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Brilliant. It looks like he's physically yanking the bike through the corners.
He was sublime to watch. He rocked up at the Japanese GP at 18 years of age, nobody knowing who he was, and come the race, was beating the giants of Mick Doohan and Kevin Schwantz at his first attempt, until he crashed out. Phenomenal.
Sadly taken from us at only 32 by a truck performing an illegal U-turn in front of him back in Japan several years ago. He was riding a scooter...
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Very nice, either Criville or Gibernau's bike next to it. Criville won 1999's title but I believe Gibernau's bike is in the museum as it's the NSR500 V-twin (with single-sided swingarm)
As for riding styles, Colin Edwards was also hard on the front end (lolz) just to get the things to turn. But few had as much class and style as the late, great Norick Abe, a style whose I was fortunate enough to witness in action in the flesh a few times:
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Just wonderful. The 90's were a magical era for GP bike designs, both bikes and liveries.
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I still wish I bought a TZ or RS250 before they got silly bollocks expensive and parts became so hard to find. Proper 2 stroke GP bikes are utter wonder. I'll get round to reconditioning my old RS125 one of these days.
KTM or someone could clean up sticking a tuned 125 lump in a dumbed down Moto3 chassis and selling it as a track toy. The 4 strokes are OK but they cost such a lot of money to keep working.
I remember it being remarked in motorcycle press and in race commentaries that the last team to run Aprilia's works 250cc effort (with a pair of RSW250s) before the class was abolished at GP level were leasing the bikes from the factory for nearly £1,000,000 for the season. Each...
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250 race bikes are some of the nicest looking things to have been produced, and some of the purest racing bikes. Tech3's TZ from 2000 is still one of the raddest machines to have graced the MotoGP paddock imo
(2nd pic has 1999's fairing but shows the artwork of the lovely pillion bodywork. Smooth, curvy lines everywhere as apposed to today's pointy, angular things)
As for superbikes, some come close but ultimately none will beat the Ducati 916 for beauty. Neil Hodgson and John Kocinski's 1996 machine among some of the most spectacular.
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Replies like that make me know whose side of the story to go with...
Why was it packaged badly? Did you know this and just send it anyway? From a frame right down to a bell, stuff should be packaged to withstand 10 Hiroshimas...
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mtb porn
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The headset spacer to end all headset spacers
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Those chainsets look awful. They remind me of those cheapo riveted plastic chainsets you get on bottom-of-the-range mountain bikes.
They look tacky.
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Risers, pink BMX/dirt jump grips and double Aerospoke
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F40 is easily the best Ferrari. Just sublime.
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Starting with the basics, good cycle chain-stores often stock track bikes and frames, Evans are worth a try. I bought my road and track bikes from Evans - they were fine, love the bikes and I got my track bike for a good price.
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Can you run v brakes on frames that are meant for cantis? Tried to fit a deore rear brake to my muddy fox seeker and the pads needed to be spaced more toward the rear rim? And then the spring arm would pop out when any pressure is applied to the brake...
I had exactly this problem too on an old Raleigh mtb. It wasn't even a lever compatibility issue, the pads were just miles away from the rim.
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That looks mega
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Kelderman's crash yesterday;
m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=iGKm9uzLiqY
Looks like a really hard impact. I saw him crossing the line looking unhappy, now we know why. @peter_v anything in the Dutch media about his injuries?
That's some highside! Aquaplaning
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I think there's actually a Pelizzoli thread on here in which folks who've placed orders just document the customer service...
*edit took me a day to realise said thread was linked above^
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Orange pictures are orange
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Cannot be unseen
I remember seeing that live - looking back now, I did not laugh enough at this at the time. Just brilliant.
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I like it, and it looks great in outdoor light!
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It's so awesome you've rescued the Principia frame from the brink of write-off. It's a lovely looking thing
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Fuck, that looks sweet.
Nice ride, man!
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Nice. Don't de-sticker: keep it like a Canyon bike and have all the logos, all the logos everywhere!
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Each to their own of course but whyyyyy the f@ck did you not keep that awesome paint job?!
Totally this.
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Absolutely, taking the time to talk about him tonight has kinda bummed me out that he's no longer with us.
Of course, with motorsports, the irony of doing thousands of miles at incredible speeds on dangerous machines and then losing your life in a traffic accident, often, as you say due to someone else's stupidity, is even crueler.