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I came across these short videos on YouTube the other day, they are very well made and beautiful to watch. A guy who lives in Brooklyn NY, buys a used Triumph , loads it with camping gear and rides to the West Coast , down the West Coast and back to NY again, 30 days, 25 states, 10,000 miles. Through some of the most beautiful parts of the country. Broken up into three parts, each video is 15-20 minutes. :)
 
I will definitely watch those afterwhile. Particularly interested to see how and what he packs. Nice to see it using a bike similar to ours. It reminds me though that you can do so much picture taking on any trip that it takes over and overrides the experience
 
xjwmx said:
I will definitely watch those afterwhile. Particularly interested to see how and what he packs. Nice to see it using a bike similar to ours. It reminds me though that you can do so much picture taking on any trip that it takes over and overrides the experience
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It’s all a collage of GOPRO videos all spliced together. If the camping gear is of interest to you, he made a follow up video to answer questions about his trip including all his camping gear which was a marvel of compactness.
 
Mailman said:
I came across these short videos on YouTube the other day, they are very well made and beautiful to watch. A guy who lives in Brooklyn NY, buys a used Triumph , loads it with camping gear and rides to the West Coast , down the West Coast and back to NY again, 30 days, 25 states, 10,000 miles. Through some of the most beautiful parts of the country. Broken up into three parts, each video is 15-20 minutes. :)
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I watched these last night. I thought they were well produced. There's no talk here, folks. It's all music and good ride footage. I put it up on the big screen and shared it with my wife. She enjoyed it too.

Here is the followup.
 
Thanks for sharing. I like that portable camp fire in Entry #1165 above and they are surprisingly cheap to buy at approx. £15 in the UK. What is the name of his tent... Wingman???
 
jetmechmarty said:
Vikings on motorcycles!
This is similar to the three part series posted by @Mailman. It's ride footage and Viking music. Throw it up on the big screen. The scenery is breathtaking.
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That was some of the most impressive Fjord and mountain footage I’ve ever seen, I especially loved the aerial footage. Very slick production, btw I was prepared to hate the Viking music, but I found it to be unique and nice to listen to.
 
Great little film! Could almost smell the reek when they were warming-up those 2-strokes. The well-remembered sounds, which you don't often hear these days. And I loved the scenery, the snow-capped mountains, the deep blue sky, puffy white clouds. Some of those roads as bad as the ones hereabouts . . .
 
This was posted on the XS FB page linked on the forums homepage.
I found the high speed film very illuminating look at the vortex created by I assume a step in the intake at 20:29. good reminder to minimise steps in your intakes and exhaust
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1967 Indianapolis 500, Andy Granotelli and STP campaigns it’s revolutionary new turbine powered , all wheel drive car. Driver Parnelli Jones dominated the field the entire race until three laps from the end, when a $6 transmission bearing failed and ended their day.
After the race, officials went on to ban the cars design from future competition , leaving Andy Ganotelli hopping mad! The pre race inspectors had said it was the best engineered car they’d ever seen and predicted it would set the standard in the future. The driver who won the race, A.J. Foyt, came to Granatellis defense and said the car shouldn’t be banned, and went on to say, if race officials want to kill design progression, they just succeeded.
It was the turbine race cars, last appearance.
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Very cool….and the engine was from…….CANADA!

Some of the original design engineers from Pratt & Whitney Canada moved on from there and later were colleagues of mine at Carleton University back around 35 years ago. The PT6 (the engine used by Granatelli’s car) was an amazing piece of equipment. It was about the size of a keg of beer and could pump out 400-1000 hp (depending on the version) all day.
 
MaxPete said:
Very cool….and the engine was from…….CANADA!

Some of the original design engineers from Pratt & Whitney Canada moved on from there and later were colleagues of mine at Carleton University back around 35 years ago. The PT6 (the engine used by Granatelli’s car) was an amazing piece of equipment. It was about the size of a keg of beer and could pump out 400-1000 hp (depending on the version) all day.
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Yeah it was a fascinating bit of history. I got caught up this morning in the history of turbine powered cars. There are a lot of YouTube videos of Chrysler’s well developed turbine, including a very good Jay Leno video. ( He is one of only two private owners in the world to have one, the rest are in museums, most of them were crushed! )
 

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