American brake setup

Hello dears.

I'm referring to a 1Mb clip posted at
<http://hayn.gotadsl.co.uk/american.divx.avi>

What's going on there then, in relation to the front brake setup?

When Trinity does an emergency stop she grabs the right lever, and she
appears to lock the rear, upon doing her 'turn in the road' (ahem) she
isn't holding the right lever, so I assume the left lever is being
held for the front brake.

I know it's just a movie clip, but I assumed Merkin bikes had the same
lever setups as bikes in the UK. Are the levers in this clip just
used for effect or do they function as demonstrated as standard in the
US?

I think it's time for Gin and Bed.

 

Sometime around Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:50:16 +0100, BGN babbled on about:

Up yer bandwidth pikey.

 

special effects, innit?

Levers are the same, side stand is opposite.

Yes.

 

Uploading at 35Kb/sec.

Stuck on my Nilly space now at:

<http://www.hayn.nildram.co.uk/american.divx.avi>

 

You can see all that?! Blimey. May have to fish the DVD out to check.

It was all done on greenscreen, wasn't it? I guess at some point,
someone had to actually ride a bike a bit, but I'm fairly certain it
wasn't wosserface and most all of it was done in CGI. There's a "making
of" bit on one of the DVDs, isn't there?

 

OK, tell us which side of the bike your sidestand is on...

 

Matrix 1 = Lobby scene on loop all day
Matrix 2 = Road scene on loop all day
Matrix 3 = I'm sure there's something worth we watching somewhere.

Disk 2 of Matrix Reloaded. The bike stuff was done on film, but some
of the vehicles were put in as CGI later on. "Trinity" had done some
motorbike work before, but I think *some* of the motorcycle stunts
were done by another lady. The ones where she is 'filtering' are
deffo done by her stunt double.

 

From that clip the side stand looks like it's on the left.

 

Maybe they have the image of the bike reversed when they did the special
effects.

 

After a quick search for Harley Davidson on google.com images, it
appears that the side stands are on the left.

 

Yes, dear.

 

Perhaps I should go to work.

 

heh

 

It was a Duc though.

 

<wags finger, grinning>

 

<sheepish look>

What?

 

Upon getting out of the house to start my journey to work I pulled the
choke open and the fucking cable appears to have snapped. Utter
BASTARD. I've never had to try to start a motorcycle without a choke
before, it's like trying to lift a piano down a set of stairs.

After a quick natter to Uncle Lozzo it appears that I can do something
with the inlet to the air box after lifting the seat off. After
getting home from work it appears that I have to take the side panel
off to do this on my ER5.

I always get a new car when the ash tray is full. What similar
measure should one use to judge the life of a bike?

 

BGN wrote

In this weather a moderately unworn modern engine should start just on
the button alone, no choke, no throttle just spinning electrics. If it
don't it needs a fettle.


--
steve auvache
750 VT Shadow (something for the weekend)
Bindit 600 (was lost and now is found)
GS500E (small but perfectly formed)
mongvan (dehydrated)

 

Don't be silly.

 

Is 18,500 miles moderately unworn? And how modern is a modern engine?
I think the ER5 has some ancient engine design.

The engine starts after a little convinving, but then idles at some
stupid rate and then conks out. After a re-start it seems fine when
it idles at the right speed.

It looks like the Pay Day "just needs a new chain" appointment will
soon be a Pay Day "New chain, new front pads, new brake lines, fanny
with rear brake, new choke/cable, new <insert next item to go wrong
here>" appointment.

Perhaps I should just let it have its 20,000 mile service early.