Didn't win a 2009 R1 this evening...

....but I did take some photos.

I'm a bit new to Flickr - hopefully you can find them here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97296479@N00/sets/72157614518171700/

Spot the ukrmer...

 

Looks like Mrs Iddon in photo titled 'RHS'

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer
Fireblade 929 (For sale)
ZX-7R P4 (for sale)
CBR600F-W trackbike
SR250 SpazzTrakka,
RD400F, somewhere
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

Me neither.

Did see lots of people being caught on the Redspeed camera right outside
Infinity in Clapham though. Harsh.

The 2009 R1 looks exactly like it does in the pictures and sounds
exactly like it does on youtube. Who knew!?

 

But what is she thinking?

"I wish I still had my R1."

"I wonder what I'd have to sell to raise the money."

Or simply "Ayup."

 

heh.

I think it looks very ordinary indeed. I'm not usually bothered by
the looks of a bike much, but I thought they might have styled this
one a bit more radically to match the significant engine changes.

Mind you, it does sound bloody great. Unlike any four I've ever heard
before.

 

Actually, I don't know her new surname.

 

It looks rubbish. Sounds lovely, looks rubbish.

I was down there with some bods from the SV forums. More than one said
"wow, have you seen the brakes? Are they six-pots?"

I explained that a few years ago, all the top-end bikes had 6-pots. Then
it was decided that 4-pots were better, so all the top-end bikes came
with 4-pots. Now 6-pots seem to be coming back in fashion. And why
didn't it have wavy discs, eh? If they don't make these minor tweaks,
the mags will have nothing to talk about and there'll be no incentive
for people to trade in for a new bike every three years. It's the two-
wheeled equivalent of skirts. Hemline go up, hemline go down.

Some of them seemed almost dismayed by my cynicism.

I was encouraged by every single person I overheard there saying "if I
win it, I'll sell it straight away". Go Yamaha!

 

That's presumably the uneven firing intervals.
What's the point?

 

I do


--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer
Fireblade 929 (For sale)
ZX-7R P4 (for sale)
CBR600F-W trackbike
SR250 SpazzTrakka,
RD400F, somewhere
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

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

You have ears, yes?

 

Marketing. And, for once, it kinda works.

 

Yes, which is fortunate as they stop my spectacles falling off.
But doesn't a 2009 R1 sound similar to a 90 degree V4?
The firing intervals are the same.

 

Competing with Kawasaki for ugliest bike, but Suzuki are still in the
lead with the V-Strom amd Gladius

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer
Fireblade 929 (For sale)
ZX-7R P4 (for sale)
CBR600F-W trackbike
SR250 SpazzTrakka,
RD400F, somewhere
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

I like the new Gixers.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer
Fireblade 929 (For sale)
ZX-7R P4 (for sale)
CBR600F-W trackbike
SR250 SpazzTrakka,
RD400F, somewhere
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

http://www.yamaha-motor.hu/designca...R1: Engine with uneven firing order&pageNum=4

Says that it is to avoid the pistons all stopping and
starting at the same time and the consequent
effects on the instantaneous output.

Road R1 needs and gets balancer shaft as result. Might
end up with less vibration than normal 4 without balancer
shaft.

 

You don't follow racing, do you?

<big bank in a nutshell>

With a 'normal' four, the power pulses are evenly distributed, every
180 deg of crank revolution. It's been found that once a tyre starts
to slide, the next power pulse keeps it sliding.

With a big bang motor, the power pulses are grouped closer together
(hence the name). While this bigger bang can make the tyre slip, the
bigger gap then allows the rear wheel to turn, the contact patch to
move, and the tyre to recover, before the next power pulse.

As WSB rules mean an engine must keep its original crank layout, this
is a way of getting a big bang motor into superbike racing.

hth

 

Because, like dogs, they're starting to look like their owners.

--
Krusty

'03 Tiger 955i
'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

Like sex, I used to do it but it's not that interesting to watch.
I know about big bang engines. My Ducati already has one. And as it has
carbs
and redundant-spark ignition I could make it an even bigger bang engine
in ten minutes by rotating one camshaft 180 degrees.

But have you never heard a V4? Doesn't that have the same firing
intervals as a new R1?

 

Dunno about the ukrmer, but head on the bike looks like a mean bastard.

--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

But Yamaha are being very careful not to call it a big bang engine, choosing
to call it (if anything) a long bang. Probably all semantic bollocks, but
any idea's *why* they've chosen not to call it "big bang"?

And don't you find it odd that in some articles, the author/arsewipe[1] says
that the smaller evenly spaced bangs allow for a more predictable loss of
grip and another author/arsewipe says a big/long bang engine does the same
thing?

Very confusing this motorbike stuff.

[1] Spellchecker seems to think that "arsewipe" should be "recipe"


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19