Motorcycle Porn

[Rupert]

Ha, your right about the tea I think  

I can hear him now

..... Eye, 'n that makes un' emultshon,....

or something like that.

>knees right next to the pavement ... yup, sounds like the one.

There was one view, where they come over a small hill, front end in the air, and then go straight into a right hander.   I forget the name of the corner.  You see them dropping the front end, as the bike starts to tip, so the weight on the front wheel increases as it drops hard.  The curb is just 2 inches away from the same front wheel.  How they do it time and time again, I will never know.  Amazing.

I took my Godsons to Donnington last summer, (local track) and valentino rossi was there. So some class acts. Charlie said to me after:

It looked really good the way they put the bikes over on the side round every bend....   Trouble was, they could all do it.    He had a point

...you actually have no idea how many times I have gotten off this bike and wanted to just post some random thread about how f###ing cool it is to try and hang on to this thing...

Well, I think I am starting to get an idea 

[dogboy]

I love this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EglLi6nZnZU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[dogboy]

How good is that speech!?

[4Eyes]

How good is that speech!?

Guess it depends on your love of the sport - to be honest it sounds like a collection of cliches to me (no offence intended DB - just how it seem to my non-speed freak ears)

[dogboy]

Ahhhh your killing me!!!  I LOVE this.

It has nothing to do with bikes either. In fact that was an overlay. It applies to competition in general at a most fundamental level. If I had this back when I was racing dogs I wouldn't have had to come up with all the same things on my own.

> sounds like a collection of cliches
That's only because you aren't used to hearing a cliche said for the very first time:) This is what we quote.

[4Eyes]

That's only because you aren't used to hearing a cliche said for the very first time

LOL - I guess, by definition, that is something you can't get 'used to'

May be an age thing too - I guess as you reach my age you have a wider exposure to those speeches and quotes aimed at generating 'excitement', 'enthusiasm' or 'fighting spirit'.

I can still remember getting all excited and enthusiastic after attending my first 'quality management' training session - if I heard the same stuff now I would struggle to prevent myself from ramming the powerpoint projector so far up the presenters ass that we could watch the slides in reverse through his eyelids.

The older I get, the more I realise how important the old story of the 'blind men and the elephant' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant) is.

I guess on this one I got an ear and you got a leg DB

[Rupert]

Just watched it Dogboy, reminded me why I don't race.....

If I came off like that now I don't think I would bounce so well. 

I had forgotten that tale 4eyes, thanks for reminding me.  How do you keep digging them up?

[dogboy]

>you got a leg
...if I only have a leg,  and the 'animal' we are talking about is 'competition', I think that speech has it by it's balls  

Sure it may sound like a beer commercial, but that is only because it sounds like something in a tacky movie a great tough old American college football coach might say... but that is only because it systematically touches upon every point that needed to be addressed, if you don't want to waste your time and everyone else's time with mediocrity:)

I also liked it had no fans, no girls, no champagne, no money, just racing... just love of the sport.  

>I don't think I would bounce so well.
yeah, I'll find some crash videos at some point...

[jetboy]

That's my baby. Matching red Yuki Kagayama lid.

I've got a big soft spot for 90s 250 two strokes though - NSRs, reverse cylinder TZRs etc. Things of beauty.

I reckon MotoGP is now as good as it was in the days of Rainey, Schwantz and Gardner. The races a few years ago when Rossi was toying with Gibernau were priceless, and his tussles with Lorenzo last season were just as good. It'll be very interesting to see what Valentino can do on a Ducati this season.

[dogboy]

niiiiiiice!!!!  Love the tail!

>MotoGP
I hate to say it, but I think Lorenzo is going to be the guy to beat, and I'm a Rossi fan.  I think the Ducati's are just too unrefined right now, in comparison, but maybe he can tame it. 

I really like Moto2 now too, but I dont know too much about WSBK.

[jetboy]

I think that's probably Ducati's thinking. While Rossi's certainly not finished yet, his ability to develop bikes is unrivalled, and Ducati desperately need a machine that someone other than Stoner can consistently win on. It wouldn't surprise me if we saw Hayden back up at the front after Rossi's put a bit of work in.

[eurotrash]

If people are going for bragging rights, I once sat on a bike that my client had made by Orange County Choppers (Big Pauly on the Discovery Channel) to give away in a raffle - and I did it without a helmet!  Had a pic at the time but has disappeared.  

[dogboy]

I love choppers too...



I have a public album with bikes I like here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=402582&id=587880251&l=f5843af8e0

@jetboy, ditto.

[dogboy]

guy doing wheelies on ice with studded snow tires...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8wwWR73m0

[4Eyes]

if I only have a leg, and the 'animal' we are talking about is 'competition',

... and that is the point - I listened to it again to make sure and I can 100% confirm that the 'animal' that I hear is not 'competition', I hear a collection of cliches and incorrect 'facts'. To me it sounds like a speech from a bad movie - the speech the crusty old company commander makes before sending his fresh recruits out against crazy odds. I genuinely thought it was a satire at first.

Again, not 'having a go at you' DB - we really do seem to have hold of a different part of the elephant on this one.