906 Laid up till spring

[Mc tool]

I did a fair bit of work to my paso wiring , mostly replacing those molux multi pin plugs and fitting headlight relays
. Its so hot here that on returning home from my sunday blast ( on my 97 , 900ss ) , much to the amazement of all ( I had an audiance ) I just flopped straight into the pool , helmit , boots the lot

[higgy]

OK McTool, Repeat after me, aloud 3 times!!! Preferably in front of an audience

I am
Sofa King
We
Todd
Did

[Mc tool]

I had to say it 3 times

[higgy]

Me too the first time

[JWilliam]

Its so hot here that on returning home from my sunday blast ( on my 97 , 900ss ) , much to the amazement of all ( I had an audience ) I just flopped straight into the pool , helmit , boots the lot

Don't believe you, we need pictures.

[ducapaso]

Its so hot here that on returning home from my sunday blast ( on my 97 , 900ss ) , much to the amazement of all ( I had an audience ) I just flopped straight into the pool , helmit , boots the lot

Don't believe you, we need pictures.

Pictures, videos, whiteness, documents.....

[Mc tool]

This is now an historical event ... so it would have to be a re-enactment, an any how it aint that hot at the moment . As for the witnesses , that would be the cats , the Mrs and the 2 dykes from up the road ( yes , I feel quite safe , and so does she - they look like Ren and Stimpy ! ) They are good friends .( just displaying my tollerance for the sexually confused there )
As for the pix , I have oodles of pix I would love to share, I just cant figure out how to get them there . I see there is a bit in the F A Q explaining how to do this so I will have another go

[timmetje]

I rode 200 miles on 1/1/2009. 8th year in a row that I rolled a bike out and put significant miles on, on New Years. It was 15 degrees F (-9C) when I left the garage and 20F (-6C) on return. It was a brisk and fun day on the road. Don't put them away for the winter. Ride on nice days and enjoy!!

No I'm really bothered about the fact that salt used used for de-icing of roads. I mean that I don't dispute that the roads must be kept useable for the emergency services. But salt is a corrosive chemical and its constituents are trouble enough (Sodium & Chlorine). There is a chemical process known as reduction which can take place within an oxygen free enviroment, whereby compounds can be reduced to primary constituents. Now do you ever see rear brake discs that have exceptional grooving done to them? You never see this on race bikes and this grooving looks to me like acidic erosion. The only acid that could be present is Hydrochloric acid - not possible I hear you type - but if reduction is taking place, principaly between the brake pad, disc and salt water dragged in between the two there is a high temperature and pressure oxygen free enviroment where salt could be reduced to sodium and chlorine and both these elements would be capable of attacking the steel brake disc. The Chlorine can mix with water to form HCl and the Sodium could form an alloy with the steel disc to greatly soften the metal. There's your grooving.
Whats more salt can be drawn into the engine by induction to contaminate the engine oil and the previously mentioned process of reduction and recombination can feasibly take place. The outcome being softening of the cylinder walls, gears, crankshaft bearings etc. A 2 litre engine will induct 66litres of air per second at 4000rpm (full throttle) and because salt is pulverised almost to a vapour by heavy road vehicles I would not expect the air filter to stop the induction of salt vapour into the engine. So I do not use my machine when any salt is present because I am sure this rapidly degrades cycle components.

holy shit william, you scared the hell out of me, now i dont dare to drive my bike anymore (ok maybe in the summer)

[JWilliam]

Bit long winded isn't it! But if I'm right about this (and I think I am) then before long there should be a severe performance difference between my old charger and motorcycles that are about 5+ years old. Rode it this weekend (22/3) and found it easy to keep up with a mildly corroded 2004 Yamaha R1 - like no trouble at all. Which is just as I would expect.