Charles13
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I saw this a couple of times and just passed it by because it looked silly but omg this is not only hilarious it’s very good
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Fortnine pimp my ride
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I'll have to watch it now with your endorsement. It's the only Fortnine video I haven't bothered watching in a long time.
Interesting exercise, but for the money tied up in that re-build, I'd have just bought an adventure bike to begin with.
Didn't like the chain roller idea and for the amount of work gone into the frame etc, I agree would've been better off exchanging it for a decent adventure style bike. Interesting & funny (in parts) but I preferred the more original looks, maybe if they had just fixed/modded it "scrambler" style it would have been cool.
To each their own, they probably had fun with the build and maybe some younger part of the audience will like Ryan's idea.
To me, though, it seems utterly counter-intuitive to put street slicks on a dirt-bike wannabe look-alike. You can't take it into terrain at all. Some knobby DOT approved street tires would dramatically improve the bike's handling off road.
This reminds me heavily of all those lifted trucks with 30" rims, 2" thin tires, tons of underbody neons (LEDs nowadays), triple-shock suspension ... just to never see any real action, only to be driven to work and back on paved roads.
(btw, take this with a grain of salt because I just built a scrambler with knobby tires but no fenders ... so ironically, I should just STFU
)
To me, though, it seems utterly counter-intuitive to put street slicks on a dirt-bike wannabe look-alike. You can't take it into terrain at all. Some knobby DOT approved street tires would dramatically improve the bike's handling off road.
This reminds me heavily of all those lifted trucks with 30" rims, 2" thin tires, tons of underbody neons (LEDs nowadays), triple-shock suspension ... just to never see any real action, only to be driven to work and back on paved roads.
(btw, take this with a grain of salt because I just built a scrambler with knobby tires but no fenders ... so ironically, I should just STFU
)
