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seems we weren't the only ones, no one I've talked to so far seems to know either. guess that's not a good sign.

I was there too, did anyone notice if there was a track photographer or not?

I would say try someplace that's not Cleveland...

Is she ok? You want Wheezle to talk to her?

Nothing? Can anyone tell me if there's any difference between most bar-ends, or are they just mostly generic? I've never had to replace one, so I've never tried looking for one to fit. I need to be on the track soon, and I need to figure out what I could buy for this thing. Suggestions?

Turns out I lost this thing while lapping Nelson, so I need to find one before Mid-O next week. Anyone in the Dayton/Cinci area have one I could buy that would fit? I imagine there are a lot that would fit, I just need one before the tech guy laughs at me next week. And a big apology to anyone who ate a 90-mph bar-end at Nelson...

thought this would be about a Busa. /letdown

soooo, do i have to give it back, or what's up?

you're not allowed to record people when they're in your own home? if that's really the law, i'd move the fuck out of Illinois.

haaaaa, nerdy funny....

The electrical engineer cannot wait to spoof transponder IDs while doing 110 in a school zone. Can you imagine people downloading spoofed IDs off torrent sites for famous people? I can slide into a bus full of orphan bunnies and nuns while transmitting Celine Dion's license ID...

Did anyone notice that this video and article made it onto freakin' Autoblog??

First of all, the text looks like a copy and paste from the craigslist ad, so don't take offense to the language because you really kinda need to talk like that on Craigs. I don't think he's directing that at anyone on here, it's just a carryover in the ad from CL. Secondly, if Justin did all this work himself, then this car will be top-to-bottom quality work. I bought Justin's WRX over a year ago, and I still have a shit-eating grin when I drive it. He's got the gift, so his cars are pretty impressive for a guy that just does this as a hobby when he's not working. He also happens to be a great guy to deal with, so that's always a plus. If you like the tuners, don't hesitate to check this thing out.

I usually just masturbate is the boss' coffee mug and wait until after he writes a reference to send him the pictures... I usually send a toothbrush with the pics, so he knows there's no hard feelings.

Put your math hats on, kids, we're gonna play nerd... In layman's terms, this whole thing is all just a clusterfuck of cross-products, but it's that multi-vector gangbang that makes the bike lean over when you countersteer. Think about however is best for you, but realize that it's the cross-products of angular momentum that is doing all the work here. For simplicity's sake, let's ignore the engine effects, and concentrate on the front wheel.... Here's the big picture of why this works: Now, all this is saying is that the wheel's spin about the z-axis is directly related to its moments about the other two axes as well (nutation and precession). In this plot, the spin would make the wheel precess about the y axis. In a motorcycle, there are two front forks, so there is a shaft on both sides (modeled here as R), thereby making a system with zero precession when spinning with no other inputs. Now here's the important part - since the cross-products are always related, if you introduce precession (by turning the handlebars), you must also introduce nutation along the x-axis. The wheel will want to fall over to the side. This moment will be induced along the center of mass, but since the bottom of the wheel has a tire on it with a lot of friction, it just tips the whole thing over, along with the bike and rider that are attached to it. It's really not that crazy, it's just that people don't normally come across this kind of stuff in everyday conversation, so most people don't get a real explanation of it, so sometimes it can be made out to seem more complicated than it is. Hope that helps, and any of my fellow engineers can chime in a correct me if I've used improper nomenclature

The company is MotoCzysz. The bike you're talking about is the C1, but they seem to have abandoned it after 2008. They're doing crazy things in the electric race bike world now, instead.

it turns regular white people into yuppies...

http://www.dorkly.com/video/4992/dorkly-bits-awkward-double-dragon

he only has one name. he's the azn Seal.

absolutely.

can we get unicorns too?

lots of reasons, but most revolve around the size and composition of my testicles...

I have a Nobel Prize here for you...

^^ did you eat it?

The turbo is slightly off-angle, so it's not in the stock position, but it isn't fully rotated either. Putting a bigger turbo on is one thing, but changing the piping for a FMIC, and then doing all that in a different engine bay than it was designed for is another animal altogether. All that engine work was done by a guy in here (Justin), who may very well be the import messiah...