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    What IS this?!?

    http://www.brudelitech.com/
    I dunno, but it looks kewl!
    ... and that's what I think.

    Or summat.


    Or maybe not...

    Dunno really....


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    I'd give it a go - I wouldnt buy one but.

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    Does look kinda fun :-)
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    looks like an offroad version of the thing they had on topgear last series, and all they could say about it was good cept that it wasnt a car... shit even Jeremy liked it, and he did say it felt like a motorbike.
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    I want one, looks like a good way to spend time at the quarry
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    I WANT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is farkin cool!
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    Good paperweight.... Can't help but think, wheelies would be a shitload scarier, and stoppies would be a piece of piss
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    Difficult to lanesplit but...
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Effectively, just a banking sidecar.

    I suspect that cornering will be suspect- unless tehre's a front diff, countersteering will prolly not work, so you'll have to steer it like a sidecar.
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    ....i scratch my head as to how it works...luckily they have big pictures...i'll have to kill a few braincells on this one.

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    I've seen a video of it somewhere,and like their gallery,no one is pushing it - hey,they are in a quarry,a sideways riders dream....but they aren't! Going fast in a straight line,big deal - in a quarry full of gravel that thing should be full lock sideways on max lean....but no,I see none of that.Maybe because it can't?

    Push your bike around your driveway...then lean it over and try - you can turn much tighter by leaning the bike over.....same as graders,they lean their front wheels over to make tight turns.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion
    I suspect that cornering will be suspect- unless tehre's a front diff, countersteering will prolly not work, so you'll have to steer it like a sidecar.
    As far as I can tell, the front wheels aren't driven
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    Wasn't so much thinking of them being driven. Diff was maybe not quite the right word, but something to allow for the fact that in a turn the inner wheel will be following a shorter path than the outer wheel. So countersteering the two wheels to the same amount will make them "fight"
    Quote Originally Posted by skidmark
    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer

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    Like Ackerman angles?
    Quote Originally Posted by Dean View Post
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    .....if I find this as a signature Ill hunt you down, serious, capice?

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    I'm not sure. I always got confused by that stuff. Aren't Ackerman angles only relevant in slip steering, as in a car. I presume this thing is intended to corner like a bike.
    Quote Originally Posted by skidmark
    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer

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