New super bike class in Australia- a sneak preview

[_Chris_]

Photoshop fun today!

 

[liveforphysics]

That hamster's gonna blow the 200w rule. I demand only hamsters with 1 removed leg, who are mal-nourished get to run in the wheel.

It's for the public safety. It's fine to put teens in 6,000lbs cars that are capable of 120mph, because it's equipped with a licence plate on the back, a bit of sheet-metal with stamped letters means all the dangers of that vehicle are removed, because they paid someone some money. God forbid your 50lbs bicycle has the power needed to be good useful transportation to a wide user group.

Don't you know about all the ebike related tragedies they are helping avoid with there brave laws? You could knock someone down and they or you might break a hip or something, possibly in a very unfortunate chain of circumstances, you could knock someone down that bumps there head on something hard and dies from it (as occasionally happens from pedestrians tripping on a curb, we should ban pedestrians walking as well, or only let them walk at a painfully slow rate, and definitely ban joggers, those guys are out of control.)

 

[MattyCiii]

It's for the public safety. It's fine to put teens in 6,000lbs cars that are capable of 120mph, because it's equipped with a licence plate on the back, a bit of sheet-metal with stamped letters means all the dangers of that vehicle are removed, because they paid someone some money. God forbid your 50lbs bicycle has the power needed to be good useful transportation to a wide user group.

Don't you know about all the ebike related tragedies they are helping avoid with there brave laws? You could knock someone down and they or you might break a hip or something, possibly in a very unfortunate chain of circumstances, you could knock someone down that bumps there head on something hard and dies from it (as occasionally happens from pedestrians tripping on a curb, we should ban pedestrians walking as well, or only let them walk at a painfully slow rate, and definitely ban joggers, those guys are out of control.)

True.
Motorists kill about 100 people a day in the USA (sorry, I didn't run the numbers for Aus). This is not a new trend, and in fact deaths by motorist are trending downward (slowly). But the 100 a day is the average over the last sixty freikin' years!
To put this in perspective, a US service member over the last 10 years of war has been more likely to die in a car wreck than by any combat related action.

Motorist killings happen so often that we're numb.

So, when people see a bicycle or e-bike whizz by, the reaction is fear. "We must restrain this new threat!" people exclaim. Sheeple (without thinking) acquiesce that motorist killings are natural, unavoidable, like "death by old age".

But those e-bikes... We need to reel them in before somebody gets hurt!

</rant>

 

[_Chris_]

There is to be no feeding the hamster speed either it can only have opium to slow it down.

 

[full-throttle]

Well, at least it's a mid drive, so it's a step in the right direction
Just need to find a lion that look like a hamster and stick 200W label on it

 

[MattyCiii]

...Just need to find a lion that look like a hamster and stick 200W label on it

Credit to Oatnet's signature for the pic...

 

[boostjuice]

Motorists kill about 100 people a day in the USA (sorry, I didn't run the numbers for Aus)

Even though fatalities have dropped over the decades, crash percentages have increased per capita. It's only survivability that has increased due to vehicle safety design improvements. There are still more serious life long injuries per capita than the fatality numbers might initially suggest. More cars + more people driving +more car dependance = more vehicle mileage = more risk exposure.

Australia 1970: ~30 fatalities/day/100,000 population
USA 1970: ~26.7 fatalities/day/100,000 population

Australia 2011: ~5.7 fatalities/day/100,000 population
USA 2011: ~10.4 fatalities/day/100,000 population

 

[Hyena]

Just need to find a lion that look like a hamster

A Lister. It's pretty much my favourite animal. It's a lion and a hamster mixed, bred for its skills in magic. And ebike propulsion.

 

[Samd]

Australia has finally approved for use the Super Hamster Intensity Turbine (or SHIT) powerplant.

I demand to know from the Authorities if they will enforcing a S.H.I.T peak power limit of less than 1.0 Hamsters or not.
Until then I will be riding mine with an Average Hamster Power Rating equating to 1.0 Hamsterpowers on the "Farno-Usely Current Kit" (or FARKIT) meter scale.

Energy crisis averted people. Go back to your day jobs.

 

[full-throttle]

A Lister. It's pretty much my favourite animal. It's a lion and a hamster mixed, bred for its skills in magic. And ebike propulsion.

Is that what powers the Lister engine??

Definitely mid drive

 

[_Chris_]

Turn it around and I can mount it on the bike in photoshop.

 

[_Chris_]

Australia has finally approved for use the Super Hamster Intensity Turbine (or SHIT) powerplant.

I demand to know from the Authorities if they will enforcing a S.H.I.T peak power limit of less than 1.0 Hamsters or not.
Until then I will be riding mine with an Average Hamster Power Rating equating to 1.0 Hamsterpowers on the "Farno-Usely Current Kit" (or FARKIT) meter scale.

Energy crisis averted people. Go back to your day jobs.

What happens if the hamster farts and the propulsion forward exceeds the legal one Hampsterpower? One hampster fart combined with the power of the hamster would double existing limits and pose a threat for the public with these super bikes.

We may have to tune the hampster on the W.A.N.K -(Watt Amp Needless Kompliance) testing machine for calibration. Once it is fully (W.A.N.K) tested and tuned we can assume it to be in compliance with the (W.A.N.K.Y) laws.

The FARKIT method is the logical alternative in the event of inability to be fixed.

 

[Samd]

Two flywheels? Dual drive....
I think Crabtree and Evelyn make a 12 FErreT controller to suit....

 

[Philistine]

I tried chucking a pile of blood transfusions, EPO and HGH into my Hamster. My bike flies but my hamster has now developed a tumor filled beanbag, has become a total asshole, and keeps trying to convince me to wear a gay as aids yellow wristband.

 

[TheBeastie]

To put this in perspective, a US service member over the last 10 years of war has been more likely to die in a car wreck than by any combat related action.

Motorist killings happen so often that we're numb.

</rant>

Yeah I have often actually thought about that fact my self in Australia, but have never really pointed it out to any one in conversation.
In AU we loose about 350 people a year on the roads, but we have lost less people then that in the Iraq/Afgan wars combined over ten years.

I remember seeing we lost about 5 people in car crashes on a weekend on TV news but then lost one person in Afaganistan I was surprised how hysterical people were about the war and people were demanding we bring our troops home but they obviously couldn't give a stuff about how many died on the roads that weekend.

I remember a friend tried to explain to me why people have behaviour like that and he summed it up in a way I thought was kind of brilliant at the time, he paused and said "because its on TV", and he was right, people's minds are kind of like a leaf in the wind.

 

[t3sla]

Still more reliable than a GNG...

 

[MadRhino]

Now Aus will vote a law for mandatory drug test, and you will have to train the hamsters to piss in a bottle.

 

[geeeyejo1]

Too funny guys :lol: Keep it coming...

 

[Samd]

Been doing a lot of experiments of caffeinating my hamster lately, getting some good results in terms of furlongs per fortnight.

 

[_Chris_]

I found some aromatic parmesan cheese mounted on the frame bar in front of the hamster doubles the power output immediately. When my tasty cheese I ordered comes it should be able to do burnouts.

 

[full-throttle]

Been doing a lot of experiments of caffeinating my hamster lately, getting some good results in terms of furlongs per fortnight.

My hamster feeds on other hamsters and lycra who try their luck

Don't f@#$ with my hamster

 

[AussieJester]

Think we need some CNC modding to the cage (Mr Recumpence ?) i went out this morning for a ride
and to my astonishment my girlfriends cat had eaten my hampster :-|

KiM

EDiT:- Fullthrottle posted as i was about to hit enter NOW THATS the Hampster i need frocking cats!!

 

[_Chris_]

Think we need some CNC modding to the cage (Mr Recumpence ?) i went out this morning for a ride
and to my astonishment my girlfriends cat had eaten my hampster :-|

KiM

EDiT:- Fullthrottle posted as i was about to hit enter NOW THATS the Hampster i need frocking cats!!

Ah well the cats in there now to replace the hamster that wil teach it.

 

[AussieJester]

Think we need some CNC modding to the cage (Mr Recumpence ?) i went out this morning for a ride
and to my astonishment my girlfriends cat had eaten my hampster :-|

KiM

EDiT:- Fullthrottle posted as i was about to hit enter NOW THATS the Hampster i need frocking cats!!

Ah well the cats in there now to replace the hamster that wil teach it.

Be in another form of cage if i had my way, as 'bait' in a craypot...im not a lover of the feline species give me a dog anyday...

KiM

 

[Hyena]

Fullthrottle posted as i was about to hit enter NOW THATS the Hampster i need frocking cats!!

This is war

"You have my axe" "and my rifle"