CG 125 DETAILS/HELP ?

i pick my new honda CG125 today, my first really big bike.. does anyone know
if it has ABS breaking or any other details that might help.. i have opted
for a slightly larger rear tyre, a 180/55/17 and a front 120/60/17, as i was
told in the shop the bike would handle better, and the smaller original
tyres could rip up easily, with the raw power of the engine..

any advice would be appreciated,

ann xxxx

 

The 180 section tyre is only really compatible with the CG125 Turbo.

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I'd put the bigger tyre on the front IIWY, for quicker turn-in and more
controllable stoppies. Also, the extra weight will help keep the the front
end down when accelerating.

 

Probably best to deflate the original tyre. slip the new one over it
and re-inflate, then put a few cable ties around to pull the beads in.
This will overcome the problems associated with a 17" tyre on an 18" rim.
The ABS plastics will break. The best way to check for ABS brakes is
to go out when it's raining or snowing and brake as hard as you can.
And, assuming you are female, are there any naked photos of you on the net?

 

IME types are overrated. For perfect handling, smother your wheels in
chewing gum. YKIMS.

 

This is nonsense, of course. You can keep the front end down perfectly
adequately by filling the tyre with argon, which is much heavier than air as
any full nose.

 

I've had good results filling the front tyre with mercury - great thermal
balance, stunning gyroscopic effects, and of course it corners like
quicksilver.

 

The shaft drive will stop it from pulling wheelies.

HTH

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

Could you fit a pump to spin the mercury up when the bike's at rest? The
gyroscopic effect should then keep it standing upright.

Seems to me that you could get a significant weight gain by eliminating
the need for centre and side stands. That might be slightly offset by
the need for a bigger battery.

Of course, you'd need an interlock to cut the pumps when the engine's
running or you'd get unwanted effects when cornering.

 

A friend of mine once told me a story about things filled with mercury... I
wonder if this is an urban legend? Google yields nothing. Anyone heard
this one?

At the engineering company where my friend used to work there was an old
chap who used to ride his bicycle in every day. On one occasion as he was
pushing the bicycle out of the main gates at the end of the afternoon shift,
he dropped it. The security guard noticed that he was having some
difficulty in picking it back up again so he went to help him, only to
discover that he couldn't pick it up either.

Closer examination revealed that the frame had been filled with mercury
which the bike's owner intended to sell and pocket the cash. Little
surprise he'd been unable to get it off the ground!

 

No need to wonder if it's an urban legend. Just calculate it.
You could hide about 15kg of mercury in a pushbike frame so
there would be no problem about picking it up.

HTH.

 

....and countersteering.

 

....and countersteering.

 

It would be possible to mould vanes into the inner surface of the tyre
itself, although these would have to be unidirectional flaps if they were
not to present an obstacle to the free circulation of the metal during
deceleration and when at a standstill, and also tend to oppose the normal
retardative efforts of the brakes. In practice, however, I believe that
turbulence and boundary layer effects with the smooth interior surface of
the standard, unmodified tyre would be sufficient to spin up the metal in
the tyre within a few minutes' riding.

Desirable though a weight gain might seem, subtracting components is not the
way to go about it. Also, as the mercury slows down - as inevitably it
will - the gyroscopic effect will lessen and the bike will fall gradually to
one side. The various stands and props will continue to be required.

If I was going to use pumps, I'd want them running all the time. Taking a
control signal from the countersteering adaptor would allow fine control
over the gyroscopic effect, up to and including actually backing the pumps
to allow rapid pitch-in into corners, and also varied according to the
bike's speed. This would effectively be a speed-sensitive,
variable-assistance power steering system for bikes, which would be a
significant advance. It could also be linked to a speed-control system, and
allow a programmed destabilisation of the bike if the speed limit was
exceeded. This would be a gradual effect, encouraging riders to slow down,
and pitching them off on their ear if they did not.

 

Fly-by-wire fighters achieve great cornering by being unstable and having
the computers stop them from going in all directions at once; if you then
want to turn left you just stop stopping it from going left. We could apply
the same to the bike system but you may need a 4-point harness to keep the
rider on the bike as it corners.

 

I've been thinking about this, and we may be missing a trick here. Simply
allowing the mercury to be spun up by the rotation of the front wheel is all
very well, but it might be more effective to have a lesser amount of mercury
running in a concentric tube at very high speed. This would be achieved by
a magnetic field using contra-rotating rare-earth magnets and eddy currents.
The magnets could be cooled by running the petrol supply through them, which
would de-ionise the petrol and improve mpg. Also. with fine magnetic
control over the mercury, it would be possible to set up a helical flow in
the tube to enhance traction bias.

 

ya butt, how do you counteract the reverse corriolis effect if you want to
ride in the southern hemisphere?

 

Reverse the polarity.

 

Did you remember to bring the sonic screwdriver?

 

**** that, I'm gonna cross the beams.