Motorcycle accident.

I've only seen 1 Atom in person. It sits much lower than it seems from any pictures/video. Surprised it doesn't have paddle shifters.

The Slingshot seems to also be fun, but at an actually affordable price (half the price of a T-Rex even). I'm not sure if it requires a motorcycle license though, since it's titled as such.

I... I think I like this?
It was equal parts Michael Jackson and Baz Luhrmann (I fucking love that motorcycle chariot).
Plus, the great cameos from stars like: "can't-lipsync-in-sync", "only-has-one-dance-move-or-his-legs-keep-breaking", and "afro on the stairs".

Hey, Love that motorcycle engine sanding video.

I wonder when the first grammar nazi will point out you said "an inch at a time" in the description.







... oh shit.

The motorcyclist who got rear-ended says

"Hey everyone thanks for the thoughts. I am all good now. Took a little bit to get back on motorcycles but it's my love and passion."

You would not believe how much attention the media over here spend on his appearance and overall attitude. Shaves his head, doesn't tug his shirt in, doesn't wear a tie, drives a motorcycle... a rockstar by every measure.

There were regular forecasts that the chicken would come home to roost for him any day now; that the public would recognise his responsibility in their suffering and that they would turn against them.

And every single time, the public cheered him on even more. The press couldn't understand it at all. What a glorious fella he is, throwing the entire establishment out of balance like this. Maybe someone should project his face onto the ECB monstrocity in Frankfurt at night, just to rub it in.

Anyways, I don't have a clue why he resigned. There are several rumours, but beyond that, nothing solid.

As for the comments: they are my way of processing my rage. Doesn't work particularly well though, I'm still pissed off. But it's nice to hear that it provides a different perspective for some folks.

Doublethanks for the doublepromote

I don't ever remember seeing a motorcycle paramedic in Victoria, but googling suggests they have them in NSW and Victoria:

http://www.abc.net.au/acedayjobs/cooljobs/profiles/s2442994.htm

Seems a bit strange though since I thought paramedics, like surgeons, described motorbike riders as "organ donors"...

Do they have paramedics on motorcycles in most places in the world? We don't have them here. Seems like a good idea.

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Gotta be fake.

They end up in bed together in the sequel and the sleeping guy has a motorcycle helmet on after telling the thief to fuck off.

reminds me a bit of the "motorcycle" chase scene from Terminator Salvation.

Some neat ideas, and might be a cool movie when it's done, but I wouldn't back a kickstarter (or similar) for it because it's just 1 guy.

I upvoted just to say "welcome" to cyberpunk amidst his attempted banination.

I think that at best this would be applicable only to the very lightest of electric vehicles (something in the "motorcycle" weight class, even half a ton is probably too heavy), and I have my doubts about even those, even when completely disregarding the sideways forces.

With a system like this you do not want more than a few cm (about an inch, at a guess) of suspension travel from when the car is lifted in air to the car at rest (= 1G vertical load), just from the weight of the car compressing the springs. If you have more the springs (which the loops naturally are) have to compress a lot with each revolution, which strains them, heats them, isn't good for rolling resistance, etc.

If we assume a 1000 kg car with a 50/50 weight distribution, to get about 2 cm of suspension travel the spring stiffness would be about comparable to a high level GT racing car. Comparing to high level sports cars, the street going Porsche 911 GT3 RS car, which is regarded as a pretty stiff, racy and track oriented vehicle has something in the region of three times that much travel, a normal commuter car can have way over 10 cm due to soft, comfort oriented springs.

So you can't spring a proper car with just these because it'd require it to be too stiff (also I can foresee shock absorption issues). Another problem is the 360 degree springy nature of it. You really don't want car tyres to move much aside from up and down. These have the problem that when you brake, the forces will try to push the axle forwards in relation to the wheel (i.e. the wheel moves backwards while braking), and the reverse when accelerating. You'd be (possibly) drastically changing the wheelbase of the car during acceleration and braking, which could have catastrophic results for handling in extreme situations. Many if not most cars these days are capable of braking at over 1 G, as long as they have decent tyres, so the front-back movement could be bigger than the up-down movement.

So yeah, doesn't really sound like a workable solution as the ONLY spring system on a car. Having some springiness in the tyres (either in the wheel itself of just having larger profile tyres, like we used to back in the day) can be helpful for comfort and even handling in some cases, but springing the car only via the wheels isn't a good idea, you really want to be able to control the wheels better than that.

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I doubt it would matter, I think this guy sees everything as a motorcycle lane. Kinda reminds me of that race through a shopping mall you can do in Saint's Row 2 though.