Re: Chain and Sprockets (comment to SA George)

1999-09-29 Thread Steve Baglien 

I think its time to make a new list.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 George,

 Sorry to be so non-SA, but this is a perfect example of a message where the
 subject line should have been changed with the "fluff" word properly
 installed.

 In a message dated 9/28/99 4:09:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 eorge the sympathetic and the politically correct :-))
 
 PS kissy-kissy I's still love ya Kev I just had to cut a joke, I am afraid
 this

Re: GTS at altitude (fwd)

1999-09-29 Thread Louis E Tweed 

I had zero problems with the GTS at altitude through Colorado at
elevations over 11,000 ft.
Louis

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:59:45 -0400 (EDT) George Paramithas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Yea me says altitude and GTSs don't play well together. My surging 

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Re: Re: GTS at altitude (fwd)

1999-09-29 Thread Michael Weaver 

RE posted
I'll fix this as soon as I remember how to do an alias. :-(


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In your message dated: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:34:36 EDT,
your pithy ruminations on Re: GTS at altitude (fwd) were:
= 
= Mark and listers,
= 
= I've had my GTS to elevations of over 12,000 feet--for you Euro-types, in
= meters that's...uh...damn high.
= 
= I've had the opposite reaction.  It's great.  There is a performance loss
= at very high altitude, but yowzah, two-up and loaded with luggage it still
= can easily pass the cages.

Don't misunderstand me, the performance everywhere but 3000-5000 rpm was 
fine--no problem passing cages or a number of bikes. I was riding 2-up, with 
very loaded luggage. The only thing that was noticibly different at altitude 
was the throttle delay at "low" RPMs.

= 
= I find that the EFI seems to stay adjusted for the altitude change just
= fine, and don't remember any stumbling or throttle delays and such.
= 
= Phil
=  
= 
=  = one of the big draws for me is not the front end but its early success with
=  = electronic fuel injection; i have had a _ton_ of problems getting the
=  = jetting right on the tdm for our 7,000 foot elevation.  i have found riding
=  = the bike to be great and much more fun than pushing it or getting stuck in
=  = the middle of no place.  so efi reliability seems like it could be a big
=  = bonus.  but it seems like getting one to me is still going to be a bit of a
=  
= [SNIP!]
=  
=  Has anyone else had disappointing performance at altitude? During my recent 
=  Alps-tour, I found that the GTS wasn't great above about 7000 feet. It started 
=  fine every time, idled well, and was great about ~5000 rpm. It felt like there 
=  was a noticible delay when twisting the throttle below 5000 rpm. It didn't 
=  stumble or surge, but the hesitation was annoying (at best) when powering out 
=  of hairpins at 9000+ feet.
=  
=  I suspect that new plugs, a clean[er] fuel filter, clean air filters, 
=  syncronized injectors, and taking the slack out of the throttle cable would 
=  have cured most of the hesitation. Of course, I just had that work done now 
=  that I'm here in Virginia, at about 100 ft! I guess I'll have to ship the bike 
=  back to Europe to test my theory...or there's always Colorado.
= 
= 
= 


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fluff - about listing, - per Steve - not gts fluff fluff

1999-09-29 Thread Monkyon2wl 

Me thinks you may be right Sven.  Any ideas?

Kurt
Guardian of fluff and off-topic discussion. 

In a message dated 9/29/99 5:22:27 AM Central Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I think its time to make a new list.

GTS Wieght was Re: fwd to list of orig (snipped) newbie gts info req

1999-09-29 Thread RSRBOB 

In a message dated 99-09-27 19:51:04 EDT, you write:

 First, welcome.  Second, I must be the only one on this list who thinks his
 GTS is light.  I come from a Concours, and let me tell you...that bike is
 heavy and it only weighs about 60 lbs more than the GTS. 

 I let a friend ride mine who rides an ST1100, and he was shocked at how much 
lighter the GTS felt than his ST1100. Interestingly enough, when he rode a 
GTS in 93, he thought it was heavy, but was comparing it to his then ride of 
a GS1100ES. The GTS is not as flickable as a TDM, but can be ridden at a good 
pace. 
RSRBOB