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[Peter Menyhart]

Interesting question,
when I'm in Germany in september I'll ask my brother.He works in development at BMW Motorcycle and also races vintage Wankel bikes.
I think your right,the weight gain is probably too much.

Peter

check out our website at:   www.whitehorseranch.com   

From: charlesmccall at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 09:45:11 +0200
To: detomaso at detomasolist.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Absolutely zero DT content

Motorcycle ramblings with a question at the end....
 
The weather has been absolutely fantastic here for the past few weeks, so I
have been using my motorcycle for my daily commute to and from work. It's
recently back on the road after more or less being in storage for 18 years.
It is true that long term storage isn't good for vehicles - either cars or
motorcycles. I filled the tank up with gas and it all ran right on the
floor... hoses that had disintegrated with time. Got that repaired.
 
The gas on the floor was mixing with a massive oil leak caused by a gasket
on the cam tensioner that dried out and cracked. Got that fixed.
 
I'm glad my motorcycle is air-cooled or I know what would be leaking now!
We didn't get off to a good start this year!
 
The motorcycle is a 1982 Suzuki GS650, nothing particularly special but
with a lot of sentimental value. I bought it when I was 19 and a college
sophomore. I'd never been on a motorcycle in my life - neither as a
passenger nor a driver. I walked into the local Suzuki dealer and said "I
like that one, I'll buy it!" and paid for it with my visa card, at 19.6%
interest. And I wonder why it took me so long to pay off my college loans?
;-)
 
We went to the parking lot and the salesman told me "This is the clutch,
here's how you change gears, this is the front brake....have fun!" And I
learned how to drive on the way home. Ah, youth!
 
The motorcycle has been all over the place. I went to Cornell University,
in upstate NY, and my girlfriend at the time went to Michigan, so it made
the trip many times. It's attended Sturgis (despite being a Japanese bike,
but I drove it there unlike many of the Harleys!) prowled the streets of
Chicago, etc. But it got put into storage when I moved to Europe and took a
long time to catch up to me. It recently was made road-worthy and is still
wearing US plates, although I'll have to fix that over the next year. It is
very difficult and very expensive to insure a vehicle in Europe with US
plates. But for those from the US or Canada attending Le Mans Classic - -IT
CAN BE DONE!
 
Anyway, my question. The tendency in race cars and sports cars is moving
away from a manual transmission to an automatic. I know that isn't quite
true but don't really care if there is still technically a clutch or not -
if there isn't a clutch pedal inside, then it's an automatic! Why hasn't
the same thing happened with motorcycles? Because the shift time on a
motorcycle is already so short? Do racers even use the clutch on a race
bike? The weight associated with the mechanism is a larger percentage of a
light bike as opposed to a car?
 
Just wondering this morning, as it was a nice morning for a ride and as
there's no radio my mind went wandering...

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   Interesting question,
   when I'm in Germany in september I'll ask my brother.He works in
   development at BMW Motorcycle and also races vintage Wankel bikes.
   I think your right,the weight gain is probably too much.
   Peter
   check out our website at:   [1]www.whitehorseranch.com
   From: charlesmccall at gmail.com
   Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 09:45:11 +0200
   To: detomaso at detomasolist.com
   Subject: [DeTomaso] Absolutely zero DT content
Motorcycle ramblings with a question at the end....

The weather has been absolutely fantastic here for the past few weeks, so I
have been using my motorcycle for my daily commute to and from work. It's
recently back on the road after more or less being in storage for 18 years.
It is true that long term storage isn't good for vehicles - either cars or
motorcycles. I filled the tank up with gas and it all ran right on the
floor... hoses that had disintegrated with time. Got that repaired.

The gas on the floor was mixing with a massive oil leak caused by a gasket
on the cam tensioner that dried out and cracked. Got that fixed.

I'm glad my motorcycle is air-cooled or I know what would be leaking now!
We didn't get off to a good start this year!

The motorcycle is a 1982 Suzuki GS650, nothing particularly special but
with a lot of sentimental value. I bought it when I was 19 and a college
sophomore. I'd never been on a motorcycle in my life - neither as a
passenger nor a driver. I walked into the local Suzuki dealer and said "I
like that one, I'll buy it!" and paid for it with my visa card, at 19.6%
interest. And I wonder why it took me so long to pay off my college loans?
;-)

We went to the parking lot and the salesman told me "This is the clutch,
here's how you change gears, this is the front brake....have fun!" And I
learned how to drive on the way home. Ah, youth!

The motorcycle has been all over the place. I went to Cornell University,
in upstate NY, and my girlfriend at the time went to Michigan, so it made
the trip many times. It's attended Sturgis (despite being a Japanese bike,
but I drove it there unlike many of the Harleys!) prowled the streets of
Chicago, etc. But it got put into storage when I moved to Europe and took a
long time to catch up to me. It recently was made road-worthy and is still
wearing US plates, although I'll have to fix that over the next year. It is
very difficult and very expensive to insure a vehicle in Europe with US
plates. But for those from the US or Canada attending Le Mans Classic - -IT
CAN BE DONE!

Anyway, my question. The tendency in race cars and sports cars is moving
away from a manual transmission to an automatic. I know that isn't quite
true but don't really care if there is still technically a clutch or not -
if there isn't a clutch pedal inside, then it's an automatic! Why hasn't
the same thing happened with motorcycles? Because the shift time on a
motorcycle is already so short? Do racers even use the clutch on a race
bike? The weight associated with the mechanism is a larger percentage of a
light bike as opposed to a car?

Just wondering this morning, as it was a nice morning for a ride and as
there's no radio my mind went wandering...

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