Electric start Morinis - worth keeping E/S?

I think the RD200 used a similar starter. I was really impressed by
mine.

Lovely little bike. Only problem was the way the crankcases split
(horizontally rather than vertically) which made it a real pain to
work on.

 

Avon "high hysteresis" tyres, eh? Probably to match the owner's
hysterics as the fucker fails to start or breaks down... again.

 

Thus spake Grimly Curmudgeon () unto the assembled multitudes:

I remember seeing the phrase "high hysteresis" when I bought Avon
Roadrunners for my Tiger 650 back in the 1970s.

I see from my dictionary that "hysteresis" means "the phenomenon in which
the value of a physical property lags behind changes in the effect causing
it. [...] from Greek [for] 'shortcoming, deficiency'."

<trying to work out what on earth Avon were on about>

 

typed:

I was impressed by this claim in the 70s - it sounded impressively
scientific. But I have spent the last 30 minutes trying to understand the
term, and I am no further forward. Or rather, I undertstand the basic idea
in terms of how rubber bands behave under load, but how it relates to tyres
on tarmac I haven't a fucking clue. I think "marketing bollocks" sums it
up.

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Rich B

1971 S2a
1995 XT600E
2006 GT1000
Oh, and a Ford

Take out the obvious to email me.

 

Thus spake Rich B () unto the assembled multitudes:

I thought it just meant "nice 'n' sticky" (which Roadrunners weren't, very),
but now I'm not so sure...

 

I recall LJKS banging on about this in his Tyre Technology book -
obviously it registered with a few people and the marketing dept took it
up.
If you have a low or normal hysteresis rubber it will bounce like a
bastard and lose you grip. High hysteresis won't.

 

In communiqué <1imef7v.p5w1quvr7cl3N%>,

I shouldn't really say this, but worth far more in pieces, particularly
if you charge NLM prices for the bits that will fit on proper Morinis.

The old saucepan lid starter can be made to work after a fashion (on a
350 at least) by suitably fettling the friction shoes and centre-popping
the inside of the drum.

Better off flogging the bits and investing the proceeds in a stator
rewind if you want easier starting.

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I don't remember ever having trouble with the dynamotor on my TC185.
Except for the time a kid on a minibike turned into my path at the end of
a straight when I was doing about 100 km/h. That put some cracks in the
cover, but a couple of cans of beer for the alloy-welder at the School of
Physical Sciences and it was watertight again.

http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~eesridr/tc185.jpg -- the photographer missed
the next launch, where it got so high I fell off the back and was running
along behind it, still holding the bars. Had to make a mighty leap over
the rack to get back aboard as the front came down...

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