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Comment Re:I've never understood that claim. (Score 1) 287

Yes, I have ridden heavy bikes. I have also ridden medium bikes and light bikes. Thumpers, twins, 4-bangers, sports bikes, standards and cruisers, on and off road. Trust me, I know the difference.

I also know that if you brake hard, and do it correctly, the back end will not come around. That is unless you brake using the rear brake only, in which case you should not be allowed on a bike ever again until you learn proper braking technique. And of course you should only ever brake hard in a completely straight line. That's pretty basic stuff.

In ideal hard braking on a motorcycle, the rear wheel should just barely be on the ground. That means you're putting the maximum amount of braking through the front wheel. Of course, some bikes are so damn pig-heavy, long-wheelbased and underbraked that they can't do this, so adjust accordingly. The point is that you have to put as much braking force through the front wheel as possible. Again, basic physics that everyone who rides should know.

Yes, of course you shouldn't be off the gas when swerving, but you shouldn't be accelerating, either. Neutral throttle, learn it, live it.

Your overconfidence is still showing.

Comment Re:I've never understood that claim. (Score 1) 287

Uh no, by increasing your speed, you're actually reducing your maneuverability. The faster you go, the less sharp your turns can be. That's why you can pretty easily do slow figure-8s at alternating full steering lock on most bikes at idle in 1st gear, but try to do so at even slightly higher speeds, and it just goes to shit because you have to lean excessively.

If you want to do proper evasive maneuvers, you have to bleed off as much speed as possible first, by braking as much as you can in a straight line.

If you had had any sort of actual rider training, you would know this.

Comment Re:I've never understood that claim. (Score 1) 287

Well, good thing you're playing up your little action movie scenario after the fact, acting as if you knew exactly what you were doing, with cool and calm reactions. You even threw in a little tough guy comment afterwards. Yeah, you would totally have killed that woman, way to guy, mr. Tough Guy.

Bull. Shit.

You fucking panicked and reacted in a stupid-ass way. Don't try to act as if what you did was in any way a rational move.

If you had taken any sort of serious rider training (as is mandatory in most western countries other that the US), you would have received extensive training in evasive maneuvers. In fact, you wouldn't even have been allowed to take the second on-road part of the rider's test before demonstrating acceptable skill in evasive braking and swerving.

What you should have done was brake hard, then release and swerve hard by countersteering strongly. Accelerating into a dangerous situation like you did is approximately the second-stupidest thing ("I had to lay 'er down" is still the stupidest) you can do in an emergency situation.

I have seen riders brake so hard the rear wheel left the ground, then countersteer and swerve so hard the front wheel actually left the ground momentarily, and then come out of the maneuver in perfect form.

You're not nearly as tough as you think you are. Advanced riding classes are an absolute must, especially in the US where there is basically no mandatory rider's training at all.

Comment Re:You don't say... (Score 0) 606

That's because almost every single other group is a "white pride" (or at least celebration of western white culture) group in disguise. Everything that happens in the western world is more a less a celebration of what white men have created over the last couple hundred years of history. You just can't see it because it's become the default state of the world you live in.

You colossal idiot.

Comment Re:White balance and contrast in camera. (Score 1) 420

Based on the adjectives, one is more blue, the other is more white.

The photo shows plenty of color. From looking at the picture, the background in particular, it is very clear that the image is quite over-exposed, which will significantly lighten colors. Obviously, the camera based its light metering on the black parts of the overall rather dark dress, which caused the blue parts to become overexposed and the the background to blow out.

It's completely ridiculously obvious, to the point where I theorize that anyone seeing white instead of blue actually has a mild form of brain damage.

Comment Re:White balance and contrast in camera. (Score 1) 420

No, it's distinctly a grayish blue. The photo is perfectly fine showing which colors the dress is, it's just a bit overexposed so the colors doesn't show through as strongly as the official model photo on Amazon.

And shiny black often appears golden or brownish under strong direct light which is actually a really big clue. Since the "gold" parts fade way too much to black in the dark parts, it's obviously now brown/gold, but black with a strong light shining on it. And no light source can simultaneously put warm highlights on black, while at the same time casting a cool blue tint on white, especially not one as strong as in the picture. Not in this universe, at least.

Comment Re:White balance and contrast in camera. (Score 1) 420

No, the highlights are simply blowout because the picture was taken on a phone camera. Give me a bright enough light, a piece of dark fabric and a phone camera, and I can easily make white or near-white highlights appear on a picture of said dark fabric.

Brown highlights are common on "black" fabrics, since they are often extremely dark brown (or blue), not true black. So the dark parts are definitely black.

If the blue parts of the dress were actually white, that would require a light source with a lot of blue light, as well as a camera with very misconfigured white balance. You would have to deliberately do this to mislead. It's also impossible to do this on an iPhone (which the picture was taken with).

Lastly, we know for a fact that the dress is blue and black, because the manufacturer doesn't even sell a white and gold version.

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