Motorcycle Roadracing Explained

[dirkterrell]

From 1985 so the music might make you gag but there is some great video in these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyapT...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO3cf...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOM9y...layer_embedded

Dirk

[MetaLord 9]

And here I expected you to have posted a physics powerpoint presentation that rivaled a lecture on Ontological Imperialism on the boredom scale

[dirkterrell]

And here I expected you to have posted a physics powerpoint presentation that rivaled a lecture on Ontological Imperialism on the boredom scale

Hey, my physics lectures are fun, buddy! No one falls asleep when they are falling off a building during the gravity lecture, for example.

Dirk

[Sean]

Cool vids, thanks for helping me procrastinate from writing this paper, Dirk!
And to think how far motorcycle technology has come since then.

[MetaLord 9]

Hey, my physics lectures are fun, buddy! No one falls asleep when they are falling off a building during the gravity lecture, for example.

Dirk

I know a few folks on here that need to attend one of your "lectures" then...

[Snowman]

And here I expected you to have posted a physics powerpoint presentation that rivaled a lecture on Ontological Imperialism on the boredom scale

Physics lectures are never boring.
Had a professor in college use an air gun and bowling balls to explain orbital mechanics. That was cool…

[MetaLord 9]

I had a German professor who had a questionably gay relationship with his offstage helper "Karl" and that was about the extent of the excitement in that cattle call that was my college physics class

[Shea]

Physics lectures are never boring.
Had a professor in college use an air gun and bowling balls to explain orbital mechanics. That was cool…

Physics is cool. But then again I'm a total geek.

[gtn]

I liked the look I got from one of my professors when I asked about when we got to do the high energy experiments.

His eyes got real big and he said, "Not this semester."

[ZX9Rider]

The video was a 10
The Costumes was a 5 (not timeless like Star Wars)
The Music was a 7 (Reminded me of Beverly Hills Cop)

[mopoet178]

Honestly, parts of those movies really gave me the chills in a good way, but then again, I am a nostalgia guy, notsomuch a technology guy. Makes me want a 2 stroke
-Marsh

[rforsythe]

Physics textbooks are boring. Lectures and experiments/demonstrations are usually a lot more fun, actually those were some of the coolest classes I ever took.

[mbohn]

I always felt that motorcycle racing was nothing more than a physics experiment. Who can come the closest to the limits imposed by physics without exceeding them, wins.

And thanks for posting those links. Great fun!

[DanFZ1]

Well, there you go. Proof posivtive that the CSC is better then SPEEDtv any day. I remember Fast Freddie's Laguna Seca stunt from way back when. I rented that tape at the Video Station in Boulder back when there was actually no such thing as a DVD, but it was just the about "the lap" he pulled off. I don't recall the rest of the stuff being on there. I suppose Honda could have used the same footage? for two different tapes? I dunno. Maybe I'm just remembering it my way.

( Yes, I am seriously that old. I am 45. )

Endless arguments ensued over whether or not it was staged and, how could it possibly be that two wheels could be faster than four. I always used to love those arguments.

So now, instead of working, I am getting out the VCR and playing tapes of King Kenny and Fast Freddie at Laguna Seca.