A picture a day....biker banter (Vol 4)

[Jazoli]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Here's a picture of ME on MY bike doing a wheelie. Right, lets see any of you wimin beat that!

Any fool can wheelie with their feet on the floor, 1/10 for style, 6/10 for effort.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Jazoli said:

Any fool can wheelie with their feet on the floor, 1/10 for style, 6/10 for effort.

Its hard to get it up at my age.

[hebegb]

Do you know the meaning of Nemesis ?
John ...
Ps please reply - don't make me feel like a Sparepart at a wedding ...,

[Jazoli]

hebegb said:

Dave ...not too sure you seem to understand how this "Picture a Day " works....

I do,but I've not taken any new bike pictures for months, so have an old one, my old ZXR

[Biker's Nemesis]

hebegb said:

Do you know the meaning of Nemesis ?
John ...
Ps please reply - don't make me feel like a Sparepart at a wedding ...,

A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible ... me.

[blade7]

Biker's Nemesis said:

A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible ... me.

Are you a Cockney...

[graeme4130]

RemaL said:

Gavia said:

RemaL said:

From the guy with the bike

the guy with the bike said:

I sent these images to the Dunlop distributer where I bought them (this distributer supplies all the spec tires for MotoAmerica races). After a couple days he called me back and said that neither he nor Dunlop reps up the ranks have ever seen tire wear like this. They are speculating from the pics that the HP to the rear wheel was deforming or changing the contact patch to the pavement and resulted in parts of the tire not getting wear.. or at least that’s what little I got out of the explanation on the phone. They’ve asked me to ship the tire to Dunlop in Buffalo so they can cut into it for further examination

Still not convinced that it's anything more than user error, although the edge tread is still baffling me as to why a tyre would be designed with it. The thing about the Internet is that someone can say anything happened and there's no way to prove / disprove it. Dunlop are unlikely to say that the power of a bike is too much for their tyres, especially if they're the tyre supplier for US Superbikes.

I'm more than aware what people put on forums often won't be the truth. I was just passing on what I have read and what I have seen which I thought was strange tyre ware

I have no idea, but would suggest it's not power related as although a H2 is a stupidly powerful bike, there's no way you'd use much of that power at the lean angle required for the weird wear pattern.

[Ki3r]

First real ride out of the year, other than using it to and from work. Not major distances, around 60 miles. Love it.

[mak]

Some ktm man love going off, The kids mx bikes are actually bigger than our road bikes,



Roll on some decent weather so we can stop looking and start riding.

[hebegb]

Mak , meant to ask you last time you posted a garage pic ( nice collection btw - good toys !), what is the grey folded box thingy hanging on the wall .... I know what the tinned stuff is in the cubby holes in your brickwork ...?
Cheers

[mak]

hebegb said:

Mak , meant to ask you last time you posted a garage pic ( nice collection btw - good toys !), what is the grey folded box thingy hanging on the wall .... I know what the tinned stuff is in the cubby holes in your brickwork ...?
Cheers

Hi hebegb , That is a can of worms question right there , it wont take long for someone to spot its a bow case but I doubt anyone would guess what it is actually used for.

I started that hobby 10 years ago and has probably cost nearly 10k over the years. The beer cans are a lot cheaper and less stressful hobby .

Probably one of the most frustrating yet addictive things I have ever discovered but thankfully I am over it now and very rely get the time to fly, below is one of the machines that sit in the foam lined bow box .

[hebegb]

Cheers Mak , that's what I pretty much guessed at the case being .... and a great use of it for that proper bit of kit - supposed to be pretty damned hard to fly those beasts , now , sadly overridden by the bloody drone saga ....
Enjoy

[Biker's Nemesis]

blade7 said:

Are you a Cockney...

Thankfully no.

[blade7]

Biker's Nemesis said:

blade7 said:

Are you a Cockney...

Thankfully no.

A Mockney ?

[hebegb]

blade7 said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

blade7 said:

Are you a Cockney...

Thankfully no.

A Mockney ?

If you've ever seen BN (and lets face it, you probably have!).. a bit more Hockney, than Mockney.

[blade7]

hebegb said:

blade7 said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

blade7 said:

Are you a Cockney...

Thankfully no.

A Mockney ?

If you've ever seen BN (and lets face it, you probably have!).. a bit more Hockney, than Mockney.

No Brick Top then ?

[Prof Prolapse]

If we're making comparisons with fictional villains, BN is basically "Long John Silver", with an R1 instead of a Parrot.

[RemaL]

graeme4130 said:

RemaL said:

Gavia said:

RemaL said:

From the guy with the bike

the guy with the bike said:

I sent these images to the Dunlop distributer where I bought them (this distributer supplies all the spec tires for MotoAmerica races). After a couple days he called me back and said that neither he nor Dunlop reps up the ranks have ever seen tire wear like this. They are speculating from the pics that the HP to the rear wheel was deforming or changing the contact patch to the pavement and resulted in parts of the tire not getting wear.. or at least that’s what little I got out of the explanation on the phone. They’ve asked me to ship the tire to Dunlop in Buffalo so they can cut into it for further examination

Still not convinced that it's anything more than user error, although the edge tread is still baffling me as to why a tyre would be designed with it. The thing about the Internet is that someone can say anything happened and there's no way to prove / disprove it. Dunlop are unlikely to say that the power of a bike is too much for their tyres, especially if they're the tyre supplier for US Superbikes.

I'm more than aware what people put on forums often won't be the truth. I was just passing on what I have read and what I have seen which I thought was strange tyre ware

I have no idea, but would suggest it's not power related as although a H2 is a stupidly powerful bike, there's no way you'd use much of that power at the lean angle required for the weird wear pattern.

this tyre is not from the H2 but the H2R

[voyager600]

s3fella said:

podman said:

998420 said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

Wow, what is the story behind that pic ? Is it an IOMTT demo or something,surely that cannot be a GP bike "garage" from 1980 ish ??

If you can have silver tape for knee sliders, you can believe that will have been at a GP..

Great pic..

I've seen that pic before and found out where it was, but I've forgotten now! It was some test before Silverstone GP in 1980 or 81. Or it was the Tuesday or Weds of GP week at Silverstone. It cannot be anywhere near race day as it is not stting it down with rain!

Edited by s3fella on Saturday 7th January 12:15

I think Pre Kenny Roberts GP careeer since he has the AMA no1 on his helmet (Bikes a TZ750?). May be a picture from a Trans Atlantic meeting in the mid 70s

[Andy XRV]