Hondas VFR launched yesterday
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From: Beav on 15 Feb 2010 11:01 "Champ" <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote in message news:3r6in5lij5kbr0l1j5luf83rljp0t9v1pk(a)4ax.com... > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:46:18 +0000, Andy Bonwick > <nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote: > >>On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:12:27 -0000, "Beav" >><beavis.original(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote: >> >>snip> >> >>>So what about traction control? Want it, or not? >> >>I'd give traction control a go because it's an aid to going faster (1) >>whereas ABS and linked brakes aren't. > > Might also be useful in hotel car parks :-) But it'd stop rolling burnouts and that's got to be a bad thing shirley? Not for me mind. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
From: Beav on 15 Feb 2010 11:02 "Ace" <b.rogers(a)ifrance.com> wrote in message news:qjshn5tobe6l9icdmp1caiqrha5rudfo29(a)4ax.com... > On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:38:08 +0000, Andy Bonwick > <nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote: > >>On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:31:28 +0000, Salad Dodger >><salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote: >> >>>On 14 Feb 2010 13:16:25 GMT, "Lozzo" <lozzo(a)lozzo.org.uk> wrote: >>> >>><ABS> >>>>I'm not so >>>>sure I'd want it on a supersports bike though - I don't know why, but >>>>it just seems wrong. > > I'd have agreed with you up until about three and a bit years ago. > Restrospectively, I see that it could have saved me a lot of pain. > >>>Yet the two "best" supersports bikes both have ABS. >> >>Name and shame. >> >>It's probably just me but I really don't see the benefit on a sports >>bike. I *like* being able to do stoppies. > > I used to, but then all of a sudden I didn't. Heh. I can well imagine. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
From: Pip on 15 Feb 2010 12:08 Lozzo wrote: > Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote: > > > Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo > > <lozzo(a)lozzo.org.uk> typed > > > Beav wrote: > > > > > > > So what about traction control? Want it, or not? > > > > > > I'd have to try it first and see how I get on with it. > > > > Talk to that nice Mr Pip, with special reference to the Pahnd Island > > ferry. > > I have a form of traction control on the Versys as standard. In the > great tradition of Japanese motorcycling acronyms it's called CLoP[1]. > There's no way it'll spin up on anything but the greasiest of > surfaces. > > [1] Chronic Lack of Power OTOH, getting a loaded Pan up the seawater-wet ramp on to the ferry, then being marshalled to a halt half-way up the fucker really tests the nerves. Especially when the bike is borrowed and you've little experience of riding it - and you've never ridden a bike onto a ferry before, but have had 'interesting' experiences undertaking similar manoeuvres in cars. Getting the top-heavy (or so it felt to me) heavy old beast off the mark again was ... challenging, even with toes down both sides - but once the blessed orange lamp of auto-grip-enhancement started to glow, forward progress just sort of happened, in defiance of the laws of physics and Sod combined. I really don't think I'd have got it going under manual control. -- Pip: B12
From: Mark Olson on 15 Feb 2010 12:28 Beav wrote: > I'm not sure exactly how they work so I could be completely wrong, but I > thought the lever gave you full front with added rear, while the rear pedal > gave you all the rear with added font. > > At least on the ones made these days. Wrong. It varies. My FJR operates solely the front on the front lever. The rear under gentle pressure only operates the rear, under more pressure, the rear caliper + two pistons of one front caliper.
From: JackH on 15 Feb 2010 12:29
On Feb 15, 4:01 pm, "Beav" <beavis.origi...(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote: > "Champ" <n...(a)champ.org.uk> wrote in message > > news:3r6in5lij5kbr0l1j5luf83rljp0t9v1pk(a)4ax.com... > > > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:46:18 +0000, Andy Bonwick > > <nos...(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote: > > >>On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:12:27 -0000, "Beav" > >><beavis.origi...(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote: > > >>snip> > > >>>So what about traction control? Want it, or not? > > >>I'd give traction control a go because it's an aid to going faster (1) > >>whereas ABS and linked brakes aren't. > > > Might also be useful in hotel car parks :-) > > But it'd stop rolling burnouts... Only if there's no button on the offending vehicle to switch it off... which is what the Pan had, IIRC. -- JackH |