Turning The TW200 Into A Street Bike (Mostly)

Lightweight!
What about "keys"?

 

I convert quoted litre capacity to gallons and factor reserve, so 18 litres
would be "four, but three-and-a-bit plus reserve".

 

Speak for yourself. Euros, km and litres for me, and AFAIR we're nearly
exactly the same age.

 

<G>

Yes, me too. And five gallons, or 23 litres, is a jerrican.

 

On Aug 13, 11:07 pm, (The Older
Gentleman) wrote: What's interesting is that you actually took the
trouble to remove all

Actually, it took no time at all and as with any mess on the floor,
one likes to contain it in an area as small as possible. So I jammed
all your useless pontifications together as closely as possible to
spare an even bigger mess in the thread.

It was just a constant stream of invective.

What really buggers your old Queen ass is that you, the big whoopee
word expert, hadn't ever heard of a fern bar. Or maybe you had and
maybe you spend a lot of time there and were just being coy and shy
while your little heart was all a-flutter recounting your times in the
bathrooms there.

And I became bored with your uselessness a long time ago but continue
to prod just to watch my little pet monkey Toggy do his little silly
dance of response.

So come on back, your "handler" is demanding another dance from his
pet TOG.
Obey your master!

Bill

 

On Aug 13, 11:07 pm, (The Older
Gentleman) wrote: TOG politely asked those here present, which is an
equally valid way of
sourcing information. Otherwise nobody would ever ask a question on a
newsgroup, would they?

TOG hasn't done anything politely since the first word he ever typed
to a newsgroup. I've read some of your posts on other groups and they
think you're a pompous pencil-prick too. Your reputation as mere
fluff and mirrors precedes you old man.

Bill

 

Ah, yes, psi. I still use them. I can just about cope with Bar,
because most SOBs run 26/28psi front/rear and so a rear tyre is
exactly 2 bar, and a front is "a little bit less".

Kg/cms or whatever they use in Metric-Land loses me completely.

 

snip>

I still think of plug gaps and valve clearances in thous because I can
look at a spark plug and know within a couple of thou what the gap is
but trying to do it in metric is beyond me and I have to use feeler
gauges.

Actually you can scrub the bit about using feelers, I look at the gap,
mentally convert it to metric from imperiall then look at what the
spec is. I'm very sad like that but I blame working on steam age (1)
technology all the time.

(1) I love telling people I still work in the steam age even though
it's a reactor producing the steam rather than coal.

 

Buy my 10R off me and eat fewer pies.

 

Eh? But "bar" you can cope with?

 

Eh? But "bar" you can cope with?

Bar is easy.

 

Are you saying they're the same?

<Googles>

Coo, so they are, as near as makes no difference. Never knew that.

<Waves hands vaguely>

Well, it's all metric, innit?

 

Speak for yourself. Euros, km and litres for me, and AFAIR we're nearly
exactly the same age.[/QUOTE]

Pah. Some of us are perfectly happy working in both - often at the same
time.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

I'd like to have a bike where the bhp/weight of the rider was >1.

 

Odd, I'm fairly sure that my Jerricans (standard Swiss Army Issue) are
20 litres, not 23.

<Some time later>

Apparently, at least according to the surplus place I bought them
from, they're 30 litres, not 20.

Some other great stuff they sell, mind. Must make a trip soon.
http://www.dicks-armyshop.ch/pdf/katalog_lyss_08_de.pdf
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Why would you want to sell it *now* after all that work

 

That must be Polish inches and not British ones then.

7.62mm is 0.3" and that's a 'nothing' size in engineering.

 

7.62 / 25.4 = 0.3

I don't suppose 0.3" is much in your universe but it's a **** of a lot
in mine.

 

fx: <awaits Pip to tell us an amusing tale>

 

I'll be selling it next year unless something major happens to change
my mind.

I've had it over 3 years now and it's a bit 'old hat' iykwim? It goes
like **** and I've got more stuff to throw on it that'll make it even
more powerful but short of putting a turbo on it (or a nitrous kit for
quick bursts of nastiness) it's about as far as you can go without
opening the engine up and then you reduce service intervals too much
for my liking.

I really want to keep it but lack of space dictates I can't have two
litre class sports bikes and an MV 312 is destined to be the next clit
bike.