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Vitiare · Post by **Vitiare** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:10 pm

Nice! Though I have no idea what that is.

piccini9 · Post by **piccini9** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:24 pm

I'm pretty sure it's a Hayabusa done up in old Gulf Racing Livery.
There's a bicycle racing team around here that wears the same colors.

goose · Post by **goose** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:27 pm

Damn, even on that monstrosity those colors look fucking jangleplatz!

Vitiare · Post by **Vitiare** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:54 pm

I gotta say I've always loved the Gulf Oil livery colors. Its so anti-race car.

I wonder if that wheel fairing serves a real purpose, besides making tire pressure checks impossible.

calamari kid · Post by **calamari kid** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:22 pm

Vitiare wrote:I gotta say I've always loved the Gulf Oil livery colors. Its so anti-race car.

I wonder if that wheel fairing serves a real purpose, besides making tire pressure checks impossible.

Prolly set up for drags, used to break the start line sensor.

SpecialK · Post by **SpecialK** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:30 pm

That thing looks really cool. I'm sure it handles great with that spoked rear wheel being held on by a swingarm with a hinge in the middle.

MATPOC · Post by **MATPOC** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:09 pm

Vitiare wrote:I gotta say I've always loved the Gulf Oil livery colors. Its so anti-race car.

Gulf Livery is all about race cars

Vitiare wrote: I wonder if that wheel fairing serves a real purpose, besides making tire pressure checks impossible.

That fairing is an aerodynamic aid, implying that this is a LSR machine

SpecialK · Post by **SpecialK** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:07 pm

I see your GT40 and raise a Porsche 917:

WeAintFoundShit · Post by **WeAintFoundShit** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:25 pm

I was at a combined car/bike track day once, and there was a GT40 in the car A group.
It got meatballed for blowing somewhere in the neighborhood of 125 dB.
When it went past, there was no way of carrying on your conversation pretty much anywhere in the pits; you just had to wait it out as it went down the straight.

xtian · Post by **xtian** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 1:45 am

WeAintFoundShit wrote:I was at a combined car/bike track day once, and there was a GT40 in the car A group.
It got meatballed for blowing somewhere in the neighborhood of 125 dB.
When it went past, there was no way of carrying on your conversation pretty much anywhere in the pits; you just had to wait it out as it went down the straight.

wait untill you hear the 917 !

motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:28 pm

Vitiare wrote: Its so anti-race car.

???

WeAintFoundShit · Post by **WeAintFoundShit** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 1:09 pm

xtian wrote:
WeAintFoundShit wrote:I was at a combined car/bike track day once, and there was a GT40 in the car A group.
It got meatballed for blowing somewhere in the neighborhood of 125 dB.
When it went past, there was no way of carrying on your conversation pretty much anywhere in the pits; you just had to wait it out as it went down the straight.
wait untill you hear the 917 !

Heh... I'm wearing ear plugs if the 917 is any louder than 125 dB.
The upper limit for MotoGP regs is 130, and that's just flippin painful.

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 3:32 pm

I'll see your 917 and raise you a Tata

And my personal favorite, a 1979 HD Sportster

piccini9 · Post by **piccini9** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 4:39 pm

Oddly, they don't seem to be sponsored by Gulf.
Does Gulf Oil still exist? I dunno...

http://www.jonathanadlerracing.com/blog/

MATPOC · Post by **MATPOC** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:31 pm

2 Gulf stations with in a mile of my house, or at least there used to be at one point...

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