Will this make me go faster?

Clever Pun
Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
edited April 2008 in The bottom bracket
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Well my leg is shaved a bit
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  • MrKawamura
    MrKawamura Posts: 192
    That's awesome. Definitely, you will go faster with stripe/wing combo like that!
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Are you trying to get a Rock Racing contract?
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    redddraggon wrote:
    Are you trying to get a Rock Racing contract?

    what am I missing? would they give me money? I like money
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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,094
    Nice one! Where did you get the idea? Must have been painful on the shinbones!
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Heavymental wrote:
    Nice one! Where did you get the idea? Must have been painful on the shinbones!

    I had the idea for the outline for a while and basically let Xed work his magic, the pattern is the flower of life (lots and lots of circles) he suggested that

    yes you're right it hurt a fair bit... the ankle and foot was pretty damned painful.. beer helped
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  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    You mad, crazy b*stard! That looks fantastic, massive respect!! 8)
  • shazzz
    shazzz Posts: 1,077
    Was this an extravagant excuse to shave your legs?
  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,094
    What do you mean by the circles...the ones formed by the petals or are there smaller details you can't see in the pic? Looks great though...where did you get it done?
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Heavymental wrote:
    What do you mean by the circles...the ones formed by the petals or are there smaller details you can't see in the pic? Looks great though...where did you get it done?

    this might help with the circle/flower thing

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_of_life lots of overlapping circles make the 'flower'

    Into you http://www.into-you.co.uk Xed is the guy who did that, he did one of my arms too. Very good artist


    Chrisnoir I've got a full back piece and two 1/2 sleeves and a traditionally done (stick and bones) maori piece on my thigh... it's just a place I hadn't got to yet :lol:

    Shazz I really don't like my leg shaved, it confuses and scares me, but at least I've tried it I guess
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  • on the road
    on the road Posts: 5,631
    Go faster stripes? :wink:
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    Did they come with a go faster guarantee????

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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,094
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Heavymental wrote:
    What do you mean by the circles...the ones formed by the petals or are there smaller details you can't see in the pic? Looks great though...where did you get it done?

    this might help with the circle/flower thing

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_of_life lots of overlapping circles make the 'flower'

    I see. Cor, thats clever isn't it. Aren't patterns interesting once you start reading all about them.
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    They're OK, but for real speed, you need go faster stripes on your face too:

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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    cool but that's losing my job right there...
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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    edited April 2008
    Clever Pun wrote:
    cool but that's losing my job right there...
    It's a picture of David Clinger - he was racing for a small US team called Webcor when he first got this whole face maori tattoo done. He was given the ultimatum to lose it or his job. I thought I'd read that he'd undergone laser surgery to have it removed, but not by the looks of it.

    He now rides for Rock Racing where ink is the order of the day - even their podium girls have them.
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  • Jeff Jones
    Jeff Jones Posts: 1,865
    I think the original was more ornate and he got half of it removed.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Bronzie wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    cool but that's losing my job right there...
    It's a picture of David Clinger - he was racing for a small US team called Webcor when he first got this whole face maori tattoo done. He was given the ultimatum to lose it or his job. I thought I'd read that he'd undergone laser surgery to have it removed, but not by the looks of it.

    He now rides for Rock Racing where ink is the order of the day - even their podium girls have them.

    ah I get the earlier link now... heh heh, why only get some of it removed? it's still a face tattoo

    A real proper traditional tattoo maori style invloved carving into the skin as well... all very interesting and freaking scary

    I got a traditional one done... hurt like hell
    with these
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    and a lot of this
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    this happened....
    WARNING you can see the side of my butt cheek :lol: it's worksafe and all that, just, well you know.
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/clever_pun/Ink/TattoowithBruising.jpg
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  • Ieuanllan
    Ieuanllan Posts: 152
    Whether it makes you faster or not, I think I'd be so scared I'd drop back!
  • Pirahna
    Pirahna Posts: 1,315
    What happens if you get fed up with it?
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Pirahna wrote:
    What happens if you get fed up with it?

    It doesn't work like that...
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    edited April 2008
    I'm sure you'll think you're going faster.
    I know when I put cards in my spokes I go faster.

    (It's a joke.)
  • richardjallen
    richardjallen Posts: 691
    Get your legs tattooed to look like the weave of high modulus carbon fibre.
  • BigStu2
    BigStu2 Posts: 794
    A carbon fiber leg... Awesome!!!!!
    One little scratch and the thing snaps off. :cry:
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  • Red Rock
    Red Rock Posts: 517
    bikers46 wrote:
    I'm sure you'll think you're going faster.
    I know when I put cards in my spokes I go faster.

    (It's a joke.)

    :lol: That took me back about 40 years.
  • SteveR_100Milers
    SteveR_100Milers Posts: 5,987
    richardjallen wrote:
    Get your legs tattooed to look like the weave of high modulus carbon fibre.

    :D
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  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    Maybe even faster if you had a carbon weave pattern included.

    These thing s are only good for hiding the needle marks - the rest is up to your ego.
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  • gavintc
    gavintc Posts: 3,009
    I think it looks cheap, but you don't want to hear that.
  • Mark Alexander
    Mark Alexander Posts: 2,277
    Never been a fan of tattoos me...
    But mate, that's inspired 8) go faster stripes.. 8)
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    gavintc wrote:
    I think it looks cheap, but you don't want to hear that.

    you've got an opinion, I can certainly say it wasn't cheap in any sense of the word, unless you compare it to say... a car. I think there was 7 hours work to do that... £80ph..

    But if I really took to heart what everyone thought i'd have never got any done, my tattoos are for me if you see what I mean

    I'm going to have the summer off getting inked and then maybe do the other shin or the back of the calf or my other thigh.. or my chest

    oh dear :lol:
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  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    Clever Pun wrote:
    I'm going to have the summer off getting inked and then maybe do the other shin or the back of the calf or my other thigh.. or my chest

    oh dear :lol:

    I remember when I got my leg tattoo (three Chinese symbols - but this was, like, waaay before everyone else was doing it, ahem...) the bloke in there told me that when he had his first one done he just knew he'd be back for more so defined himself certain boundaries, nothing below the elbows for example or on the neck. He then dolefully admitted that this idea soon got binned and the only parts that weren't inked were his hands and face...

    Oddly addictive!

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