Bikes are slow...

[jackal]

Callyuk said:

jackal said:

this is where the Volvo estate with 2 washing machines in the boot is mighty.
.

there isnt a hope in hell it will keep with 99% of most big bikes in normal road situation.

Any bike with a washing machine strapped to its rear fender is going nowhere fast


even if you could gaffer tape it securely it probably wouldn't even make it off the driveway ... there's just no comparison.

[RemyMartin]

Die thread, die!!!!!

[Callyuk]

jackal said:

Callyuk said:

jackal said:

this is where the Volvo estate with 2 washing machines in the boot is mighty.
.

there isnt a hope in hell it will keep with 99% of most big bikes in normal road situation.

Any bike with a washing machine strapped to its rear fender is going nowhere fast


even if you could gaffer tape it securely it probably wouldn't even make it off the driveway ... there's just no comparison.

you were the one compairing a bike too a volvo with two washing machines in the back there was no mention of a bike with a washing machine on it???
what drugs are you on cause you really arent living in the real world here.

[Yoda.]

Callyuk...now listen.

Do two things:

1. Look up 'Troll' in the internet.
2. Look up 'arguing on the internet'.

So far I'm scoring Jackal at a mighty 10 points, and the BB crew at 0

So, so easy to stir this little wasps nest up isn't it

[Callyuk]

lol iv said my piece all in fun if you ask me

[cyberface]

P-Jay said:

I know I'm 12 pages to late.

But Oh my gawd! - The OP's post is so bizarre I've turned chav.

You should write a book of your musings for us all to enjoy...

Boeing 747.... Better in a dogfight than Eurofighter because it weighs more.

Neither a Boeing 747 nor a Eurofighter would make much sense in a dogfight, because they're both aeroplanes and flying dogs are usually called birds of some sort. If it had been a Boing 747 it might have bounced but dogfights don't often get won by the bouncing dog. At least the Eurofighter has the word 'fighter' in its name so presumably may win in a fight, but not if you want a dogfight, because Euros aren't dogs. There's a dog called the Kuvasz which sounds a bit European. Actually there's a dog called the Harrier which IIRC is also an aeroplane, but that's a duff argument because there's also a dog called a Canary Dog which is a contradiction, and my money would be on the Chinese Foo Dog.

P-Jay said:

Lassie.... better in a dogfight than Chuck Norris because she's a dog.

That one makes more sense. Though Chuck Norris would presumably be better in a Norrisfight, or a Chuckfight. Then again, would Lassie beat a dogfish? A dogfish makes more sense in a dogfight than Chuck Norris, but then again it's always the green and blue dogfish that get turned into large aeroplanes by Boing, squaring the circle with an aquamarine bouncing 17-inch single. And I can't play chess against the greeen dogfish with blue spots, but that's a totally different argument.

P-Jay said:

Quickest in a 100m dash Bugs Bunny v Gok Wah's dress sense - unprovable due to the 'fictional v intangible paradox'.

Eh? There is no paradox. Gok Wah's dress sense is fictional, so whether it is intangible as well has no bearing on the matter. Set theory, my boy. Anyway, in all my philosophical meanderings I haven't heard of this 'fictional vs (sic) intangible paradox' so I googled it. And first hit was this bloody thread. So I sing out 'Bullst' in a pentatonic scale followed by a mixolydian mode, in 12 dimensions of sonic confusion.

Who's floating those giant marshmallows through that hole in the sky?

[RobM77]

As I said on page one, F=ma, so mass is just as important to acceleration as power. A 200kg bike with 150bhp has just as much right to be as fast as it is as a 600kg car with 450bhp.

The only other factor is that at speed drag balances power, but then again the frontal area of a bike is commensurately lower than a car, so the bike has just as much right to 've fast.

Next we'll be hearing that a Formula One car isn't properly fast because they're only 530kg ;-)

[RizzoTheRat]

I tend to just wash my clothes in the sinks on the campsite when I'm away on a bike trip. Taking a washing machine does seem a bit of an overkill.

[SpinningPlates]

p-jay and cyberface said:

many things

hangover coffee aaall over the desk.

Edited by SpinningPlates on Saturday 15th May 11:42

[RobM77]

Nappler said:

RobM77 said:

y2blade said:

RobM77 said:

I wish people would stop comparing race rep superbikes with big comfy supercars. It's not a fair comparison. The car equivalent of an R1 is a road legal Radical, which would blow an R1 into the weeds (yes, I've checked the lap times and it's about 6 seconds per minute, which is the difference between my old racing Metro and my racing Caterham...).

I disagree...road car vs road bike all sounds fair to me

ok. Based on that I nominate a Honda Goldwing vs a Ferrari F40

At least the radio on the Goldwing would be likely to work.

The Goldwing would be ahead there, as the F40 didn't have a radio :-)

[RizzoTheRat]

RobM77 said:

I wish people would stop comparing race rep superbikes with big comfy supercars. It's not a fair comparison. The car equivalent of an R1 is a road legal Radical, which would blow an R1 into the weeds (yes, I've checked the lap times and it's about 6 seconds per minute, which is the difference between my old racing Metro and my racing Caterham...).

Surely the car equivilent of an R1 is a Ford Fiesta. Aound £11k new and 40+ mpg.

[cyberface]

SpinningPlates said:

p-jay and cyberface said:

many things

hangover coffee aaall over the desk.

Edited by SpinningPlates on Saturday 15th May 11:42

It's lovely and sunny, and I'm still trying to work out whether I'm fit to go out on my bike. I can't remember writing that post but I know that 10 minutes later I had emailed my team at work (I was in the process of sorting out some peculiarly priced french convertible bonds working late).

Ahem.

[308mate]

RizzoTheRat said:

RobM77 said:

I wish people would stop comparing race rep superbikes with big comfy supercars. It's not a fair comparison. The car equivalent of an R1 is a road legal Radical, which would blow an R1 into the weeds (yes, I've checked the lap times and it's about 6 seconds per minute, which is the difference between my old racing Metro and my racing Caterham...).

Surely the car equivilent of an R1 is a Ford Fiesta. Aound £11k new and 40+ mpg.

40+mpg? Have you had it converted to LPG!?

[RobM77]

RizzoTheRat said:

RobM77 said:

I wish people would stop comparing race rep superbikes with big comfy supercars. It's not a fair comparison. The car equivalent of an R1 is a road legal Radical, which would blow an R1 into the weeds (yes, I've checked the lap times and it's about 6 seconds per minute, which is the difference between my old racing Metro and my racing Caterham...).

Surely the car equivilent of an R1 is a Ford Fiesta. Aound £11k new and 40+ mpg.

Financially, yes. However, that's like saying though that a really good TV for £1000 is equivalent to a budget hi-fi for £1000. Different things cost different amounts. The equivalent of a premium beer at £2 a bottle is not a £2 a bottle table wine

[Vidal Baboon]

RobM77 said:

RizzoTheRat said:

RobM77 said:

I wish people would stop comparing race rep superbikes with big comfy supercars. It's not a fair comparison. The car equivalent of an R1 is a road legal Radical, which would blow an R1 into the weeds (yes, I've checked the lap times and it's about 6 seconds per minute, which is the difference between my old racing Metro and my racing Caterham...).

Surely the car equivilent of an R1 is a Ford Fiesta. Aound £11k new and 40+ mpg.

Financially, yes. However, that's like saying though that a really good TV for £1000 is equivalent to a budget hi-fi for £1000. Different things cost different amounts. The equivalent of a premium beer at £2 a bottle is not a £2 a bottle table wine

You can't watch the Telly on the Radio & Chicken doesn't taste good when cooked in Beer.

Edited by Vidal Baboon on Saturday 15th May 13:18

[Hooli]

Vidal Baboon said:

RobM77 said:

RizzoTheRat said:

RobM77 said:

I wish people would stop comparing race rep superbikes with big comfy supercars. It's not a fair comparison. The car equivalent of an R1 is a road legal Radical, which would blow an R1 into the weeds (yes, I've checked the lap times and it's about 6 seconds per minute, which is the difference between my old racing Metro and my racing Caterham...).

Surely the car equivilent of an R1 is a Ford Fiesta. Aound £11k new and 40+ mpg.

Financially, yes. However, that's like saying though that a really good TV for £1000 is equivalent to a budget hi-fi for £1000. Different things cost different amounts. The equivalent of a premium beer at £2 a bottle is not a £2 a bottle table wine

You can't watch the Telly on the Radio & Chicken doesn't taste good when cooked in Beer.

Edited by Vidal Baboon on Saturday 15th May 13:18

Wine is just a posh word for vinegar so it goes well on the chips served with the steak your eating alongside drinking the beer.

[Uriel]

Vidal Baboon said:

Chicken doesn't taste good when cooked in Beer.

Beg to differ...

[Vidal Baboon]

Uriel said:

Vidal Baboon said:

Chicken doesn't taste good when cooked in Beer.

Beg to differ...

Who let Captain Caveman in?

[cyberface]

Vidal Baboon said:

You can't watch the Telly on the Radio & Chicken doesn't taste good when cooked in Beer.

Well you can tune a radio to the TV broadcast frequencies and train your brain to convert the audio into a visual picture - all you need is synaesthesia and a high-bandwidth set of headphones.

As to chicken not tasting good when cooked in beer, that's because chicken is cheap meat. Steak tastes great cooked in Ale, and Steak is superior to Chicken.

So whilst the radio comparison is perhaps a bit dodgy, I'm going to claim that Beer is as good as Wine, if not better.

In fact I'll go further than that - Wine is fecking SLOW and Beer is a LOT faster, even if there's less alcohol in it. If you put 140% alcohol in your beer then it'd accelerate faster than the Saturn V rockets. So there.

[Vidal Baboon]

cyberface said:

Vidal Baboon said:

You can't watch the Telly on the Radio & Chicken doesn't taste good when cooked in Beer.

Well you can tune a radio to the TV broadcast frequencies and train your brain to convert the audio into a visual picture - all you need is synaesthesia and a high-bandwidth set of headphones.

As to chicken not tasting good when cooked in beer, that's because chicken is cheap meat. Steak tastes great cooked in Ale, and Steak is superior to Chicken.

So whilst the radio comparison is perhaps a bit dodgy, I'm going to claim that Beer is as good as Wine, if not better.

In fact I'll go further than that - Wine is fecking SLOW and Beer is a LOT faster, even if there's less alcohol in it. If you put 140% alcohol in your beer then it'd accelerate faster than the Saturn V rockets. So there.

Saturn V Beer powered Rckets

Is Guiness faster than beer?