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Old June 23rd, 2009, 11:07 AM   #1
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A little mental image to encourage riders to wear gear

Here's my rationale for wearing gear.

Picture a belt sander. For those of you not familiar with power tools, it's one of these:



Install an 80-grit sanding belt on it -- 80 grit is more or less equivalent to pavement in roughness -- and fire it up.

The surface of the belt will be moving at about 35 or 40 mph, which is more or less the speed you're likely to be moving if you go down.

Now... and picture this as clearly, accurately and graphically as you can... apply the running sander to the body part of your choice. You're allowed to be wearing whatever you want when you do so.

Clear enough?
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Old June 23rd, 2009, 11:44 AM   #2
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Old June 23rd, 2009, 11:49 AM   #3
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Old June 23rd, 2009, 12:10 PM   #5
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Install an 80-grit sanding belt on it -- 80 grit is more or less equivalent to pavement in roughness -- and fire it up.

The surface of the belt will be moving at about 35 or 40 mph, which is more or less the speed you're likely to be moving if you go down.
Instead of being more or less than each, what happens if pavement was exactly as rough as 80 grit sandpaper and you were going exactly 35 or 40 mph?

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Old June 23rd, 2009, 12:23 PM   #7
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Instead of being more or less than each, what happens if pavement was exactly as rough as 80 grit sandpaper and you were going exactly 35 or 40 mph?

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Here's my rationale for wearing gear.

Picture a belt sander. For those of you not familiar with power tools, it's one of these:



Install an 80-grit sanding belt on it -- 80 grit is more or less equivalent to pavement in roughness -- and fire it up.

The surface of the belt will be moving at about 35 or 40 mph, which is more or less the speed you're likely to be moving if you go down.

Now... and picture this as clearly, accurately and graphically as you can... apply the running sander to the body part of your choice. You're allowed to be wearing whatever you want when you do so.

Clear enough?
Now if we could put some better gripping sandpaper on that, mount the handle back and a bit lower, and paint it green. Almost forgot there is a small oiling hole on that sander, can we get a drop of Rotella T in there?
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Old June 23rd, 2009, 01:00 PM   #10
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I have that sander and my gps shows it goes 33 or 37 mph.
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Old June 23rd, 2009, 01:02 PM   #11
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haha, i think i will stay away for a while.
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Old June 23rd, 2009, 01:06 PM   #12
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Yeah caught me. I am migrating a bunch of old computers to new ones. Once you fire up the migration software you watch the progress bar and this devil of a site calls me back!
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Old June 23rd, 2009, 01:12 PM   #15
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I attribute a good portion of the early success of this site due to those email notifications. Many boards don't take the time to customize the default settings for new users, and the default settings don't subscribe people to threads they've posted in, and don't email those people about their subscribed threads.

With those settings as the default here, once people start posting at all they are immediately given feedback to return as people respond to their posts, and it builds on itself. For very frequent posters, it can get a little intrusive and that's why the settings are configurable and anyone can choose whichever preference they like. And if they're frequent posters, they may not need that little kick to come back anyway. But the vast majority of ninjette.org users keep things at the default setting, which allows for the most encouragement to waste time come back and post often.
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Old June 23rd, 2009, 01:29 PM   #18
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Now if we could put some better gripping sandpaper on that, mount the handle back and a bit lower, and paint it green. Almost forgot there is a small oiling hole on that sander, can we get a drop of Rotella T in there?

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great pic.

remember falling in the dirt once on a mountain bike picked sand out of my legs for a few days - luckily no infection.
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Old June 23rd, 2009, 02:41 PM   #21
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Old June 23rd, 2009, 02:47 PM   #22
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wow man! just imagining it.. just realize.. all the gear all the time.. ordeal... man! ouch!
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If you turned the belt sander over and placed a Ninja 250 with wings on it, would it fly?
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remember falling in the dirt once on a mountain bike picked sand out of my legs for a few days - luckily no infection.
That makes me think of a variation of Andrew's idea.

Go to your "favorite" parking lot. Pick a direction. Run as fast as you can. Jump. You're not allowed to land on your feet. You are allowed to wear whatever you want.

Easy enough to do, after all, anyone that has access to a motorcycle has access to a parking lot. I don't care if the parking lot's paved or whatever, as long as it's a real parking lot. I'm sure the fittest members can sprint at over 15mph.

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An old saying:

The U.S. Air Force's First Law of Aerodynamics:

Anything will fly, given enough thrust.

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An old saying:

The U.S. Air Force's First Law of Aerodynamics:

Anything will fly, given enough thrust.

Unless it is a helicopter and then you just beat the air into submission.
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I just read that same analogy somewhere recently. I like the parking lot one better, though.
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a kid at my son's school made a cool hovercraft with a leave blower. it lifted him about a foot off the ground. now that belt sander placed under a big skateboard with the board's wheels removed and...
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This reminds me of all the stuff mythbusters does
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