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Title: ghost riding on the track
Post by: jeremy_nash on January 16, 2010, 06:19:29 AM
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80644287/
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: noiseguy on January 16, 2010, 03:57:08 PM
I can't believe he managed to avoid getting run over, running straight up the track like that.
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: BaltimoreGS on January 16, 2010, 05:18:40 PM
That's nothing, did you ever see this one!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

-Jessie
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: jeremy_nash on January 16, 2010, 10:07:52 PM
WTF is up with that?  I mean seriously?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
please tell me you just accidently typed the wrong link in?!?!








lol       
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: tt_four on January 16, 2010, 10:30:28 PM
Quote from: jeremy_nash on January 16, 2010, 10:07:52 PM
WTF is up with that?  I mean seriously?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
please tell me you just accidently typed the wrong link in?!?!

lol       

Oh no.... that was no accident. We just got Rick Rolled!!
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: jeremy_nash on January 18, 2010, 06:23:41 AM
Quote from: tt_four on January 16, 2010, 10:30:28 PM
Oh no.... that was no accident. We just got Rick Rolled!!

and what was up with the black guy in the daisy dukes jumping off the fence?
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: bill14224 on January 19, 2010, 05:00:36 PM
I'm not sure that video is real.  It looks like he just lets go and drops off the bike for no apparent reason.  Hmmmm...   Then it looks like the bike may by swaying back and forth, shall we say, artificially.
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: kyle_99_gtp on January 19, 2010, 10:35:29 PM
you win this time BaltimoreGS...it won't happen again.
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: jeremy_nash on January 20, 2010, 02:29:36 PM
Quote from: bill14224 on January 19, 2010, 05:00:36 PM
Then it looks like the bike may by swaying back and forth, shall we say, artificially.

im sure it was totally staged, but still cool.  check out bike wreck videos on youtube, the sway before it stabilizes appears to be normal
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: ver4 on January 20, 2010, 07:33:27 PM
Quote from: BaltimoreGS on January 16, 2010, 05:18:40 PM
That's nothing, did you ever see this one!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

-Jessie

Haha. You told me and I still fell for it.  :technical:
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: noiseguy on January 21, 2010, 08:08:23 AM
Quote from: bill14224 on January 19, 2010, 05:00:36 PM
I'm not sure that video is real.  It looks like he just lets go and drops off the bike for no apparent reason.  Hmmmm...   Then it looks like the bike may by swaying back and forth, shall we say, artificially.

You figure out a way to get a back to sway like that on purpose and I'd be more shocked. All bikes inherently want to go straight, and will wobble like that to stabilize themselves.

Ever ghost-rode junk bikes across parking lots, down stairs, into walls, etc when you were young? One of the kids in my neighbourhood had a trash-pulled bike we used to do this with. When you hop off, the bike wobbles a bit until it stabilizes, then it rolls nice and straight until it slows down and falls over. I imagine a powered bike would continue indefinitely until it hit something.
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: natedawg120 on January 21, 2010, 08:38:21 PM
Quote from: noiseguy on January 21, 2010, 08:08:23 AM
Quote from: bill14224 on January 19, 2010, 05:00:36 PM
I'm not sure that video is real.  It looks like he just lets go and drops off the bike for no apparent reason.  Hmmmm...   Then it looks like the bike may by swaying back and forth, shall we say, artificially.

You figure out a way to get a back to sway like that on purpose and I'd be more shocked. All bikes inherently want to go straight, and will wobble like that to stabilize themselves.

Ever ghost-rode junk bikes across parking lots, down stairs, into walls, etc when you were young? One of the kids in my neighbourhood had a trash-pulled bike we used to do this with. When you hop off, the bike wobbles a bit until it stabilizes, then it rolls nice and straight until it slows down and falls over. I imagine a powered bike would continue indefinitely until it hit something.

+1, it has something to do with that gyroscopic effect that makes you have to turn the bars left to initiate right lean and turn.  It also goes in reverse with the absence of rider input when such is necessary to travel in an arc.  That rider just happened to go into a 1st gear steep turn and i believe either the knee down threw him off due to over correction or the puck hit something on the track tossing him off.  Now catching it and continuing on and losing 2 places, that was lucky, but then again if it was a track day its not about position  :icon_lol: :icon_lol:
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: ohgood on January 22, 2010, 10:10:09 AM
faked.

he took like 6 steps and caught up with a bike that was just leaning at 45 degrees 3 seconds ago ?

nope. it's ollllld too. saw that in 04 or so.

still a cool video. :)
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: centuryghost on January 22, 2010, 04:15:02 PM
Dude, that's 'shopped














(sarcasm)  :flipoff:
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: PaviSays on January 29, 2010, 04:09:27 PM
Quote from: centuryghost on January 22, 2010, 04:15:02 PM
Dude, that's 'shopped

Hmm, I don't know, the bike looks stock to me...







(sarcasm)  :flipoff:
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: JB848 on February 02, 2010, 10:37:40 AM
Quote from: BaltimoreGS on January 16, 2010, 05:18:40 PM
That's nothing, did you ever see this one!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

-Jessie

You Homo BaltimoreGS! Never been rickrolled before but now I know!

I feel so violated!
Title: Re: ghost riding on the track
Post by: meri on February 02, 2010, 10:48:36 AM
Quote from: BaltimoreGS on January 16, 2010, 05:18:40 PM
That's nothing, did you ever see this one!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

-Jessie


I hate you. Well played.