TwoSeven
24th January 2005, 12:05
Living in a foreign place for a while - it kind of sneaks up on you how much you adjust to the culture.
I'm kind of half metric - but speed I still do in mph - although this morning I forgot how quick an Mph actually is.
I've been rebuilding my old race bike (its an old cibby f2). Finally got it to the stage where I could take it up the street for a quick test run to see if i'd bolted all the bits on correctly (i've tested each bit by itself before).
So I went up the road in 2nd gear a few times and it all seemed to be hanging together. Then dropped down into 1st (it idles at 5k) and gave some pressure to the throttle.
Was off down the street in a flash but glancing down at the speedo (i still have attached) I noticed that it was stuck on 90km/h when the bike started to shudder from the rev limiter (its using a stock black box at the moment).
Bugger thinks I - something wrong here. Perhaps I have the gearing wrong because it should be more than that according to my setup calculations.
Got back to the garage and put the bike away - while checking stuff to see if anything had gone wrong - discovered that I had my old UK speedo on (I thought I'd aquired a new one at some stage). The 90 was in Mph.
So happy that 1st gear is as I set it up to be. I'd just forgotten what Miles per Hour feels like to ride - had found my self used to those high numbered kilopoofters :)
I'm kind of half metric - but speed I still do in mph - although this morning I forgot how quick an Mph actually is.
I've been rebuilding my old race bike (its an old cibby f2). Finally got it to the stage where I could take it up the street for a quick test run to see if i'd bolted all the bits on correctly (i've tested each bit by itself before).
So I went up the road in 2nd gear a few times and it all seemed to be hanging together. Then dropped down into 1st (it idles at 5k) and gave some pressure to the throttle.
Was off down the street in a flash but glancing down at the speedo (i still have attached) I noticed that it was stuck on 90km/h when the bike started to shudder from the rev limiter (its using a stock black box at the moment).
Bugger thinks I - something wrong here. Perhaps I have the gearing wrong because it should be more than that according to my setup calculations.
Got back to the garage and put the bike away - while checking stuff to see if anything had gone wrong - discovered that I had my old UK speedo on (I thought I'd aquired a new one at some stage). The 90 was in Mph.
So happy that 1st gear is as I set it up to be. I'd just forgotten what Miles per Hour feels like to ride - had found my self used to those high numbered kilopoofters :)