Subject: Re: Not a GRiSO..... Mon Aug 22, 2016 10:04 am
Big fat green turd.
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Guest Guest
Subject: Re: Not a GRiSO..... Mon Aug 22, 2016 12:05 pm
Get off the fence why don't ya?
Ekimyrf Grignapoco
Posts : 166 Join date : 2015-06-06 Age : 62
Subject: Re: Not a GRiSO..... Mon Aug 22, 2016 12:21 pm
i have a real soft spot for period dustbin fairing but that.........why do they stick those stupid balloon tyres on the front
Pete Roper GRiSO Capo
Posts : 8957 Join date : 2013-05-29 Age : 65
Subject: Re: Not a GRiSO..... Mon Aug 22, 2016 12:43 pm
When originally designed the dustbin was a performance enhancer. So much so they were banned. Nowadays they are used purely to try and turn a modern, ( In the case of the Cali running gear? I snort with derision!) into a stylistic showpiece.
They were always inexcusably fugly. Fugly and functionless? 'Two strikes and yer out!'.
Pete
beetle GRiSO Capo
Posts : 9246 Join date : 2013-09-30
Subject: Re: Not a GRiSO..... Mon Aug 22, 2016 12:56 pm
the_doctor wrote:
Get off the fence why don't ya?
I'll be more specific.
They have taken a perfectly good functional motorcycle and turned it into something from a bad sci-fi movie. Judge Dredd comes to mind.
Guest Guest
Subject: Re: Not a GRiSO..... Mon Aug 22, 2016 1:02 pm
Pete Roper wrote:
Fugly and functionless? 'Two strikes and yer out!'.
Pete
No need to be so personal Pete - you sound like my ex-wife......
Ekimyrf Grignapoco
Posts : 166 Join date : 2015-06-06 Age : 62
Subject: Re: Not a GRiSO..... Mon Aug 22, 2016 2:21 pm
Pete Roper wrote:
When originally designed the dustbin was a performance enhancer. So much so they were banned. Nowadays they are used purely to try and turn a modern, ( In the case of the Cali running gear? I snort with derision!) into a stylistic showpiece.
They were always inexcusably fugly. Fugly and functionless? 'Two strikes and yer out!'.
Pete
They were banned because of their susceptibility to side winds at speed there were a number of fatalities due to the issue. But I reckoned the Gileras (Bob Mac era) were beautiful in a brutal way
boxerscott Grignapoco
Posts : 153 Join date : 2016-01-25 Age : 65
Subject: Re: Not a GRiSO..... Mon Aug 22, 2016 3:46 pm
I reckon they were too but the streamlining lessons learned have given us fairings that are not as obtrusive. That in itself is a good thing. I think it is homage to Sir Nigel Gresley, his Mallard locomotive and all the lads pre war who just wanted to go faster. Now`t changes really, people will be looking at the moto gp winglets in 50 years time and thinking WTF! fact is I am thinking that now
Chris
Grisodude Tiradritto
Posts : 353 Join date : 2013-07-02 Age : 61
Subject: Re: Not a GRiSO..... Wed Aug 24, 2016 1:28 am
Nar I like it. It's not for production but a clothing company commissioned it, I've seen it somewhere. I think Wildguzzi. I like it when someone takes a bike and makes it different, yes this is different. Puts their mark on it, thinks out of the bland old box. Any way my 2 cents worth.
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