Snuff Movies.

From last week's Telegraph:

136 mph biker records his death
A motorcyclist who attached a camcorder to his machine
ended up recording his own death, an inquest has heard.
Elliott Coe, 29, a factory supervisor from South Wotton,
Norfolk, filmed himself speeding at 136 mph after setting
up his camera to record the speedometer on his Suzuki
GSXR 600 at Tilney cum Islington, near King's Lynn,
where he hit a tree.
Bill Knowles, the West Norfolk Coroner, recorded a verdict
of accidental death.

I wonder if the next of kin sent it to Kirsty's Home Videos?

 

And on how your speedo works.
I think that trick would work with mine as my speedo connects somewhere on
the engine casing, rather than as with the CBR (to the front wheel).

 

And 136mph would be a *bad* time to find out that your paddock stand was in
fact not that robust at all. Would make an entertaining complaint down the
paddock stand shop though.

 

Nice enclosed-space burnout before the end, though!

 

stand.......


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Slightly confused.. are you saying that you stick it on the paddack stand
then rev it up?
That would require a gear box/rear wheel based speedo wouldn't it?
Interesting bit of physics too...

That said, I'm not actually sure where the GSX-R reads it's speed from.

 

Only 136? Poof - the 600 can overread by more then that!

Still, what a silly thing to do.

 

And... since there's no wind resistance you could no doubt get the bike
up to a fine old indicated speed.

I think I'd want to strap the fucking thing down before I took it to
high speeds like that.

I'd also have to work hard on stopping myself from jamming my knob into
the chain/sprocket interface to "see what it's like".

 

It would.

Er, not very.

The gearbox. Which is why I know that the highest speed I've attained
while pulling a wheelie is 134mph. Good ld Suzuki.

 

I'm not sure that you would on my bike, because of the ram-air thing. When I
took my last 6R out without any bodywork and, hence, the ram air not being set
up, it wouldn't pull more than about 70mph in top.

I think, somehow, I'd manage to resist that temptation.

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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Well no, as long as it stays on the paddock stand. If it doesn't, or isn't
balanced properly or whatever... would be a good video to watch

What would a bike, with a back wheel 'doing' 150mph actually do if you
dropped it - flip?

Ta.

 

There is a sensor on the front sprocket.

 

Of course, I meant to type "Good Old Suzuki", but that's one of the
best Freudian slips I've ever seen!

 

Make a mess..

....of itself, you, the garage, the video camera - you are going to
video it, aren't you?

 

But seriously - I can't think of a better actualisation of the
uncontrolled Id than a gixxer thou

 

<slap>

"Penny".

Singular, it is "penny".

Plural, "pennies" or "pence". One is singular.

 

Penny and pennies denotes a number of coins. Pence denotes
a price regardless of wether that price requires one or
more pennies to pay it.

 

Really? Are you sure about that? I would say that a penny is just
that, one single penny. Pennies (or pence) would refer to more than
one penny, see. That's how pluralisation works.

How you come to the conclusion about pence and price is beyond me atm.

Let's see your proof, then - here's mine ...

" Main Entry: pence
Pronunciation: 'pen(t)s
plural of PENNY "

And where did the sheep come into it?

 

It was how I seemed to remember using it as a kid. I'm sure
I would refer to a sweet priced at '1d' as costing 'one pence'.

I know. One penny, two or more pennies for a number of coins.

From Wikipedia:

"The plural of 'penny' is 'pence' when referring to a quantity of money
and
'pennies' when referring to a number of coins."

So I was sort of half right. Well in my mind, anyway. )

Eh?