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Post by Mr Stabby on May 26, 2022 14:42:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2022 15:02:33 GMT
Yes. Although I've never understood why Wall of Death riders don't use Honda Expresses. A need to get to a certain speed rapidly perhaps. Without scooting it with your feet. A lot of it is (I would say) about carrying momentum. You have to do a very tight turn at the apex of each run, similar to a skateboarder on what I can only describe as a double-ended ski-jump sort of thing. Also if you watch ballet dancers and figure-skaters doing a pirouette, you can see that they keep their eyes fixed on a point to avoid becoming dizzy. I imagine it takes a lot of practice. And an engine that develops a nice big lump of torque in the lower rev range. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 26, 2022 15:15:36 GMT
A need to get to a certain speed rapidly perhaps. Without scooting it with your feet. A lot of it is (I would say) about carrying momentum. You have to do a very tight turn at the apex of each run, similar to a skateboarder on what I can only describe as a double-ended ski-jump sort of thing. Also if you watch ballet dancers and figure-skaters doing a pirouette, you can see that they keep their eyes fixed on a point to avoid becoming dizzy. I imagine it takes a lot of practice. And an engine that develops a nice big lump of torque in the lower rev range. You don't really need a great deal of power, a Wall of Death motorcycle only does 22mph and there is a banked angle at the base of the wall to build up momentum. |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2022 15:29:54 GMT
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Post by Jim on May 26, 2022 19:14:20 GMT
A lot of it is (I would say) about carrying momentum. You have to do a very tight turn at the apex of each run, similar to a skateboarder on what I can only describe as a double-ended ski-jump sort of thing. Also if you watch ballet dancers and figure-skaters doing a pirouette, you can see that they keep their eyes fixed on a point to avoid becoming dizzy. I imagine it takes a lot of practice. And an engine that develops a nice big lump of torque in the lower rev range. You don't really need a great deal of power, a Wall of Death motorcycle only does 22mph and there is a banked angle at the base of the wall to build up momentum. OK, we await the video. Is it dizziness it causes, because one isn't spinning round ones centre, rather, traveling in a straight line through a permanent dip, with increased g forces. By how much I wouldn't know. Found it, Guy Martin's stunt says it all, www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-science-behind-remarkable-new-wall-of-death-motorcycle-world-record |
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 26, 2022 19:22:01 GMT
I take it you've never actually seen a Wall of Death performance? There are three shows which operate in the UK and none of them do anything remotely like Guy Martin's stunt. |
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Post by ianali on May 27, 2022 5:47:09 GMT
I think I remember Guy Martin learning how to ride ‘the wall of death’. Talking of stunt biking, the company used to run made, amongst other things tyres for oddball machinery. Used to do the tyres for a guy from the Moscow circus who rode his bike along a high wire tight rope. Tyres were made from solid cast polyurethane with a square profile and we machined a central cut out which matched the tight ropes dimensions. Obviously from the ground you couldn’t see the groove... I wonder if he "cheated" and had an aerialist hanging on a rigid trapeze below him, as a counterbalance? I once adapted a unicycle to do that, but on a wire about 3m off the floor. I'm not stupid, contrary to opinion🤣. He certainly would have. My wife, Ali, is from a circus/showman’s family. I’ve seen enough over the years to see through the smoke and mirrors. End of the day though, riding tightropes and wall of death riding etc takes some bottle. |
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2022 7:21:41 GMT
Even more challenging than tightrope unicycling is the prospect of a 2-hours-each-way slow cruise in the floating electric beer drinking platform in water with waves as high as toy soldiers and a wind on the Beaufort scale (1).
That really IS high risk.
I am prepared as I need a paint brush and some beer and I know where to get them.
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Post by Jim on May 27, 2022 7:37:29 GMT
Even more challenging than tightrope unicycling is the prospect of a 2-hours-each-way slow cruise in the floating electric beer drinking platform in water with waves as high as toy soldiers and a wind on the Beaufort scale (1). That really IS high risk. I am prepared as I need a paint brush and some beer and I know where to get them. @hitler ndrew you're so brave, be careful out there on the wild Thames. |
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2022 7:40:34 GMT
Thank you for your good wishes.
It's the wanderlust which does it. The thrill of adventure in far flung parts of the globe and the powerful will to break out of the envelope.
I'm shaking.
Must be fear or the lack of beer.
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Post by Jim on May 27, 2022 7:45:45 GMT
I take it you've never actually seen a Wall of Death performance? There are three shows which operate in the UK and none of them do anything remotely like Guy Martin's stunt. You take it wrong! I was amazed how the walls of the ring distorted as the bike went round. I'll bet one of the 3 would accommodate you in your bid for the slowest WOD rider record on the banana, it would be good publicity. Or possibly not! Fill Shanners with helium before you strap her on the back, that might help. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 27, 2022 7:56:34 GMT
I take it you've never actually seen a Wall of Death performance? There are three shows which operate in the UK and none of them do anything remotely like Guy Martin's stunt. You take it wrong! I was amazed how the walls of the ring distorted as the bike went round. I'll bet one of the 3 would accommodate you in your bid for the slowest WOD rider record on the banana, it would be good publicity. Why would it be the slowest WOD rider record? 22mph is 22mph whether you do it in Concorde or on a skateboard. |
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2022 8:10:40 GMT
You should totally go for it.
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 27, 2022 8:29:22 GMT
You should totally go for it. The motorcycle in the footage you posted above is actually a moped and although it had been fitted with a 70cc head kit the YouTuber has said elsewhere that he didn't think this was actually necessary. The only issue with doing such a stunt on a Honda Express would be that having a carburettor rather than fuel injection, the float bowl might be held down by the g-force such that the carb might become flooded. I presume that the Indian Scouts generally used in this stunt are modified for such use. This is the Wall of Death show I've seen (a few times now) and as you can see the bike is not travelling at high speed. |
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2022 9:02:32 GMT
Am now out in the thick of it.
Very hazardous situation.
If you don't hear from me then just think of it like this
"It's been nice not knowing me".
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