Riding confidence

[wuz_uk]

just read this again still makes me giggle :-0)

 

[Biker Babe]

just read this again still makes me giggle :-0)

Ditto :yo::yo:

 

[ericonblackbird]

I always found this thread a little abusive since it was digging at a technical genious who managed to bore the sh.t out of me just by standing close by, I much preferred the technical content of the ride height thread (mentioned by samster elsewhere) which gave me an in depth knowledge of ride height adjustments and how to set my bikes up :bow: :bow:

Have to say that the maths was a little beyond me since even with the use of imaginary numbers, double integration and a spattering of quantum physics I still cannot fully understand how lifting the forks through the yokes increases the ride height .............. calculator poised to find the missing link.

http://www.bikersoracle.com/blackbird/forum/showthread.php?t=44956&highlight=ride+height

 

[wuz_uk]

i think you will find the "missing link" just got Banned :-0)

 

[bishbosh]

I always found this thread a little abusive since it was digging at a technical genious who managed to bore the sh.t out of me just by standing close by, I much preferred the technical content of the ride height thread (mentioned by samster elsewhere) which gave me an in depth knowledge of ride height adjustments and how to set my bikes up :bow: :bow:

Have to say that the maths was a little beyond me since even with the use of imaginary numbers, double integration and a spattering of quantum physics I still cannot fully understand how lifting the forks through the yokes increases the ride height .............. calculator poised to find the missing link.

http://www.bikersoracle.com/blackbird/forum/showthread.php?t=44956&highlight=ride+height

Imaginary numbers as far as I know are used in electronics and nothing whatsoever to do with mechanics. The imaginary number i = sqrt(-1) so that you take a number, times it by itself and you get -1, for real numbers say -3 * -3 we get 9. So if you drop your forks by -6mm * i^2 then you are raising your ride height. d34l

In summary he was talking a load of rubbish.

 

[ericonblackbird]

Thanks for the maths bishbosh I'm off to make a spacer of negative width to test the theory!

i think you will find the "missing link" just got Banned :-0)

 

[Tinytim]

Thanks for the maths bishbosh I'm off to make a spacer of negative width to test the theory!

don't want to sound the pedant here, but shouldn't it be "thickness" as opposed to width? (negatively speaking of course). There IS a difference....
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Just ploughed through this thread and found Wolfies account of the three peeps behind him that followed each other into the hedge...Coffee all over....

 

[Duck n Dive]

Just ploughed through this thread and found Wolfies account of the three peeps behind him that followed each other into the hedge...

I believe lumpy's looking for them to follow him into a hedge as well :-0)

 

[ericonblackbird]

don't want to sound the pedant here, but shouldn't it be "thickness" as opposed to width? (negatively speaking of course). There IS a difference....

absolutely not, the idea was that spacers might be anisotropic and so by the use of negative width the spacer might actually grow thicker when under load and hence increase the ride height ......

anyway it was a sh.t experiment, I ended up with a pile of swarf and aluminium chips on the milling machine sh1tehppns

 

[Artemis]

cuddly toy !! :-0)

Pair or sliding doors, conveyor belt, fondle set...........

 

[Duck n Dive]

........... fondle set...........

Now that's one we'd all all remember :-0)

 

[andyBeaker]

Boing


:-0)

 

[mick the knife]

Boing


:-0)

Stirrer .

 

[andyBeaker]

Stirrer .

I will take that as a great compliment from The Master.

 

[andyBeaker]

Classic thread, well worth a boing......

p0pc0rn41

 

[blackspot]

confidence !!!!!!!

After adjusting the chain and correcting the wheel alignment:wank: I took the bird out. I wanted to be confident of its ability to handle and no longer run wide.
I am now confident that it's almost as easy to ride, at all speeds, as the blade.
More generally though, because of gypsy's jibes, I've begun practicing riding round islands, of various sizes. Because of a damaged right arm I find these difficut. But practicing difficult things until you can do them easilly builds confidence.
Both smix and two stroke tart have lost confidence in their ability to ride a bike. If they still want to ride all they need to do, I think, is to practice the things they find difficult to do.
Confidence ameliorates nervousness. :-0)

I'm just getting back into two wheels again & find myself going out of my way looking for round abouts to lean into & riding on tarmac joins, raised white lines & riding on the side of speed humps trying to stop my arse twitching everytime the backend skips about. It seems to be working too !! ;-0));-0));-0))

 

[killerhaggis]

Classic thread, well worth a boing......

p0pc0rn41

.............. Bad Banker:-0)

 

[Murt]

What a fuxking twat! How fucking dare you! Total wanker! Your a fucking liability on the road, go learn how to ride for a few millennia then actually see someone rides before you dare to make judgement!
Learn some common decency and respect you fecking wibblerwibblerwibblerwibbler!

Just had to post this again.
The most eloquent and considered rebuff of the decade. :bow:

Murt.

 

[Barrie]

Just had to post this again.
The most eloquent and considered rebuff of the decade. :bow:

Murt.

It may well be the case Murt, but then she fell off. :bang:

 

[gypsy]

Just had to post this again.
The most eloquent and considered rebuff of the decade. :bow:

Murt.

There's a lot to be said about private education:-0)