[DeTomaso] Solution for fuel sloshing out of rear float bowl

[Kirby Schrader]

I had two Moto Guzzi Le Mans 850 Mk1 shaft drive motorcycles.

One in Scotland back in the 80's; the other here in the US that I bought as
soon as it came out in 1976.
Both of them were shaft drive. The one in Scotland was newer and more
'refined', but the same bike.

The one in the US, I had converted to 1000cc.
Picture of it is at the bottom of the page here.
http://www.spacecitypanteras.com/kirbyschrader/Kirby.html

The acceleration effect being discussed here was only slightly noticeable.
After awhile, you hardly noticed it, even under full acceleration.

That bike was THE best handling motorcycle I've ever ridden.
It would go around corners so well, you could get into trouble going too
fast and all you had to do was lay over further and through the corner
you'd go. I scared the hell out of myself doing 95mph around a famous 45mph
curve near home.
Famous because several people had accidents there.
The Guzzi just went around the corner. No drama.
Certainly no chassis digging into the ground....

:-)

FWIW,
Kirby


On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:43 PM, <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

>
> In a message dated 6/27/12 10 20 31, davel at emspace.com writes:
>
>
> > Why do the old shaft-drive bikes rise at the rear Mike?
> > Something about the shaft acting as a thrust member?
> >
>
> >>>The driveshaft is actually contained within the swingarm.   The pinion
> gear tries to climb up the ring gear and it extends the suspension.
> Potentially lethal, because if you were cornering at max lean on the gas,
> and
> rolled off the gas, the suspension would settle and you'd have negative
> clearance--the chassis would dig into the ground, lever the wheel off the
> ground, and
> the next thing you know you're upside-down in a tree.
>
> BMW finally got smart and engineered some sort of parallogram thing to
> prevent it from happening.
>
> I would still never ride a BMW.   Stands for Built Mostly Weird.
>
> Mike
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