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Slaughter
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - 09:35 pm: | 
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Heck yeah Hogs - fire away. I'll try to get back to you pretty much right away. |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 06:11 pm: |
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Oops - looks like thread went into auto-archive again.
Got some pics and a bit of a story but for now - a few pics:
Pit pics, in-the-showroom at Antelope Valley Buell... there's gonna be more pics coming but I gotta do some more writing after 4 races this weekend AND being able to put the bike on display without fixing anything!!
Managed one 6th place... a bit rusty but it's been a year and a half. Gonna be a slow come-back. |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 09:00 am: |
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Got a watermarked pic - I'll get the photo rights for this and others in the coming week (thanks and credit to Brian at Caliphotography.com):
(Message edited by slaughter on January 22, 2009) |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 11:04 am: |
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(Message edited by slaughter on January 23, 2009) |
Boltrider
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 11:11 am: |
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Very cool! 
So the new litre bikes make around 80 ft/lbs at the wheel? I always hear horsepower numbers with those bikes, but never anything about torque. |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 03:16 pm: |
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This is the old, air-cooled XB9 - bored out to 1169cc. With engine mods, it measures 78 ftxlb torque at about 7800RPM - peak torque and HP numbers are kind of iffy since last dyno run was on old, hard tires and there were signs that it was slipping on the dyno wheel. |
Boltrider
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 05:36 pm: |
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My bad, I was referring to your comparison on the previous page where you mentioned wheel hp for import litre bikes. You said your torque numbers compared favorably with them. |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 06:09 pm: |
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Yep - those 78-ish numbers were from a litrebike comparison test series run by Roadracing World a couple months ago - Suzuki, Yamaha, Honda, Kawasaki. |
Skully
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 11:20 pm: |
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Very nice Steve. Go fast or I'll send Bill Cleary after you!
Keith |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 11:56 pm: |
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Funny that one Keith! |
Coolice
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 - 01:35 am: |
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Looks good Steve!
Glad to see you with a knee down again, you times will get better.
And I'm sure your crew chief will cheer you on  |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 - 04:12 pm: |
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Few more pics from last race weekend. I'll move over to the Racing section for further race stories and stuff - but will keep the discussions on the suspension and engine work alive for those who are interested - because the bike/engine IS streetable as it is constructed.
All I can say is that it felt danged great to be back out... AND to not have borrowed any money to do it (and that's why it took a year-and-a-half!!!)
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