Analyzing Color Speed
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RE: Analyzing Color Speed
This must be true, cause HAWKING ROCKS!
I wonder if the red tint in my black paint helps even more due to the red shift?
Stephen... are you logged in?
I wonder if the red tint in my black paint helps even more due to the red shift?
Stephen... are you logged in?
ORIGINAL: kiltiemon
Since lighter colors reflect more light, the photons reflecting on the forward edge of a moving motorcycle must bounce forward, impacting with the light energy already ahead of the bike. This creates a energy density through which the bike must travel...
Therefore, since the black bike does NOT reflect so much light energy, it has a less dense photon field through which to pass, and therefore is faster!!!
At least this is what Stephen Hawking said when asked about his black wheel chair!!!
Jim aka kiltiemon
Since lighter colors reflect more light, the photons reflecting on the forward edge of a moving motorcycle must bounce forward, impacting with the light energy already ahead of the bike. This creates a energy density through which the bike must travel...
Therefore, since the black bike does NOT reflect so much light energy, it has a less dense photon field through which to pass, and therefore is faster!!!
At least this is what Stephen Hawking said when asked about his black wheel chair!!!
Jim aka kiltiemon
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RE: Analyzing Color Speed
yikes!!!........i didn't realize how fundamental the color actually was........i just believed my dealer when he told me black was faster.................and he never lies........
bolt
bolt
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RE: Analyzing Color Speed
I googled fastest motorcycle colors and it seems people in one of the google groups may have the answer. Long read but very amusing.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.m...88df0797c87984
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.m...88df0797c87984
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It is proven that the absence of color is faster than the presence of color. The problem is the void created by the absence has to be filled up with something.
Therefor it naturally absorbs the weight of color with none of the pigments. You have to have a protective layer over your black to make it work.
A DIRTY vivid black bike is the fastest. Clean vivid black is in second. Denim black is actually slower than some of the other darker colors for it's lack of protection. Black Cherry for example schools denim black, but falls short to any vivid black (clean or dirty).
Therefor it naturally absorbs the weight of color with none of the pigments. You have to have a protective layer over your black to make it work.
A DIRTY vivid black bike is the fastest. Clean vivid black is in second. Denim black is actually slower than some of the other darker colors for it's lack of protection. Black Cherry for example schools denim black, but falls short to any vivid black (clean or dirty).
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RE: Analyzing Color Speed
The answer is 3...........wait, that's the Tootsie Pop thing.
Nevermind
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RE: Analyzing Color Speed
ORIGINAL: Biggol
It is proven that the absence of color is faster than the presence of color. The problem is the void created by the absence has to be filled up with something.
Therefor it naturally absorbs the weight of color with none of the pigments. You have to have a protective layer over your black to make it work.
A DIRTY vivid black bike is the fastest. Clean vivid black is in second. Denim black is actually slower than some of the other darker colors for it's lack of protection. Black Cherry for example schools denim black, but falls short to any vivid black (clean or dirty).
It is proven that the absence of color is faster than the presence of color. The problem is the void created by the absence has to be filled up with something.
Therefor it naturally absorbs the weight of color with none of the pigments. You have to have a protective layer over your black to make it work.
A DIRTY vivid black bike is the fastest. Clean vivid black is in second. Denim black is actually slower than some of the other darker colors for it's lack of protection. Black Cherry for example schools denim black, but falls short to any vivid black (clean or dirty).
Lots of protected, absense of color Its gotta be the fastest black of them all! Ha ha
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RE: Analyzing Color Speed
Lets get to the important question. What exactly do you do for a living CW, that you had time to sit around and ponder this and even more importantly....how do I get a job there?
BTW...yep, Blacks faster
BTW...yep, Blacks faster