Saturday, May 29, 2010

The most retarded biker

So recently a guy named Sherv has come to my attention from the ZX10r forum has come to my attention. He is without a doubt the dumbest biker I have come across on the Internet. Just to start off while I was looking through his flickr account I came across a photo of his ticket collection, and to realize he still has a license surprised me, he has a pile of tickets a mile deep and more that weren't visible. Anyway this guy had a genius idea when he was watching an episode of the Simpsons where Homer decides to put speed holes in his car. Well to sum up 55+ pages of forum babble he cut holes into the frame of his ZX10r. If you aren't familiar with modern sportbike frames they are made as light as possible, and one of the things that is typically lost while lightening a metal frame is strength, and to go ahead and remove material from a sportbike frame is ridiculous. Sherv claims to have a degree in engineering, but doesn't quite seem to have learned anything from it. The real reason he did this is to add ram air scoops to the airbox, which the bike already has (see those plastic tubes in the frame?).







There are many bikes that do have ram air, and holes in the frame and all sorts of stuff that the factory designed into the frame, but they do this by boxing in the frame and not leaving any sharp corners that will easily become weak points.

Anyway I truly believe that this guy will eventually wind up killing himself, and possibly others with some of his shenanigans, like plexiglass heel guards:





And remember those tickets I mentioned?

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