Top gear.

[Fruitbat]

An excellent steed stealthy.
Depending upon how insane you are, or are not, you could give me a real contest on such a machine...

Assuming I ever get my insurance wrangle sorted out, and actually get to ride my 20 yr old genesis 750 again... :c(

FB.

As promised the pictures of my beloved new toy
the EPIC HONDA CBR 600F-V    (the black one)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99238696@N06/9540685404/
And the old Yamaha Diversion 600 it's replacing (the red one)

not sure how to link pics directly i have forgotten how. stupid flikr

[Somamech]

Ditto nice score Stealthy

Like your hardtail too LOL

[Elvis Hendrix]

Hey Flux I love ya stuff man. Fun or what. 

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

Wow.

Kind of like how i drive to work every day

Now you know why i drink so much coffee..............

[stealthyaroura]

Yeah that's a nice custom build Flux! we love anything with wheels in this thread!
Glad you bumped it with your R C speed machine, propper ankle breaker LOL.

Aye the CBR600, Bah she's insane. Well we both are
It does 160mph!! And gets there like lightning
Geard down for the track so it screams! All tuned and a few "trick" bits here and there.
I'm gonna tidy up the ass and get some small LED indicators.

it's an absolute peach! Glad you like it guys, thanks for the appreciation
It's one of the few materialistic things I REALLY love and need in my life. Funny eh? I worked myself to death so I could afford it and the saving up was really hard.

Love the genesis range fruitbat,  there actually collectable now you know?
We'll have to meet up summer time for a blat out!

[Flux]

Yup 9.5kgs of ankle breaker right there

I like most things with wheels on them.

I'll post up some more video whenever I get another one done just have to sort a couple of things out before I really test it. The truck was stuttering (cogging) due to the gearing so have to change that and then I should be right.

[Somamech]

As you all know I love human powered two wheels and shake my head in disbelief how Motogp in general get their marketing all wrong compared to low budget mountain biking websites. 

Sure the money in Moto is insanely more than say Downhill Racing etc etc.  But how many comments will a motogp website generate compared to say Pinkbike.com ?  The answer is not as many comments as Pinkbike will generate with a simple bike review.

With all that in mind it's freaking amazing that some in Motogp are realising that people like watching and learning about the technolgy behind the sport... WHo woulda thought  

So good on Yamaha for releasing this video in regards to Electronics:

Moving You Vol. 5 "The engine control engineer linking Rossi with his YZR-M1" (English)

[stealthyaroura]

check this beastly machine out from fellow speed freak FLUX
ace how fast are these it's trying to take off LOL
no IT IS taking off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mAP4sjiWUAw

[Flux]

Yeah thats what my current build is based on. I lengthened the TVP's (custom) to create a 1/5 scale truck and added a centre diff to handle the extra powa . Would love a job as a designer for various things but it isn't easy breaking into that line of work here. It isn't new doing this to these truck but I decided to have a crack at it myself and use my ideas instead.

Here is another nutty video of the stock truck doing it's thing:


And a movie about it:


And the introduction from HPI:

[stealthyaroura]

FLUX that is awesome man!
very professional footage
aye its a big market the US know doubt,massive following and hard to make an impact
commercially thats a shame mate.
and you can really drive them things! loving the drifting 
is that shear torque literally wheelying the truck or air creating the lift?

[Flux]

I wish that was me driving but it's not. That's footage from other peoples rides as well as HPI's own driver's that's why it's great footage.

I can drive the truck really well but don't have any footage of it at the moment due it (the 1/8 one) in bits in piece in a box

It's shear torque the truck has to pull the wheelies and back flips. You can also control the truck in mid air by going forward and reverse on the throttle to pitch the nose up or down so you can level it off for a landing etc.

[stealthyaroura]

all good flux.
yeah them brushless motors are insane aren't they! thought it was the amount of torque.
the control in mid air that sounds like 'break tap' ya do the same on bike's to get the front
down when in flight
Gyroscopic precession is the term. That would be a cool crazy idea building a heavy hi RPM
GYROSCOPE into the shell! that would give some strange effects   just thinking
out loud (probably been built?)

[Flux]

There are all sorts of toys you can get for RC and a Gyro is one. Haven't seen one in a Flux yet but there's still time

I'll post another video of my truck running once I get some more gear in from the big old US of A.

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

Impressive

yes a gyro would certainly give some wierd effects, i guess if you mount it right, it will just power forward instead of doing back-flips. Either that or add a BIG spoiler, but that will ruin the 'truck' look
ETA: I meant an actual gyroscope, not those micro gyro attitude sensors, although you could use these to feedback to the forward / reverse control, in this way it will be much more stable, and you wouldn't have the weight of a flywheel, just a tiny gyro & some electronics

Want to try the RC on stuff that doesn't have wheels?

We could use someone with your talents in the Inventor's Group........

[Flux]

I'm just a PM away.