Unless you're riding a bicycle up the front. Then it goes on forever!Arthur’s seat...... it’s all over before it begins
Unless you're riding a bicycle up the front. Then it goes on forever!Arthur’s seat...... it’s all over before it begins
That's a cool story. I watch the moto riders on the pro Tour races and marvel at their skill - Paris-Roubaix last weekend one of the moto guys put his over into the ditch - mud-city and slippery as buggery that race this year!!! How'd you get the gig as media rider, Chuck? Hard on a clutch alright! But better (faster) to be following Froomy than your average Joe like me!Yep, Arthurs Seat is a favourite of mine.
I used it often for hill climb training when I was full-on cycling (road bike pushie, not moto). Its a bastard of a climb.
Great memory too--in Feb 2016 I was carrying pillion, a photographer up the final 3 laps of the Herald-Sun Tour on Arthurs Seat, riding along-side Chris Froome (4 time Tour de France winner) as he won the event for Sky Team.
You can imagine the demand on clutch/throttle/balance control needed that day with cyclists all around, spectators jumping out and the photographer hanging off to get the shots. Used my other triple, the Tiger 800XC that day. Memorable for me, but certainly not as much as it was for Chris!
Same principle on a Laverda fuel tap - opposing threads. You could always buy a LH thread tap to match the LH thread rose joint.I think they are supposed to evenly adjust by turning the tube with one right hand and one left thread. It does my head in thinking about it.
Yes, I know WTF corner well. I cycled six Audax Alpine's including the inaugural 235km? Alpine Classic. Discretion is the better part of Valour, so I was only 63y.o. for the last one.That's a cool story. I watch the moto riders on the pro Tour races and marvel at their skill - Paris-Roubaix last weekend one of the moto guys put his over into the ditch - mud-city and slippery as buggery that race this year!!! How'd you get the gig as media rider, Chuck? Hard on a clutch alright! But better (faster) to be following Froomy than your average Joe like me!
Arfur's might be over in a flash on a moto, but I'd reckon it's a bit of work on a bicycle - not as bad as Back o'Falls (Mitta Road up to Falls Creek high plains), which I've ridden probably ten times now - 1h45m at an ave of around 7-8kph!! Mind you, that's with 160-230km and 4-5000 vertical metres in the legs (Alpine Classic Extreme or Ultimate). Glad I can still do it at 65.
No, but LH taps are available. If you've got a lathe you could bore your own rods and tap the threads.The local bearing shop had the left hand Heim joints, but no left hand/right hand rod. Do you know if the left/right thread rods are readily available?
(I could reduce the KLR mount rear section some more, but not necessary.)
Blimey, you've been busy. This is about prototype #3 isn't it?
Now waiting for responses about the two rivets (or whatever they are) holding the doubler piece on the end.
Yep, I think you're right. I will. Not needed.If I were Chuckles, I would chop of most of that excess rear section.
Yep, much better. Nice job Chuckles.That looks a lot more elegant than the earlier versions, I reckon that’ll do… now go out and thrash it!
The race very nearly passes by our house. No huge rainstorms, just a rainy week and a lot of mud. The same mud a lot of men spent 4 years in blowing each other up.Speaking of pushbike races I was watching Paris–Roubaix on SBS the other night, famous for cobblestones and it was the first time in 20 years that they had huge rainstorms. Even the motorbike camera blokes were crashing on the muddy cobblestones.