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From: Mike W. on 8 Mar 2007 01:58 On 5 Mar 2007 07:19:31 -0800, "Potage St. Germaine" <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On Mar 3, 9:11?am, Mike W. <outof...(a)emailbiz.com> wrote: > >> I'm presently looking for a "practice bike" to use for both drilling and >> teaching police motor handling skills. I want to put an oil cooler on this, >> possibly with a thermostatically activated fan. These drills are hard on >> the engine/clutch and almost all occur at low speeds. > >One other point that I neglected to mention is that lean fuel/air >mixture madated by the EPA to reduce air pollution and allow imported >motorcycles to pass emissions tests cause the engines to run hot. > >Opening the idle mixture screws 1/8th or 1/4th of a turn really helps >keep an engine cool in traffic on hot summer days. Thanks yet again. This one I was aware of but your explanation is the best I've seen. I'm assuming you're a former KZ owner... no? Mike -- Mike W. 96 XR400 99 KZ1000P 70 CT70 71 KG 100 (Hodaka-powered)
From: Wudsracer on 8 Mar 2007 02:34 >On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:54:55 -0500, Mike W. <outofthe(a)emailbiz.com> wrote: >On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:53:46 -0600, Wudsracer ><dirtbike_smackoverRemove(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >>Damn it is good to see a post from you, Mike. > >HEY CARL!:) Awful nice to hear from you again too! My email crew seems to >have grown tired of me too.... today actually. An insurrection lead by >Asswipe. And after all I've done for him. So you'll have to give me a shout >by voice sometime when my cell phone is fully charged so we can catch up >for real. > > >>Your post makes perfect sense. (I can see where you are coming from) > >If only Levy could have seen things as you do during "my career":) > >> >>Wudi Ride starts this evening(tomorrow morning). I wish you were >>here. >>jeb's Wudi9 web page: http://members.cox.net/jejb/Wudi9/wudi9.html >>All the scoop on Wudi9 Winter Fun Ride: >>http://www.smackovermotorsports.com/bb/forumdisplay.php?f=7 > >COOL! Ride safe and have fun. I'll get out to the Wudi sometime. I'm >looking for a trials bike and another KZP at the moment, but am committed >to spending much much more time on my XR this year. It'll have to be a new >riding area, but that's my plan. > >Please say hello to Deb for me... take care Jim! > >Mike > >> >>Toodlelooo! I'm off to the Ozark Mtns for a ride. >> >>Jim >> Mike, This place (Brock Creek) is trials bike heaven. I even have a Dunlop trials tire mounted on the rear of my GasGas EC300 for this ride. Come down this way anytime. Give me some warning and I'll take some time off and show you some of my riding places (and my sling blade). <G> Ride safe, Bro. Wudsracer/Jim Cook Smackover Racing '06 Gas Gas DE300 '82 Husqvarna XC250 Team LAGNAF
From: Captain Midnight on 8 Mar 2007 04:04 "Mike W." <outofthe(a)emailbiz.com> wrote in message news:knbvu2l4gdvevdkroucuga82ugfes8t7jo(a)4ax.com... > On 5 Mar 2007 12:20:25 -0800, "Potage St. Germaine" > <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > >The rims were called "clencher" rims and Goodyear made the special > >tires, as I recall. > > The KZP run flats were made by Pirelli actually. Instructors are quick to > point out that "run flat" is an inaccurate term and that the proper one is > bead retention. > Some time in the early eighties I had a set of Goodyears on a GS1100. They had some sort of double lip bead retention system on the tire only. No special rim required. Can't recall the name but clencher doesn't seem right. Long time ago. I do remember highlighting the lettering with a paint stick. By the time the tires were replaced RWL was common. Tossed the stick. Turns out they were GT2.
From: Potage St. Germaine on 8 Mar 2007 22:04 On Mar 7, 10:58?pm, Mike W. <outof...(a)emailbiz.com> wrote: > Thanks yet again. This one I was aware of but your explanation is the best > I've seen. I'm assuming you're a former KZ owner... no? I never owned one, but my friends would often show up on old California Highway Patrol or Los Angeles Police Department KZP's that they had bought at auction, and I would get a chance to ride one. Another guy bought a new one for funeral escort use. Last time I looked they were certainly the cheapest 1000cc machine. One of my friends works as a car and motorcycle mechanic at Foothill Division and we would talk about the problems the officers had with chains that only lasted 4000 miles when used for pursuit, etc. While I was thinking about your oil cooler installation, another thing that occurred to me was whether a heavy duty oil pump is available, or if there were aftermarket oil pump drive gears like Vance & Hines sold for Suzukis. Installing the V&H oil pump gears doubled my GS-1100's oil pressure.
From: The Older Gentleman on 9 Mar 2007 14:33
Potage St. Germaine <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Installing the V&H oil pump gears doubled my GS-1100's oil pressure. Low pressure system anyway, of course. Nobody ever said the old Z was a weak engine, so I really wouldn't bother. -- BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 Z650 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3 BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells..... |