bamabikeguy
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Last night Mr. Cantor called, he's the 80 y.o. with 2 artificial knees, who chased me down on the last day of my NC trip. He ordered a 21 speed with RS 35.
He was thinking of ordering a second bike, selling the first one to a friend of his. But he wanted to know about getting more ooomph out of the Robin.
Then, about 6 pm, Jimmy Burke called, he's a MB.com lurker. He dropped off a Jaguar the same day as Mr. Cantor picked up his, test road Mr. Cantor's bike, and since April, he has 2,000 miles on his bike. He has a GPS installed on the Jaguar, to check everything to the 0.00001 decimal.
A friend of his also put a Robin on a Jaguar, both are superMB addicted.
Then they started tweaking.
When they finish analyzing the results, they will give me all the specifics, including item number.
But I thought I'd put up this preliminary thread, to get the ideas out there.
I talked to Denis at GEBE to discuss them this morning. He can't do this to his kits, because of warranties and such, but says "it works".
First, (AND I DIDN'T TELL YOU TO DO THIS) Jimmy removed his catalytic converter. He didn't touch the baffles, but used a dremel stone to clean it up, inserted a 3/8" nipple (locktited).
He says the increased compression could be felt 3 feet away from the exhaust, upped them both by 2 miles per hour.
Then they contacted, discussed and ordered two bigger carburators. This is where I'll get the product # later, but they cost $57 plus shipping (Denis said $55, I guessed $ 60 ).
The short story is, when they told the representative which carb was on the R/S, the rep. replied that size "acted like a governor".
We will wait for the road test results from Jimmy, but they are expecting more speed from the upgrade, with maybe a small decrease in m.p.g.
I spoke to my buddy Jack this morning, we MAY duplicate this on my recumbent soon.
(note the typographical error in my ad, I got a free week for their mixup)....
He was thinking of ordering a second bike, selling the first one to a friend of his. But he wanted to know about getting more ooomph out of the Robin.
Then, about 6 pm, Jimmy Burke called, he's a MB.com lurker. He dropped off a Jaguar the same day as Mr. Cantor picked up his, test road Mr. Cantor's bike, and since April, he has 2,000 miles on his bike. He has a GPS installed on the Jaguar, to check everything to the 0.00001 decimal.
A friend of his also put a Robin on a Jaguar, both are superMB addicted.
Then they started tweaking.
When they finish analyzing the results, they will give me all the specifics, including item number.
But I thought I'd put up this preliminary thread, to get the ideas out there.
I talked to Denis at GEBE to discuss them this morning. He can't do this to his kits, because of warranties and such, but says "it works".
First, (AND I DIDN'T TELL YOU TO DO THIS) Jimmy removed his catalytic converter. He didn't touch the baffles, but used a dremel stone to clean it up, inserted a 3/8" nipple (locktited).
He says the increased compression could be felt 3 feet away from the exhaust, upped them both by 2 miles per hour.
Then they contacted, discussed and ordered two bigger carburators. This is where I'll get the product # later, but they cost $57 plus shipping (Denis said $55, I guessed $ 60 ).
The short story is, when they told the representative which carb was on the R/S, the rep. replied that size "acted like a governor".
We will wait for the road test results from Jimmy, but they are expecting more speed from the upgrade, with maybe a small decrease in m.p.g.
I spoke to my buddy Jack this morning, we MAY duplicate this on my recumbent soon.
(note the typographical error in my ad, I got a free week for their mixup)....
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