Subject: Loop Performance
Author: joe jump
Date: May 24, 2005, 6:56 AM
Post ID: 1718915608
Sorry for trying to start a thread & falling off the horizon - got real
busy & didn't have the time to post.
Skip mentioned building a loop using a totaled California - that is ME!
Now all I have to do is find one! If anyone here stumbles across one
please keep me in mind.
Rode Junkyard to work yesterday. Decided to try a different way of
riding. I would keep it in a lower gear until the speed I was traveling
required over 5000 rpm, then I'd upshift. When rpms got down to 3500,
I'd downshift. The thing really was responsive - felt like I was riding
a modern multi.
But that's not what I want to do. I like to have the motor running
around 3500-4500 (essentially loafing), but have plenty of torque to eat
a throttle roll on in top gear without requiring a tap dance on the gear
selector.
I'm getting the impression that 5th gear is really just an overdrive,
and I have no business being there unless the spedometer indicates 70
mph. Looking at the ratio data in Guzziology, both 4th & 5th are
overdrives, which I believe eat up some power. Seems it would have been
better if Guzzi would have made top gear 1-to-1, and (numerically)
lowered the rear drive to like 33/11 (3--to-1), like BMW did. All the
new aftermarket 6 speeds for Harleys use 1-to-1 top ratios & speed up
the primary to reduce frictional losses.
Well, thats a waste of time talking about - no options there. But I'm
starting to think about installing a 4-speed and an Ambo rear drive -
that should keep the revs up! What I really want is a stroker crank!!!
Wonder if one from an 1100 would fit in my cases? There I go again, back
to the totalled California!
Joe in St Louis
850T-Powered Ambo
"Junkyard"