Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater
Sun, 04 Feb 2007
So, take a look at this:
![[Ian riding a
CB400... Or is it?]](/reaper/journal/images/tt1-md.jpg)
Pretty neat, really. If you ignore the text in the corner, you could almost believe that's a real person riding a real motorcycle.
What it actually shows is a collection of pixels generated by my PS2 as I played Tourist Trophy, which is the best motorcycle videogame I've ever tried. That's "me" riding a Honda CB400SS, which may or may not be a real bike. Available evidence suggests that it's not real, but I'd love to be proven wrong on that one. Whether or not it's real, it's very cool. I was riding on TT's representation of the Infineon Raceway.
I actually saved a whole slew of pictures like this, just to see how it'd work. They're all of roughly the same quality -- a little bit too perfect, but close enough to reality that you have to look twice to make sure. I'm fairly impressed.
So yeah, TT is a neat game. It's still plainly a video game (for instance: you can grab your brakes full-force while leaned over as far as possible -- in reality, this would immediately dump you on the ground, but in the game, it tightens up your line nicely), but it's the closest to reality I've found yet.
Of course, now I'm afraid that it's training up a bunch of young potential motorcyclists who are going to think it's just hunky-dorey to grab a handful of brakes to tighten up their line through a corner. That group is in for a few hard lessons if common sense doesn't take over quickly.
Posted at 21:44 permanent link category: /motorcycle
There's apparently a new record shop opening up in Greenwood (a neighborhood of Seattle).
A Golden Shower of Hits
I could not make this up if I tried.
Posted at 14:21 permanent link category: /misc
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater