Mechanical sympathy still matters..

[GrahamD]

Do you think all the electronic wizardry on modern engines makes anything dumb idiot proof.

Nope.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ec_1397329262

 

[Dirt_Dad]

That's a bad day right there.

 

[toompine]

That's a bad day right there.

self inflicted

 

[Koinz]

Sure took them awhile to put the fire out. ??? Maybe he should've let it burn and claimed the insurance on it

 

[autoteach]

was he hoping the rev limiter would just give out and allow him to hit 350kph?

 

[Big Blu]

great stuff! There will always be idiots..........
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Darwinism sometimes fails us!

Paul

 

[dcstrom]

Ha ha... I was at a bike event recently in Brazil (where it seems this video came from) where many of the guys would just sit there on their bikes bouncing them off the revlimter. Why? Where's the skill in that? I was secretly hoping for a few explosions.

Those of use who rode before electronics, before rev-limiters, have a bit of a clue what "mechanical sympathy" means - back then if you liked to be a hoon, and you didn't have it, it would cost you big dollars. Now you can just wring its neck without any consequences (usually). Ah the youth of today...

 

[XtreemLee]

Just a word of advice for others out there, you want to keep the smoke and fire inside the engine ::015::

 

[Dallara]

Ha ha... I was at a bike event recently in Brazil (where it seems this video came from) where many of the guys would just sit there on their bikes bouncing them off the revlimter. Why? Where's the skill in that? I was secretly hoping for a few explosions.

Those of use who rode before electronics, before rev-limiters, have a bit of a clue what "mechanical sympathy" means - back then if you liked to be a hoon, and you didn't have it, it would cost you big dollars. Now you can just wring its neck without any consequences (usually). Ah the youth of today...

And it's not just the "mechanical sympathy" developed prior to rev-limiters for not revving up over redline... But also of careful rev-matching via throttle-blipping on downshifts. ::024::

I see so many guys these days, usually younger squids, who just bang downshifts without a thought for the poor engine. Little do they seem to realize that a rev-limiter won't do them a nano-whit's bit of help if they mechanically over-rev the engine by downshifting to too long a gear at too high a road speed. At a local dealer's ride event a few years ago I tried to point out to one of the "Bushido" sport bike riders that he was taking a big chance of bending a valve or running one into a piston with his errant downshift technique... And he snidely answered "Man, don't you know these Ninja's have rev-limiters?"

I just shook my head and walked away...

That said, slipper clutches are now saving some of those boneheads from their lack of correctly throttle-blipping for rev-matching on downshifts these days.

Electronic wizardry can help some of the clueless, but somehow, someway, the terminally stupid will always find a way to blow even the most wonderful engine sky-high. It's the nature of the Moto-Moron! ::025::

Dallara



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[Checkswrecks]

And in today's society, he will just have it carted back to the dealer and say it is a warranty claim.
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