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From: Mark Olson on 4 Oct 2006 16:52 The Older Gentleman <chateau.murraySPAMKILL(a)dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > Mark Olson <olsonm(a)tiny.invalid> wrote: > > > http://www.visi.com/~olsonm/whoopsie > > That looks like it used to be a nice Wing. Overall not bad, I rode it once. It did sound as if the gearbox was going to grenade in the next five minutes and I told him as much. He claimed not to be able to hear anything unusual. -- '01 SV650S '99 EX250-F13 '98 ZG1000-A13 OMF #7
From: durtdog on 5 Oct 2006 21:01 oh the voice of the pedant, huh? "B-12" <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1159845995.288427.200950(a)k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > durtdog wrote: >> If you go a higher diameter in wheel and install a lower profile tire it >> might end up feeling the same way on the road. I really dunno never tried >> it. > > Oh. The voice of inexperience, huh? > > I've tried it all. Spent a lot of money on tires and wheels. > > The results were usually not at all what I'd expected. I need to change > my last mistaken selection to restore my Yamaha's handling to what it > was before I accepted Usenet concensus and bought a damned Bridgestone > BT-020 front tire. POS out-tracks on countersteering and shimmies and > speed weaves at freeway cruising speeds. > > The factory test riders *know* what a motorcycle should feel like. They > try various tire and wheel combinations and make recommendations. OTOH, > testers do a lot of testing on the race track, and most street riders > will never set a wheel on a track. > > Sometimes the bean counters at the factory will recommend a really > crappy tire that they can get for a nickel less per tire, and overrule > the experienced riders' recommendations. > > But, generally, if you use the original equipment tires recommended for > your machine, you'll have a motorcycle that handles just like it did > from the showroom floor. > > When you talk about"lower profile", what do you mean? Low profile car > tires have a different section height than the older E-section tires > which were as wide as the carcass was tall. > > But a low profile motorcycle tire may have a very high crown for quick > handling. Or, it may have a lower crown and the rider has to struggle > to make the motorcycle turn. > > One experienced rider I know roadraced for 20 years. He found a very > cheap Suzuki GS-450L with a 16-inch rear tire and tried to race it on > Willow Springs without changing to the 17 inch wheel that came stock on > other GS-450's. > > The 16-incher had such a large contact patch it gripped the road too > hard and the GS-450L wobled fiercely in the highspeed turns 8 and 9, > unnerving him. > > GS-450's were very popular at the time, riders could run them wide > open, flat out, at about 110 mph and humble riders of much larger > machines. > > Don't ask how I know that... >
From: B-12 on 6 Oct 2006 10:01 durtdog wrote: > oh the voice of the pedant, huh? No, if I told you to go to the dictionary and look up the definition of "pedant", and then proceeded to *debate* with you whether or not my previous posts fit that definition, *then* I would be pedantic.
From: durtdog on 7 Oct 2006 23:58
*hope* springs eternal - how refreshing in a newsgroup "B-12" <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1160143315.973330.170940(a)b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > > durtdog wrote: >> oh the voice of the pedant, huh? > > No, if I told you to go to the dictionary and look up the definition of > "pedant", and then proceeded to *debate* with you whether or not my > previous posts fit that definition, *then* I would be pedantic. > |