Time Warp

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

I just upgraded my OS to LinuxMint 18.2 Cinnamon this morning and wanted to see if all my apps (including the ones running under wine) worked correctly. I figured I might as well post some of the rendered outcomes here. Animated with Aviutl, encoded to gif with ffmpeg.

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ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Not a true Harley clock. this one [deleted] is

(warning, 10MB+)

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

Good attempt to mimic vibrations, though the oscillations are too slow and the movement is horizontal instead of vertical.

My bike has a Twin-Cam 88 CUID engine with a counter-balance and therefore has minimal vibrations. It's not like the "Paint Shaker" Harleys of old...

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

racer-x wrote:

Good attempt to mimic vibrations, though the oscillations are too slow and the movement is horizontal instead of vertical.

My bike has a Twin-Cam 88 CUID engine with a counter-balance and therefore has minimal vibrations. It's not like the "Paint Shaker" Harleys of old...

On this side of the Atlantic we used to call them Dentist's Friends due to their effects on tooth fillings. Ah, a twin cam, all my engines have been that way since... 1984.

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

Twin Cam engines were around long before 1984. I hope you aren't trying to impress me, because you will fail miserably. I've already forgotten more about engines than you'll likely learn in your lifetime.

What exactly do you ride anyway?

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

racer-x wrote:

Twin Cam engines were around long before 1984.

Except for HD designers...

racer-x wrote:

I hope you aren't trying to impress me, because you will fail miserably. I've already forgotten more about engines than you'll likely learn in your lifetime.

Future tense, lifetime, me. It has been a long while since I heard these three in the same sentence

racer-x wrote:

What exactly do you ride anyway?

This

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Tue Jul 04, 2017 4:38 pm **(#7)**

I like them both.

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

Well, I've been riding for 40 years and also raced for a number of them. I also have a wall full of trophies, but who cares about that? Anyway I've owned 20 bikes through the years and I currently own 3 motorcycles. Besides my Harley, I also own https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Hayabusa and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_GSX-R1100.

I gave the old GSXR-1100 to my son when he turned 18 years old. I will likely give him the Hyabusa when that bike bites the bullet.

Tas_mania · **Joined:** Nov 04, 2015 **Posts:** 1471

I was playing around with a gif from here
https://imgur.com/r/HighQualityGifs/Te0Aaoq
and ended-up with this

Called it 'quantum entangled photons'.
BTW. Cool motorcycles racer-x.

bilbo9955 · **Joined:** Jul 11, 2010 **Posts:** 349

racer-x wrote:

My bike has a Twin-Cam 88 CUID engine with a counter-balance and therefore has minimal vibrations. It's not like the "Paint Shaker" Harleys of old...

Just an FYI, the flywheels on the old Harleys had a tendency to become unbalanced. Balancing them always eliminated the shaking.

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

Yes, Harleys use roller bearing cranks that are pressed together the flywheels and crank pin. It is easy to get the cranks un-true over time.

It is similar to the roller bearing cranks on my old dragbike Suzuki's. The remedy there was to first true the crank, then to weld the crank pins so they won't move again.