Saw this in Bath for the second time this week(long and boring story) and it was very good! Also did the speed awareness course for naughty boys and girls. Loads of bull, but the best one is that if you are knocked down at 30 mph, then you can get up and skip away without a worry in the World, but I you are hit at 31 mph then it is life changing injuries. Also don't rely on your speedo as it will be wrong. use your GPS!!! Your tyres wear making the speedo even wronger. Err, that causes it to show a peed when you are really going slower. Err, surely that is good so when your speedo shows fifty, you are not really going anywhere near as fast as fifty? NO! Don't complicate this with any science shit!!!! Just obey us!
Tomorrow, via another TEAMS meeting, I will find out where my money has gone and why I can't have it. My fun never stops!
London Palladium this evening for Neil Warnock talking about his career. We’d recommend this to any football fans regardless of who you support.
Triumph 750 twins had the exhaust balance pipe. Supposedly it was to even the tickover. I never liked it and the one I bought as a project came with pipes without a balance pipe and, since they were apparently new, I used them. I fitted electronic ignition and it ticked over like a dream.
AAchewy (embarrassed cough) it was all fine. Chase have risk profiles from A (least risky) to F (risky whisky) and they are going for B for me. As long as my solicitor agrees, I can change the risk profile. Most of their clients are on B, with some on C. I should be able to get the £85,000 out to buy out my uncle in Florida without problem, as well as the 29k pa without problem. So all is good
I'm wondering if it increased scavenging to help even out the intake flow, did they fit them regardless of single or twin carb? Or perhaps more prosaically it just stopped individual headers rattling loose... But running electronic ignition on old 'uns with tired ignition systems is, imo, a no brainer.
At least one person online has claimed Meriden used the balance pipe to speed exhaust scavenging. Hm. All I heard at the time – when the bike journalists were interested in Meriden – was the lumpy tickover thing. I think it’s only really at high RPM you’re aiding induction by making the exhaust more efficient? And they detuned the 750 somewhat. It’s hard to say, now. They were doing things to meet increasingly-stringent export requirements, notably to the States and particularly California. Some might say in a half-arsed way. Personally, though I know too little to speak authoritatively, I don’t see it being especially helpful having part of the exhaust going off at a right angle, then possibly disrupting the flow from the other cylinder 360° later. Though it wasn’t quite a right angle on account of the splayed ports. Maybe that was enough? Maybe it helped clear the exhaust as well? Maybe they’d stifled performance so much in other ways - like with the great big silencers they fitted - it regained a smidgeon of top end? Yes, all the 750 twins (without siamesed pipes) had the balance pipe. I’m not sure about later models (that had electronic ignition). A large part of crappy idling back then was wear on the Amal carbs (and imbalance on more than one). And having independently-adjustable points for twins. Other than smoothing out tickover, the other candidate seems perhaps to be improving emissions. How that would work I either don’t know or have forgotten. One of the main problems was vibration. In my experience, bearing in mind I made an effort to balance carbs and ignition (and on my last one had the crank dynamically balanced), vibration is only an issue flat out. That'd be the main reason they detuned the top. So, who knows?
And then the madness starts again. So, with my newfound wealth, I was going to book the Diglis House Hotel in Worcester. I've stayed there before and liked it there. And then I think what will I do there? And then I find myself looking at the Morgan museum in nearby Great Malvern. I could buy onw of those! And then the slap across the face! You couldn't get in and out easily. Nowhere to put it if I keep my Ford! And more importantly, WHY?
Yeah my uncle in Botswana sent me an email the other day to say if I send him £5k, he’ll wire me £10m straight back. What a great bloke. I’ve not heard from him since I made the transfer though, so maybe the WiFi isn’t up to scratch over there?
I have no idea why you did that... I just became the owner of an oil field in Nigeria and it was only a a grand more than you paid. My uncles a Prince too!
Probably not but I will not know for a few years. It's really about family. My elder brother is the company secretary and his role is made harder by having shareholders living abroad. He and my sister bought out my younger brother who lives in Singapore so that just leaves a foreign shareholder in Florida, My brother was my "litigation friend" for when I was knocked off my bike in 2019, and he chose the solicitor and sorted out the terrible state of my finances. It all turned out very well and so I am happy to do something to help. I am using a small part of my compensation to help out. We are selling up in about four years time, after a rebuild of one of the properties, so depending on tax, I should do ok financially, but that's not of vast importance to me.
Yeah it's quite a (humbling?) spectacle - and if they're flying low enough you hear them & can really see what speed & power they have. It's even stranger to hear them in the dark. I believe the V formation provides an aerodynamic advantage plus when you watch an individual bird their necks damp out their bodies/wings movement and allows their head to be perfectly stable. "Passive head stabilisation" according to Mr Google. Watching a swan take off from water is an equally impressive sight.
