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Post by tony on Nov 6, 2011 0:51:59 GMT
Yes, but what are the levers? Hilton had one because he was trying a pipe with variable length, but that looks like a proper brake lever, and two of them have that. Could be that they use a splitt thing to have the pedal and the lever, or that the pedal is disconnected. Most riders don't use the rearbrake, or the rearbrake pedal anyway. Relocating the pedal wouldn't be a bad idea, or using a lever. That lever to vary pipe length really is weird. I mean you need to concentrate on your line, on your brake and acceleration point, possibly on other riders as well, on gear shifting too, and then a lever to fiddle around with. What next? A book to pass the time on those endless 50m straights? I would say on a kart track th variable lenghth pipe adds too much to riding when there is so much else going on. Keith Terry has this system on his sprint bike (137mph kursaal flyer).. purely to gain more rpm. Charley had a better system with his water injection and that could be set to automatic if need be. But I feel (well for me) the cabel system is a lot to think about when racing.
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Post by amazombi on Nov 6, 2011 8:24:10 GMT
The lever i would guess is an auxilary rear brake.. its on the bars so the rider can gently load the rear wheel to stop it spinning up out of corners. I do this but on the pedal. I would bet its much better on the lever.. anyway.. I will ask him. With autos you usually have a splitsecond befor the variator adjusts itself to engine and road speed, since you don't want that you brake, lean over, open throttle immediately and pull the brake, so that's quite normal. With a smallframe the pedal is placed in such an awkward position that I don't see how you could use it with feeling while hanging off on one side or the other. People have relocated it to improve this, and some people, in particular those with an auto-racing history, have used brake levers. I never knew this established itself as "standard" though. Falc has a barrel out now with LC and a Rave type exhaust valve. Sounds better to me.
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Post by bikegrim on Nov 6, 2011 10:57:25 GMT
I had two of those decrompression levers on my one of my husky race bikes. One was exaclty that to aid starting and the other wad a hot start lever connected to the carb which let cool air flow in when restarting a felled bike. Could it be something like that as it looks at too much of an angle to be useful as a rear brake lever?
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Post by ozoap on Nov 6, 2011 13:23:00 GMT
Is it still technically a scooter, though? You know, with that scaffold pole welded in? Some people actually like scooters made from scaffold poles. Never seen the attraction really...unless I can buy em cheap and go 'muppet fishing' ;D
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Post by Perkin on Nov 6, 2011 15:58:09 GMT
;D
Hahaha
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