Hey Jules and stalling

"bikerbetty" <bikerbetty DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Knobdoodle wrote:
>> "bikerbetty" <bikerbetty DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Bruce's Motorcycles - Grimwade St Mitchell.
>> >
>> You'd think he'd move to Bruce!
>> >
>> > I think Bruce is great (snip) He's adjusted the idle speed a bit .....
>> >
>> OK Canberra aus.motians; I think motorcycle-mechanics 101 is in order
>> for
>> Ms Betty!
>> Never again do I want to hear "My mechanic adjusted the idle speed..."
>> --
>> Clem
>
> <mumble mumble>... well it WAS in there for a major service anyway....
> <sheepish grin>
>
Heh heh..
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"Theo Bekkers" <tbekkers.DeleteThis@bekkers.com.au> wrote in message
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> Andrew McKenna wrote:
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>> I would have thought ideal jetting for a Brisbane
>
> My wife and daughter are jetting off to Brisbane tomorrow. Oh,
> sorry.
>
Brisbane is Bekkoning!
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Hey knowledgeable people; what about fuels?
Would E10 be better for Betty with ethanol's lower freezing point and it's
hydroscopic ability?

Betty; no matter what the temp I've found that higher-octane fuels have
made my bikes run and idle better. If you use just low-octane ULP try a
tank or two of 95 or even 98 premium unleaded.

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Clem
"sometimes to fueling is 3 rd gear feels a strange - like its not getting
enuff ful/splutterly" -- Corks.


"Grump" <grump3 RemoveThis @msn.com> wrote in message
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> "bikerbetty" <bikerbetty RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
> - fingers crossed for tomorrow morning
>> on the way to work in the frost!
>>
>
> Beginners on icy roads...
> hope you make it unscathed through the winter.
> G.
>
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"bikerbetty" <bikerbetty RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> Funny you should mention that Clem - I got an email from a bike friend
> today who had been reading about internal combustion engines and carb
> problems on Kwakas, and he said that there is some anecdotal evidence
> to suggest that Shell Optima (???) seems to work well on the problem.
> I'm a little bit suspicious of anecdotal evidence, especially when it
> mentions particular brands...
>
If you don't know the octane of the Optima you just put a "x" there; so
we'll call that fuel Optimax!
>
> I don't know a bloody thing about the relative merits of different
> fuels (how the f*** did I get to this age and be so naive about such
> important things?), so any advice that I can get from aus.motians will
> be appreciated!
>
Others will provide scientific and logical reasons why I'm wrong but my
seat-of-the-pants reckons I get better running AND about 10% further from a
tank of 98 so while it only costs about 8% more I reckon it's worthwhile!
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bikerbetty wrote:
> Knobdoodle wrote:
>> Hey knowledgeable people; what about fuels?
>> Would E10 be better for Betty with ethanol's lower freezing point and it's
>> hydroscopic ability?
>>
>> Betty; no matter what the temp I've found that higher-octane fuels have
>> made my bikes run and idle better. If you use just low-octane ULP try a
>> tank or two of 95 or even 98 premium unleaded.
>>
>> --
>> Clem
>> "sometimes to fueling is 3 rd gear feels a strange - like its not getting
>> enuff ful/splutterly" -- Corks.
>
> Funny you should mention that Clem - I got an email from a bike friend
> today who had been reading about internal combustion engines and carb
> problems on Kwakas, and he said that there is some anecdotal evidence
> to suggest that Shell Optima (???) seems to work well on the problem.
> I'm a little bit suspicious of anecdotal evidence, especially when it
> mentions particular brands...
>
> I don't know a bloody thing about the relative merits of different
> fuels (how the f*** did I get to this age and be so naive about such
> important things?), so any advice that I can get from aus.motians will
> be appreciated!
>
> betty, wearing student hat
>
The last time I attacked someone in here for using Shell Optimax I got
told to stfu, but to be fair he was trying to solve some other problem
entirely.

Clem gets his bike to run better on 95 'octane' because its a late-80s
BMW that was designed to run on that fuel as a minimum - it's the most
prevalent fuel in Europe. Your bike was designed to run on 92 'octane'
(common in Japan and Australia), and since it gets much colder in Japan
than it does in Canberra, it should be possible to tune the bike on 92
'octane' for the cold weather without it stalling at idle.

E10 might help. Kawasaki don't recommend it for any model, but none of
the Japanese vendors do AFAIK. Personally I dislike the way the bike
smells after burning a tankful of the stuff.

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>> - fingers crossed for tomorrow morning
>> > on the way to work in the frost!

>> Beginners on icy roads...
>> hope you make it unscathed through the winter.
>> G.
>
> Thanks Grump - me too. Gotta learn sometime... I'm pretty cautious, I
> have to say. I know my own limits and am in no hurry to learn my bike's
> limits <grin> if you know what I mean vis a vis speed and general
> hoonishness. I have a very healthy respect for the machine, a keen
> desire for survival and an acute awareness of my extreme vulnerability.
> I don't take risks (apart from the obvious one of actually being on a
> motorcycle in the first place).

> betty

Having spent most of my life in the blue Mountains & commuting on snow & ice
in winter, I've seen
quite a number of highly experienced riders caught out by "black ice" on
frosty mornings.
Just wanted to warn you of the extra hazards.
G.
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"Theo Bekkers" <tbekkers DeleteThis @bekkers.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hammo wrote:
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>> I'll move to Canberra. Who wants to pack all my stuff up?
>
> Watch that man girl.
>
> Theo

When did he have the operation? [1]


G-S

[1] Not that there's anything wrong with that
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IK wrote:
> Grump wrote:
> >
> > I would suggest you try to avoid riding
> > in those conditions at all costs. I've
> > was caught several times by snowstorms &
> > riding home from work after midnight down
> > the Bells line of road,
>
> In the four winters I've spent in Canberra, it's snowed in the city
> *once*. I'm also yet to find any black ice.
>
> Stop scaring the n00b.

It's ok IK. I don't think Grump was trying to scare me - it was an
answer to a question about snow. (Besides, while I'm cautious, I'm not
that easily scared!) In my 10 years in Canberra I've only seen any real
fair dinkum snow once (in about 2000/01?) - and I've never actually
driven my car, let alone ridden the bike, in that sort of weather - so
it was a sort of curiosity thing on my part really.

Having said that though, I intend riding to from Canberra to Bombala in
a couple of weeks, as a birthday present to me... I think it might be
a little bit colder there than in Canberra, but I'll be riding during
the day and I'm thinking snow oughtn't be an issue... just need to rug
up a lot and hope the bike doesn't stall all the time!

betty
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sharkey wrote:
> bikerbetty wrote:
> >
> > Having said that though, I intend riding to from Canberra to Bombala in
> > a couple of weeks, as a birthday present to me...
>
> Happy birthday to you ...
>
> Now, hairy off-road types often reckon you can get through the ice and
> snow by either wrapping rope around your tyres, or by driving
> self-tapping screws into the tread-blocks of your tyres, but I'm not at
> all sure that either of those ideas apply to a GPX250.
>
> -----yellow sharks

Hmmmm..... ok........ I'll um take that on board.... although I suspect
you might be being a bad man......<grin> But then again, oh bugger I
hate being such a newbie sometimes coz I never know what's real and
what's not!

Shouldn't let it bother me really <grin> --- story of my life! One day
I'll have you blokes sussed...

betty
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bikerbetty wrote:
>
> Having said that though, I intend riding to from Canberra to Bombala in
> a couple of weeks, as a birthday present to me...

Happy birthday to you ...

Now, hairy off-road types often reckon you can get through the ice and
snow by either wrapping rope around your tyres, or by driving
self-tapping screws into the tread-blocks of your tyres, but I'm not at
all sure that either of those ideas apply to a GPX250.

-----yellow sharks
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In article <5c5pg.18800$ap3.17355@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"Knobdoodle" <knobdoodle DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote:

> Betty; no matter what the temp I've found that higher-octane fuels have
> made my bikes run and idle better. If you use just low-octane ULP try a
> tank or two of 95 or even 98 premium unleaded.


Just to present the opposite opinion...

My Monster has Mikuni CV carbs which have brass emulsion tubes (or
needle jets). The needles "rattle" in the brass tubes (apparently
exacerbated by the normal v-twin vibes) and eventually oval the holes in
the jets out, leading to the bike running richer than it should. By the
time the jets have done 50,000km or so, its actually running right on
the borderline of too rich so you can tell the difference between the
"high density" premium fuels (like Optimax) and regular fuel - it'll run
OK-ish on some fuels, but cough and splutter after a few minutes at a
constant 80kmh cruise using Optimax.

(Having said that, I suspect running slightly richer due to a high
density fuel is more likely to help Bettys cold running problem than
hinder it...)

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