lack of power

30mph / 4500rpm = 0.0066666666666666666666666666666667mph per revolution of
the engine x 8000rpm = 53.3mph; a speedo is likely to over-read more the
faster you are going, by design, not under-read... so I think not.

*Some* bikes are affected by it, others aren't.

Not everyone uses OEM parts for example, when replacing a clutch, so who is
to say this side of properly conducted tests, whether one particular brand
of clutch plate is going to be affected in this way, more than another...

Given the above calculation, I'd say he's definitely got clutch issues, for
some reason.

Not really, because I've had problems with using synth in the past, in
*some* bikes, and not others, with regards to the clutch... which IME means
it applies to *some* bikes, and not others.

 

lol good way of putting it.

No it doesn't have a fluid resevoir on the clutch side.

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel says...

Nice

 

Hypothetical question (especially as I don't have a running bike ATM),
but is chickwheels better than no wheels?

 

Chickwheels is better than no wheels, unless you have access to
fourwheels, provided that the the four wheels is also not
chickwheels[1], giving us fourwheels>chickwheels>fourwheel
chickwheels>no wheels.

Capiche?

[1] e.g. mx-5

 

I'll take that bet, but can you make it a large amount of money please?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Champ amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

#Oh, yes, I'm the great. Pretender...

 

Still a bit wide of the mark I think. Going from 4k rpm @ 40mph to 8k
rpm @ 45mph would take a bit more than one tooth. I think it must be
clutch slip if the OP's figures are correct, although I've just got
back from a 300 mile blast so my brain's a bit frazzled at the moment.

 

I read that, and despite the way I didn't get on with the R6 would quite
like a go on one.

 

Sorry Champ, I couldn't find my original thread in google groups but
now so I just this minute posted a follow up thread with more
information. Then would you believe you made that last post so I then
saw the thread. I'm talking crap here aren't I.

 

You were discussing 600s... not 'old 600s' specifically, 'shonky' or
otherwise...

 

Besides, there's somthing strangely satisfying about throttle to the
stop shite old bike riding.

 

Sitting behind a car on the Runner, and watching the driver glance in the
mirror at 40... then again at 60... and again at an indicated 80, was quite
entertaining as well... I think they used to wonder why that 'moped' was
managing to keep up quite so well. :-D

 

I've been without bikes on and off, of late.

I bought the Fazer, purely because for once I wanted to see the summer on a
bike, rather than end up getting something when autumn was well under way.

The price, is what attracted me, not the bike - it won me over straightaway,
with how fun it is to go scratching on.

And I will miss it when it goes to my mate, who, having kept on at me
incessantly about how 'fast cars' are where it's at, went on the back of it
yesterday.

He's now going to get his DAS done asap, and is going to have the Fazer off
me as his first bike. Think I redefined his idea of 'quick', anyway, and
he's had quite a few tasty motors.

Not at all... GRRR... someone find me an old skool CBR1000, and quick.

I feel there is a ditch somewhere with my name on it, and the Fazer isn't
taking any notice of my puerile attempts to land it in one. :-D

 

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