smart51
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| posted on 20/7/10 at 12:19 PM |
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want to increase the MPG of your bike?
These people did. You could get an expert to redo the styling, but the MPG
results impress.
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BenB
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| posted on 20/7/10 at 12:33 PM |
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Interesting reading, thanks for the linky 
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loggyboy
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| posted on 20/7/10 at 12:34 PM |
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Wouldnt want to fall off that.. no way of being thrown clear!
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russbost
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| posted on 20/7/10 at 12:52 PM |
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Funnily enough something I'd been thinking of doing myself only I never find the time - have never understood why feet forward bikes are not the
norm.
Fascinating reading
Re, getting chucked off, surely you're (generally) better to slide down the road inside a fibreglass shell than get thrown into the air &
hit god knows what, to say nothing of coming down - I would have thought the answer would be a rollover protection & strap yourself in!
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 20/7/10 at 01:07 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by russbost
Funnily enough something I'd been thinking of doing myself only I never find the time - have never understood why feet forward bikes are not the
norm.
Inherently more dangerous. One rear ender and you are history. Hit something and you thigh bones will probably end up about a foot behind you.
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adithorp
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| posted on 20/7/10 at 03:32 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
quote:
Originally posted by russbost
Funnily enough something I'd been thinking of doing myself only I never find the time - have never understood why feet forward bikes are not the
norm.
Inherently more dangerous. One rear ender and you are history. Hit something and you thigh bones will probably end up about a foot behind you.
Yes, why would you mess about with such a safe design as a motorbike.  It's obviously preferable to hit something with your head rather than
your feet!
"A witty saying proves nothing" Voltaire
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scootz
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| posted on 20/7/10 at 03:42 PM |
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That's the thought that keeps coming back to me every time I get hung-up about a safety issue on any of my projects... why did I get into small
cars and the likes - because I had to give up my bike! How safe was my bike... NOT AT ALL, SO JUST GET ON WITH IT!
It's Evolution Baby!
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 20/7/10 at 06:37 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by adithorp
Yes, why would you mess about with such a safe design as a motorbike. It's obviously preferable to hit something with your head rather than
your feet!
It's almost certainly preferable for you to part company with the bike and get thrown over the bonnet of the blind idiot that's just
pulled out in front of you rather than getting buried feet first into the side of the car whilst tangled in the wreckage of your bike. Likewise in a
rear ender you bum is already above the level of the bonnet so much more chance of sliding up and over the car instead of being turned into pâté.
Motorcycles are not especially safe, so why make them more dangerous than they already are?
[Edited on 20/7/10 by MikeRJ]
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