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My pivot pegz are coming up on 12 months old now and it started me thinking, no broken springs and no problems at all. I reckon my pegz have done a tonne of work and I cant imagine riding my bike without them now.
I need to take mine apart and re grease the pivots as you are supposed to do and I havent
I would like to take this opportunity to thanks Allan from Pivot pegz for such a great product and for his on going support of Old Bull Trailriders, Allan with Battyes have twice now combined to setup the bulk buy deals that have allowed Old Bulls to buy peg sets for $180 delivered, thats $40 cheaper than normal, Allan also donates a couple of sets of pegz a year for us to give away Pivot Pegz have been a sponsor of OBT since the very early days and we look forward to continuing with this great Aussie company for years to come
If you haven’t tried Pivot Pegz get on a bike with them, they are the bomb, if we get enough interested people we will again run a bulk buy
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Will take a pic of my located tonight for ya Jak
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There is more to come I hope, I have to get checked what I get show
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Ktmrat wrote:
Quote:Yes Moto we had a $5000 Data logger that had 12 pick up ports all around the show, measuring temp, flow, vacuum, and rpm, as well as elapsed times, with the temps, flow and vac being picked up at multiple locations simultaneously, I was shit scared my kid was going to drop it and we would have to sell the bike to pay, we actually started with a stock bog set up to gain a bench mark set of data and then went for it with one mod at a time, 4 weeks later……., data does not lie and patterns will emerge if you are willing to take the time to analyze, and analyze we did….and fix we did….ask anyone that sees my boys bikes perform Moto:)
I understand all of that and yes it makes sense and the same testing is done in house at cummins, I will attach some information and pictures of the information that I am allowed to here on our ISL 8.9L engine that only yesterday I was looking at and the CFD results and mods from its testing
Your kids bikes perform well yes, have you actually dyno tested and compared REAL hp and torque figures before and after to compare? I only ask because people will take the baffle out of a bike and be convinced it goes better when it doesnt, it just sounds louder and doctors cure people with sugar tablets because people are convinced it is making them better.
I am not saying for a minute that there is nothing to be gained from all this, I know there is, but for the amount of work and cost you are talking about is there enough to be gained is my question, given that I feel none of the bikes I have seen built or raced and won titles for GHR have modified cooling systems (and I have seen the engines being built for the A4DE, the spirit series and finke all title winning in one way or another the year in question). Are any of the bikes that kids are using to win races/ championships done, no if I believe what I am told, the kids that are winning you club championships arent modified are they, young Pollards RM isn’t done and isn’t he going well.
Remember I agree there are things to be gained, and I have seen performance losses on dynos from a CRF250F that shocked me once the engine got hot, but and here is another fact, the engine is still going to get to operating temperature, doesnt matter how you flow it, doesnt matter if you get rid of all the hot spots as Blue called them, doesnt matter how many pressure problems you fix or even if you increase the efficiency of the pump at high RPM it is still going to get to operating temp because that’s the job of the cooling system to get the engine to its operating temp and try to keep it there, given that its the most thermal efficient way for the engine to perform, between that and boiling is a narrow window I ask again with all the bikes winning championships without it done again how much is to be gained, would love to see some real dyno figures
Again please note I am in no way saying there is no benefit from this
Also the information I will post later will be heavily screened because of my work position
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The results from yesterday are in, Ben made up sometime but he is still 52 minutes behind the 2 Hondas of AJ Roberts and Jacob Smith. The GHR boys have a 17 minutes lead over Todd Smith (Jacobs brother) on the WA supported KTM so thats a fairly handy lead.
Its the halfway point now, Dave is up to 34th position and the lone XR250 which is an L model is up to 48th position still leading a 525 KTM.
All the results are out as per the end of day 3
http://www.rallyresults.com.au/safari2009/MotosLeg3.pdf
Couple of photos e mailed me from ECKS
ECKS was saying last night on the phone that Dave had only just made the last control before they shut it and he and Dave would both be arriving at the end of the day in the dark, so all the work on the bike etc would be done in the dark before they eat, setup maps and roll them for the next day.
Couple of pics from the safari web site, the first one I found was of Dave at speed, with time to wave still
Benny struggling to make up time
Thanks again ECKS and go the Hondas (and Benny)
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I am selling Yoko rims through a dealer, the rims can be purchased on their own at this stage for between $280 to $300 a set (front and rear) delivered to your door for rims only
I have a set of these on my 650 and have had no problems at all, Dan runs a set as well
I can get at a great discounted for Old Bulls complete wheel sets for most bikes, sometimes billet hubs, motard sets etc
Some samples, I will post more when I get them, I can get all sorts so contact me with any colours you have in mind
The last two pictures are the same as a set I sold to an Old Bull last night
Please contact me if you have any questions, I believe they are a good thing or I wouldn’t sell them, there is nothing in the sale for me other then really helping people out. Price rims that are cheap
More pics to follow and Super Motard rims and prices
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Cream is rising to the top Scotty
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