Time Travel

[manuboy]

Ok ,so we've settled that the old boys aren't gunna be too fazed by a modern bike,but I don't don't think the modern bike is a big deal.Sure they are fast,but unbelievably easy to ride - you can ride a VMax like a CB125,an over the top muscle bike that is a kitten to ride,same with an R1,dirt bikes the same,an unbelievable power spread,traction and suspension.The modern trialls bike is an extention of your brain,it would go through a section I find impossible on my TLR200 like going to the shops.They are all boggling - but not scary...

Motu, i wanna fly you down here so you can run the ruapuna training school similar to the Mercks Taupo thing which got cancelled down here due to lack of interest (or ADVERTISING!!!!) if oyu don't think an r1 is scary. Cos the bike instructor i did my defensive driving course with was trying yo get his employer to provide him an R1, but even he thought that the bike was farkin scary to ride. And the last time i rode a mates YZ250, it absolutely scared the pants off me, and that was in a dead flat open paddock. I've never ridden one since.

Seriously i know what you're saying - if you don't ride like Rossi, the R1 and its like are civil compared to early machines - the gearbox / suspension and i guess the basic bike 'mod cons' are there... am i right there?

anyway i think we might be talking at cross purposes. I say that if you grabbed one of the old-timers and stuck him pillion on an r1/zx/gsxr/whatever and straightlined it - he'd crap his cowhide pants, which i now realise is a dumb proposition, because so would 99% of the commoners (me included) who walk past my workplace every day.

You're saying that these guys would take most things in their stride cos they just sorta had to cope with whatever came up if i understand you correctly...

[Motu]

Ok,I see where you are coming from now - yes the oldtimers would crap their pants because they've never been faster than a horse could gallop - but then I would crap my pants if made to pillion behind Rossi on his MotoGP bike,he woulld be going 10 times faster than I've been in my life.

What about 150 yrs from our own time,what will the advances be? will the performance of bikes or their equivalant been stopped in their tracks - or will there be Anakin Skywalkers piloting jet fighters as 10 yr olds?

[Artifice]

I think we all be workin for de gubmint by den, finking up new ways to take eachothers right to live away.

[RiderInBlack]

I know the "cages" it this old pic of 1920 Te Kuiti are "Tin Lizzies", but what is the bike on the left next to the power pole?

[Motu]

Dunno,but I'd say it was Merkin.Did they drive on the right in those days?

[Jackrat]

I know the "cages" it this old pic of 1920 Te Kuiti are "Tin Lizzies", but what is the bike on the left next to the power pole?

Dunno' either, but the street hasn't changed much.

[RiderInBlack]

After reading in the "Histroy Of The Motorbike" (by Roland Brown) about what these old boys (and girls) rode, I think they would think our modern bikes were for pussies. The book is full of info like:
Board Racing around 1911-13 done on Excelsiors, Flying Merkels, Indians and HD's reaching speeds over 161KMP (100MPH) on wooden velodromes. Many of these bikes had no brakes, no silencing, no throttle (ran flat-out and only slowed by a kill switch). The riders themselves didn't ride with much in the way of protective gear (f*ck they had huge balls back then).
Glenn Curtiss on his 4.4L Curtiss V8 shaft-dive MBike became the fastest man on earth in 1907 after riding his machine at 219.4KPH (136.36MPH) on sand (not bad if you look at what he was riding on).

[Indiana_Jones]

Imagine If the fuhrer made a time machine and took the tech for missles and Abrams back to 1939 with him

-Indy

[The Pastor]

REAL wild Maori,

It's good to see that now we have domesticated those wild Maori! They were getting a real problem..........




This entire whole topic is crazy how on earth would anyone know?

No one does and no one will.

On another note, time travel is here, I can quite happily travel into the future, at night I go into my time travel machine and then instantly I arrive in the morning, sometime you get some visions on the trip but it works every single night........

[Jackrat]

It's good to see that now we have domesticated those wild Maori! They were getting a real problem..........




This entire whole topic is crazy how on earth would anyone know?

No one does and no one will.

On another note, time travel is here, I can quite happily travel into the future, at night I go into my time travel machine and then instantly I arrive in the morning, sometime you get some visions on the trip but it works every single night........

REAL wild Maori was a term used by an old man that did the REAL yards.
The fact that most of those wild Maori were relations of mine is also not lost on me.
As for no one knowing,you really missed the boat didn't you?.
My great grand mother was a young girl in the Hawkes bay during Te Kooti's time and passed on a lot of information about the times.
Most of my family history,both Maori and Irish is on record today.To say nobody could know what it was like back then is nothing but a show of ignorance on your behalf.
Well done.

[onearmedbandit]

Jackrat - Although not clear, I believe RM was referring to the original topic, not the one that the thead turned into.

[Jackrat]

Jackrat - Although not clear, I believe RM was referring to the original topic, not the one that the thead turned into.

Not sure either mate,but I was making reference to his sarcastic use of my own comments.I just got carryed away a bit.
Ummm,as I do huh

[inlinefour]

dont be silly.....they wouldn't know how to operate the clutch, gears and the power window!

They were pretty resourceful in the past and it would not take em long to figure it out.

[RiderInBlack]

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Originally Posted by Marmoot
dont be silly.....they wouldn't know how to operate the clutch, gears and the power window!

They were pretty resourceful in the past and it would not take em long to figure it out.

Which makes them smarter than Automatic "cage" drivers, who still don't know how to operate clutch and gears

[RiderInBlack]

These are some Pics my Pa took of a bike collection at a private museum just out of Whangarei. Thought you guys & girls might like a look at them. Might be worth organising a KB ride to see them. What do you think?