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Toast landing Buttered Side down has been debunked.LDS wrote: If your intellect is truly this keen, perhaps you should apply it to some other subject which has baffled humanity, such as curing cancer or the common cold, or developing toast that won't land butter side down when dropped...
If a rider "counter balances" to one side the bike leans the opposite way--true or false? Counter balancing is the ONLY way to lean the bike with body weight--true or false. If the answer to those two is true then the bike in that video did not lean because the rider did not counter balance.LDS wrote:How is it that you've been riding for a few months and understand how a motorcycle works better than people who have studied for decades?beginner wrote:Counter balancing and counter steering both LEAN the bike. The rider in that video moved around but kept his body centered over the bike except for his little wiggle wobble at the end, which was an oscillation, not a lean. If he had shifted his body weight sufficiently to one side and left it there the bike would have leaned the opposite way enough to be visible. The rider never did that, he never counter balanced so the bike didn't lean.CaptCrashIdaho wrote:Watch for yourselves and decide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nRUeEkS644
If your intellect is truly this keen, perhaps you should apply it to some other subject which has baffled humanity, such as curing cancer or the common cold, or developing toast that won't land butter side down when dropped...
Counter balancing is leaning the opposite direction of the motorcycle, irrespective of why hit's leaning.beginner wrote:If a rider "counter balances" to one side the bike leans the opposite way--true or false?
Totally, utterly, completely false.Counter balancing is the ONLY way to lean the bike with body weight--true or false.
If pigs could fly, they'd spend less time in the mud.If the answer to those two is true then the bike in that video did not lean because the rider did not counter balance.
Well, then. That's probably wrong too..S. My theory is the buttered side is heavier and has less wind resistance. Plus, when it slips out of your hand that adds a slow roll, so gravity, aerodynamics and momentum favor the butter-side-down landing. Didn't NASA study this yet?
Ease up or switch to low-salt low-fat.TEvo wrote:I have to say... I'm getting a lot of practice consuming popcorn as I continue to follow t his thread.
Like Toast?LDS wrote:Ease up or switch to low-salt low-fat.TEvo wrote:I have to say... I'm getting a lot of practice consuming popcorn as I continue to follow t his thread.
Scraping off the burnt part!CaptCrashIdaho wrote:Like Toast?LDS wrote:Ease up or switch to low-salt low-fat.TEvo wrote:I have to say... I'm getting a lot of practice consuming popcorn as I continue to follow t his thread.
NO. DUDE. I've been practicing with settings and I don't think I'll burn it when I finally plug the toaster in!LDS wrote:Scraping off the burnt part!CaptCrashIdaho wrote:Like Toast?LDS wrote:Ease up or switch to low-salt low-fat.TEvo wrote:I have to say... I'm getting a lot of practice consuming popcorn as I continue to follow t his thread.
