Booked my A2 test next week

12, 12.

<Makes Sign of Holy Pushrods>

 

12, 12.

<Makes Sign of Holy Pushrods>[/QUOTE]

So I suppose if a 12bhp baby can do 65 without too much bother a 33bhp
will manage it quite well.

I don't regret my decision to do a restricted course. (yet)

--Nick.

 

So I suppose if a 12bhp baby can do 65 without too much bother a 33bhp
will manage it quite well.

I don't regret my decision to do a restricted course. (yet)
[/QUOTE]

The CG125 is 11hp, not 12hp. My FZR250 has 45hp, the most I've seen is
100mph[1] though.

[1]GPS speed.

 

....and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.

 

You have to take a separate test for each road you ride on? Thats harsh.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

'Cos he uses 28bhp for the extra generator to power his headlights.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

To get a four-stroke 250 to produce 45bhp (nearly 200bhp/litre) you need
some *serious* tuning.

In other words, the (claimed?) horsepower figure is bollocks.

I'd expect a really good sports four-stroke 250 to hit or exceed a ton,
though.

 

Eh? It will hit a tonne with no trouble, and the power is 45hp
apparently, according to the official specs.

 

Nidge wrote

He may not be fazed but his experience will tell against him.

See a situation developing, like you do, and decided that the way round
it is on the throttle. Make checks, open throttle and pull out only to
find that the second action does bugger all. Not a nice place to be
even if you are experienced.




How about getting work to sort your sig.

 

Some kid I was chatting to while sitting on my CG125 outside the local
Mc D did the same thing, until I suggested I go home and get my 600.

 

A ton on the clock, maybe - or even with GPS - and please note the
reference to the claimed horsepower figure.

A tiny little 45bhp bike ought to be good for 115 or so. I simply don't
believe the claimed power output.

 

Yeah, but by then any muppet would have gained an appreciation of how much
power was(n't) available.

 

Heh. Kids these days! Don't know you're born.

I can trump that with Heathrow to Cardiff on a Suzuki TS100 (10.5bhp!)

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Colin Wilson"

Glasgow to Lunnon on an AP50. Blue, it was.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

I'm really looking forward to my B2068 test!

--Nick.

 

North London to Leicester on an XL125 (supposedly 12bhp but struggled
to go over 55mph). More worrying was riding across London on it -
especially Marble Arch. Being passed on either side by maniac
taxi-drivers is not recommended.

Phil.

 

Ok, I haven't had it dyno'd and all I've got to go on is the
manufacturers figures. The 600cc bikes aren't that hard to get to 180
hp/l+, so why not a 18,000 pm 250 exup? The 2005 R6 does 209hp/l, so is
in an even higher state of tune. Going to extremes, my little 2.5cc
model engine would be happy at 33,000rpm and 1hp.

I can see your point though, if you're thinking real world hp, after
years of thrashing, carbon build up, carb / engine wear.

 

Hmm... knowing my luck, I'd get another fractured skull / muscle / nerve
damage for my troubles when his big brother came knocking. :/

 

Codswallop. At the sort of speeds where this might help, a 33bhp bike
is going to have _plenty_ of power available.

By definition it is, yes. (It's a function of power and rpm.)

 

TOGs point is that you shouldn't believe manufacturer's claimed
figures, which are virtually impossible to prove in the real world.
--
Please add "imo" to above post.
Champ
GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
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