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an update from the youtube channel made for this thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp_QR9H1aa4 edit: Slavvy, any local knowledge on this insanity? is he known in aus/nz? Supradog fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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Never heard of him but I'm also not Australian
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Feb 14, 2024 23:09
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FBS posted:The frame on the RSV1000R is a thing of pointless beauty and it's the one motorcycle I truly lust for. I've never even seen one in person yet it made me an Aprilia fan for life. Oh sweet, I had one  So much drat fun, really smooth ride and tons of power on tap, plenty of balance. Honestly though, this style of design was a bit on the gaudy and ostentatious side for me. For cool frame design I was always more a fan of the Falco 
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To me the Falco always looked like a de-lamed firestorm, it was like a reversal of what Honda usually do - make a big list of the salient features of a competing bike and build something that ticks those boxes, but Italian.
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Supradog posted:an update from the youtube channel made for this thread Drysdale has been around for yonks, I remember reading about one of his v8s in amcn or a similar magazine back in the early 2000s. I've never met anyone who's ever met anyone who's ever seen one in the flesh though because custom made low volume motorcycles are rare and expensive and not many people had the cash to burn on one. He was most well known for either the 2 wheel drive dirtbike or the v8 but there were other things as well but I don't think anything was ever a commercial success. No idea if Drysdale ran the whole shop on hope and dreams or if motorbikes were just a fun side gig. His old website here goes into a fair bit of detail about how the 2wd bike worked and what they're like to ride.
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Digging the temp and fuel gauge  From a 1986 Yamaha FZ750.  Choice Quotes from wikipedia about it 80s race tech. quote:The FZ750 uses an all-aluminium, liquid-cooled, transverse-mounted, four-cylinder engine. The complex cylinder head is constructed in two halves, with dual chain-driven overhead camshafts operating 20 valves, 3 inlet and 2 exhaust valves per cylinder. quote:The engine width is minimised by placing the starter clutch, alternator, water and oil pump behind the engine and are driven via a secondary shaft. quote:An electrical reserve fuel system simulates a conventional fuel reserve by cutting power to the fuel pump when fuel in the tank reaches a certain level, reserve fuel could then be engaged from a switch. In this way the fuel pump never runs dry. quote:A variable-resistance gauging system is used to monitor engine oil contents with an associated warning light. Supradog fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Apr 1, 2024 |
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Apr 1, 2024 20:48
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Haha wild.
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Apr 2, 2024 03:29
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The second and last one survive on the R1 to this day
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Apr 2, 2024 03:43
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What's the oil sensor actually monitoring, contamination?
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Apr 2, 2024 16:28
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Phy posted:What's the oil sensor actually monitoring, contamination? I think by "oil contents" they mean "oil volume" - the wikipedia article mentions "oil level sensing" two paragraphs prior to the "contents" thing
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Apr 2, 2024 17:20
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Yeah it's just an oil level sensor
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