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- Subject: Silver wheelie machine
- From: mfay@xxxxxxxxx (Martin Fay)
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:09:49 +0100
Gentlemen,
Recent research by myself and my good lady has led to evidence to
support Kens theory. I would however advocate caution as to the
location of the proposed red stripes (See below). As the only (to
my knowledge) on-list-owner of a Red and Silver ST I can confirm
that Silver is the fastest colour, Black is the slowest colour and
Red is somewhere firmly in between.
The first stage of this research involved the installation of the
silver belly pan. (This also happened to correspond to the installation
of the performance pipe and re-tune). I immediatly noticed that the ST
was much more prone to lifting its front wheel under hard acceleration.
I accredit this to the following facts.
[1] that the Silver paint is moving significantly faster than the Red.
[2] Since the belly pan is mounted below and forward of the pivot point
the resulting motion is a counter clockwise rotation. (This is
obviously why I have experienced no stress fracturing of my bodywork)
The extension of the research was to add fully loaded luggage to
the ST for my recent trip to England and Wales. The boxes have
large expances of the slower black finish, particularly my 45L all
black Givi topbox. Since the black was now above and behind the
pivot point the Sluggish Black and Rapid Silver were now working
in concert to pivot the entire machine about the rear axle and
keep the front wheel facing firmly skywards out of every slow
corner.
I feel unable to comment on the stylish sapphire machines as the
only blue on my bike came her good self as she tried to find new
ways to express her displesure at the newfound hue-augmented
handling characteristics of our mount.
So there you have it gentlemen, that Silver is significantly
faster than Black is now a proven fact! There is no other
conceivable explanation for the behaviour of my trusty triple. I
hope that my research will help to dispel any misconceptions some
of may have been labouring under with regard to the colours of
your machines.
Best Regards
Howlin' Dawg
Ken wrote:
I may not be able to handle the mind numbing speeds created by the
silver paint. I may have to put some RED stripes on it to slow it down
considerably ; )
Matt wrote:
Silver must be the slowest color of all since the fork problem has been
noted on all color of bikes.I don't remember whose it is, but one of us
has painted their belly pan silver. I would recommend removing it, before
you cause serious damage to your bike!
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