gearing on my Seeley

acotrel said:

Does a dyno tell you when you are going to burn a piston ? Can you hear detonation over the other noise ?

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Hi acotrel,
I never burn a piston, never squeeze a engine even in my racing days, BTW: more as 70 wins.
I almost agree with your theorys, but the are always racing related, keep in mind that only a few members are involded in racing and they know very good how to do it.
Yves

When you jet your carbs, the tips of the needles are always inside the needle jets, so a lot depends on the taper on the needles. Sometimes you cam increase the size of the main jets and get no change in combustion conditions when using full throttle. For best performance, being lean to the point just before you get the miss, gives best acceleration. But on a road bike where you use mid-throttle a lot, it might be too lean. The taper on the needle compensates for the loss of vacuum as you open the throttle, so if you are using the leanest needles, you often cannot open the throttle quickly.

Yves, one thing I have learned is to never knock anybody else's go. But I don't understand why you are riding your Seeley on public roads. It might look superb, but to me it seems to be a waste of an excellent race bike. I cannot think of anything more frustrating than riding my own Seeley on public roads. First gear would be too much under any conditions. In our town, I would be better-off riding a CT110 Honda Postie bike.

acotrel said:

Yves, one thing I have learned is to never knock anybody else's go. But I don't understand why you are riding your Seeley on public roads. It might look superb, but to me it seems to be a waste of an excellent race bike. I cannot think of anything more frustrating than riding my own Seeley on public roads. First gear would be too much under any conditions. In our town, I would be better-off riding a CT110 Honda Postie bike.

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I am not the only one in the world to ride a Seeley on the road.
Yves

acotrel said:

I cannot think of anything more frustrating than riding my own Seeley on public roads.

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Really? I can Al... how about having a Seeley in your shed that never goes on road or track...?!?

Seriously Al we‘ve heard it before and it’s now very boring.

We get it, you don’t want to ride on the road. That’s fine Al, it’s your prerogative.

But LOTS of people do. And they enjoy it. And many of them on bikes much faster that Yves’.

AL people ride on the roads because they can ride anytime and even better when the bike can handle pretty good, when you are restricted to riding on the track you don't get out on the bike much and also the cost of racing these days even track day can cost, as myself and many others we live to ride and being able to get out on the bike when ever we want to, it be easy to change your gearing on your Seely Al, but of course you are to afraid to ride on the road and as it is you haven't been on the track for sometime, it be more frustrating not being able to ride your bike, no good stuck at home and only thinking about riding or racing or anything on a bike, bikes and Norton's are ment to be ridden.

Ashley

acotrel said:

Yves, one thing I have learned is to never knock anybody else's go. But I don't understand why you are riding your Seeley on public roads. It might look superb, but to me it seems to be a waste of an excellent race bike. I cannot think of anything more frustrating than riding my own Seeley on public roads. First gear would be too much under any conditions. In our town, I would be better-off riding a CT110 Honda Postie bike.

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I ride Side cars for 20 years, but I stop racing at 1981 becouse dokters discover multiple sclerose at Marina
I was riding over the edge and don't want to die and live Marina alone
If I ride my Seeley on the road: It's my good pleasure.
Yves