belfastguzzi

Is 'pipeline' another word for drive shaft? No joking, in a NEWS RELEASE 30/8/07, CARC tells Pipeline Developers “Beef Up Assessment of Pipeline Impacts” That's straight from CARC.org

For those who remember: 'Things go better with CARC' See here 'I'd like to buy the world a CARC' etc etc Remember: 'you never get tired of the taste of CARC!'

Second choice would have been "Grisos are Best"

I thought Jaap should have called this Forum / Section "All things CARC"

UK bike trade seems to be doing ok(?) and according to the mags, selling bikes to Europe, including to other dealers, because of the £ cheaper price now compared to other Euro countries.

Very good. This will be a forum / section with a lot of interest for owners, prospective owners and general interest. Well done!

With all that single-sided thing going on, they should do the same thing with the motor – just use one cylinder, out on one side. On the right, to show commitment to the theme, or on the left to balance it and stop it falling over? Perhaps the rider should sit side-saddle?

I like the sound of that. How should I go about committing this crime?

Bikes, planes... sometimes there's no difference 'he flies through the air'

Be careful!

Never mind the aeroplane thread, this really captures the spirit of motorcycling: see here on how to prepare for thrills

Yes we do! Guzzirider used to tell us all about his Fat Boy, or Big Lad, or whatever it was called.

yes we had a topic about planes. And yes, there was a topic about liking it raw too: mmmm And yes, we had topics about

I want to go to the place and discuss the arrangements with the owner. I'll know after that. I had hoped to do it at the weekend there, but he was away. I'll let you know soon. Regarding the timetable nothing will be set in concrete and people can of course do what they want, however I will propose some options for the days, as it may help people to decide what time to arrive and depart (book ferries). From info so far, Saturday looks like the main day when everyone will be there and for some people it's the only full day that they have. I'd therefore suggest that the main riding route, which is the Antrim coast road (more info about that route on the webpages at moto.belfastguzzi.com and the site at www.belfastguzzi.com), would be on that day. – More on all that later. There is no shortage of good routes. Bertie, do you want me to send you some info on ideas for your week and links to biker-friendly accommodation? When do you actually arrive? Although you won't be here for race week, might you be here for the race day, on Saturday 16th?

Re earlier questions about the video encoding and poor quality... I came across this piece of advice. So a constantly bouncing and shaking camera on a motorbike was the big problem. "When you move the camera, every pixel in every frame changes constantly, and this is very hard to compress. The more pixels that are repeated, the smaller the size of the file. By limiting movement, you can increase the efficiency of compressing your footage, and reduce the file size for faster playback. Use a tripod and/or stabilizer to limit camera movement."

Do keep us informed of progress. The sooner Jaap opens an 'other models' Forum here, the better. Perhaps once he starts riding that Sport...?

Jaap, what time to you get in on 22nd and what time is the ferry out on 24th? Bertie – are you still thinking of coming over for the NW200 week?

*snort*

Not to worry. I've just spoken to Will at Barholm and he's away this weekend, so I'll have to leave it 'til later anyway.

It's a GT-Rx, bought from Todd at the Guzzitech site. There's an older thread on it somewhere – I'll have a look... never mind, it just points to the video here which is even more noisy as it doesn't have the pipe-end insert. You can see what it looks like in the vid. Edit very short vid here, shows pipe. Edit 2 This one has more of the high rev sound that Pete was lusting after. The end of this video shows what it looks like with the insert.

yes I need to seal a bit of a gap. Is there a particular make / brand of high temp silastic for exhausts? Do you ask for 'silastic' at the shop? A step up from Gun Gum, I take it. I also need to get the second map installed. The motor hasn't blown up yet. Funny, re the revs. I wondered the same thing on watching the video back – I thought I could have had it in lower gear and higher revs. Having said that, it felt fine at the time, on the road. Some people have argued here that these bikes don't work at down around 3,000 rpm and shouldn't be used there because it is bad for them, but as you can see, a lot of the time I was between 2k and 4k. It's not that feasible to be running above 5k/6k on those roads. They are small and you don't know what is around each corner: there can be someone walking a dog, or a Range Rover in the middle of the road. Quite often I've gone into a blind corner and there has been a car cutting into the corner towards me, on my side of the road. It's the main hazard of these narrow roads, along with loose surface – but they do make a beautiful ride. I don't know which video you watched. I've just looked at the short one, Part 1, and indeed the revs look like they're hovering around 2k - 3k on that bit of road! There's another vid here, with a few more open stretches of road http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=B4enbSpnWyw – but it still begs the same question... lower gear / higher revs? There's another aspect to this matter – what should be put on Youtube and what should not? I think you saw the video from when I originally installed the pipe. It covers a wider rev range. I haven't put the earlier videos on Youtube because it may not be wise to do so. I don't know: anyone else got thoughts on that? In fact I cut some bits out of the Portaferry videos because I thought that they may look bad to some viewers. Better to be cautious?

All Rock n Roll life is here, including 'Motorcycle Gang' "Guys too highly geared for their own good"

Diddley forget Bo