OT: Oh FFS...
Wicked Uncle Nigel
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7558091.stm
What the *fuck* is the point in that?
--
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My position was (and, to be honest, largely remains) one of complete ambiguity.
ogden
>
> They're remaking the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7558091.stm
>
> What the *fuck* is the point in that?
Co-financed by Sky Movies and MTV. Ha.
"It's boil-in-the-bag perversion for sexually repressed accountants and
first-year drama students with too many posters of Betty Blue, The Blues
Brothers, Big Blue and Blue Velvet on their blue bloody walls!"
--
ogden
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RGV250 VJ22
darsy
wrote:
> They're remaking the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7558091.stm
>
> What the *fuck* is the point in that?
money, of course, you dullard.
--
d.
Wicked Uncle Nigel
<da...@sticky.co.uk> typed
Heh.
Silly me.
Big Dave
> It's boil-in-the-bag perversion for sexually repressed accountants
Ideal for UKRM then
:-)
Nige
"darsy" <da...@sticky.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2b265e6f-fb19-48a4...@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
I wonder if Heath Ledger will be in it?
Phil Launchbury
> Nige wrote:
>>
>> "darsy" <da...@sticky.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:2b265e6f-fb19-48a4...@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com
>> ...
>> > On Aug 13, 2:24 pm, Wicked Uncle Nigel
>> > <w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>> > > They're remaking the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
>> > >
>> > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7558091.stm
>> > >
>> >
>> > money, of course, you dullard.
>>
>> I wonder if Heath Ledger will be in it?
>
Credit and debit?
Phil
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to juggle mushrooms'
Beav
"Wicked Uncle Nigel" <w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote in message
news:z14VeR6j...@rcav8r.demon.co.uk...
> They're remaking the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7558091.stm
>
> What the *fuck* is the point in that?
They can't think of anything new.
--
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Zed 1000
OMF# 19
Veggie Dave
literary masterpiece:
>They're remaking the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7558091.stm
>
>What the *fuck* is the point in that?
While it seems a little odd, it's also worth considering that the,
admittedly excellent, Rocky Horror Picture Show deviates from the
musical quite a lot in certain areas - Rocky doesn't talk in the film
thus changing many scenes quite dramatically, one song and the build up
to it is completely missing, certain scenes are split.
Assuming it can be done well, there is room in the world for a proper
film version of the musical. Of course, it's being made by Sky and MTV,
so the chances of that happening are pretty damn slim.
--
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SD
<w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>They're remaking the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7558091.stm
>
>What the *fuck* is the point in that?
Even worse news ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7567840.stm
Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork are back.
--
Salad Dodger
antonye
>
> Even worse news ...
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7567840.stm
> Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork are back.
Damn! Time to change my ringtone otherwise I
may be accused of being down wit' the kids.
--
Antony
Wicked Uncle Nigel
<salad....@idnet.com> typed
Is *NOTHING* sacred?
darsy
wrote:
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SD
>
> >On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:24:51 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
> ><w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>
> >>They're remaking the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
>
> >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7558091.stm
>
> >>What the *fuck* is the point in that?
>
> >Even worse news ...
>
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7567840.stm
>
> >Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork are back.
>
> Is *NOTHING* sacred?
funnily enough a google for "nothing sacred" and "remake" turns up
mostly hits of lamers making the same complaint as your OP.
--
d.
zym...@technologist.com
Fook, is nothing sacred.
We'll have Mary, Mungo and Minge back in no time ..
P.
zym...@technologist.com
wrote:
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SD
>
> >On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:24:51 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
> ><w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>
> >>They're remaking the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
>
> >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7558091.stm
>
> >>What the *fuck* is the point in that?
>
> >Even worse news ...
>
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7567840.stm
>
> >Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork are back.
>
> Is *NOTHING* sacred?
hah, Ginged by WUN.
<hangs head in faux shame>
P.
ginge
wrote:
Might I be so bold as to suggest Mahna mahna, from the muppet show.
There are times I leave the phone to ring on purpose just to see how
many people I get humming it later in the day.
It's one of the few little pleasures left at work.
antonye
> antonye wrote:
>
> >Damn! Time to change my ringtone otherwise I
> >may be accused of being down wit' the kids.
>
> Might I be so bold as to suggest Mahna mahna, from the muppet show.
You utter *cunt*.
--
Antony
Timo Geusch
You're a bad man :).
<thinks>
This new phone I just got *does* need a better ringtone anyway...
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Lozzo
My phone currently has my butler announcing "Excuse me, sir; it would
appear that someone is trying to contact you telephonically, shall I
tell them to fuck off?"
My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
--
Lozzo
Eddie
It's a ...
# phenomena!
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Hers: Monster S4R, GSX600F (breaking, everything must go!)
Eddie
>
> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
> shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
Paul Corfield
<the.gin...@THISgmail.com> wrote:
>Might I be so bold as to suggest Mahna mahna, from the muppet show.
>
>There are times I leave the phone to ring on purpose just to see how
>many people I get humming it later in the day.
<chortle>
>It's one of the few little pleasures left at work.
It's now going through my head!
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Krusty
The daah dada daah dada daaah, daaah bit from Robbie Williams'
Millenium (the Bond film sample) is jolly good for that too.
--
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Off-Road Classifieds
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Paul Corfield
wrote:
>SD wrote:
Shame I don't have your number. I'd be tempted to call just for the
amusement factor of knowing that tune was ringing for the 73rd time in a
morning ;-)
c...@nospam.netunix.com
>
> There are times I leave the phone to ring on purpose just to see how
> many people I get humming it later in the day.
>
> It's one of the few little pleasures left at work.
I have a .wav file of a genuine 1960s PO 700 series telephone bell.
The WTF look on people's faces when then first hear it is precious.
antonye
> antonye wrote:
>
> >Damn! Time to change my ringtone otherwise I
> >may be accused of being down wit' the kids.
>
> Shame I don't have your number.
You should have? I have yours I think. It's not changed
in the last 15 years (except for the code change from
0585 to 07885!) so you probably do have it somewhere.
> I'd be tempted to call just for the amusement factor
> of knowing that tune was ringing for the 73rd time
> in a morning ;-)
Well yes, but I actually have it set on silent while
at work. I made the mistake (once) of leaving it on
normal at my previous place of employment [1] and
received a text message. At the time my text message
sound was the "Mail, motherfucker!" sample from
the film "Eurotrip" or something. Oh how the open
plan office chortled.
[1] this was not connected to it being "previous"
--
Antony
Wicked Uncle Nigel
<ed...@deguello.org> typed
>Lozzo wrote:
>> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
>> shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
>
>Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
Heh. Me too.
SD
<w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote:
>Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
><ed...@deguello.org> typed
>>Lozzo wrote:
>>> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
>>> shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
>>
>>Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
>
>Heh. Me too.
Boringly, I have the sound of a CBX being run up through the gears.
--
Salad Dodger
Colin Irvine
<w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> squeezed out the following:
>Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
><ed...@deguello.org> typed
>>Lozzo wrote:
>>> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
>>> shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
>>
>>Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
>
>Heh. Me too.
And me - a veritable concord.
--
Colin Irvine
ZZR1400 BOF#33 BONY#34 COFF#06 BHaLC#5
http://www.colinandpat.co.uk
CT
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
> <ed...@deguello.org> typed
> > Lozzo wrote:
> >> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
> > > shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
> >
> > Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
>
> Heh. Me too.
FFS! I thought you were all adults. Ringtones should, well, just
ring[1]
[1] Please prefix this post with "AAT"
--
Chris
Catman
> Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
>
>> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
>> <ed...@deguello.org> typed
>>> Lozzo wrote:
>>>> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
>>>> shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
>>> Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
>> Heh. Me too.
>
> FFS! I thought you were all adults. Ringtones should, well, just
> ring[1]
Is the *right* answer.
We have a foam lined, airtight jar in the office. It's called the supressor.
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CT
> > FFS! I thought you were all adults. Ringtones should, well, just
> > ring[1]
>
> mine rings with Johnny Todd.
Do what? Is that a euphemism?
--
Chris
Tim
<sp...@bonwick.me.uk> writes
>On 18 Aug 2008 20:23:29 GMT, "CT" <m...@christrollen.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
>>
>>> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
>>> <ed...@deguello.org> typed
>>> > Lozzo wrote:
>>> >> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
>>> > > shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
>>> >
>>> > Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
>>>
>>> Heh. Me too.
>>
>>FFS! I thought you were all adults. Ringtones should, well, just
>>ring[1]
>
>
because all the others have silly rings so it is much easier to hear ;-)
(5.5 weeks to go)
--
Tim
http://www.pitfieldbeershop.co.uk/
Wicked Uncle Nigel
<m...@christrollen.co.uk> typed
>Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
>
>> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
>> <ed...@deguello.org> typed
>> > Lozzo wrote:
>> >> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
>> > > shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
>> >
>> > Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
>>
>> Heh. Me too.
>
>FFS! I thought you were all adults. Ringtones should, well, just
>ring[1]
Rubbish, they're a way for us to express our individuality.
That's why we... all... have the same one...
Bugger.
The Older Gentleman
"Wheeeeoooooosssshhhrattlerattlefuckingcamchaintensioneragain"
--
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and hassle for no tangible benefit."
SD
(The Older Gentleman) wrote:
>SD <salad....@idnet.com> wrote:
>>
>> Boringly, I have the sound of a CBX being run up through the gears.
>
>"Wheeeeoooooosssshhhrattlerattlefuckingcamchaintensioneragain"
http://www.ukcbxclub.com/folders/Transformations_1.htm
--
Salad Dodger
Eddie
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
> <ed...@deguello.org> typed
>> Lozzo wrote:
>>> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
>>> shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
>>
>> Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
>
> Heh. Me too.
Something like:
<fx: arrow>
Message for you, sir.
?
Wicked Uncle Nigel
<ed...@deguello.org> typed
>Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
>> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
>><ed...@deguello.org> typed
>>> Lozzo wrote:
>>>> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
>>>> shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
>>>
>>> Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
>> Heh. Me too.
>
>Something like:
>
><fx: arrow>
>Message for you, sir.
Remarkably like that.
Eddie
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:54:12 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
> <w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> squeezed out the following:
>
>> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
>> <ed...@deguello.org> typed
>>> Lozzo wrote:
>>>> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
>>>> shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
>>> Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
>> Heh. Me too.
>
> And me - a veritable concord.
Oh, well taken.
Eddie
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
> <ed...@deguello.org> typed
>>> Heh. Me too.
>>
>> Something like:
>>
>> <fx: arrow>
>> Message for you, sir.
>
> Remarkably like that.
Huh. And I thought I was *so* clever.
zym...@technologist.com
> Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
> > Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
> > <ed...@deguello.org> typed
> > > Lozzo wrote:
> > >> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
> > > > shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
>
> > > Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
>
> > Heh. Me too.
>
> FFS! I thought you were all adults.
<reads in disbelief>
P.
The Older Gentleman
> http://www.ukcbxclub.com/folders/Transformations_1.htm
I've never seen so many 404'd pictures on one page.
Catman
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
> <ed...@deguello.org> typed
>> Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
>>> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
>>> <ed...@deguello.org> typed
>>>> Lozzo wrote:
>>>>> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
>>>>> shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
>>>>
>>>> Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
>>> Heh. Me too.
>>
>> Something like:
>>
>> <fx: arrow>
>> Message for you, sir.
>
> Remarkably like that.
>
irritating after about a day.
Phil Launchbury
Mine is the start of "Rumble Fish Twist" by the Flower Kings. It
certainly gets the attention..
Phil
--
Phil Launchbury, IT PHB
'I'm training the bats that live in my cube
to juggle mushrooms'
Champ
<text alert>
> Boringly, I have the sound of a CBX being run up through the gears.
Boringly!?!? That sounds fantastic.
--
Champ on hols
ogden
My lunch hour today will be spent listening to a GSXR750 being run up
through the gears.
The goal is > 128bhp. Prace bets now.
Tomorrow, I'll be doing the same with the RGV. The goal will be to have
two intact pistons & barrels by the end - anything else is a bonus.
--
ogden
GSXR750 K4
RGV250 VJ22
Bear
says...
> Champ wrote:
> > On Aug 18, 9:22 pm, SD <salad.dod...@idnet.com> wrote:
> >
> > <text alert>
> >
> > > Boringly, I have the sound of a CBX being run up through the gears.
> >
> > Boringly!?!? That sounds fantastic.
>
> My lunch hour today will be spent listening to a GSXR750 being run up
> through the gears.
>
> The goal is > 128bhp. Prace bets now.
That's a jolly healthy amount for a stock, road-legal 750. I had a dyno
chart for the SRAD that showed 112 bhp, IIRC.
> Tomorrow, I'll be doing the same with the RGV. The goal will be to have
> two intact pistons & barrels by the end - anything else is a bonus.
Fingers crossed ... will be interesting to see what it makes.
--
Bear
2002 Yamaha R1
Saab Aero Sport
dead...@burnt.org.uk
wrote:
Fantastic in real life, yes. Fantastic as a text alert? I doubt it.
As in so many things I find myself out of step with society and the
use of ring tones. If I could get my fingers around the throat of
that cunt in Nokia who came up with the idea of customisable ring
tones in 199X I'd happily strangle her/him.
Wicked Uncle Nigel
<makes note to install "Crazy Frog" ringtone for next time I meet Burnt>
CT
> As in so many things I find myself out of step with society and the
> use of ring tones. If I could get my fingers around the throat of
> that cunt in Nokia who came up with the idea of customisable ring
> tones in 199X I'd happily strangle her/him.
*high five*
--
Chris
ogden
> In article <MPG.2314aa03b...@news.motzarella.org>, ogden
> says...
> > Champ wrote:
> > > On Aug 18, 9:22 pm, SD <salad.dod...@idnet.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > <text alert>
> > >
> > > > Boringly, I have the sound of a CBX being run up through the gears.
> > >
> > > Boringly!?!? That sounds fantastic.
> >
> > My lunch hour today will be spent listening to a GSXR750 being run up
> > through the gears.
> >
> > The goal is > 128bhp. Prace bets now.
>
> That's a jolly healthy amount for a stock, road-legal 750. I had a dyno
> chart for the SRAD that showed 112 bhp, IIRC.
Not so much healthy as downright optimistic. I appear to have the
world's gayest 750 with just 117.8 at the back wheel. It's running a
bit lean across the range, but not enough to bother fixing - I'll just
use it as an excuse to trade up to a thou next year.
Bear
says...
So 10 years of development and only 6 bhp more? Bummer :(
Mind you, the SRAD gave the impression it was a fairly highly tuned
engine anyway - as we discussed before there's *no-one* home until
you're into pretty high revs; great fun when you're in the mood, a bit
of a pain when you're not. I'd still have another one though, if I had
the space, coz I reckon it'd make a banging track-bike.
What's the torque curve like on yours though? 118 bhp is ok if there's
bags of grunt everywhere.
--
Bear
2002 Yamaha R1
Saab Aero Sport
Grimly Curmudgeon
drugs began to take hold. I remember Catman
<cat...@rustcuore-sportivo.co.uk> saying something like:
>>> <fx: arrow>
>>> Message for you, sir.
>>
>> Remarkably like that.
>>
>Used to have that for incoming mail, but found it *enormously*
>irritating after about a day.
Ditto; some mail prog installed that as a default sound but after the
first time, it got heaved out.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House
ogden
> ogden wrote:
>
> > Bear wrote:
> > > In article <MPG.2314aa03b...@news.motzarella.org>, ogden
> > > says...
> > > >
> > > > run up through the gears.
> > > >
> > > > The goal is > 128bhp. Prace bets now.
> > >
> > > That's a jolly healthy amount for a stock, road-legal 750. I had a
> > > dyno chart for the SRAD that showed 112 bhp, IIRC.
> >
> > Not so much healthy as downright optimistic. I appear to have the
> > world's gayest 750 with just 117.8 at the back wheel. It's running a
> > bit lean across the range, but not enough to bother fixing - I'll
> > just use it as an excuse to trade up to a thou next year.
>
<moves goalposts>
Each of those BHP cost me 35 quid. How does yours compare?
ogden
> In article <MPG.2314d00ba...@news.motzarella.org>, ogden
> says...
> > Bear wrote:
> > > In article <MPG.2314aa03b...@news.motzarella.org>, ogden
> > > says...
> > > > Champ wrote:
> > > > > On Aug 18, 9:22 pm, SD <salad.dod...@idnet.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > <text alert>
> > > > >
> > > > > > Boringly, I have the sound of a CBX being run up through the gears.
> > > > >
> > > > > Boringly!?!? That sounds fantastic.
> > > >
> > > > My lunch hour today will be spent listening to a GSXR750 being run up
> > > > through the gears.
> > > >
> > > > The goal is > 128bhp. Prace bets now.
> > >
> > > That's a jolly healthy amount for a stock, road-legal 750. I had a dyno
> > > chart for the SRAD that showed 112 bhp, IIRC.
> >
> > Not so much healthy as downright optimistic. I appear to have the
> > world's gayest 750 with just 117.8 at the back wheel. It's running a
> > bit lean across the range, but not enough to bother fixing - I'll just
> > use it as an excuse to trade up to a thou next year.
>
> So 10 years of development and only 6 bhp more? Bummer :(
Well, it'd gain a few horses, up to low 120s, if I sorted the fuelling
out. But the cost of a power commander and remap work is about what
it'd cost to just get a thou, so why bother?
> Mind you, the SRAD gave the impression it was a fairly highly tuned
> engine anyway - as we discussed before there's *no-one* home until
> you're into pretty high revs; great fun when you're in the mood, a bit
> of a pain when you're not. I'd still have another one though, if I had
> the space, coz I reckon it'd make a banging track-bike.
>
> What's the torque curve like on yours though? 118 bhp is ok if there's
> bags of grunt everywhere.
Torque curve looks much like the one for the 7R but slightly higher
across the range. Which is odd really, given the way it feels dead at
the bottom end but mental at the top.
Funny old things, bikes.
Bear
Like-the-7R-but-more is good though, eh?
> Funny old things, bikes.
Or rather, people's interpretation of them is.
--
Bear
2002 Yamaha R1
Saab Aero Sport
Andy Bonwick
Just hose money at it and keep going to other places with more
optimistic dynos.
Alternatively:
The first few BHP gain is easy and if something isn't working for you
then flog the bits off on Ebay and try something different. You're
running the bike on a standard end can and any fool knows that they're
as restrictive as fuck so buy either an Akropovic or a Yoshimura full
system and grab 7 or 8 BHP, a decent air filter will give you a couple
more and a set of tuned velocity stacks will compliment the
aforementioned to the tune of another couple of BHP. You'll get a used
PCIII on Ebay for about £150 and a bit of set up time will see you up
to the high 120's.
The wanked out old ZX7R we were racing a couple of years ago was
throwing out about 130 at the back wheel so sort yourself out.
ogden
> > across the range. Which is odd really, given the way it feels dead at
> > the bottom end but mental at the top.
>
> Like-the-7R-but-more is good though, eh?
In theory, but it doesn't actually feel like the 7R - it feels like a
stroker the way the power comes from nowhere, regardless of what the
dyno chart says. Weird.
ogden
> The first few BHP gain is easy and if something isn't working for you
> then flog the bits off on Ebay and try something different. You're
> running the bike on a standard end can and any fool knows that they're
> as restrictive as fuck so buy either an Akropovic or a Yoshimura full
> system and grab 7 or 8 BHP, a decent air filter will give you a couple
> more and a set of tuned velocity stacks will compliment the
> aforementioned to the tune of another couple of BHP. You'll get a used
> PCIII on Ebay for about £150 and a bit of set up time will see you up
> to the high 120's.
The end-can it has at the moment is a road-legal Scorpion, not the
stock unit. But that's only because it's what it came with, I'd have
the original on there otherwise.
When I could just replace the whole bike with something fruitier, why
bother tarting it up? Any money I spend, I won't see back, and I don't
want to have to faff about declaring modifications to my insurers -
with my record I have enough trouble getting a sensible quote as it is.
Bear
says...
Like I said, personal perception can be an odd thing.
Bear
says...
> When I could just replace the whole bike with something fruitier, why
> bother tarting it up? Any money I spend, I won't see back, and I don't
> want to have to faff about declaring modifications to my insurers -
> with my record I have enough trouble getting a sensible quote as it is.
But if you get the thou, won't you pay much more insurance?
But yes, agreed. Don't tart about with chickwheels, get something
silly.
--
Bear
2002 Yamaha R1
Saab Aero Sport
ogden
> In article <MPG.2314ee21b...@news.motzarella.org>, ogden
> says...
>
> > When I could just replace the whole bike with something fruitier, why
> > bother tarting it up? Any money I spend, I won't see back, and I don't
> > want to have to faff about declaring modifications to my insurers -
> > with my record I have enough trouble getting a sensible quote as it is.
>
> But if you get the thou, won't you pay much more insurance?
I'll pay more insurance if I tell them I've been dicking about with the
engine - I looked at having the car remapped but the increase in
premium just wasn't worth it - and I tend to play it by the book where
insurance is concerned.
Best option, assuming I don't rack up another three points in the
meantime, is to wait til next year when I'll have another year's NCB on
my side. There's not a massive price difference between a K4 750 and a
K4 thou so a trade-up is entirely on the cards.
Eiron
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:42:58 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
> <w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> said
>
>> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
>> dead...@burnt.org.uk typed
>>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:51:40 -0700 (PDT), Champ <nch...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Aug 18, 9:22 pm, SD <salad.dod...@idnet.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <text alert>
>>>>
>>>>> Boringly, I have the sound of a CBX being run up through the gears.
>>>> Boringly!?!? That sounds fantastic.
>>> Fantastic in real life, yes. Fantastic as a text alert? I doubt it.
>>>
>>> As in so many things I find myself out of step with society and the
>>> use of ring tones. If I could get my fingers around the throat of
>>> that cunt in Nokia who came up with the idea of customisable ring
>>> tones in 199X I'd happily strangle her/him.
>> <makes note to install "Crazy Frog" ringtone for next time I meet Burnt>
>
> seen it spread through the office.
Never heard of it. Do you think I should JFGI or would I then want to
kill someone?
My favourite ringtone was from Fracture by King Crimson, a catchy tune
but not piercing enough. I eventually chose something from Space Ritual
which even I can hear in a noisy environment.
--
Eiron.
Lozzo
> Each of those BHP cost me 35 quid. How does yours compare?
CBR600 - £4.21 per BHP
--
Lozzo
ogden
Actually, now I've stuck the numbers in Excel (using patented "read it
off the graph, make a table, reverse-calculate the torque, then graph
it" technique, so a margin of error about a mile wide) and squashed the
graph up a bit horizontally, there is a fairly pronounced step, just a
bit earlier in the range than I thought.
Still crap though.
ogden
"Not owning a Honda - Priceless"
Lozzo
> Lozzo wrote:
> > ogden wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Each of those BHP cost me 35 quid. How does yours compare?
> >
> > CBR600 - £4.21 per BHP
>
> "Not owning a Honda - Priceless"
I'll remember that next time I pass a Gixer 750...which I have done
lots of so far.
--
Lozzo
Eiron
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:56:58 +0100, Eiron <E1...@hotmail.com> said
>
>> Snowleopard wrote:
>>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:42:58 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel
>>> <w...@wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> said
>>>
>>>> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
>>>> dead...@burnt.org.uk typed
>>>>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:51:40 -0700 (PDT), Champ <nch...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Aug 18, 9:22 pm, SD <salad.dod...@idnet.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <text alert>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Boringly, I have the sound of a CBX being run up through the gears.
>>>>>> Boringly!?!? That sounds fantastic.
>>>>> Fantastic in real life, yes. Fantastic as a text alert? I doubt it.
>>>>>
>>>>> As in so many things I find myself out of step with society and the
>>>>> use of ring tones. If I could get my fingers around the throat of
>>>>> that cunt in Nokia who came up with the idea of customisable ring
>>>>> tones in 199X I'd happily strangle her/him.
>>>> <makes note to install "Crazy Frog" ringtone for next time I meet Burnt>
>>> I'm considering "Mahna Mahna" as just humming it at quiet moments has
>>> seen it spread through the office.
>> Never heard of it. Do you think I should JFGI or would I then want to
>> kill someone?
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXyXuqfBLA
Thanks!
You've displaced the Tannhauser overture which I've been humming for days.
--
Eiron.
Champ
> My favourite ringtone was from Fracture by King Crimson, a catchy tune
> but not piercing enough. I eventually chose something from Space Ritual
> which even I can hear in a noisy environment.
Shouldn't do that.
--
Champ on hols
Tim
<aaccf517-346e-4d80...@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com>,
Champ <nch...@gmail.com> writes
--
Tim
http://www.pitfieldbeershop.co.uk/
SD
>Not so much healthy as downright optimistic. I appear to have the
>world's gayest 750 with just 117.8 at the back wheel. It's running a
>bit lean across the range, but not enough to bother fixing - I'll just
>use it as an excuse to trade up to a thou next year.
Was that courtesy of Martin and Les?
They only got 129 out of my Blackbird, the stingy gits.
--
Salad Dodger
Pip Luscher
>Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
>
>> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie
>> <ed...@deguello.org> typed
>> > Lozzo wrote:
>> >> My text alert is the slutty eldest Slater sister from Eastenders
>> > > shouting "You've got a text, you dirty slag"
>> >
>> > Unsurprisingly, mine's an apposite 306b.
>>
>> Heh. Me too.
>
>FFS! I thought you were all adults. Ringtones should, well, just
>ring[1]
Yes, but not some MP3 of a traditional telephone bell. Unfortunately,
my mobile doesn't have the plain electronic trill that my mobile ought
to have: the closest it has in its repertoire is a kind of faux bell
sound.
--
-Pip
platypus
> dead...@burnt.org.uk wrote:
>
>> As in so many things I find myself out of step with society and the
>> use of ring tones. If I could get my fingers around the throat of
>> that cunt in Nokia who came up with the idea of customisable ring
>> tones in 199X I'd happily strangle her/him.
>
Calling tunes are an evil to make ringtones pale into insignificance. They
are the smegma of Satan.
ogden
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:43:49 +0100, ogden <og...@pre.org> wrote:
>
>
> >Not so much healthy as downright optimistic. I appear to have the
> >world's gayest 750 with just 117.8 at the back wheel. It's running a
> >bit lean across the range, but not enough to bother fixing - I'll just
> >use it as an excuse to trade up to a thou next year.
>
> Was that courtesy of Martin and Les?
Sounds about right. Took me a couple of attempts to find them, they
don't exactly have "Banjax" in large letters out the front.
> They only got 129 out of my Blackbird, the stingy gits.
The lack of forced induction probably doesn't help.
ogden
> Tomorrow, I'll be doing the same with the RGV. The goal will be to have
> two intact pistons & barrels by the end - anything else is a bonus.
>
And the results are in:
54.98 at the wheel and a lovely near-vertical line as the second valve
opens.
That's more like it.
Bear
says...
> ogden wrote:
> > Tomorrow, I'll be doing the same with the RGV. The goal will be to have
> > two intact pistons & barrels by the end - anything else is a bonus.
> >
> And the results are in:
>
> 54.98 at the wheel and a lovely near-vertical line as the second valve
> opens.
>
> That's more like it.
Wow that's actually not half bad ... at least it's not as gaylord for
its engine size as the 750 ;)
Nige
"Grimly Curmudgeon" <grimly...@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message
news:g8fajr$7jg$1...@registered.motzarella.org...
> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember Snowleopard
> <winter...@gmail.lair.com> saying something like:
>
>>There was something I actually wanted as a ringtone but I can't
>>remember it now.
>
> Damn, you've gone and jogged my memory now... the ringtone from "Our
> Man
> Flint" - Flint's communicator doobrie.
where?
I want that
ogden
220bhp/litre. It's a start.
Brownz @ Work
Nige
"Brownz @ Work" <someo...@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:g8h50s$pi7$1...@newsfeed.th.ifl.net...
Ta matey
ogden
> ogden wrote:
>
> > ogden wrote:
> > > Tomorrow, I'll be doing the same with the RGV. The goal will be to
> > > have two intact pistons & barrels by the end - anything else is a
> > > bonus.
> > >
> > And the results are in:
> >
> > 54.98 at the wheel and a lovely near-vertical line as the second
> > valve opens.
> >
> > That's more like it.
>
> crank. Although it is 30 years old & air cooled, so not too shabby.
> Power to weight ratio would be a closer result, not that I know how
> much the Fantic weighs. I'd guess at around 100Kgs though.
Dry weight for the RGV is 139kg. I doubt the Fantic has a twin-spar
frame and adjustable springs at both ends though.
Lozzo
> ogden wrote:
> > Tomorrow, I'll be doing the same with the RGV. The goal will be to
> > have two intact pistons & barrels by the end - anything else is a
> > bonus.
> >
> And the results are in:
>
> 54.98 at the wheel and a lovely near-vertical line as the second
> valve opens.
>
> That's more like it.
Danny's made 72bhp, but it kept blowing up.
--
Lozzo
ogden
I suspect it was a little less stock than mine.
I'm still tempted by a Tyga conversion but if I was going to do it
properly I'd want to strip it and clean it up. Well beyond my
abilities. What I really need is a spare. And a second garage. And
about five years of free time.
Lozzo
If you are thinking of Dave Cooper heads, don't bother going to Stan or
anyone else, come see me. It turns out the guy who designed and makes
them for Dave and Stan is an old mate who I grew up with; he lived a
few doors up from me in the village as kids and we used to play
together. Same goes for their billet powervalves, he designed and makes
those too.
--
Lozzo
Bear
says...
... and so it starts.
<fast forward 20 years>
"Yes, it's a full on MotoGP 250 replica ... it produces 110 bhp, and has
a works frame and parts, but it's cost me 2 marriages and my self
respect".
antonye
>
> 54.98 at the wheel and a lovely near-vertical line as the
> second valve opens.
Phill's was 60.2 bhp on the Seastar dyno with 29.6 ft-lbs of torque.
He thinks it was a bit high, so probably not that far off.
--
Antony
ogden
Already got the valves and I don't think the engine really needs any
work - other than still being a bastard to start (though it fired up
first kick this morning, only the second time that's ever happened)
it's sweet as a rose and smells as good.
It's just the cosmetics. There are rusty bits, scratches, scuffs and
stuff. It's still tidy enough really, but I might tart it up one day.
Maybe.
Catman
Christ, that's nasty. And probably impossible to hear as well.
--
Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3
Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply)
116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2
Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see.
www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
vulgarandmischevious
>Lozzo wrote:
>> ogden wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Each of those BHP cost me 35 quid. How does yours compare?
>>
>> CBR600 - Ł4.21 per BHP
>
>"Not owning a Honda - Priceless"
You can't put a price on owning a brown motorcycle.
Cab
>
> You can't put a price on owning a brown motorcycle.
Heh, many moons ago, before I got my licence, I had a GS125 which I'd
resprayed [shit] brown [1]. It was so unique, that about 4 years later
when I was in East London Poly, I recognised it and found out it had
passed through 2 or 3 hands after leaving mine.
[1] No, I don't know why I did this.
--
Cab