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People keep emailing me links to this thread. This is my last comment, just for the record. The stored energy in the spring, regardless of damping or linkage or anything else, doesn't matter. Do you know why? Because, as you see in the Reed shots, the wheel doesn't rebound until the compressing force (the jump) is removed (the bike is...

Actually, those are two photos in sequence, shot less than 1/8 of a second apart, on the same jump.

I miss a lot of you guys too, not to make this a love-fest, but you can see why I don't hang around here anymore. It's not the cool ones that made me want to leave. And I know there were rumors about me stopping on the boards because of orders from DC, but that's BS. He actually wondered why...

I was gone all day. I asked GuyB to keep this thread active because the problem is that a few people may have read this and then it disappears and all of a sudden the rumors start circulating about "I read this on Vital" and whatnot. So I figured it was better to leave it up for a bit. I...

[quote="Paul Buckley":1aeabkeq]Yeah but look who got to go to Europe to collect the award, so now who's the show off? Huh? Congrats by the way.[/quote:1aeabkeq] Hahaha... You're still the showoff! Thanks, PB.

I have a question: How come Paul Buckley's photos are frequently better than mine? I have an answer, too: Because he's a showoff.

It was good. That bike is very, very fast. Although, I think he is faster on it than anyone at the test.

Hey, 'ol Ger. Thanks for understanding that I couldn't stay and chat for as long as I would've liked. Same as if I showed up at your job and started talking.

Where's dubzilla19?

[quote="trick121":65378] That was so 1980's. Can you pleae get rid of thos sig pictures?[/quote:65378] No.

[quote="trick121":10254] illegal is stealing someones car. Shooting someone in the head. Stealing mail.[/quote:10254] Stealing copyrighted material and redistributing it...

[quote="ddog558":b09d5] That WAS the wife. Had to broom her, got a little too hefty. [/quote:b09d5] HA!

[quote="ddog558":28e0c] http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l177/ddog558/kids.jpg[/url][/quote:28…] How'd your wife squeeze that one out?! Damn...

Breeders... Sheesh...

I give up. I don't know enough about that era. Talk to me from about 1984 on and I'm good to go...

I don't know the tracks from back then, man! Sheesh. Wasn't that before knobby tires?! Budds Creek?

[quote="project racer":ea40d]very versatile rider.[/quote:ea40d] Steve Wise on a Honda?

[quote="project racer":6ba30]Better hurry, as soon as T see's this one it's over. [/quote:6ba30] Hahaha... Shit, man, I don't know. I was born in 1977!

[quote="project racer":b58fc]Nope. drmarkr is on the right path ,though.[/quote:b58fc] Hahaha... That would've been a surprise if I got that one! Hmmm...

[quote="project racer":84066]It was at one of T-Bonds favorite tracks.[/quote:84066] Does that mean I was right?