Re: G5 fans

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

[..]
But most of the misnomers are US.
Shock Absorbers are one of my pet hates.

The springs absorb the shock in order to release it later, and the
damping units dissipate part of the shock energy as heat.

So shock absorber ain't such a bad term all things considered.

As a unit yes, but too many people call the damper itself the shock
absorber.

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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.

Oh OK then, I'll play :-)

Can't argue with the above.

There are some old MVs that I'd quite like - even though I say I don't
like in-line fours, I think I could make an except for one of them. And
a Honda 400-4 'cos I just love the swoopy 4-into-1 downpipe run.

Ooh yes, they were a nice piece of engineering.

However, although I've only mostly owned
inline fours, I'd really have loved to own a big V-Twin. The Honda
VTR1000 comes to mind for a modern machine.

I've rarely ridden in-line fours and I don't much care for the breed on
the whole. I've spent my time on singles, twins, and Honda V-fours oh
yes they're lovely they are.

Nice and smooth of you commute all year round.

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Indeed, although the bikes I had would have required drilling into the
engine to install sensors.

Well, yeah - yer Mac is designed to have bolt-on goodies added very
easily (let's call it software, shall we?), but things ain't so easy in
the world of real hardware.

Hmm, yes, cars are quite well behind the rest of the world as far as
'control' goes.

--
Andy Hewitt
<http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/>
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