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Christmas Present Ideas with a 'bike theme!
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
--- Quote from: Laverdaroo on December 11, 2021, 04:53:04 PM ---Just bought a colourtune Ted and with a biy or alterations, you can use it on the 400's for set up. Its a bit of a squeeze but it's doable. The biggest problem is getting hold of one, theyre like hens teeth at the minute and all stockists are showing zero stock. I bought one and managed to get the correct adapter from a pal up North but would have been waiting until March had I waited for my backorder to be forfilled.
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I borrowed mine on a long term loan (a few years) off a mate - I returned it to him - now he can't find it!
He used it on his Lotus Cortina in the 1960's. I assumed they were out of production good to hear you have one.
AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on December 10, 2021, 07:05:41 PM ---Just read "A Bikers Life" by Henry Cole I never had him down as an old Etonian. Interesting read nonetheless.
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Just listened to this as a freebie audiobook (3 month free trial on Audible).
A real warts and all story .. he even admits he's been a real tw*t but you have to hand it to him picking himself up from the gutter and in the process bringing bike programmes/Sam Lovegrove & Allen Millyard to our TV screens. His chapters on sheds is spot on IMHO. the audiobook has 300 hundred odd good ratings and no real negatives ... Give it a go Ken ;D ;D.. The free audio book I got last month was John Cooper-Clarkes autobiography ... a Salford lad so you can't go wrong there Ken even though he never mentions Queens Park Motors in it ! ;D
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-Bikers-Life-Audiobook/1787471071?qid=1639393079&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=BGXA73RNT9MDRCD8J2W9
smoothoperator:
Recommend Jupiter's Travels by Ted Simon, a great book for the armchair motorcyclist adventurer. Can be found for less than £2 second hand.
K2-K6:
--- Quote from: AshimotoK0 on December 13, 2021, 11:02:15 AM ---
--- Quote from: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on December 10, 2021, 07:05:41 PM ---Just read "A Bikers Life" by Henry Cole I never had him down as an old Etonian. Interesting read nonetheless.
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Just listened to this as a freebie audiobook (3 month free trial on Audible).
A real warts and all story .. he even admits he's been a real tw*t but you have to hand it to him picking himself up from the gutter and in the process bringing bike programmes/Sam Lovegrove & Allen Millyard to our TV screens. His chapters on sheds is spot on IMHO. the audiobook has 300 hundred odd good ratings and no real negatives ... Give it a go Ken ;D ;D.. The free audio book I got last month was John Cooper-Clarkes autobiography ... a Salford lad so you can't go wrong there Ken even though he never mentions Queens Park Motors in it ! ;D
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-Bikers-Life-Audiobook/1787471071?qid=1639393079&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=BGXA73RNT9MDRCD8J2W9
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I feel similar about Henry Cole, he's candid about his own shortcomings and lets others judge. Brings things to mainstream tv that generally lay outside common themes (soaps, sitcoms, panel shows etc) that make interesting material. Perfect? Is any one, and would be boring if everything was found to be so. One man's perceived error can look superb to another observer :) and vice a versa.
One of his best attributes is the appreciation of someone's skills in repairing or creation of items, and generosity of praise for those very real skills. All appears fine to me.
K2-K6:
Colortune, I've still got the one that I watched my father use on a B series 1800 BMC car when much younger, along with the fascination of "seeing" the combustion in there long before I could drive.
However, they only really give much insight to off load engine running conditions (not really possible to replicate full torque transient mixture conditions while standing still, unless dyno used) and would ordinarily be used for setting idle mixture on their target market vehicles. Appears very limited use for these engines.
Temperature of exhaust outer material is similarly limited too, I believe. And for similar reasons of accuracy, even correctly running mixture at full load will heat the primary exhaust material way above blue temperature toward orange and why Honda chose to make their original pipes double skinned to prevent the outer showing this.
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