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  5. Extreme Boredom Results.

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    Ok so you blow smoke into it. What about when you put the cig into the ashtray and a stray spark/ lump of red hot ash comes loose and gets drawn into the fan, which then gets trapped in the corner of the flue and subsequently gets fanned by the fan. Voom.

    Maybe its just me having had fire training and seeing how destructive a stray spark can be that makes me more aware that things DO go wrong sometimes.

  8. Snow

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    I find it hard to believe all these "we have a foot of snow" are people forgetting how much a foot is?

    They're using the same tape measure that they use to measure sidehops ;)

  12. Blu-ray Or Hd-dvd

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    As has already been said, Blu-ray has been the standard for over a year now iirc....

    During the format war over high-definition optical discs, Blu-ray competed with the HD DVD format. Toshiba, the main company supporting HD DVD, ceded in February 2008, and the format war ended

  13. Bike Vs Car

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    Once you overcome it's poor thermal efficiency which is the cause of its low mpg, high emissions, low torque (compared to similar piston engines of the same power) and to some extent the apex seal life issues seen on the earlier engines.

    You've summerised the reasons why despite being in love with the Rx7. I don't think I'll own one unless 1. I get a LARGE payrise or 2. I get rid of my house.

    Car is better.

  15. Bike Vs Car

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    Yep, loads of variables - But cars are better :D

    I did type out a massive edit for my post above but lost it. Here's a compressed version -

    Veyron is a factory production car - ghostriders turbo 'busa is tuned.

    Car has 4 wheels and tyres, bike has 2. Of course the car is more expensive - theres loads more of it. What about £'s per kg?

    Can't peanalise a car because it has the aerodynamic ability to produce useable downforce - thats part of the package that a car has to offer vs the bike.

    I wonder why we don't see any motorbikes with rotary engines... The power to weight of one is better than an ordinary engine. It would give you a massive advantage in the MotoGP, and for road use the bike could be lighter with a smaller engine for the same power, making it a lot easier to ride.

    There have been race rotory bikes in the past. The problem they has was classifying cc's to race them against piston bikes...

  16. Bike Vs Car

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    Surely you cant compare rocket powered vehicles (thrust etc.) for top speed and accelleration as theyre not 'cars' in the sense that you can actually drive them anywhere.

    Round a circuit an F1 car is faster than motoGP, but then it costs a lot more and is a lot more aerodynamic, bikes are crap for aerodynamics unfortnately. A veyron tops 250mph, a naked turbo busa does about 220 (see ghostrider) so stick a fairing on and you may well be getting up to the same sort of speeds.

    I couldnt say which is quicker in a drag, again are you counting rocket powered or vehicles that the like of you and me can actually drive on the road?

    I'm not comparing Thrust for acceleration. Among the fastest accelerating cars is a Top fuel dragster - yes its not a road legal car but its a more traditional car in the sense that it has a piston engine that delivers its power through the wheels transfering that power to the ground. Find me a similarly powered bike that will complete the 1/4 mile in sub 4 seconds passing at over 300mph.

  17. Bike Vs Car

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    Yeah, you can't really base things on a backroad thrash. The bike will overtake on the strights when its clearly safe to do so, the car will be held up dramaticlly on the corners, but unable to overtake because its not safe to do so. Also, I'd be pretty weary of giving the Rider a tap.

  18. Bike Vs Car

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    People saying bikes for straight cars for corners, if you know how to corner and are confident then a bike will do a car all day long in the corners. Prime example clean country lane lots of tight twisty corners the bike will be long gone as it accelerates so much quicker out of the corners and can go through them a lot quicker then most cars on the road.

    You're basing that on a bike that is more performance based than the road car following it.

    I'd put money on Sebastien Leob taking any backroad faster than any rider / bike combination of your choice even in his somewhat low powered French tin can ;)

    Someone hit a nerve Andy?

    Not at all - I like bikes. I still want a Gixxer to show everyone how big my balls are.

  19. Bike Vs Car

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    Car every time.

    You just can't compare a 10k bike and a 10k car because a car is so much more in every way - you're paying for 5x the materials to begin with!

    A better comparison for out and out performance would be to take a bike with unlimited funding to create the ultimate race bike and a car with unlimited funding to create the ultimate race car.... Funnily enough they exist - Grand Prix cars and bikes.

    F1 cars are MUCH faster than the moto GP bikes - why? Traction. Getting the power down in an F1 car you've got 2 huge rear tyres with loads of grip. On a Bike you've got a tiny patch and you've got to contend with the front wheel coming off the ground. In the corners again you've got a much larger contact patch on the car - along with downforce, and on a bike you can't simply change direction - you've got to get onto the other side of the bike and lean the whole bike in - it takes a lot longer.

    "In 2004, Mr V Rossi lapped the Sepang circuit in qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix in the very quick time of 2:01 (dry), that’s 2 mins and 1 sec. In the same year a Mr M Schumacher lapped the same circuit in the death defying time of 1 minute and 33seconds. This is a full 75% of the time a motorcycle takes. Or put another way; a F1 car can do 4 laps in the time a MotoGP cycles can do only 3. "

    With regards to acceleration -

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn6eHg1VSZI

    Road car vs road bike -

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_JsA1DgDhU

    Cars are also fast at top speeds, ref Thrust SSC

    Cars are faster accelerators, ref drag racing.

    Cars are faster round circuits, ref F1 v MotoGP times

    On top of all that, when it rains you remin dry, when its cold you remain warm, when you're bored you turn on the radio, when you're hot you turn on the a/c and when you blow away that TVR at the trafficlight grand prix you've got a passenger to silence the non believers.

  20. Atomz Premier?

    in Trials Chat

    Posted

    Oddly this is exactly the frame I've been looking at to replace my Phase with :P You two need to get a video out sharpish.

    Rich

    Haha!! This is the exact frame I'd get to replace the Phase... You know... if I actually rode ;)

    Andy

  24. Cheap Track / Drag Car Ideas

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    Hmnnn... Sounds more like a cow @ 42 seconds :D

    And Gaz, it depends what you want - A track car, or a drag car? On a low budget you can't really have both.

    There are exceptions however - an XE Nova with half decent suspension is a track weapon and there's a £500 12 second XE nova build thread on Passionford.

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