But also not dealing with rocks and treebranches hitting them at 70mph

Someone here was completely clueless about the tech behind batteries and motors, a motor sized for a constant amount of ‘x’ power can generally develop burst ratings 2-4x higher than that for short periods given enough cooling, a bigger motor means more regenerative braking, for smaller brakes, not vice versa, a…

Even in other sports, equipment matters, look a the shear amount of money and research that goes into olympic runners shoes and studs, or swimming suits, or bicycles. Nobody has the same spec gear in those either, and it makes more difference than you think.
It’s tricky because if you want to test the drivers fitness,…

There’s not going to be any catastrophic failures, it’s as simple as sliding the rack back and forth on the mounting points that were already there.
 Packinging it in an existing car is tricky but the system is incredibly simple and robust.

“But the biggest thing to consider is that last one: cornering. When an F1 car turns, the inside tires travel a shorter distance than the outside tires. You’d want the inside tire to be angled out so that both tires would more closely follow the curve of the turn, thus increasing grip.”

No, it’s for tyre wear and…

You think in these days of trying to get every single gram of CO2 emissions down in tests they wouldn’t look at something that could reduce tyre scrub losses by a couple of percent without having to compromise stability?
 In days when road cars have adjustable damping, hydraulic roll bars, active ride height control?…

Actually it’s one of the innovations that could be very easily automated to use in road cars, because it reduces tyre scrub on straights so would give fuel economy benefits without the car being nervous under braking, etc.

There was probably someone writing the same stuff after the Black Shadow came out and yet today there’s thousands of people riding around with 50bhp thinking their starter bike is far too slow and anemic.

I used them as an engine donor, but after killing 3 engines, it eventually got swapped out for an F20C.
 It was a beautiful, smooth, torquey engine when it ran though:

Probably not, beause I removed 5th gear and it lives on a shelf now - weight saving!
 Can in 4th though...which is technically my top gear now....

I think I’d shut up and stop drawing attention to the fact that it took MY FULL RACE PACE just to barely catch and overtake people under yellows short shifting at 5krpm....

Bilt Hamber over here in the UK sell a product called ‘Atom Mac’ - you put a little bit in your rinse water after a wash and it protects the rotors from flash rusting, or mix a bit in a spray bottle and mist it on.

Honestly, it’d probably be safer. At least you only fall off and slide in small crash, not get your arm or leg amputated when it falls out of the bars.
 I’ve a friend with an off-road toy who did exactly that and now has one arm, shit happens.

You don’t get pinned into your motorcycle in a light crash by your badly made rollcage though.

No it doesn’t, there’s almost no triangulation, it’s a fucking terrible cage, all that cage is going to do is fold up and trap you in the car the minute you have an accident.

Maybe some of us have seen enough friends die to far better designed toys than this and it’s not fun when you’re first on the scene for cleanup.
 Especially when it would take *less* time and effort to have made the fucking thing properly to start with.

“And how did you die?”
“I’m a fucking idiot with a welder and no idea how to use it, and I’ve left a horrible mess that some poor bastard is going to have to clean up”

Yeah, one article they’re telling you not to make shit like this because it gets you killed, the next article they’re cheering on the exact same shit with an *EVEN WORSE* cage.
 Then they wonder why idiots make this stuff. Because you give them the airtime they crave.

That cage is terrifyingly badly made.

The reason they go with the doors like that is not just to look cool - it also means they don’t have to worry about lifting the ride height in countries that have large pavements/kerbs to stop the bottom of the door hitting ‘em.