Motorcycle Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / April 2008

Bloody great clouds hanging over precisely where we're going, on
Friday.
Some things never change. Just for once, I'd like a French Run in the
sunshine, on dry roads.

Oh come on boys it's totally YOU
http://www.catalyst-findit.co.uk/index.php?c=e163fc38dacea8e76f3d25351e512918&de
st=details&id=24846

What do you call it if the engine starts surging or bucking when you
ride along at a constant, lowish engine speed? Like the four valve
flat twin beemers used to do for a few years? Is that surging?
regards

Can any of you suggest some decent research methods / stats type books for
this sort of thing?

I have a carb that seems to have had fuel evaporating in /
throughout  it for some considerable time and needs a good
clean-out - I imagine it has lacquer or similar in the jets and
casting passageways.. it won't run above idle, sounding like fuel

New type of engine valvgear...
http://www.coatesengine.com/technology.html
And in a bike:
http://www.coatesengine.com/motorcycle.html

This here database what I'm working on has a table with comment fields.
One of them reads:
"Cum orders contain WIP values."
would Mr Carley care to comment?

It's really heavy on fuel ~ 35 mpg on a 80-90 mph motorway run (should be
45mpg).  It also 'hunts' slightly sat at 6-7K rpm but its quite feint.
Its maximum speed is 125mph and feels wooly sub 5K (with the 3K step due
to the f.cking Motad) but idles well enough.

Eeee, who'd have thought I'd end up shacked up with an 18 year old at my
age, eh?
Now I'm going to have a nice bit of liver for me tea, put on my outdoor
slippers and go and potter in the shed, where at least I can light up my

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7374846.stm
"Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug
LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel at the age of 102"
So it prolongs life as well as giving a rather good time.

Whoever is dancing, would they please stop it!

... reckons it can hold 52 litres.
I shall be visiting a frog grog shop at the weekend to verify the claim.

Trip somewhere?
General hoon?
Beer?
Sightseeing?

Done a rough estimate of parts alone and the damage adds up to a tad under
1500 quid (standard silencers over 650 quid! .. and yes I like the standard
one)
Called the tyre place this morning and spoke to the boss, he was really nice

Never done a bike trip abroad before, any tips as what I need to take that
I'm likely to overlook?
Any tips will be gratefully received (well, the sensible ones will)