fastest colour???

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by Ping

That's a bit harsh... There are plenty of noobs on the site that haven't been through the required fastest colour debate... don't take it away from them...


And yes, BLACK it is.

but it has been done sooooo many times!!!

[Spiderman]

look i understand the jealousy that all you non Blues have but lets be real about this for a mo, yeh?

I was having a pint with Mr Shigonoria Najakumini a few days before i bought my bike. For those of you who dont know, he's the man who was in charge of project SV for Suzuki. He told me that in all the testing they did they found that BLUE bikes went fastest, pulled the most members of the opposite sex and we generaly the stud muffin-iest bikes out there. Especialy the naked ones.

So i bought a blue naked and since then its been a blur of light speed commutes and beating women off with a mucky stick.

As a wise man once said..... FACT!

Originally Posted by dirtydog

but it has been done sooooo many times!!!

And it'll more than likely continue to be done many more times because it is one of the fun debates that all new bikers inevitably get drawn into. Accept it, move on....

Everyone knows the metallic red of the K5S is the quickest, those who couldn't get one ended up with black or blue of the pointy version.

[Viney]

The futures fast...the futures Blue and Orange

[Stu]

Funniest thread I've read in a while. Thanks DD for giving it your support!

Me, I'm smashing up one panel at a time, changing it's colour and finding out the results!!

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by Ping

And it'll more than likely continue to be done many more times because it is one of the fun debates that all new bikers inevitably get drawn into. Accept it, move on....

Ok Ok carry on

[anna]

BLUE

Strange how no-one has mentioned the silver/metallic grey or bronze/metallic brown yet?

Still, I say yellow (but sadly not with me riding it though).

Originally Posted by Scoobs

Light travels the same speed through a vacuum at all wavelengths, but when we send the light through something other than a vacuum, like glass we see that light bends/slows, this is seen through Snell’s law below

n1*sin(theta1) = n2*sin(theta2)

the part in the equation n1 & n2 are called the index of refraction, it is the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum divided by the speed of light in that substance, so an index of refraction of 1 means that you are in a vacuum b/c the speed of light travels the same speed it would in a vacuum. But if you send light through water, water has an index of refraction and light slows down. The process of light slowing down bends the angle at which the direct ray of light travels, so the MORE light slows down the MORE it bends, now say you have a drop of water suspended in a vacuum above your head, white light (which is composed of all frequencies of visible light) hits this clear drop of water and is slowed down and bends, but the different frequencies of light that compose the white light bend different amounts (this amount is small but visible from a distance) the lower frequency light is less affected by the drop of water as it has a longer wavelength and oscillates a lesser amount of times through the distance of the water drop, the higher frequency light oscillates many times through the same water drop and is slowed down more because of it so it bends more. This process is called diffraction and causes the spectrum of colours in white light to diffract when sent through matter. The blue light (higher frequency) is bent more and the red light is bend less and through this distance of bending is a gradient of light that we call a rainbow.

So to answer your question, the speed of light is the same for all frequencies in a vacuum BUT when you send light through matter is slows down a certain amount, red light (lower frequency) travels faster than blue light (higher frequency).

The lower frequencies are affected less by travelling through matter, this is why infrared light is used in fibre optics as opposed to ultraviolet or visible light.

Glad I got a RED bike

This link also explains it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift

But I'd like to say, WHICH IS THE NICEST COLOUR!?