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I have a mate who's missus runs a LAMS gladius. It started life as a white bike with blue highlights, she found a blue bike with white highlights to pull parts off and now has an entirely blue bike. Also taking off the side pods and throwing them in the bin, and taking off the headlight and throwing it in the bin, and replacing the horrific tail situation with a tail tidy makes them look like a totally normal, tidy 00's bike. When I see her from a distance I routinely mistake it for an mt03 or ER6. I would not take a gladius over a second gen SV, but I would 100% take a gladius over a first gen SV - objectively superior in every way, equally ugly.
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It’s a good bike with a shamefully terrible marketing push behind it
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Mar 3, 2021 02:08
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Slavvy posted:I have a mate who's missus runs a LAMS gladius. It started life as a white bike with blue highlights, she found a blue bike with white highlights to pull parts off and now has an entirely blue bike.
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Mar 3, 2021 04:01
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Also it's anecdotal but I feel the seat is considerably less torturous than any of the other SV's.Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Hey off topic, have you ever worked on any turbo bikes? We're about to get a Seca Turbo donated to us, and assuming it's not completely fried which it probably is completely fried actually, I'm wondering how fixable they may be if they've been neglected and sitting around. I'm assuming "not very" fixable but I'm fascinated by the idea of pressurized sealed carburetors and poo poo. Also have it in the back of my mind that it could be set up for vintage racing, but it would have to be sleeved down to under 600cc or something which would suck. I've worked on a few, but sadly never one of the glorious factory turbo bikes. I have seen a guy take apart and work on a CX turbo and it didn't seem much dumber than a normal CX, all the turbo weirdness was neatly contained in it's own sort of modules but I've got no idea how yamaha did stuff. Pressurised carbs are super easy, there's no real difference between a turbo and a ram air intake as far as the carbs are concerned so if you've ever worked on a ZX9 or SRAD 600 you'll be fine. This reminds me of the time we put a mitsi L300 turbo on a daihatsu mira 3 cylinder, a mate just cut and welded the top of an old barbecue as a manifold. We pressurised the bowl and vent and it seemed to run quite well until it scored a bore. Please post more when you get it.
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Mar 3, 2021 04:18
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Wouldn’t a forced induction system gently caress with a CV carb? Wouldn’t the forced air push up the slide?
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Mar 3, 2021 08:01
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Horse Clocks posted:Wouldn’t a forced induction system gently caress with a CV carb? Wouldn’t the forced air push up the slide? Why doesn't 1 bar push the slide up? As long as every single atmospheric port is piped to the turbo the carb will function, you'd just need a supplementary fuel jet for when it really gets going, which is pretty common on two strokes. The slides work on a pressure differential, as long as the hats are piped into the manifold and not to atmosphere they will work perfectly. There are several bikes with ram-air pressurized airboxes feeding cv carbs; all the vents are just piped to the high pressure side of the airbox. Slavvy fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Mar 3, 2021 08:48
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Duh. That is now blindingly obvious
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Mar 3, 2021 10:58
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I've been reading on the Seca and there are a surprising number of little design quirks I would never have thought of. It's got crossover pipes between the carbs inside the head, and reed valves in the airbox to compensate for low boost at low rpm, and an electric regulated pressure fuel pump. Supposedly more o-rings inside the carbs in unusual places to stop air leaks
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Mar 3, 2021 17:49
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Has anyone converted one of those to efi? The technology of turbo/fuel control has gone loving bananas since I messed with that poo poo 20 years ago, and it was decent enough back then. The improvements in turbo charger technology are also amazing.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:38
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A modern turbo + megasquirt would probably go a really long way to fixing the ills of those old turbos, but you can't get around the miserably low compression without spending some serious dosh and that will always hold it back.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:43
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Pff i got a mill in the garage let's just deck the head and call it a day
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Mar 3, 2021 19:51
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Sagebrush posted:Pff i got a mill in the garage let's just deck the head and call it a day 
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Mar 4, 2021 17:27
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Steakandchips posted:Buy both. Excellent plan. Need money, though...
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Mar 6, 2021 12:43
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Nitrox posted:Do they have a head gasket? Weld the thing shut, solve many problems at once I mean if we're digging out early F1 turbo engineering, don't forget to leave the cylinders and pistons out in the rain and piss on them every once in a while before assembling it. (Almost certainly an urban myth because it's attributed to just about every turbo F1 team as a way of case-hardening the parts, but it's so weirdly specific that I wonder if there is a germ of truth somewhere in there)
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Mar 6, 2021 12:53
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The bmw/megatron engines were road going m10 blocks that had done some mileage (on the assumption that casting flaws would've appeared by then) with the heads welded on but I don't know if they pissed on them, I've heard that story specifically for bmw.
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Mar 6, 2021 19:02
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Pissing on them didn't have any kind of special metallurgic effect, it just made them angrier.
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Mar 7, 2021 05:29
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Who will be the first manufacturer brave enough to add “Case hardened IN PISS” to their marketing copy?
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Mar 7, 2021 14:40
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Pisscase is real bmw we demand the truth
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Mar 7, 2021 18:53
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Another US importer has finally figured out that you can also import bikes in addition to cars. http://sodo-moto.com/listings/bimota-bb1/ I'm not brave enough to own one of these.
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Mar 7, 2021 21:01
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Why would I get that when 8k gets me the best small displacement sportbike with the best headlights http://sodo-moto.com/listings/cbr250r/ Thanks for giving me a new site to check for import bikes on!
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Slavvy posted:The bmw/megatron engines were road going m10 blocks that had done some mileage (on the assumption that casting flaws would've appeared by then) with the heads welded on but I don't know if they pissed on them, I've heard that story specifically for bmw. Yeah, I don't even know how it was supposed to work (I think they *do* use urea for polishing some metals but just pissing on them is a... very different thing). Now I think of it I bet some apprentice saw a couple of scrap engines out by the bins, asked a grognard engineer why they were there, and it went from there.
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Coydog posted:Why would I get that when 8k gets me the best small displacement sportbike with the best headlights 8k for a cbr250 is  to me, they will always be a $2500 learner bike in my heart.
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Slavvy posted:8k for a cbr250 is Somebody just listed a CBR250RR in Chicago for $11,750. Same seller has a '86 VFR1000 for $10,750. 
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Mar 8, 2021 04:39
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Under 50 cents a pound: https://northernwi.craigslist.org/mcy/d/rhinelander-1983-honda-goldwing/7290044092.html  get em before their owners are dead
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Mar 12, 2021 05:30
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Gorson posted:get em because their owners are dead
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Mar 12, 2021 05:35
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Buy them. Burn the fairings. Ride an old and reliable naked standard I guess for the memes.
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Mar 12, 2021 05:53
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i like that fairing, though. windjammer, right?
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Mar 12, 2021 05:56
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Yep. Shout out to Craig Vetter
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Somehow that Goldwing looks a lot bigger with the fairings removed, maybe because you really see the full size of the engine?
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MomJeans420 posted:Somehow that Goldwing looks a lot bigger with the fairings removed, maybe because you really see the full size of the engine? Overcomplicating massively. The real answer is a simple equation that governs all of reality: Less fairings > more fairings That's it, that's all there is to it, now that you know you can try it out in the wild!
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The Sex Cannon posted:i like that fairing, though. windjammer, right? It’s poo poo. I put one on my GL1000 for about a week and it makes the front look enormous when you’re riding. It’s almost time to see if my GL1100 will start! (It won’t)
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Gorson posted:Under 50 cents a pound: I sent that to a friend who lives up there and just bought an old 69 kawi 250 dirtbike. I’m trying to get him to make the Goldwing into a tow vehicle to pull the kawi to the trails 
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Slavvy posted:Overcomplicating massively. The real answer is a simple equation that governs all of reality: That's how I feel every time I'm putting all the fairings back on my Daytona when I'm usually running late for something
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Yep. I know Craig's son posts right here in these very forums, and I don't want to crap on his dad's work but uh - they ugly AF.
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My sincere belief, which I’ve stated multiple times is that style is cyclical and that look will come back into fashion some day It’s gonna take some custom bike builder to really nail the look and make everyone take notice, but it’ll happen I’m sure of it
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:My sincere belief, which I’ve stated multiple times is that style is cyclical and that look will come back into fashion some day It’s coming an it will be glorious. Root beer flake Windjammers 
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:It’s coming an it will be glorious. Root beer flake Windjammers I’m here for it
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:My sincere belief, which I’ve stated multiple times is that style is cyclical and that look will come back into fashion some day Style is cyclical, but the bad stuff usually gets left out of the renewal. Some aspects of 70s design are making/have made a comeback (fashion) but last I looked the big box stores aren't filling up with paisley wallpaper, rust orange shag rugs, and avocado colored appliances/plumbing fixtures to match that new velour Ricky Regal/Lacoste track jacket. How do you make a big ugly bike with wide bars more aerodynamic? Throw a correspondingly big fuckoff fairing on the front of it. If the bike wasn't styled with the fairing in mind, that fairing will probably end up looking out of place. They looked weird 50 years ago, and they look weird now. If you style the bike with the fairing in mind, it might look OK. You might end up with the next Hayabusa, and the reactions on that bike's looks have been mixed at best. HenryJLittlefinger posted:It’s coming an it will be glorious. Root beer flake Windjammers bass boats, bowling leagues, and big bikes
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Jazzzzz posted:Style is cyclical, but the bad stuff usually gets left out of the renewal. Some aspects of 70s design are making/have made a comeback (fashion) but last I looked the big box stores aren't filling up with paisley wallpaper, rust orange shag rugs, and avocado colored appliances/plumbing fixtures to match that new velour Ricky Regal/Lacoste track jacket. Avocado green kitchen stuff is definitely back in vogue but that might be a purely regional thing, nzers have notoriously crap taste.
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Corbin has developed a fairing that looks very much like old Vetter. I've seen it on a bagger Harley and it looks pretty cool. Forgot the name, it's not sold on Corbin's site directly.
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