Re: G5 fans

Andy Hewitt <wildrover.andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But what they do do is tell the machinery what the ambient air pressure
is, and that's dead useful to know regardless of altitude.

I know that, the manufacturers call them 'altitude' sensors.

I didn't know that.

Unfortunately most automotive terminology was created by the
Americans... need I say more?

I think you'll find a surprising amount of it's actually French. But
not that one - calling a pressure sensor an altitude sensor goes along
with an engineering culture that uses `pounds' for pressure and involves
a `g' term in the standard equation used for assessing rocket motor
efficiency.

(US engineers think that specific impulse is measured in seconds; it's
really measured in metres per second (or other units of the same
dimensions). So it's easy to work with rocket equations from Cranfield,
but bloody hard to understand NASA stuff)

Mine has even got an exterior temp
sensor, interior temp sensor and a sunlight sensor too.

I want a Laverda Jota. It's got points and a coil, I understand. No
chance of it being knocked out by one of those EMP weapons.

Now you're talking. My dream machine would be a Brough Superior.

I'd like lots of old bikes - at least three 1000cc Vincent series C or D
twins. One for concourse, one for daily riding with a few modern
adaptions, and one psycho nutcase heavy custom job. Supercharger.
Nitrous. Modern brakes, wheels, tyres. Modern front end generally,
modern rear shocks, one silencer baffle, and a pudding basin lid for me.
/And/ ear-plugs.

If the Vincent owners club don't like it, I'll just out-run 'em. ;-)

I could do with some Kawasaki two stroke triples. And a few old Triumph
triples with modern carbs and electrics.

Aye, I think we ought to stop there... ;-)

Yeah, but the `fantasy garage' game can be fun to play ;-) Anyway, I
like triples. Jotas need to be orange. Vincents generally need to be
black. Kawasaki triples? - mean green or all the colours of the rainbow
if you've got a brace of 'em.

And here's an odd thing: the only three cylinder Hondas I can think of
are two strokes. There was the NS400 road bike (hello Dave), and the
RS500 race bike (hello Ed). Yep, I met both for real, the RS500 in a
suburban garage (/not/ on the public highway, not even when the cops
weren't looking) looking like a 125 but with a full power 500cc GP
engine under the plastic.

NS400s really do sound bad at idle especially. Three gnomes, three
hammers, three empty tin cans, and a supply of nails. One gnome lives
in each silencer. The gnomes bash nails into the tin cans at random
intervals: *that's* what an idling NS400 sounds like.

Or I could be slower and more sensible at get one of the new
Cranfield-engined diesel bikes - the civvy version will apparently have
a mechanical fuel pump just like the mil spec model, so it'll run
without any electrics at all.

Ideal. I still reckon there's a market for a *very* simple and basic
motor.

Honda makes one. It's in the C90.

Good point, I have actually seriously considered one of those.

I used to work with a bloke - teaching - who commuted on his C90. His
other bike was a CBR600. Didn't often see it - but I think he rode it
to college occasionally simply to stop the kids taking the piss out of
his scooter. I.e., `Nothing stupid about riding to work on an eggcup
full of petrol; and you can't deny *that* bike's cool'.

Nope. Neither the BMW K100 (some of the later 16v models did) I
had, or the FJ1200, had any kind of temp warning.

Coo. Well, well, well.

And yet they fit them to a computer eh?

But there's no temp warnings and no temp sensor display in the MacOS UI.

Not as standard no.

You could fit an aftermarket temperature gauge readout to a bike if it's
got the sensors - just as I've fitted an aftermarket temperature gauge
readout to my Macs (let's call it iStat, shall we?)

See what I mean?

Rowland.


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