Tue May 27 14:51:27 1997 - Message No. 926
From: Jorn Ronnow

Subject: Re: Rumour or true stories ??


At 07:50 97-05-27 +0000, Pierre wrote:
>80 db AT ? Why not, I'm sure you won't notice a big difference. 

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

The -96 @ even had padding under the tank to silence resonance noice form
the tank. Can anyone hear the tank resonance? No, but it's not a question
of making bikes more silent, it's a question of banning them.

>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.

> 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.

It is not until now, that "lean burn" has become working with catalyts,
this time pioneered by Mitsubishi. When lean burn reaches the original
goal, the exhausts will be clean before they reach the catalyst! And we
might even get our "drei-liter-autos".

>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 :-)  )


Keep sliding and do it today - tomorrow it may be forbidden.
-Jorn



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