Tue May 27 15:22:16 1997 - Message No. 927
From: "Robert Rowe"

Subject: Re: Rumour or true stories ??


Jorn Ronnow wrote:

> The REAL reason for new noice regulations is not noice: Their purpose
> is to
> outlaw motor bikes altogether.

Rubbish, if they wanted to Ban motorcycles, they would have banned them,
Motorcyclists give the law makers plenty of opportunity to get bans put
in place, so they wouldn't have needed much of an excuse to go ahead and
do it.

> Most bikes today can not handle the new
> noice regs with the engine SWITCHED OFF!! The road noice and
> mechanical
> noice from the chain is higher.

Rubbish, most motorcycles on sale today can meet the proposed 80dB
limit.

> The -96 @ even had padding under the tank to silence resonance noice
> form
> the tank. Can anyone hear the tank resonance?

Take your helmet off and your ear plugs out, then stand at the side of
the road and get someone to ride an @ passed, with and without the
silencing pad and come back and let us know.

> >Enginers will compensate for it.
>
> I don't think they do a very good job: I just ran out of silencer
> padding
> in my flow through tuning pipe. Since I beleive that "loud is out", I
> changed to the original pipe until I can get more padding. There is a
> notable difference in vibrations and the engine must be revved higher
> with
> the original pipe.

Ahh, so your one of the mokeys with a noisy pipe who has caused the
politicians to legislate against us!

The engineers will give us the power back, if we are prepared to go out
and pay for. I suggest you vist your local Honda Dealer and try and get
a ride on a Super Blackbird. Fitted with 80dB exhaust pipes it can still
hit 180+mph.

> > Does anybody complains about catalytic/injection cars ?
>
> Unfortunately, catalytic conversion halted the promising "lean
> burn"-technology, far advanced at Ford. The car makers disguised the
> loss
> of engine efficiency on paper, by increasing the top revs, lowering
> the
> torque level and moving the tourqe up in the rev range. This may be
> why the
> cars are just as thirsty today, as they were in the pre-catalytic era.

Why not buy a Diesel then? It is a lean burn engine, a far leaner burn
engine than anything that was proposed with the Spark Ingnition motors.
Try the new Audi/VW range of direct injection engines as an excellent
starting point.

> >Governments are making safe, acident-free, full-controlled world for
> us !
> >You will not tell me that you disagree with that ;;;-))))
>
> See George Orwell, "1984". (Yes, I did see your smiley :-)  )

Hmmmh, are you standing in the leadership contest for the British
Conservative party, its us British who are supposed to Euro sceptic.

Yours not needing to slide.

Rob



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