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Stunning ultra-sleek TMC Dumont motorcycle has record-breaking 36-inch hubless wheels [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^
| August 8, 2018
| Phoebe Weston
Posted on 08/08/2018 9:57:01 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
How in heck does he steer the damn thing????............. Exactly.
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posted on
08/08/2018 10:26:04 AM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: Red Badger
Brakes may be concealed between the rim and the wheel.
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posted on
08/08/2018 10:27:18 AM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: SgtBob
Thats a Continental IO-550-A. Horizontally opposed 6 cylinder. Made in Alabama. It looks identical to the pristine engine in my good friend's immaculate Piper Comanche 260. I was trying to figure out why they keep calling it a “Continental Flat Six” manufactured by “Rolls Royce”. What kind of BS is that?
To: C19fan
Looks like Mad Magazine material. What a joke.
45
posted on
08/08/2018 10:31:21 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: marktwain
46
posted on
08/08/2018 10:33:38 AM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: yesthatjallen; Red Badger; C19fan
I just realized, from a dynamic standpoint, it's ridiculous.
Look at the ground clearance, and the length of the wheelbase.
Every time you go over a bump, there's going to be significant up-and-down oscillation, From the picture, it looks like there's about a two-inch (or less) ground clearance under the driver, the driver and engine together probably mass about 600 pounds. The distance from the center of mass to the point of contact between the front wheel and the road looks like about six feet.
Fuhgeddaboudit.
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posted on
08/08/2018 10:35:06 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gordon Tronson says, "yeah, whatever..."
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posted on
08/08/2018 10:35:10 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: SgtBob
IO-550-A Looks liquid-cooled. Do you think the radiator is receiving forced air?
To: marktwain
And the soles of your shoes.............
50
posted on
08/08/2018 10:42:54 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon)
To: JoSixChip
Need to see how it handles road construction, traffic bumps, entrance ramps, parking garages, parking lots. Straight smooth roads look good!
51
posted on
08/08/2018 10:42:57 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: Steely Tom
I just realized, from a dynamic standpoint, it’s ridiculous.
Look at the ground clearance, and the length of the wheelbase.
Completely impractical.
You are correct. The fact they could run it on the street is amazing.
Looks cool, though.
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posted on
08/08/2018 10:45:08 AM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: Red Badger
And the soles of your shoes.............
Extra braking power, no doubt!
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posted on
08/08/2018 10:46:17 AM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: PAR35
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posted on
08/08/2018 10:46:18 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon)
To: C19fan
Hehe ... take it to Sturgis, I dare you ;-)
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posted on
08/08/2018 10:48:44 AM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
To: Red Badger
Looks like it is meant to go back and forth in straight lines, sort of like HD cruisers and chompers like to do.
Those wheels make for some immense centrifugal force. Anyone that has ridden fast on a windy road or race track knows that makes changing direction hard work.
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posted on
08/08/2018 11:39:14 AM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
To: doorgunner69
Been there.
Done that.
Lived to tell the story................
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posted on
08/08/2018 11:43:49 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon)
To: SgtBob
Looks like it. That shoots down the statement that it was entirely custom made in Brazil. Also, aircraft engines would be the last engine I would use for high speed motorcycle use. They are limited to low RPM (although with high torque at the low RPM).
To: C19fan
Where are the lights?
With no fenders or fairing, I bet it's a lot of fun driving on wet pavement.
Is a street sweeper always required to be just ahead of the bike?
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posted on
08/08/2018 12:02:31 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: kjam22
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posted on
08/08/2018 12:13:18 PM PDT
by
Jmouse007
(Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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