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| | | jdaddios | | Set |  |  | | Reg. Date | : | 29/01/2011 | | Posts | : | 25 | | Location | : | Wilton, CT, United States |
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| | Posted : 09 Jun 2012 - 20:41 Post title : Need left side: crash bars and shorty tors | | | 
Anyone want to go 50/50 ?
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| | | mat1600 | | Thunderbird | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 06/03/2010 | | Posts | : | 8,596 | | Location | : | Bridlington, Democratic Independant State of Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 09 Jun 2012 - 20:52 Post title : Re: Need left side: crash bars and shorty tors (Re: jdaddios) | | | Oh dear - have we been stunt riding?
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| | | mjgt | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 16/09/2011 | | Posts | : | 2,201 | | Location | : | North Somerset, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 09 Jun 2012 - 20:56 Post title : Re: Need left side: crash bars and shorty tors (Re: mat1600) | | | Or not, as the case may be  As a left handed stunter you are looking for a right hander  good luck 
| Mick . . .  Keep the rubber side down!!
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| | | jdaddios | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 29/01/2011 | | Posts | : | 25 | | Location | : | Wilton, CT, United States |
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| | Posted : 10 Jun 2012 - 12:35 Post title : Re: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE OCTANE ~ AND A CRASH | | | Not really 'stunt riding'
It all started out as an 'octane' story
My crash started innocently enough .....
I was reading one of the posts about 'seat of the pants dyno' using 87 -89 -93 octane, and i wanted to do my own seat of pants dyno test, so i filled up with 93. Besides being a waste of money - my seat of pants dyno told me very clearly I LOST power (my set up is 1700 big bore kit, high flow air filter, shorty tor, and the highly customized tune ecu map available on this web site). So I DESPERATELY needed to get rid of the excess gas in my tank, and go back to my super FAST 87 octane.
The best way I figured to burn up the gallon of 93 gas I left in the tank - is doing this about 10,000 times:
-hard throttle / then hard brake
--hard throttle / then hard brake
---hard throttle / then hard brake
----hard throttle / then hard brake
-----hard throttle / then hard brake
So my mind was not on SAFETY, it was on:
-----hard throttle / then hard brake
After about the 9999th
-----hard throttle / then hard brake
I found pulling into one of the local high school parking lots doing my thing
-----hard throttle / then hard brake
When I came across a Speed Table which I was not expecting,
I in the middle of a
-----hard throttle
And in the middle up my front tire hitting the front of the Speed Table,
I instinctively did a
-----hard brake
And then crash
I think I was going 15 mph
Here is what I think happened:
=>The speed table launched me just enough where rear wheel became un-weighted
=>Then when I jammed on the brakes the rear wheel locked up
=>And when the rear wheel became weighted again with the rear wheel locked
=>The rear went out from under me,
=>The bike went into a low side,
=>I went into a high side
So the morale of the story is:
a - don't be a jackass, always remember safety
b - the little triumph emblem on the tank that everyone hates is there for a purpose (in the low side skid - it took the skid and saved the tank)
c - never fill up with slower 93 gas
d - don't overfill your tire pressure to lengthen tire life
e - get your first crash out of the way at 15 mph or less, without other cars around (it wasn't that bad)
f - have you wife out of town, as was mine, I didn't get an 
So anyone want to go 50/50 on front crash bars and shorty tors?  
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| | Post edited by jdaddios on 10 Jun 2012 - 12:35 |
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| | | mjgt | | Thor | | | | Reg. Date | : | 16/09/2011 | | Posts | : | 2,201 | | Location | : | North Somerset, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 10 Jun 2012 - 14:42 Post title : Re: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE OCTANE ~ AND A CRASH (Re: jdaddios) | | | Sorry to hear you duffed the bike up but I think your original solution was flawed  . You would probably need to get through 2 -3 tanks worth of fuel for the bike to fully adapt to the new fuel rating before any true power difference can be felt, by then you will have forgotten how it felt on the other fuel, in the old days of carbs it would work quite well but not now.
You would need to do this as a bit of a long term thing and see if there is a trend on different fuel and decide then.
Just a thought 
| Mick . . . Keep the rubber side down!!
| | Post edited by mjgt on 10 Jun 2012 - 14:56 |
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| | | thanks4thefish42 | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 11/11/2010 | | Posts | : | 269 | | Location | : | High Springs, FL, United States |
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| | Posted : 19 Jun 2012 - 15:25 Post title : Re: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE OCTANE ~ AND A CRASH (Re: jdaddios) | | | Wow, glad your able to write this tale and tell it. It's brave to admit your mistakes and take the blame. Would ABS brakes saved the day?
A high side at any speed is very dangerous.
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