Hyosung GT650 vs Suzuki SV650

I'm very pleased with our NZ team so far Paul.
I've been cheering for NZ and the Aussies as well.
Proud of them both really.
James

 

Let me put it this way, if there was _any_ way of me being able to fit
on it, I wouldn't be telling anyone else about it till it was mine!

regards,
CrazyCam

 

You're very well informed, sane, and logical.

Will you marry me? I have shiny bits...

 

I think "gullible" is the word he was looking for.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

Watch him Zebee, his bits might be shiny 'cos they are worn out.
James

 

In aus.motorcycles on Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:50:31 GMT

Thank you.

I don't think I want to know... (and doesn't the steel wool hurt?)


Zebee

 

let me


only if you do it wrong

 

"Zebee Johnstone"

Yep, there's the restricted (34hp) version of the Peg in Europe.
2 dished metal plates reduce the air-intake to about 1/2 diameter, the
"restriction"kit comes with approval number and all...
can be fitted/removed by any half-decent backyard-monkey within 30 mins, no
other mods needed.
No exhaust-restrictor, no fancy carb-needlework, no re-chipping, nothing at
all, it's a real joke.
Dealer-price for parts is $290, selling on German Ebay with certificatio for
$8-10.
Worth about $1 for 2 wall-coverplates at the Plumbing Store and 10mins to
drill them out/ cutting to size.

cheers
pete

 

Except that the Chinese, being typically Chinese, will reinvent the motorcycle
in such a way that it is not compatible with roads anywhere else in the world.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

My company imported some Kawasaki 125cc bikes from Taiwan in
the mid 90's, and some of them had rotary gearboxes, not positive
stop. The gears were 1st down, then 2nd, 3rd and top, but if you
happened to press the lever down again it would bring you back
to neutral and another press you were in 1st again. Very unsafe
and did not comply in NZ. The Taiwanese said something about
a small peg being left out of the gearboxes by mistake. Ok for
Taiwan use they said. Yikes.....we sent about a dozen back.
James

 

Maybe they're less concerned about "status" and pissing contests...

Gary

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pitty they dont have sheep flelching....you would be a shoe in

mh

 

a shoe? they'd go the whole leg

 

Yeah, imagine having a rotary gearbox!

Hammo

[snigger]

 

How can he, if it's not in the dictionary?

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That's a serious infatuation you have with livestock Marty.
No wonder so many beautiful Australian girls come to NZ.
Nothing for them in ozz?
James

 

Rotary is of course normal (snigger) but not without positive stop.
Or don't you know what that is. Grinnn
James

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:13:12 +1200

I don't think that means what you think it means.

Positive stop is the way the gear lever stops when it gets a gear and
returns to a "neutral" position.

Early hand change boxes used the metal "gate" the gearlever went through
on the tank to guide and stop the change. You still had to feel the
gears a bit, else you didn't change cleanly, and the gearlever moved in
space and stayed moved. Ok for a hand change, pretty bloody weird for a
foot change.

So when Velocette tried foot change, they invented the positive stop
mechanism so that the footpedal moved once and returned and the gear
changed neatly without having to be eased in exactly.

I'm not sure what the term is for the gearbox that has a begining and an
end rather than cycling through gears, but positive stop isn't it.

I note that the cycling idea was an early Japanese innovation, I think
they thought it made it easier to go from a high gear to a low one in an
emergency stop, or in the dirt. It didn't last long...

Zebee

 

Hi Zebee, you are so diplomatic, and of course correct.
But.......
When dealing with the Chinese, Taiwanese, and Koreans, one needs to
understand and discuss these matters from *their* perspective, bearing
in mind the translation of languages etc. They refer to a rotary gearbox
as one which continues around and around as discussed, and a positive
stop box as one that stops after top gear and must return to find neutral.

Perhaps for your (and my) understanding, positive stop and *return,*
would be a better description.

In NZ a free rotating gearbox without positive stop (as above) is not
accepted for import for road use. It's actually in the NZ standard
somewhere I think.

Cheers,
James

 

James wrote:

Mate the ones we send over are the rejects.