Comments on: Building the Ultimate Racer - Part I http://www.rideontwo.com/news/building-the-ultimate-racer/ Ride on Two Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:07:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Building the Ultimate Racer - Part I by: heitikender http://www.rideontwo.com/news/building-the-ultimate-racer/#comment-273 Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:48:23 +0000 http://www.rideontwo.com/news/building-the-ultimate-racer/#comment-273 There is a huge difference in moving muscle with reaction and moving it by thought. Try take your hand away from heat in a slow, controlled motion :). What I meant with shutting down reactions, was shutting down reactive, forceful muscle movements. To make way to smooth, controlled mucle movements. With neuro impulses doing 100m/s we already in a nice speed. The problem is in brain that can compute only that fast. Rising neurochemical reactions doesn't help. Rising the number of neurons doesn't help much either. We have to dig to microtubulas level and make them collapse their quantum state faster. On Part II. There is a huge difference in moving muscle with reaction and moving it by thought. Try take your hand away from heat in a slow, controlled motion :) .
What I meant with shutting down reactions, was shutting down reactive, forceful muscle movements. To make way to smooth, controlled mucle movements.
With neuro impulses doing 100m/s we already in a nice speed. The problem is in brain that can compute only that fast. Rising neurochemical reactions doesn’t help. Rising the number of neurons doesn’t help much either. We have to dig to microtubulas level and make them collapse their quantum state faster. On Part II.

]]> Comment on Building the Ultimate Racer - Part I by: FZ1Bob http://www.rideontwo.com/news/building-the-ultimate-racer/#comment-272 Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:29:32 +0000 http://www.rideontwo.com/news/building-the-ultimate-racer/#comment-272 Interesting & fun read. Sort of a six million dollar racer, I take it? Of course we'd have to adjust for inflation. How much is $6,000,000 in 1970's money worth nowadays? Kidding aside, if someone were to do these things, how would it be different than say, steroids? Don't we want to see athletes that are naturally gifted and therefore so much better at the sport than we could ever be, rather than watch an artificially enhanced version? Now, the idea of having the motorcycle "smart" and maybe even wired into the rider might be a different story. Same way that F1 is supposedly the pinnacle of automotive technology (not true anymore) and how that technology can be applied to racing, there could be a series with "smart" motorcycles. Might be a tad expensive, though. (BTW, I didn't know that about Tiger Woods and I think it's cheating just as much as steroids, even though I did the LASIK thing myself a few years ago and have been enjoying my slightly better than average vision ever since...) Interesting & fun read. Sort of a six million dollar racer, I take it? Of course we’d have to adjust for inflation. How much is $6,000,000 in 1970’s money worth nowadays?

Kidding aside, if someone were to do these things, how would it be different than say, steroids? Don’t we want to see athletes that are naturally gifted and therefore so much better at the sport than we could ever be, rather than watch an artificially enhanced version?

Now, the idea of having the motorcycle “smart” and maybe even wired into the rider might be a different story. Same way that F1 is supposedly the pinnacle of automotive technology (not true anymore) and how that technology can be applied to racing, there could be a series with “smart” motorcycles. Might be a tad expensive, though.

(BTW, I didn’t know that about Tiger Woods and I think it’s cheating just as much as steroids, even though I did the LASIK thing myself a few years ago and have been enjoying my slightly better than average vision ever since…)

]]> Comment on Building the Ultimate Racer - Part I by: Popmonkey http://www.rideontwo.com/news/building-the-ultimate-racer/#comment-271 Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:02:26 +0000 http://www.rideontwo.com/news/building-the-ultimate-racer/#comment-271 very cool article i think when it comes to reflexes, however, you don't want to shut those off. what you want is to RELEARN reflexes as they apply to the motorcycle. relexes are absolutely necessary at the speed at which things happen in motorcycle racing. rossi somehow hanging onto the bike in donington is a perfect example of the RIGHT reflexes; it may explain why he crashes so rarely. the best example of someone who does the WRONG thing is Alex Hoffman during a QP session, i believe mid season last year. the bike goes into a wobble and he tightens up, gets thrown from the bike and then the bike straightens out and goes on it's merry way. i guess with some riders it's 100% bike, 0% rider >:) one thing i would add to your building recipe is faster synapse responses both leading into the spinal column and in the brain. in this way the information that's crucial to decision making is delivered much faster, processed faster, and acted on more correctly as a result. there's a great science fiction story called, i believe, the Blue Max, in which future pilots get injected with some sort of synthetic adrenaline direvative for a few seconds during actual arial combat (which happens so quickly it's usually over in a few seconds). very cool article

i think when it comes to reflexes, however, you don’t want to shut those off. what you want is to RELEARN reflexes as they apply to the motorcycle.

relexes are absolutely necessary at the speed at which things happen in motorcycle racing.

rossi somehow hanging onto the bike in donington is a perfect example of the RIGHT reflexes; it may explain why he crashes so rarely.

the best example of someone who does the WRONG thing is Alex Hoffman during a QP session, i believe mid season last year. the bike goes into a wobble and he tightens up, gets thrown from the bike and then the bike straightens out and goes on it’s merry way. i guess with some riders it’s 100% bike, 0% rider >:)

one thing i would add to your building recipe is faster synapse responses both leading into the spinal column and in the brain. in this way the information that’s crucial to decision making is delivered much faster, processed faster, and acted on more correctly as a result.

there’s a great science fiction story called, i believe, the Blue Max, in which future pilots get injected with some sort of synthetic adrenaline direvative for a few seconds during actual arial combat (which happens so quickly it’s usually over in a few seconds).

]]> Comment on Building the Ultimate Racer - Part I by: Jim Race http://www.rideontwo.com/news/building-the-ultimate-racer/#comment-270 Sun, 14 Aug 2005 05:04:29 +0000 http://www.rideontwo.com/news/building-the-ultimate-racer/#comment-270 There have been some full-page ads in the last few editions of <a href="http://www.cyclenews.com">CycleNews</a> showing both Jake Zemke and Miguel DuHamel as semi-augmented humans. Jake with a CBR1k frame as the backplate, Miguel with legs as a swingarm, and the knee as a rear disc. I couldn't help but seeing those in my mind as I read this. A great example of thinking <b>WAY</b> outside of the box. This will likely take a few days to digest, and another few to start making fun of you about it. ;) -jim There have been some full-page ads in the last few editions of CycleNews showing both Jake Zemke and Miguel DuHamel as semi-augmented humans. Jake with a CBR1k frame as the backplate, Miguel with legs as a swingarm, and the knee as a rear disc. I couldn’t help but seeing those in my mind as I read this.

A great example of thinking WAY outside of the box. This will likely take a few days to digest, and another few to start making fun of you about it. ;)

-jim

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