This is My T90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvA8rwuohoo
This is My T90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvA8rwuohoo
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I'm livin' the dream.
Kewl. Nice headwear.
I have a T90 frame under the house.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Hopefully he'll stop skiting about his bloody Stinger soon.....Anyway, it's finished now so I'm moving on to my next project, 1969 CB750 Honda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryi0O7JQYzE
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Well the 'before' is considerably better than my before. Guess I should have spent the money at the start.
Great video, was good to see it done and hear it.
I've never actually ridden one despite owning two.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
I'm the opposite, I never owned one, but rode one from new because my oldest brother bought a nice gold one new. His friend bought an AS3 Yamaha 125 and there was quite a difference which I'll explain.
The Stinger made an awesome sound, the Yamaha sounded rather scratchy in comparison is about how I'd describe it. The Stinger was quite smooth without any wild power band, was pretty well vibration free and could cruise happily at a good speed all day. The Yamaha had quite a marked power band and did seem to have just a bit more up top and did vibrate more.
For the time my brother had the Stinger, reliability was good and it never seemed to foul plugs unlike the A100 I had at the time which tended to foul its plug if you'd run around town too long then wanted to open it up. The AS3 my bro's mate had holed a piston which wasn't good for a bike less than six months old at the time it did it.
The Stinger was a great bike in every way for its size except it drank fuel like guys drinking out of jugs back in the day. We figured it probably had that reliability over the Yamaha because it kept itself cool by way of the fuel cooling the pistons. We lived in Napier at the time and the Stinger couldn't get to Wairoa without a refuel part way at Tutira or Putorino and that trip is less than 120km. It would be no good these days with so many fuel stops having disappeared.
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Merv
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No link but its fairly common air cooled lore that you have to jet richer than ideal.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
8 litres, but the old two strokes drank the fuel as in the T125 would only do about 30 - 40 miles per gallon (10 -15 km per litre roughly) so you didn't try to do a 70 or 80 mile (110 - 130 km roughly) trip wthout refueling part way. A little 4 stroke 125 would more than likely be able to do Napier to Wairoa and return on a similar sized tank these days and not need 3 refuels, as my larger XR250L Honda I currently have has a 9 litre tank and on highway will get 250km to a tank so could do that return trip okay as a comparison.
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Merv
I assumed you were comparing it to an AS3 for range, the AS3 has 9 liters of fuel
A Two stoke is not going to match a $t for economy of fuel consumption Just as, a 4T is never going to match a 2t in equal tune for HP.
to tell you the truth i am surprised the stinger is 2 gallons, are you sure its not US gallons........
Honda 4t might be economical but they make farty noises.
Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken
Lol, I said it was 8 litres and never bothered converting it to gallons, but we did have to buy fuel in gallons in those days and no doubt typically only put a gallon and a bit in each time we refuelled. The tell tale was always how far you went in miles on the clock until you hit reserve and then how far would you trust going hoping you were going to find a gas station.
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Merv
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