Odd-Ball Picture of the Day

Never enough braking

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How much does that sucker weigh?

 

"Well the good news is we've used creative means to reduce weight all over the bike and got rid of 50 pounds."

"Sweet! What's the bad news?"

"The rear brake system now weighs 55 pounds more than it did before we started."

 

Have you pcked up that unless it's in front of a mirror that they doubled down on that stupid. The same setup is on the other side.

 

Yeah, noticed that. Twin rear brake rotors. Someone does not like to touch that front brake. With good reason. That front brake'll just throw you over the handlebars.

 

I’d rather lay ‘er down than touch that death lever

 

You need all that awesome braking power when you have chain lube all over the rotors.

 

I'm gonna take a guess at what's going on here. Back in the 80's, we watched Doug Braunick go off track and crash. We learned that he had both wheels' braking controlled by the front lever, with a drag racing proportioning valve plumbed in to adjust the rear. Unfortunately, there was no way to operate the rear brake alone, which made offroading impossible.
We took a four piston caliper, blocked the passages between the front and rear pistons, and plumbed one set to the proportioning valve setup and the other set to the foot pedal. The hoses in the picture indicate the same.

 

The picture indicates fake as fuck. The laced wheels with the Rossi rim tape is interesting. Thought it was a dirtbike with the skinny swingarm but look like road tires. Sumo maybe?

 

Probably. A lot of that Down East.

 

Both Nissin and Brembo paying contingency?

 

I know some of you guys would burn the car...

 

More photos of this bike on the book of faces: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Thailook-concept-231550400852765/photos/

 

Mother of god, some things can’t be unseen.

 

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

 

From memory the origin of bigfoot/monster truck was some crazy big wheeled convoy contraption the army got behind for a few years. I think you can still see its last resting place by the side of a road on Google maps.

 

The setup for MV

https://www.reddit.com/r/motogp/comments/ihtrek/new_vinales_brake_system_unveiled/