Impressive and everyone you walk away from (OR CRAWL) is a good one. I wonder if running mousse tubes is worth a thought. I think 20% of Tadpoles power is consumed running the electrics and the portable fuel bowser on board..good on a Dave...Jn
Got home about 2hrs ago had a kip and now have to clean 15w50 syn out of the horse float, then be Warts personal slave for the rest of the day... Any guesses as to how it ended? I will do a RR very soon.
on a positive note Taddy and I bettered our previous best by some 300km.
Thanks for all you interest in my hair brain adventure.
90cc's, mate, you are certainly pushing the envelope !
I feel and understand your frustration when you have invested so much time and soul into the project. Next time !!!
Normal, that's what we do; the undouable, the impossible.
Having always been a fan of small bikes I am following this with interest and a little fantasizing. Postie bikes here (USA) are often considered "collector items" and get a premium price. Therefore I would probably have to find something different for a small bike SS1000. But my interest is up so much to Linda's dismay I may drag something else home. I do have a question on the dyno charts. Horsepower is a calculated value from torque and rpm, the 2 curves should cross at 5252 rpm but the charts shown do not consistently cross at a specific point let alone 5252 rpm ?? And a fuel/air ratio meter on the bike? Very ingenious. My hat is off to you.
After having been in Jacks shed in Albuquerque for a few days prior to the start of the 2015 IBR finishing off some farkling to the Buffalo, when he starts talking engine stuff. listen carefully.
Having always been a fan of small bikes I am following this with interest and a little fantasizing. Postie bikes here (USA) are often considered "collector items" and get a premium price. Therefore I would probably have to find something different for a small bike SS1000. But my interest is up so much to Linda's dismay I may drag something else home. I do have a question on the dyno charts. Horsepower is a calculated value from torque and rpm, the 2 curves should cross at 5252 rpm but the charts shown do not consistently cross at a specific point let alone 5252 rpm ?? And a fuel/air ratio meter on the bike? Very ingenious. My hat is off to you.
Thanks for the interest Jack, you are completely correct the graphs should cross at 5252 rpm... I can fix this for you (with an explanation)... just as soon as I get all my software in this new putor. I also with send a pic of the the A/F in action.
Here is a bit of a story, sorry for the PDF's but Photo bucket is uselessly slow, need to learn to turn off the adds???
EDIT: fixed image problems so PDFs gone
Here is Taddy ready to go, its 2 am on the 7th Jan 2017 and she chomping at the bit.
we headed out through Northam, not a route I would normally take on the Toadster as there is about 12Km of sub 110km/hr speed zones and one set of traffic lamps, really destroys the OA in the first 50km, but then again it’s only the sub 70 km/hr that upset Taddy’s OA. From Northam, on to York through to Cranbrook where we turn left on to Albany hwy and on to the first fuel stop at Albany.
The wind forecast was for 0-10Km/h head wind, but the wind was much stronger and consequently where on the last attempt I had an OA of 82km/hr This time it was only 72KM/hr, not a good start. Taddy used 19lt of fuel for the 467km definitely a good wind.
The next leg had a tail wind forecast but there were big hills as well.
Having always been a fan of small bikes I am following this with interest and a little fantasizing. Postie bikes here (USA) are often considered "collector items" and get a premium price. Therefore I would probably have to find something different for a small bike SS1000. But my interest is up so much to Linda's dismay I may drag something else home. I do have a question on the dyno charts. Horsepower is a calculated value from torque and rpm, the 2 curves should cross at 5252 rpm but the charts shown do not consistently cross at a specific point let alone 5252 rpm ?? And a fuel/air ratio meter on the bike? Very ingenious. My hat is off to you.
Ok so I can't find those particular Graphs must still be in the dyno computer. But here is a run file on two different graphs, one with forced scaling and the other with auto scaling.
The forced scaling will have the 5252rpm crossing as the two Y axis's are equally scaled, where auto scaling has the Y axis's scaled independently so the torque and power traces fill the page better its cosmetic thing that I don't bother much with, very rare that I would be looking at both torque and power at the same time as it depends on the application as to which one I would tune to.
David, I had to read your report twice to digest all the information.
I appreciate all the detail you provided and loved the 'catch can'. You are certainly an expert on pushing the Taddy well beyond design specs of running mail box to mail box.
Looking forward to catching up soon and buying you a beer mate