LowRyter

Compression boost over time.

If I have a bottle of Seafoam around, I might stuff a little bit in the tank for grins and giggles. I am not big believer in any of it . But Seafoam has a decent reputation to clean out the fuel lines and combustion chambers. The insides that I can see, the pan and rockers, look clean enough to eat of. Just spitballing the Seafoam stuff for what I can't see.

I'll have to read my copy of TOTW 2 and refresh.

I think that sums it up. I think when the writer refers to the use of throttle and brake together that he means during the smooth transition from braking to throttle. "Smooth" being key. A lot of it does concern track riding, since even in spirited street riding the rider isn't going fast enough to use brakes on very many curves. I think the best way to experiment with it is driving in traffic when you are turning into an intersection or cloverleaf. Instead of braking in a straight line, try and compare it by continuing very light decreasing braking until you are on the apex of the turn and begin accelerating. After a while it might become habit. Funny, I had similar discussion regarding heel-toe brake and throttle on Corvette forum. Many drivers with manual shift cars have never tried it. I made the comment that being a motorcyclist a safe rider is always rev matching to downshifts whereth braking or not.

Just got notice that the kit was sold for $425. A good deal for someone with a black bike and a set of mirrors. And whatever else....

video advises braking on the straight and not trail braking. jus' sayin'

I want 1 -one- for the tank bag.

I did make offer that was rejected. I got this reply from the seller when I asked about the mirrors (I only wish I knew what is supposed to be there): Sorry, I can't find the mirrors. Everything else seems to be there

Chuck, yeah, Dave the exterminator. He had a house full of bikes. I talked to my painter Dusty (the painter, not WG Dusty) when he repaired the broken side cover tabs on the Sport. I even gave him the paint formula on the site and when read it, he laughed at it. I am sure that Dusty could do it given time and money. He also mentioned the price of the paint. And there's the longevity after the paint is done. When all the flaws come out. There have not been many success cases listed here with Candy Apple Green. I would like to be able to have the Greenie before we get to the Ozarks this May. I think I've pioneered enough with the transmission fix.

That guy in Indy has a Green Magni. Dave? Don? Looks great. Too bad this one is black.

yep. Docc did the heavy lifting here. The background. I purchased an LED bulb from Cycle Gear. It didn't fit the Guzzi headlight buckets and cost me $50. I installed it in my Bandit. I didn't want to purchase another one that didn't fit, nor did I want to change out the entire lens and reflector so I could maintain the stock look. I wanted something brighter but I didn't want to screw up the electrical system. BTW- I had 100 wt bulb in the Bandit and it worked fine but the heat was browning out the lens. So this one fills the bill. Docc posted it earlier in this thread but I'd forgotten it and pestered him with several PMs. Now that I know that it really fits, I ordered another bulb for the EV. The cost is about $25/ea. and another update. I just compared the LED in Bandit to the Sport. Both put out about the same amount of light which is about as bright as the 100 wt bulb I had in the Bandit. The bulb referenced here seems seems to buzz a little louder than the one in the Bandit. And NO! I won't provide any pictures or sound recordings.

Too bad it isn't green.

Thats why track days are such a valuable thing, you can push the limits in relative safety. I think if your not doing track days then you're not serious about improving and maintaining your riding skills. Its not about setting "lap times" but about improving and learning new techniques and practicing the already known ones without the risk, like really heavy braking and looking through the corner and weighing the pegs. Things that you tend to drift away from riding on the road all the time. Every first session on the track is the re familiarise session of looking through the corner, using footpeg weight esp on the long fast corners, not trying to ride the bike all through the bars and feeling the force of really heavy braking, together with getting your brain ahead of the bikes speed. Ciao Funny how a motorcycle track day and car track day are so different. Motorcycles: keep your head up, look as far ahead as possible. Your bike will go where you look. Cars: slow to this braking point, gas at this apex, one make mark after another mark, point to point.

a couple of times? how about more times than I can remember? But only once on the Greenie. Maybe that's why i like it.

Thanks Marty. I asked and you told us. I can deal with a little buzz. The LED headlight on my Bandit buzzes too. Tonight when I took the photos I thought the dang fuel pump was running continuously. I had to turn the ignition switch on twice to hear BOTH buzzes (fuel pump & LED) to be sure.

OK Dave, guess which one is an LED.

wait, Scud, you're saying that a Greenie, Scura and LeMans are "almost all kinds of motorcycles"? And you own a Husky, Duc,& Beemer as well? OK

R3, there's no motorcycle that looks as good as Greenie. It's just a scientific fact.

Pictures! It crossed my mind when I posted it but I thought, screw it. BTW- those little LEDs love to buzz like a bee from Mars. Why do they need fans when they run cooler and draw less current?

I agree with Scud. I really don't know how you can turn a bicycle, motorcycle or scooter, unless you are steering it (or counter steering it). The scooter might've been going slow but the rider must've still turned it. Counter steering (aka "steering:") it's a pretty natural concept that somehow got intellectualized to the point of confusion. Any 5 year old on 16" bicycle is counter steering with no video or diagrams. Push right on the bars and go right...... I'll bet going left isn't hard either. I don't think the video makes a point other than the an inexperienced rider bobbled and lost control at the wrong time.

Got the LED H4 replacement installed today. Sorry, but I hedged and bought only one just in case it didn't fit the EV. It did fit the Sport, no problem. So tonight I lined the EV with a 55wt H4 and the Sport with the LED and shined them on the garage wall. No contest. Much brighter, much whiter. I think the LED only draws 40 wt. Looks stock with the factory reflector and lens. Going to order one for the EV. Thanks Docc.

I saw Baldry at the end of my senior year of high school, May 1972. He was opening for Nazareth and Deep Purple. Purple had just released Machine Head, "Space Truckin'" and "Smoke of the Water". Nazareth did "Love Hurts". JB did "Don't Lay No Budgy Wudjy on the King Of Rock n Roll". He played the hell out that piano from blues style to spacey. I think JB replaced Edgar Winter's White Trash at that show because they were jumped on the road a few days earlier, IIRC.

Scud, where's the photo of the pastry? ???

The light is in. Ready to ride.