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On Jul 4, 8:44 am, "Albrecht via MotorcycleKB.com" <u33665@uwe> wrote:

> Stupendous Man wrote:

> >What is it with the drivers of the new Mustangs? Do you have to fail a
> >driving test to buy one? Most i see seem to have trouble staying in their
> >lane and maintaining a steady speed at legal speeds. Are these cars hard to
> >drive, or merely sought after by inept drivers? Nuke 'em!
>
> Probably geared too tall in high gear.

> Damned things were running about 1700 RPM at 69 mph. When the engine is
> running at a fast idle like that, the car will slow down for every hill
> unless the driver uses the car's momentum to maintain speed.

My Chevy Silverado pickup is exactly like that. It's geared so tall
that I get 28 mpg on the highway at 85-95 mph, but the damn governer
is set at 98 mph because it has oem tires that are R or Q rated. So
on trips, I'm constantly bouncing off the damn governer, trying to
get decent gas mileage!
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Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Joe wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, no such device exists on my bike.
>
> Do you have a tankbag or a large pocket?
>
> Carry a squirt bottle filled with Mountain Dew...


Toss a 1/2 dozen pennies at them:-)
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Stupendous Man wrote:
>What is it with the drivers of the new Mustangs? Do you have to fail a
>driving test to buy one? Most i see seem to have trouble staying in their
>lane and maintaining a steady speed at legal speeds. Are these cars hard to
>drive, or merely sought after by inept drivers? Nuke 'em!

Probably geared too tall in high gear.

After Mustang was resurrected as a sporty car about 1985, their manual and
automatic transmissions had an overdrive high gear for better gas mileage.

Damned things were running about 1700 RPM at 69 mph. When the engine is
running at a fast idle like that, the car will slow down for every hill
unless the driver uses the car's momentum to maintain speed.

Mustang drivers were like VW drivers, they had to get their engines wound up
to feel like they had any power.

My T-Bird had a similar overdrive gear automatic transmission. I would be
trying to use the cruise control to maintain a comfortable pace that wouldn't
attract the highway patrol's attention and idiots in Muskrats would come up
behind me at 90 mph and flip me off as they went by.

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"Stupendous Man" <spam.DeleteThis@trap.com> wrote in message
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> What is it with the drivers of the new Mustangs? Do you have to fail a
> driving test to buy one? Most i see seem to have trouble staying in their
> lane and maintaining a steady speed at legal speeds. Are these cars hard
> to drive, or merely sought after by inept drivers? Nuke 'em!

Here in the NE US, I have the same basic complaint about almost all Audi
drivers... Always tailgating, aggressive driving tactics, etc. What is it
about an Audi that gives the driver a "superman" complex and makes them
think they are immune to accidents, etc.

One trick I've found though is that they LOVE their cars yet tailgate... So
when I'm in my car, doing 75 MPH or so and the driver is right on my tail, I
decide to wash my windshield... Works every time. They back right off and
then clear their windshield of the water that sprayed over my car at that
speed. ...

Unfortunately, no such device exists on my bike.
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>> Unfortunately, no such device exists on my bike.
>
> Do you have a tankbag or a large pocket?
>
> Carry a squirt bottle filled with Mountain Dew...

Why Mountain Dew over water or some other fluid?

I'd never take it THIS far, but brake fluid works well I hear.

Joe in Northern, NJ - V#8013-R

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"Stupendous Man" <spam.DeleteThis@trap.com> wrote

> What is it with the drivers of the new Mustangs?

Dunno, but I had one try to keep me from passing him a couple of weeks ago.
He was cruising along at around 55 and when I started around him he floored
it while looking daggers at me.
Sure, my VFR isn't the fastest bike on the block, but dropping a couple of
gears and twisting it WFO made him disappear in very short order.

Are these things supposed to be quick, or did I just run into a wild-eyed
optimist?
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"Stupendous Man" <spam RemoveThis @trap.com> wrote in message
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> What is it with the drivers of the new Mustangs? Do you have to fail a
> driving test to buy one? Most i see seem to have trouble staying in their
> lane and maintaining a steady speed at legal speeds. Are these cars hard
> to drive, or merely sought after by inept drivers? Nuke 'em!
> --
> Stupendous Man,
> Defender of Freedom, Advocate of Liberty
>

They must be Armenian.

Personally, I LOVE blowing the new Mustang's doors off, on my GT.
Particularly in big sweepers. That really pisses them off.




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On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:56:28 GMT, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
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>Brake fluid would kill their paint job for sure.

Anything you squirt will immediately atomize and probably get your paint job
too, along with anybody else in the vicinity.

>I knew a couple of guys years back who carried marble
>sized ball bearings and old spark plugs in their pockets.

I know a lot of people who have claimed to know people who did that. I've never
found credible evidence that anybody ever really did it. But there have been
plenty of times that I wished I had...anything...that I could flip over my
shoulder and hope it would go through a windshield.

>Mountain Dew should work ... and it is sticky!

Kill switch backfires work pretty well. Yes, I know. FI bikes can't do that.
My current street bike still has carbs. At the rate I get new bikes, the next
one will probably be a hybrid with a turbine engine.

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> decide to wash my windshield... Works every time. They back right off
> and
> then clear their windshield of the water that sprayed over my car at that
> speed. ...
>
> Unfortunately, no such device exists on my bike.

With a modualar or open faced helmet, no problem. A pocket full of
jawbreakers or rocks works as well, but could get you into trouble.
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> Toss a 1/2 dozen pennies at them:-)

Nickels fly better. They make a nice sound when they hit
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> Kill switch backfires work pretty well. Yes, I know. FI bikes can't do
> that.
> My current street bike still has carbs. At the rate I get new bikes, the
> next
> one will probably be a hybrid with a turbine engine.

Backfires also crack or "erode" valves... Any really good backfire (not
just a pop) puts strain on the piston in the wrong stroke "zone" (see
transmission problems in some cases from the non-momentum aligned power
pulse) too.

I can't prove the extra strain on the piston/engine/transmission except to
say I had a car that I could backfire at will and used to pop out
tailgater's headlights on that side with the concussion (had a glass pack
muffler after blowing a standard one apart) and the transmission went
immediately after a backfire I initiated. Of course, I would also pump the
gas pedal during the "key off" stage to maximize the effect... Nice 6 to
10' flame out the back of a small Toyota Celica did the trick every time for
tailgaters... Especially in tunnels or under bridges...

I can't prove the valve erosion except to say that a friend had a
chronically backfiring car in the late 1980's... When he did a valve job,
one valve had a mini-grand canyon in it... Eroded, not really cracked...
Maybe it was the "cause" of the backfiring, but the erosion was certainly
unique.

All opinion of course... But I'm hesitant to try a backfire on my Valkyrie
with the kill switch because of it...

Joe in Northern, NJ - V#8013-R

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On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:43:35 GMT, "Joe" <really-faked-but-works RemoveThis @yunx.com> wrote:

>I can't prove the valve erosion except to say that a friend had a
>chronically backfiring car in the late 1980's... When he did a valve job,
>one valve had a mini-grand canyon in it.

Cause, not effect.

Killswitch backfires are caused by pooling unburned gas in the exhaust collector
where it all ignites when the switch is turned back on and hot exhaust with a
little flame in it comes through and ignites the whole thing.

Your burned valve was the cause of chronic backfire, not the other way around.

Thirty years ago I was making a living rebuilding car engines. Lots of air
cooled VW's, a Volvo, other assorted stuff. It was a shop that specialized in
import cars. Did lots of valve jobs on pre-unleaded Toyotas and Datsuns. They
were usually due for a valve job around 50,000 miles.

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On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:24:56 -0700, "proehling" <peter_roehling.DeleteThis@eee.org> wrote:

>Sure, my VFR isn't the fastest bike on the block, but dropping a couple of
>gears and twisting it WFO made him disappear in very short order.

I once had a kid in a 4 cylinder S-10 Blazer try the same thing. I was on an
earlier version of the V-4 Honda and it was raining. I ran alongside his door
until he was topped out, then lit the burner and broke the back end loose as I
disappeared.

>Are these things supposed to be quick, or did I just run into a wild-eyed
>optimist?

There is no shortage of idiots in cages. There never will be.

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