Wed Feb 26 21:48:06 1997
- Message No. 431
From: VIPER-1@universal.nl (Fels R. Th.B.)
Subject: Who the hell is Raymond ?........
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This E-mail came from :
Raymond Fels
Geert Grootestraat 49 - 7009 MH - Doetinchem
The Netherlands
VIPER-1@universal.nl
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Hello everybody,
After a long period of absence, I'm back again.
Had to hunt the Gremlins for money.
First of all I want to greet all the people who 'know' me from last
year, and want to tell them what happened to me the last weeks.
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After a lot of weeks lonely without news from the XRV mailing list, I'm
finaly back.
Last December first my internet-provider had experienced dificulties
connecting to 'the rest of the world'.
We thought that he could solve it, but what a great surprise to see that
suddenly we could not log on.
The telefon-lines didn't exist any longer. Whatever we tried, he
dissapeared from earth.
A few weeks later we heard that he went bankrupt.
I went searching for another provider. But that was difficult, because I
needed some space on his
server for my pages.
I worked on them in the time that I could browse the net. There are now
109 files, (49 HTM-files) and
the size is about 750 Kb.
Since last week I have a new provider.
It's AVADES and the domain is called UNIVERSAL.NL
On his server is 5 Mb space for pages and there is no limit to the mail.
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Can tell you that my pages are reachable at a NEW adress....
The URL is HTTP://www.universal.nl/users/Africa_twin
There are some changes planned for the comming days. (New counter etc.)
Maybe someone can tell me why the page doesn't play midi ??????
You can also check out the electrical scheme for the fuel pump problem.
I read that that there where a lott of
mails about this 'problem'.
Well that's what happened last weeks (sounds familiar Achim ??)
Last winter brought me also another surprise..(and it was not the santa
claus who brought it)
Last winter I had an accident with the bike and there was a lot of work
to be done.....
The costs for the repair was Fl. 13.500,- (a new bike costs ~ Fl.
23.500,-)
After the repair I went to BSM. This is an exhaust-factory.
There they made an exhaust for the Twin.
They have two versions, 1 is a silent one with about 86 dB, and the
other is louder with about 91 dB.
We also made some power-graphs.
The showed that with the 'loud' version I get more Torque at 3000 RPM we
measured about 58 Nm.
>From 3000 rpm, it goes up to about 64 Nm at 5200 rpm.
This is the power at hte rear-wheel.
The horsepower doesn't change that much.
There is gain in Torque at 3000 and 5200 Rpm.
I have to check the air-fuel mixture, so if I'm lucky, it can increase a
little.
In about three weeks I get my special exhaust.
It's a carbon open one, wich is about 5 cm longer than the standard one
to get is less noisy.
I made a special name-tag for the exhaust.
It's made from stainless steel and the text 'Africa Twin' (as it is
written on the bike) is removed with
a cnc-laser-machine.
See HTTP://www.universal.nl/users/Africa_twin/uitlaat.htm
It looks great on a carbon exhaust.
This exhaust and also a stainless steel one will be available for all
buyers.
When I have some pictures and the numbers/prices of the exhaust I'm
gonna place them on my
pages.
I also designed a head-light protector.
It's also made from stainless steel and looks great.
See HTTP://www.universal.nl/users/Africa_twin/rooster.htm (43 Kb)
The above mentioned two pages will be removed after a few weeks.......
There is still one thing I have to do before summer, and that is to make
the bike higher.
We want to raise the bike a few centimeters.
Oke.... enough talked about the bike,
It's time to check out the data and place for the 3rth meeting.
Realy like to meet you out there, and of course show off my bike......
Hopefully this provider is better than the last one, so I can enjoy
reading all the interesting and funny mails in this list.
Greetings from The Netherlands,
Raymond Fels.
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