Speaking of which, I got to ride a Hayabusha the other day… holy fucking shit. I’m considered an ‘independent contractor’ on my taxes so I’m thinking whether or not I should get one and write it off on my taxes hehehehe…
Anyone know how to tricks on a bike? I want to wheelie and do front wheelie’s and shit… I can do all of that on a dirt bike but a street bike I don’t know, I’d hate to spend money on it then thrash it.
-Xen “training wheels” Nova
[quote]Original_Demon wrote:
Let’s talk about the addrenaline rush you get after weaving your sports-bike through rush-hour doing 145 MPH!![/quote]
Sweet! Another organ donor!
[quote]Xen Nova wrote:
Let’s talk about being hard-core! Let’s talk about the addrenaline rush you get after weaving your sports-bike through rush-hour doing 145 MPH!!!
Speaking of which, I got to ride a Hayabusha the other day… holy fucking shit. I’m considered an ‘independent contractor’ on my taxes so I’m thinking whether or not I should get one and write it off on my taxes hehehehe…
Anyone know how to tricks on a bike? I want to wheelie and do front wheelie’s and shit… I can do all of that on a dirt bike but a street bike I don’t know, I’d hate to spend money on it then thrash it.
-Xen “training wheels” Nova[/quote]
Then stay off the happy bus, I have one in the garage and trust me it’s a gentleman’s sport bike, you on one of those is like a 16 YO on MAG-10, just a bad bad bad idea. Go pick up a GSXR disposable bling bling stunta’s bike if that’s what you are looking to do. Make sure you put your girl on the back in a tank top before you drop her off the back, road rash definitely enhances the evenings experiences.
Wheelies are a matter of clutch usage and timing, not much different than on dirtbikes, just bigger consequences. Stopies are front braking insanity. Practice, practice, practice. Most everyone enjoys watching the youngins throwing money at plastics and raising our insurance rates at the Thursday night bike nights.
You want to impress me?
Carve a canyon without laying on the brakes before every decreasing radius turn, cut a perfect line without crossing the yellow or white or hanging your head into the oncoming lane. THAT is what riding is about.
[quote]911 Girl wrote:
Then stay off the happy bus, I have one in the garage and trust me it’s a gentleman’s sport bike, you on one of those is like a 16 YO on Mag-10, just a bad bad bad idea. Go pick up a GSXR disposable bling bling stunta’s bike if that’s what you are looking to do. Make sure you put your girl on the back in a tank top before you drop her off the back, road rash definitely enhances the evenings experiences.
Wheelies are a matter of clutch usage and timing, not much different than on dirtbikes, just bigger consequences. Stopies are front braking insanity. Practice, practice, practice. Most everyone enjoys watching the youngins throwing money at plastics and raising our insurance rates at the Thursday night bike nights.
You want to impress me?
Carve a canyon without laying on the brakes before every decreasing radius turn, cut a perfect line without crossing the yellow or white or hanging your head into the oncoming lane. THAT is what riding is about.[/quote]
And if you insist on behaving like a future Darwin Award recipient, please keep your sport bike stunts off the public roads. I’m sure emergency response folks like 911girl have scraped enough of you guys off the highway. Speed if fine and stunts are fine, but not on the public road. Every time I see a squid on a crotch rocket pulling that shit I have two thoughts:
“What an idiot”, and “What an idiot”.
[quote]HouseOfAtlas wrote:
Original_Demon wrote:
Let’s talk about the addrenaline rush you get after weaving your sports-bike through rush-hour doing 145 MPH!!
Sweet! Another organ donor![/quote]
LOL. I will keep that one in mind. Very good call! 
For Gojira and 911Girl:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
ROTFLMAO!!!
Oh…(wiping tears away)…that was beautiful.
Direct hit.
[quote]
I still don’t see what the problem is with this site, it’s free, you morons. If you can’t discern the wheat from the chaff, that’s the fault of your own bumbling intellect. [/quote]
That’s exactly my point. Some people cannot discern the wheat from the chaff because they DON’T have a basic background, and they come here to learn. It isn’t a matter of money, it’s a matter of professional responsibility.
-Dan
[quote]rainjack wrote:
I don’t know who you are referring to - but you smell just like a know-it-all college kid. I’ve eaten punks like you for breakfast and you taste just like you smell - like shit.
When you actually accomplish something beyond making it to class on time, then you can strut your tail-feathers in everyone’s faces.
Until then spare me the I’m-smarter than-everyone-on-here-because-mommy-and-daddy-can-send-me-to-a-good-school B.S.
Just the idea that you think you have more to bring to the table than C.W., C.T., Dr. Ryan, or any of the other contributors is laughable.[/quote]
Oh good, here comes the manly blustering…
I never said I was smarter than everyone on here. For all I know, I might be in the bottom 10% when it comes to smarts. And I also gave props to people who have educated themselves outside of the formal education system, if you’ll go back and read the next paragraph after what you are referring to. It’s just part of the path I’m taking.
Some of what I’m learning in school makes it obvious that parts of the big picture are left out in some of the articles, too, the most important part being safety
I do realize what I wrote came across as rather cocky, I apologize for that. It wasn’t my intention.
I also didn’t say I have more to bring to the table than the staff writers. I was voicing that some of the articles lately have been stale and underwritten. I know they can bring more - especially CT, as I’ve been reading his material since long before he joined T-Nation.
-Dan
Good thread, in that it goes to the heart of what this site and community are about. I’m certain that’s a topic about which we all care deeply.
wufwuguy asks the pertinent question: what’s to be done?
Well, I harbor no illusions that I have the answers–at least, answers that will work for everyone reading this thread. There are people like RIT Jared who get Staley to Rochester (and in January!) and manage to sign up hundreds of people for a seminar. Then there are people who live in the Off Topic forum. Then there are people like me.
I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous?
Almost, at times, the Fool.
from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
My cynical belief is that you aren’t going to change the site by appealing to “the better angels of our nature.” (speaking of Hamlet)
I do have a method, though, of trying to improve the site. It’s something anyone can do, and some can do it much better than I.
*I don’t rip people a new one.
*I try to play conciliator in some threads where it’s clear the hostility toward the original poster is preventing any real info, since he’s putting his time into defending himself.
*I don’t spend time in forums like Politics and World Issues, because it isn’t representative of what this site and community can be.
(Confession: I posted more than once in the Oral Exam thread started by wideguy; I have a hard time ignoring any thread started by wideguy.)
*I share what (little) knowledge I have.
*I try to be supportive of the good things I see here. (Quick Quiz: without checking, name three regular members who ALWAYS congratulated the Poster of the Week.)
I try NOT to be one of the people who uses up your time and wastes bytes. It may not be much, but it’s what I’ve got.
[quote]911 Girl wrote:
You want to impress me?
Carve a canyon without laying on the brakes before every decreasing radius turn, cut a perfect line without crossing the yellow or white or hanging your head into the oncoming lane. THAT is what riding is about.[/quote]
Beautiful… simply beautiful.
[quote]Xen Nova wrote:
Let’s talk about being hard-core! Let’s talk about the addrenaline rush you get after weaving your sports-bike through rush-hour doing 145 MPH!!!
Speaking of which, I got to ride a Hayabusha the other day… holy fucking shit. I’m considered an ‘independent contractor’ on my taxes so I’m thinking whether or not I should get one and write it off on my taxes hehehehe…
Anyone know how to tricks on a bike? I want to wheelie and do front wheelie’s and shit… I can do all of that on a dirt bike but a street bike I don’t know, I’d hate to spend money on it then thrash it.
-Xen “training wheels” Nova[/quote]
Hi zen.
wheelies.
learn your clutch control, and then, start to rev the bike about 1/2 way, and get used to the feeling of dumping the clutch. aim to just pop the wheel a little first.
as this becomes more familiar, you can the accelerate as you dump yhe clutch. the balance is between acceleration/revs and flipping the bugger.
Stoppies.
in a straight line, get used to braking HARD.
then, as you brake, shift weight forward. if it goes too much, let front brake go. you will get used to haveing the rear tyre in the air, and can then go for rolling stoppies, whereyou get the rear wheel up and adjust braking to keep it there.
YOU WILL FALL OFF!
Burnouts are easy and i guess you can do them, pops are cool, rev and flick kill switch on and off. you can now get flame out kits to cook cars!
There you Miniross explained it. That’s all there is to it. Pretty darn simple. Heck, I wheelie’d over a speed bump my third time out of the barn. Now THAT’S a kick in the drawers!
I have yet to perfect the decreasing radius corners, and boy is the practice fun. Whereas stopies and wheelies can be explained in a few sentences, entire books are dedicated to the overwhelming pleasure of turning a corner on two wheels. Mastery of such a skill is music in motion, often equated to an orgasmic experience.
Stopies require wearing a cup to save the boys from unplanned run ins of the tank nature, hardly an orgasmic experience IMHO.
Generating a perfect turn on the road takes skill, practice and conviction. Having a smooth riding style which is effortless, where small shifts of weight left, right, fore and aft are where the real skill is.
It doesn’t look flash, but when and if it comes off (about 2 times for me) the feeling is great. like taking the first carve when snowbarding or effortlessly riding down the face of a wave.
it IS that good.
However, wheelies are cool, cos cars cant do them, and i do have a stunters bike (GSXR) but so do most brits (can only ride 20 % of the year!)
What a surprise…a hijack on a thread about “hardcore”-ness…