What's with all the flat fueling spots on the new bikes? - Page 3

 
No thanks...two words. Spark Plugs. Well that and it is USELESS on any
road I'd care to drive agressively. Recall in my younger days I'd
pitch a 77' GranLemans into 90deg corners with an entry of 80+. 8^)
Rarely off the apex by more than a foot and that depended on the
corner, many had enough weeds as to be blind. Dirt roads are FUN,
especially when the dirt keeps changing.

 

The Dookes of Hazard ride again:)

--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 
Those slow pokes? That POS cop car would have eaten a 69' Charger on
any dirt road you care to play on...hell I never even hopped up the
engine, just the suspension and steering.
hmmph...I've beat more than a few hot cars in that heap. Rules were
simple, they stayed on blacktop with no shortcuts on dirt and I stayed
on dirt with no asphalt short cuts..

To qoute minnesota fats "Never play the other mans game" 8^) Front
wheels would kick over further than a sprint car, almost 90deg to the
body.

 Beav wrote:


Huh?  I think not.  Proof?

 dizzy wrote:

Proof of what, that the horsepower ratings of American cars plummeted when
the Clean Air Act went through?  I doubt you'll find a Web site with
evidence going back that far, but find a library with a collection of car
magazines going back into the late '60s and you should be able to find the
information right quick.  Part of it was a paper change, going from the SAE
gross method to the SAE net method, which used a different procedure for
measuring horsepoer, but part of it was the lean carburetion, heavily
retarded timing, and reduction in compression ratio all of which went with
the new emissions laws.