OT Memorabilia

Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, ogden said:

handbags at dawn!

 

I dunno. They did try all sorts of ideas. For example, the first Honda
CB250, circa 1968, used a hydraulic tensioner working off the oil
pressure. Well, that didn't work too well when it got hot, so they
changed to *exactly the same* jockey wheel tensioner they used on the
750 Four, and that never went wrong.

But it did on the twin! The harmonics were different, apparently.

Slipper blade tensioners which worked fine on fours didn't work too well
on twins for the same reason: different vibes, which made the chain slap
against the blade surface, knocking off bits of rubber which then got
lodged in the oilways....

Another problem was that camchain tensioner adjustment time was very
carefully specified, for a reason, but many owners ignored it ("Oh, it
sounds OK....") and even a mildly flailing chain can start wearing
itself and other components out very fast indeed. Take the 400 Four:
camchains can last well over 60k miles if they're correctly adjusted as
per maintenance schedule. But if they're not, they're fucked within 20k
miles.

And another problem was simply that they rushed out the models too
quickly, relying on after-sales mods and recalls to sort out the early
rogues.

The CX was a case apart: the 80 degree vee presented a completely flat
(no visible lobes) side of the camshaft once every cam revolution, and
the flutter this induced was extraordinary. The failures were so
frequent and so early that Honda *must* have known about it during
testing.

 

It is. Yamaha had problems of their own, of course, like the truly
terrible XZ550 and monoshock XS400, not to mention the exploding starter
motors on the v-twins.

Kawasaki had a fair few camchain tensioner gremlins on the Z550/650/750
fours, but they were very easily fixed without an engine strip, which
wasn't always the case with Hondas.

Suzuki had their dreadful electrics. But, but, but... they probably had
the best camchain tensioner of all: I think it was the first fully
automatic tensioner, fitted to the first GS four-strokes. And it just
worked.

But yes. You got the feeling that Honda had one decent engineer
designing the pistons, camshaft profiles, controls, etc, one bloke who'd
failed his exams on the gearboxes, and a mentally retarded day-release
student on the cam drives. As you say, odd.

 

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Why?

 

LOL!

 

Heh. I heard he left & got a job designing Triumph sprag clutches.


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Because some people have no sense of adventure.

Richard

 

No disrespect taken, a very reasonable question. I work in a Community
Mental Health Team for Older People in Redbridge. If anyone had
anything to donate they could send it directly to:

Brian Willis, CMHN, CMHTOP, Goodmayes Hospital, Barley Lane,
Goodmayes, Ilford, Essex (fucked if I can remember the post code).

I realise that the above information does not give you much more
reason to trust me. If anyone wanted me to I could always send a
letter on the teams headed paper to them.

As far as value goes, if it's worth some cash, or more importantly of
sentimental value then you must keep it. We're looking for stuff to
simply stimulate memory and old behaviors, one item we intend to use
is a discarded wedding veil when looking at relationships, marraiges
etc.

 

Sounds good, holds breath in anticipation

 

Christ. I parsed that as 'odd' behaviours.

 

Odd behaviours, those come with the territory. I'm sure you're not old
enough, but perhaps it's time for an assessment? One of the skills
assessed is the ability to read accurately and act upon instructions.

 

Oops. So that's me nadgered on two counts.

 

If you have to have it explained then you certainly won't understand.

 

I gave up being polite to people who weren't paying me before the
internet was invented.

 

cheeky sod, Bonwick, you're supposed to act polite to the locals on chara
trips.

 

I've got an old mac belonging to my Uncle Ernie.

 

A **** of a lot more than your disposable income would cover.

Not a chance. I learned my skills by crashing when I was younger and
these days I ride bikes for laughs and not for slaps on the back.

Confusion reigns.

 

Does it have a fiddle hidden in it?

 

Don't bother, I'm watching the highlights of the England match then
going to sleep before launching myself back into the fray tomorrow
morning.

 

How much d'you need paying to go away, then?

Re: explain/understand - I don't understand, I need it explaining -
go on, give us a clue - is this some version of Craig Shergold I
haven't heard of (behind the times, me), a well-known scam of some
sort involving, er, amassing an untold fortune in school satchels or
something, a well-known piss-taker of a poster, or just on principle
'cos it's a crosspost (in which case KFing crossposts per-se would
seem to be easier). Is it that x-posting to the shed will
automatically swerve the thread off-topic almost as quickly as
posting "I'm going to ignore this thread", or what?

Is it just that outside the comfortable confines of the Shed,
usenet posters are simply randomly agressive?

[suspicious]

Are you one of these new-fangled bikers who had some crap repmobile, like
a Bayerische Mist-Wagen, but then had a mid-life crisis, thinks anyone
not riding the latest supersbike is scum and wouldn't dream of
acknowledging another biker on the road, and, next week
is gonna crash through a hedge on a deserted road at about 160mph and,
if you survive, blame it on someone else and/or try to sue the hedge,
the ambulance service, the bike manufacturer and the instructor who
got you through the test a few weeks back?

Just wondering.