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Post by Bigtalk on Oct 13, 2020 20:54:53 GMT -6
Touring car master's. (Classic car racing)
On board Vince Macri's 350 chev powered '69 Camaro SS race car at an iconic Australian mountain race track.
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Post by Beerwiser on Oct 13, 2020 22:50:03 GMT -6
That was worth playing on the big screen with the stereo, awesome. I wish you could make out the audio near the end.
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Post by Bigtalk on Oct 14, 2020 0:40:43 GMT -6
One of my all time favorite motorsport clips!
Ari Vatanen's 1940 lb(880 kg), 600 h.p. Peugeot 405 doing it old school at Pike's Peak.
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Post by Beerwiser on Oct 14, 2020 1:26:34 GMT -6
Just a few that I have in my like videos
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Post by kenmb on Oct 16, 2020 10:31:57 GMT -6
For the 6 months a year the toy with tires is in hibernation, a guy needs something else to play with. Breathe is an old video, too bad it's not in HD, but nicely done of a guy just out playing. Nothing crazy. The second one is nice too, the rare time a guy can find great snow on a trip with great weather is really quite something.
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Post by meskie on Oct 16, 2020 10:51:42 GMT -6
For the 6 months a year the toy with tires is in hibernation, a guy needs something else to play with. Breathe is an old video, too bad it's not in HD, but nicely done of a guy just out playing. Nothing crazy. The second one is nice too, the rare time a guy can find great snow on a trip with great weather is really quite something. Been lucky enough to get snow like that a couple times out in the hills when we went. 2013 around here the snow was as nice as any mountain snow I had ever rode in. Just not as big of hills but we like to play on the flats anyway when we go Northern sask there are some nice areas to ride through trees. I should try to dig up some video from 2013. |
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Post by SWMan on Nov 13, 2020 22:12:36 GMT -6
Since some other guys posted sled photos the other day, I figured I would throw up a pic of the latest additions here. Not brand new, can't justify 15K for a sled that might get ridden a couple times per winter. We did get a couple inches the other day, probably will melt tomorrow. I prefer to ride in Feb/March anyways.  |
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Post by Beerwiser on Nov 14, 2020 12:35:42 GMT -6
Is that airbrushed or a decal Sw? Pretty cool, never seen anything that fancy on a sled.
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Post by SWMan on Nov 14, 2020 23:44:37 GMT -6
Is that airbrushed or a decal Sw? Pretty cool, never seen anything that fancy on a sled. I believe it's a decal. I have the stock panels and thought for sure I would be changing them out, but am growing used to the graphics on there. It certainly is unique! |
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Post by Beerwiser on Nov 30, 2020 0:14:09 GMT -6
Pffft, only 207 mph....
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Post by kevlar on Nov 30, 2020 8:39:06 GMT -6
That's nuts! I bet it gets a little warm on his legs, that's a big engine crammed in there! Fastest I have ever gone was 120 mph(200 kph)on a Yamaha Viper 700 snowmobile, that was scary enough, that was just by the speedo, not radar, so hard to say how accurate. Fast enough it was trying to suck my helmet off and even though it felt smooth, when I turned around and followed my tracks back, there were spots my skis were off the ground for 40 feet after going over a ripple on the snow.
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Post by northernfarmer on Nov 30, 2020 9:36:57 GMT -6
Kevlar, your speed experience as per you're helmet being sucked up and so on certainly doesn't give one the feeling of total control and years back on a crotch rocket I tried out it sure brought forth the hit a fly and die feeling and honestly don't know how these motorcycle racers can keep it up on the wheels as well as they do, they would be so close to that cutting edge point where its lights out if a side wind or pebble in the road is hit. I was going at 250 km which is 155 mph and wearing an ill fitting helmet and a loose jacket and it was trying to lift me off the bike due to that jacket and the forces on the helmet that was not snug at all. The difference between 250 km and 200 km was so drastic that it seemed like I was idling along going 200 after that, the wind resistance increased so much in that last 50 km. So those going well over 300 km on a bike it would be quite something with the air forces and a body workout to maintain such speeds.
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Post by Albertabuck on Nov 30, 2020 9:46:27 GMT -6
Younger brother had bought a Honda Goldwing or something like, big thing, he figured I didn't have balls enough to hop on and go so I did. Now I never was one much for two wheels but I had driven some different ones. Had to admit that bugger would go, had it up to just under 100mph in short order and thats when I suddenly clued in there was something wrong...then that seemed to screw me up and admittedly I got nervous fast. I knew I had to slow down slowly to keep it under control and stay alive, but try as I may couldn't keep the front wheel from shimmying which was freaking me out. As I got it slowed down to normal speed I realized it was more me causing the shimmy than the bike. Got it turned around and headed back and as I am going back I realized something was off with the alignment of the handlebars with the front fork, and that was what had been messing with me earlier. Brother was impressed when I pulled back in the yard off the hyway, never doubted me again for the need for speed lol and I then asked WTF was up with the front end and told him how messed up that can get things. He knew it was twisted and never thought till then that yea he should have told me ahead of time. Guess he had bought it from a cop who had had a wreck with it and thats how the fork got twisted. I told him to get it fixed or get rid of it before he or someone else got killed. He followed my advice, bugger even made a few bucks and sold it for more than he paid.
That gotta be almost 25 years ago now and I never rode a bike again. And yes, it was because of that incident.
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Post by kevlar on Nov 30, 2020 9:57:25 GMT -6
Is it true that on a motorbike, the only way to get out of a high speed wobble is to speed up? A guy told me that one time, a hail adjuster actually, that he was going over 100 mph one time and got into a wobble and had to speed up, said it was the scariest thing in his life.
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Post by northernfarmer on Nov 30, 2020 10:09:35 GMT -6
I could be wrong AB but suspect that the twist in the forks which could have been fork damage or having to loosen all the clamps and realign and reclamp them all was part of the fault, unless it had an off balanced steer tire/rim which is possible too and started the hi speed wobble and once it starts it doesn't want to stop. I had that happen on another bike years back I tried out which was a one owner bike and low km but perhaps prone to doing that possibly as steering geometry has a lot to do with that as well. I was climbing a river hill grade going at 95 mph or so and went over a ripple in the road and that was enough to trigger it and cut the throttle and it took a bit before it quit and carried on, perhaps climbing a hill which would lighten up the weight on the steering as well helped it get going, hard to say. Speaking of gold wings I tried out one of those as well and it was an older one but anyway it had a tall windshield and apparently it cant withstand 180 km speeds as it folded back the top portion if you can imagine, that was a surprise but it never damaged it as it popped back up as soon as I slowed up some. If one was driving into a really strong head wind I could see it doing the same thing at a more sane legal speed.
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