Interesting Motorcycle Vids

Hehe as kids on bicycles riding with traffic on newly created freeways my buddy had grabbed an umbrella out of the trash and was holding it across bars with one hand while with the other he'd grabbed on to a dump truck heading up an overpass till like 50 mph then let go and put the umbrella on his shoulder, then it suddenly opened up to lift him a few feet off the bike then folded up drop him rolling into the grass down slope sides while his bike continued for like 100 yd before finally following road crown off into the grass.

here's hot shot on gymkanna event I must learn too stay ahead of the police. Note the fork action and no hanging off.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCGaQMgkzw8[/video]
 
Makes you dizzy looking at it . Italian Police 1950s style . [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrLvYrKYVD8[/video]
 
YIke! how would they even practice such precision? Mortocycles excite us into such crazy states. I think one of the spirals got too tight for the opposite line and camera swung away to the one the did it right. No doubt about how well Italians can ride all conditions.
 
Barbie Qed Ducati , parts 1 & 2 .
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct6QSoejOuc[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0mrsXpnDGM[/video]
 
VERY INTERESTING - WWII British POW Escape Tools.
Just think if that much thought and effort went into their motorcycles.


Starting in 1941, an increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and the Crown was casting about for ways and means to facilitate their escape...

Now obviously, one of the most helpful aids to that end is a useful and accurate map, one showing not
only where stuff was, but also showing the locations of 'safe houses' where a POW on-the-lam could go for food and shelter.


Paper maps had some real drawbacks -- they make a lot of noise when you open and fold them, they wear out rapidly, and if they get wet, they turn into mush.

Someone in MI-5 (similar to America 's OSS ) got the idea of printing escape maps on silk. It's durable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads, and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noise whatsoever.


At that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology of printing on silk, and that was John Waddington,Ltd. When approached by the government, the firm was only too happy to do it's bit for the war effort.


By pure coincidence, Waddington was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular American board game, Monopoly. As it happened, 'games and pastimes' was a category of item qualified for insertion into 'CARE packages', dispatched by the International Red Cross to prisoners of war.


Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old workshop on the grounds of Waddington's, a group of sworn-to-secrecy employees began mass-producing escape maps, keyed to each region of Germany or Italy where Allied POW camps were. When processed, these maps could be folded into such tiny dots that they would actually fit inside a Monopoly playing piece.


As long as they were at it, the clever workmen at Waddington's also managed to add:
1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic compass
2. A two-part metal file that could easily be screwed together
3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denomination German, Italian, and French currency, hidden within the piles of Monopoly money!


British and American air crews were advised, before taking off on their first mission, how to identify a 'rigged' Monopoly set -- by means of a tiny red dot, one cleverly rigged to look like an ordinary printing glitch, located in the corner of the Free Parking square.


Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an estimated one-third were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets.. Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecy indefinitely, since the British Government might want to use this highly successful ruse in still another, future war.

The story wasn't declassified until 2007, when the surviving craftsmen from Waddington's, as well as the firm itself, were finally honored in a public ceremony.
 
Hailwood on Honda 6 at reverse Brands Hatch;

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwINcFAshlM[/video]
 
Mainly photos;

..racing motorcycles at brands hatch in the 60's part 1
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1EFrUSVmyQ[/video]

..racing motorcycles at brands hatch in the 60's part 2
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71r8G07ou6w[/video]
 
This is what I want to do on Ms Peel and appeals more than easy road racing predicable thrills to me. Somehow I got some wires crossed as more fun recovering a toss down than riding just short of them. Tires and perfect engine response are worth more than pilot skill and suspension, though those sure help too.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/embed/GzXVLbs41Ew[/video]
 
hobot said:
This is what I want to do on Ms Peel and appeals more than easy road racing predicable thrills to me. Somehow I got some wires crossed as more fun recovering a toss down than riding just short of them. Tires and perfect engine response are worth more than pilot skill and suspension, though those sure help too.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/GzXVLbs41Ew
So your looking to do two wheel drive and rear wheel steering on Peel ? :mrgreen:
 
willh for a time there I thought about fwd to point I figured out a simple way to do it, but then reviewed my riding habits and conditions to realize I really can't use any front wheel traction for a few reasons. One I'm not going crawling up no hill or Mt. side, no sir ree bob I want what hill climbers do on rear drive only so front not that involved. On THE Gravel would be nice at slower speeds where I don't need it yet at hi speed I sure as hell don't want the front pulling and steering in conflict with the rear because its road following a rut or washbords, instead of being lifted and pushed right over that crap by the thrusting rear. Two, on pavement Peel unloads her fork so nil traction or even lifts off for no traction. FWD is useless extra load to lug around. Oh I've seen the video of the race bike versions, but don't see any more advancements which I assume they ran into same thing i did. FWD only good off road in very loose/steep conditions where ya can't get going fast enough to fly right through or up. Rear tire steering is very common and very fun to do and will spoil ya for mere two tire planted security and dullness.
 
Video of a BSA thumper. Camera angle lets you see the slide in his carb working through the velocity stack.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RG9g_GMcz0[/video]
 
Someone should do up one for Brit Iron with emphasis on Sragthropes and Commandos. Ask me about scout saucer drives helical stabilizer plasma toroids or even warp drives space vacuum virtual bubble modulation efficiencies but this is flat over me little head...

The Entababulator ... still ahead of its times...

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUflk0NAFeo[/video]
 
Isle of Man TT ★ Best of slow motion ★ HD★ Best go to full screen

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjdLNB5FI0s&feature=player_embedded[/video]
 
Thanx so much finding this gem of everything I find wrong with the super duper bikes and superman pilots. Its finally video proof of my claims and findings to call these balloon tire wonders deadly corner cripples. This is what I was doing to them to get in so much trouble at Keith Code's school. They have not gotten much better in the decade since but power to weight bee lines and still so wheelie prone they can hardly use the power they got and even then its so wavery in torque response must have digital interface for people to use it with a chance of surviving. Forks lift on initiating a lean and rear rules the roost to steer pure and simple plus fat tires are clod hoppers to do road ballet orgasims. These boys are incredible skilled and brave to me so constanly comparing my own sense of wits and nerves needed to do what draws me like a month into a flame. I know the G levels they are experiencing to shamlessly tell ya its just not much a rush after what I've experienced in spades on Ms Peel. I'm nutz or a liar or maybe someone else is missing out on something wonderflully transforming between your legs.
Remember the Tunnel of Love, got that with a blond with fire in her eyes in hot rod red mustang convertible - dicing with sports cars turns me on and AWD rally cars send spikes up my spine... by thier hook up of power to weight response. Dudes in hot PU's are even more dangerous daring.

Interesting Motorcycle Vids

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R3lBFjTIPc[/video]
Notice the anti-wheelie swingam and how little pilot hangs anything off on lean side, nay often on the opposite side - just like I do on Peel when kicking out heel, through with straight steering it sharpens turn not drift so wide.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYpOFimB7ZA[/video]
 
Stuff that can happen to any of us though some more than others
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XkYE-VoUOs&NR=1&feature=endscreen[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=jeEnQsHjO8w[/video]
 
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