sep 25, 2009 06:45
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Ola posted:He jabbed the front brake yeah. Maybe his tires aren't that good, maybe some other factors were bad but his main problem was accelerating that quick towards a red light. Harleys might be dogs but they still accelerate quick enough to get you into trouble, particularly if you taught yourself riding by watching Camel ads. He just wants to be cool like Joe and you can't do that just by smoking cigarettes
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Sep 25, 2009 16:29
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Coredump posted:After looking at the video I realize that you're probably right but care to elaborate on what vehicle it is or are you just too busy patting yourself on the back? I think its a Lada Niva, which is sort of an SUV. And that rider is dead as gently caress considering the speed at which he plowed into the side of the car with.
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Oct 9, 2009 15:41
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Phat_Albert posted:I would ride the poo poo out of that and anyone that wouldn't is just insecure
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Oct 30, 2009 18:46
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On a very slightly related (and far less ugly) note, I was in Japan last week and got to visit Suzuki's HQ, where they have a good-size car-and-bike museum and will work up an effort post on that hopefully soon. Here's a blueballing in the form of the rotary-powered, Giugiaro-styled RE-5
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Oct 30, 2009 19:36
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UserNotFound posted:And yet just a few years ago, he was practically lovesick over not using KTM for long way round? Wow, a dude changed his opinion on something, how unheard of!
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Nov 3, 2009 07:25
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:for those of you not making the connection here: when ewan and charley were putting together the long way round thing, charley had his heart set on a KTM adv bike, but KTM corporate said no. BMW was their second choice. if you see the show you'll see how incredibly pissed off charley was at this. also, the BMW they used in the show became BMW's best selling model in BMW Motorrad history after that. way to go, KTM. Imagine if that trip had ended badly though. Like one of those BMWs making GBS threads its final drive all over the rear end end of Kazakhstan. Knowing how risk-averse car/bike makers can be, I'm fairly surprised that BMW didn't say "nah, we'll pass" either. Not like either of those two actually needed to freeload.
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Nov 3, 2009 18:17
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:i dunno if you actually saw the show, but in both long way down and long way round, the bikes DID poo poo themselves in various ways. although in long way down, i believe it was aftermarket rear shocks that were to blame. in LWR, one 1150 cracked its subframe and then blew out its servo brakes when they welded the subframe. some of that was not the bike's fault, but still. Haven't seen LWD but the failures in LWR were related directly to user incompetence. The subframes cracked because they were overloaded and the welding blew out the ABS because nobody thought of doing something simple like disconnecting the battery first. quote:i really don't think any bike failure of any kind, short of a bike killing one of the riders or being so incredibly bad that they ditched all of them and bought different ones, would be bad from a marketing perspective. This level of failure is what I had in mind. I did specifically mention final drive failure, which isn't exactly fixable by a Mongolian guy with a welder.
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Nov 3, 2009 20:28
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abigserve posted:To be honest I don't think KTM was angling for that market. If you look at their lineup KTM is the hooligan of the motorcycle industry, so when they saw "hollywood actors are going to ride around the world" they probably thought it was going to be weak. I thought the support crew thing was pretty weaksauce but it seems that at the end of the day, said crew caused more harm than good, what with two of them almost dying when their truck flipped.
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Nov 3, 2009 23:25
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Linedance posted:Yeah there's weirdos who do it solo in order to prove something to themselves, but I have nothing to prove. The Dakar rallyists use support trucks, nobody harps on them for not being hardcore enough. Yes because the average guy with a bike and a thirst for adventure has the pockets to buy a support team just like a millionaire movie star or corporate-backed racing team 
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Nov 4, 2009 00:32
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Linedance posted:Resources aren't just money either, if you had a well connected friend who could arrange travel papers and local fixers why would you decline their assistance? Getting help from locals is completely different than having a support van full of spare parts trail you. And no, I wouldn't have a support van even if I could afford it. At that point its not an adventure anymore, its a guided tour.
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Nov 4, 2009 01:05
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:What if you had a smoking hot wife who was a mechanic and liked vans? I'd get a Ural!
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Nov 4, 2009 02:34
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Linedance posted:so what is it, one-upmanship? A weird mix of envy and elitism? You think half the Germans touring around Africa at any given moment on a GS aren't middle managers in some company? "Sense of adventure" in this case seems to translate as "I'm better than you because..." I don't think you "get" adventure riding
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Nov 4, 2009 06:31
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8ender posted:Isn't adventure riding just going somewhere off the beaten path on your bike and having fun? Pretty much yeah quote:Does it have to be filled with tragedy and hardship to qualify? Tragedy? Certainly not, that's the last thing that should happen. Hardship? Not necessarily. inolen posted:stuntin' Out of curiosity, are you wearing any kind of shoulder armor under there?
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Nov 4, 2009 17:19
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I've never been on a group ride and I don't plan on ever going on one. The idea as a whole seems stupid and unnecessarily dangerous, especially when sport bikes are involved.
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Nov 4, 2009 17:41
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inolen posted:We both wear the Alpinestar Bionic jacket and Dainese 3x knee pads. Cool, seen a few stuntas gently caress themselves up royally binning it off a foot-in-the-seat circle or whatever cause they weren't wearing gear. And christ I just noticed that sprocket. What's the diameter on that thing?
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Nov 4, 2009 17:56
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Z3n posted:Never riding with me again? Its not really a group if its just a couple guys  .I'm ok with something like what we had on the Crest in August, where everyone went their own pace (I *think* I'd actually feel safer if I was mixed in with some cars because then the risk of ending up like that unfortunate Ducati rider is reduced), but I guess my image of a group ride is a bit skewed - when I hear "group ride brah," I assume a dozen squids getting retarded.
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Nov 4, 2009 18:16
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Gay Nudist Dad posted:The only group rides (more than me + my dad) I've been on had 40-60+ bikes in them, and everyone was safe and sane. 40-60 scooters? So you rode around in Parisian traffic, big deal.
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Nov 4, 2009 18:21
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Z3n posted:I was up on Mullholland recently on a weekend and it was a clusterfuck of epic proportions. gently caress that place...not to mention the g/f's incident with getting run off the road. loving squids. I stay the gently caress away from Mulholland. If its not morons that'll gently caress you over, its gonna be the cops. And since the speed limit on there is so drat low, they'll gently caress you hard. To contribute to the topic, here's another picture from the Suzuki museum (I fear I'll never get around to making that effort post  )
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Nov 4, 2009 18:37
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The bike in the middle has boostu! Its a 1982 XN85
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Nov 4, 2009 18:44
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:i not only agree with everything said in this show but i would say that i believe all of it with fundamentalist religious fervor. Amen. Those guys were fags.
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Nov 5, 2009 21:26
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*drools all over self like a retard* I WANT. NOW. *checks wallet* aww 
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Nov 9, 2009 21:53
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AlternativelyMrKatharsis posted:The Multistrada: because the KLR is just not ugly enough.
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Nov 11, 2009 16:24
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Just saw this on ADV, goes in line with the thread we have on the same subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObeFgvc8ysQ
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Nov 18, 2009 23:44
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Endless Mike posted:I kind of have to wonder how the LeMons cars do with that kind of corner. I'm sure not a whole lot and the drivers don't even notice with the 30 year old suspension blobbing back and forth from two turns prior. Considering that most LeMons drivers are poo poo, I doubt they notice. At this weekend's race, traffic would regularly back up at that corner because of some moron.
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Nov 24, 2009 04:48
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poo poo is like that is what separates them from us mere mortals
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Dec 4, 2009 22:15
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Uthor posted:yeah he's dead
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Dec 7, 2009 05:42
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inolen posted:LOL, he's not actually. But to add to the humor, that's his own truck that he himself parked there in that tunnel. I ride with his brother pretty frequently, and we were just laughing about this the other day. He must have spent a fair amount of time in the hospital then because it looks like he helicopters right into the front of the camera car
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dietcokefiend posted:Oh holy jesus christ The paintjob is lame but any bike with studded tires is badass as far as I'm concerned
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