[Ducati] Thank God! More Superbike Pics from a higher

[mike major]

Right, as I remember it they advertised their bikes as being capable of doing 17.5, with the tach's so marked, and then when motorcycle mags put the production bikes on a dyno the truth came out.  As a young cheap hotrodder I used to make my own tach's using a homemade square wave generator triggered by the points with the output read on a re-calibrated ammeter.  A long way to go to save a buck but time was a lot easier to come by than money then.  Points?  that was a long time ago.  Later, Moonbeam
  
Art Ramos <hyperpastabiker at gmail.com> wrote: 
  It was more like, they told their customers in print that the motor would
spin up to 17,500 when it only spun up to 16,500. So what did Yamer'ha do?
They took back all of the bikes and crushed them and then started over
again. If it was a simple tach issue they would have replaced the tachs,
than to have to crush all of the bikes!

Here in the good ole USA it's called truth in advertising. I'm sure there
where plenty of folks that would have loved to had one of those bikes even
if it only reved to 16,500! Hell of a way to start off with a new generation
bike!

Art




On 11/5/06, mike major wrote:
>
> No such issue with RPM? True as long as we are willing to accept that the
> tach as just a reference point but on the dyno my tach is about 500 RPM slow
> and of course Yamaha got into a hassle when their tach's claimed 17,500 when
> the bike was actually only cranking 6 grand. Also, in the lower gears the
> dampening on a mechanical tach can cause it to lag behind actual engine
> RPM. Thank God, or Dog, for rev limiters. Later, Moonbeam
>
> Garth Williams wrote: I think this has been
> hashed out before on the list. If I remember
> correctly, there are some pretty big penalties (I think in Europe) if
> manufacturers understate speed on the speedometer (i.e., you're going
> faster than indicated). No such issue with RPM.
>
> GW
>
> Oz wrote:
> >
> >
> > What makes you think the analog one's are accurate. Neither my
> > supersport or
> > current superbike have accurate speedo's..
> >
> > I use a sigma bike computer.
>
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