Wed Mar 5 08:33:35 1997 - Message No. 470
From: Martin Franz

Subject: Shooting


Hi,
since the winter pause of my bike, I realize now an anoying problem. As
long as I drive civilized, the bike is normal. But if I go "wild" (specialy
with 2 person on bike), the engine (or better the muffler) frequently
"shoots". It only happens downhills, after going up to 8.000rpm and then
shutting the throttle, 1 sec later: "BANG" (a real loud one !!!).
Before, that happened only over 2000m seehigh (which, at least I,
considered as normal), now even on small hills (<1000m). From other bikers,
I got now answers ranging from "this is normal", "you kick your bike too
hard", "the carbs are too fat, but this is better than too lean", ... not
very helpfull.
So, is this normal ?  Is it harmfull to my engine ?  ("too fat/too lean" I
thought, that's only a real problem on two stroke engines with oil/gas
mixture ???).

have a nice slide, martin (BANG !)


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