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Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials => Bville Motorcycle Speed Trials General Chat => Topic started by: fjlee on August 25, 2010, 04:03:44 PM
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I sometimes see the phrase "sit-on bike"............
In LSR vernacular, exactly what does that mean?
"Sit-on" as opposed to what?
((Friday morn August 27th I leave Denver CO, bound for BUB 2010!!))
Thanks, folks...... FjLee Denver CO
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as opposed to liner.
See; ez hook, bub7, vincent liner, etc...
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My take on it is that a sit-ON bike is just that, a bike (2 wheel motorcycle) that you throw a leg over and sit ON. Usual traditional motorcycle.
A sit-IN bike would be a motorcycle streamliner in which you get strapped inside the full streamlining but are still a motorcycle running on 2 wheels.
Debbie
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I agree with you Deb.
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Ok....Thank you for the response.
I suppose like anything else, there are always slight variations.......
I remember last year at BUB, there was this guy that had what I would call a "recumbent m/c"......he sat flat on his butt, legs directly out in front of himself, with the engine directly behind his back. 'busa engine, I think......
The whole package was wrapped in a tubular "cage"........
Anyway......he dumped it at approx 150 mph, salt flew, but he wound up unscathed.......and the m/c just had lottsa abrasion....... the bike did NOT have a chute.........
I talked to him afterwards.....he said his main sensation during the violence was seeing his "check engine" light come ON......!! I thought that was real good humor.
FjLee Denver CO Bound for BUB 2010
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That is the Vision One team. that bike is considered a streamliner since you cannot see the entire riders body from the side when he is in/on it.