You need to move this direction so you don't make it angry by cooping it up for months on end in that yankee weather.... No offense intended, but you'll get used to calling cactus trees in no time at all if the chiggers don't chew your nuggies off when you stop roadside... Yep it'll tame right down pardner.
Swear shes faster, meaner and WAYY louder! [/QUOTE
Mine is a shift in something... mixture... yes, but the way it revs... faster couldn't say for sure. It just comes on differently going towards the top RPM's. It used to be more of a consistent wind up, and now it's just pulling upwards a little quicker and that's not saying it's not lagging in the lower range, although it pulls like a freight train. I wasn't trying to stir the pot or claim magic, but some little bit is not how it was. This is a 42 year relationship with lots of miles prior to storage and another 4k since awakening 1 1/2 years ago.
Finally found a brake cable of correct length and put the stock handle bars back on last weekend.
Swear shes faster, meaner and WAYY louder!
I .., and most impressive is that the acceleration seems to have increased quite a bit.... Tell me it's my imagination and that I just like the drop in noise level...
Well, that's one way to take over a thread and direct it to your house.
'Mechanical sympathy' is what it's about, no? And a bit of a symbiotic relationship too, you're relied upon to do the maintenance and servicing, for that you're repaid with reliable performance. None of this: 'One lady owner cr*p: 'It was making weird noises so I turned the radio up!' Real men get off and reach for their walletI find it interesting once I glean what's transpiring because everyone's backyard experience is enlightening.... and Pete mentioned ironhead too. I've a soft spot for them..... I believe that I'm riding altogether too often spending too much time with and on my Commando and beginning to believe everything it communicates to me.... All just sweet nothings that don't mean anything because it is after all only a machine and I am demented from too much time spent listening to FZ's 'Joe's Garage' in my youth. Machines can't talk.
Think I'll take a ride anyway, and then clean her float bowls. They bulge so nice and firmly.
Seat of the pants is very inaccurate with small changes in performance.
Perhaps I should market these.
" Glen's Magic Performance Plugs"
$189.95 per pair
Don't accept substitutes or copies.
Only we know the ideal alloy and exact dimensions for total performance. Get the originals and still the best Norton Performance Plugs. You'll feel the difference!
That is SO TRUE.
In fact, when you are mechanic and test rider, it’s even more so. It’s virtually impossible to avoid pre programming an expected outcome into your sub conscience.
So numbers off a dyno are better than lap times off a race circuit ?