Re: G5 fans

Andy Hewitt <wildrover.andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

Well, it does turn some mechanical energy into heat, so it's not a
complete misnomer. It's not like referring to pressure in `pounds'.
Hell, over here, engineering types tend to refer to `psi gauge' or `psi
absolute' (or whatever the complementary term is, I forget). In the
USA? Just `pounds'. ARGH! No idea what pressure they're talking about
'cos they never bloody *say*, and anyway `pounds' is a unit of `maybe
mass last time I checked, except that slugs got used for that in one
system and pounds are respectable force units looked at one way god all
those old units confuse the hell out of me praise the Lord for SI and
never let me have to gaze upon a BTU ever again'.

(no wonder Yanks carry guns - they need something to stop decent folk
strangling 'em when they come out with abominations like `pounds' for
pressure)

[..]
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.

Hondas are all well engineered (less so since Honda-san himself died, so
I feel) - but I'm not sure the 400-4 is a particularly good example of
such.

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.

I like the power delivery, and the lumpy engine note, and things like
that.

[..]
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.

I missed the point that I specified that it's easy to fit the readout if
you've got the sensors.

Anyway, cars are behind the times when it comes to the *reliability* of
the engineering. I'd say about 50 years behind the times - much as with
the reliability of most consumer electronics. They don't want this
stuff to be reliable: it's supposed to need replacing (in the case of
cars) every 5-10 years.

My mother in law used to have a Skoda. Bought it new. Great car for
the first few years. She had to sell it after it hit the age of about
five. because it was too unreliable for it to be economically viable to
keep it running. And that was because of the electronics that kept
packing up and needing replacing. I've seen so many bits of dodgy
practice when it comes to motor vehicle design that I refuse to believe
that it's not a deliberate ploy to ensure that they get too expensive to
run before they're a decade old. I've seen some *really* crappy stuff
on Fords.

Which is all very vexing, because the damned engines seem to be able to
run forever these days, which is more than people got from their car
engines back in the 1970s[1].

And my VFR750 was made in 1987, and should still work fine once I've put
the rear shock back in place. Well, it's allowed to wear out after 20
decades: that's reasonable.

Rowland.

[1] With proper maintenance and care in use, a competent i/c engine
designed for a car *ought* to run for many hundreds of thousands of
miles - but most people don't give 'em proper maintenance let alone
adequate care in use. Give yer bike a 500-2000 mile oil+filter change,
yer car a 2000-6000 mile oil+filter change, warm it up carefully *on the
move, not stationary*, keep the tappets adjusted (etc), and it should go
on nearly forever.

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