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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago

It's not decorating. This is a 215SF studio in Brooklyn - that's the "parking included" feature of the listing. And he's paying an extra $1200 a month for the privilege.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I definitely wouldn't feel like it's going to fall on me. Not at all.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

You sound just like his ex!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m scared for the cat. He deserves whatever happens but the cat doesn’t.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you know the cat didn't hang the bike?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Lack of opposable thumbs. Plus he prefers Kawasaki bikes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Command hooks never fail!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

The legendary superbike of Damocles.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Anyone willing to do this cannot have the intelligence to secure it properly.

Feel for the small animal on the couch looking back at it worryingly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The cat's looking forward FWIW

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like a dog looking back

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, hanging up something weighing 2000 lbs over my couch is how I achieve relaxation and bliss.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's more like the weight of a small car. The motorcycle probably weighs in the ballpark of 400-500 lbs.

Still far too much weight to hang from the (assuming) 2x4 wall studs behind the drywall there. Also probably quite a hassle to get down when you need to ride it and when you come back home to re-mount it on the wall.

[–] Kecessa 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tons of old Ducati super sport motorcycles end up as decorations that will never touch the street or track ever again because maintaining them makes no sense...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wonder if it’s mostly been gutted and is literally just decoration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah if you manage to get it hanging safely, how will it ever be anything else than decoration? It's not a 20 lbs racing bike.

For it to be usable you would need some mechanism to raise and lower it, and then the decoration aspect will go.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

It's a Ducati 912, it weighs 429lbs and that's on the heavy side of sport bikes.

Even the Boss Hoss which has a V8 from a Corvette is only 1100lbs.

[–] TheMightyCanuck 8 points 1 year ago

Lmao 429lbs dry but close enough 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was scared about my projector dropping on my head, having a whole ass motorcycle there would put me off sitting on my couch entirely lmao

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You got to have some admiration for whoever screwed in the bolts that hold the bike up.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is how thoughts and prayers is supposed to work.

Now, let's see how this plays out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now, let's see how this prays out

FIFY

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Holy shit that's genius. The coffee has been giggle dribbled down my chin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I first thought this must be a real to scale plastic model, but it looks real.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

That's a Darwin Award waiting to happen !

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Does he take it off the wall every morning to go to work

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now the entire apartment smells like oil, gas and other carcinogenic chemicals.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They're not called aromatics for nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

As a gearhead myself, sounds good to me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

totk zelda players be like:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

If it had Pamela Anderson painted on the side I would believe this is Jason Mendoza's bud hole.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 5 points 1 year ago

Wtf is it with lemmy users and taking things completely literal?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I like how the wheels spin when it’s mounted in the wall. Gotta go fast

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But can you ride it though?

[–] Kecessa 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even if it wasn't on the wall, seeing how it's an old Ducati, no.

Edit for those who don't know: Maintenance on old Ducati, especially sports bikes with desmo engines, is a total pain in the ass and is so expensive that it just doesn't make sense to ride the bikes. Thousands of dollars every 10k km kind of expensive...