Unnecessary revving

A bloke who lives in a street adjacent to ours revs the tits out of his bike
before he sets off, and its a big bastard.
Is this normal, I would have thought it was harmful.
The fucker woke me up twice this morning.
Its the same when a biker is behind at traffic lighs, are you just keeping
the wanking wrist supple or what?

 

Is that a new make I've not heard of before? Is it like a Triumph or a Kwak,
or is it more like a Harely?

Broken sleep *can* be quite harmful I'm lead to believe.

Looks like you're in trouble.

Why else?


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Maybe it won't tick over. Or maybe he's an idiot. It's hard to say. I
think you should ask him.

I've always been puzzled why people blip the throttle just before
setting off from traffic lights myself.

 

I don't know why people blip the throttle just before switching their
engine off.

 

It's only normal if you're a fuckwit with no idea about engines. Try
pointing this out to him.


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I heard a small engine start up last Sunday, early morning. I was out
on the patio having a fag, when I heard what I thought was a strimmer
or mower fire up - then as it rose up the rpm scale I settled on
two-stroke strimmer. A long minute later, the second cylinder chimed
in and the 'strimmer' turned into a bike.

The rpm continued to rise and rise ... "NUG" it went.

Silence returned, only dinged around the edge by a faint thumping, as
of an empty vessel against a garage door.

 

Heh. Where was Lozzo whilst all this was happening, & did a large
quantity of Kleenex mysteriously vanish at around the same time?

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Loz has bought another RD400, then?
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Maybe he thinks you're a **** and wants to wake you up
every morning, so gives it a handful just to be annoying?

 

To wash the oil from the bores thereby shortening the life of their engine.

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ah, I see - everything becomes clear. Personally, I tend to let the
bike idle for 30-60 seconds before switching off - maybe I'm just
strange, though.

 

darsy wrote

There is no doubt that this is the one and only time during a ride that
asking myself the question "Am I getting off now" in the context of
turning off the ignition ever occurs.

If it ain't going nowhere turn the fucker off. Until then keep the
throttle as wide open as you can get it, else there ain't no point.

 

I've heard various explanations over the years and the "best" one was "It
fills the carbs and makes starting next time easier".

This *may* have had some credence in the days when tickling carbs before
prodding the lever was necessary, but I don't think it's the case these
days.

It's really just willy waving though, innit?


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I always wondered about this. I knew a guy whose dad built a kit car, and he
always gave it some revs just as he switched the engine off. Told me it was
good for the engine, but I thought it just seemed like a dumb thing to do.

 

Pip said...

Blimey, didn't know there was a Kawasaki KR-1 around here.

 

It used to actually work on the SUs - but not throttle, just pull the
choke as you switched off. Made morning cold starting much easier.

Certainly is on a modern kit wivva V-something anna loud pipe.

 

Similar thing is done with plane motors, but not the choke, you just pull
full rich mixture and it kills the engine.

Yeah, and let's be reet here, it does sound good on them.


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