MV Augusta
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Re: MV Augusta
Looks nice!
Can I ask where they get these people that write a load of rubbish about them. It’s like all these car adverts these days, basically someone goes through the dictionary, chooses a whole load of long words then throws them up in the air and see where they land….
Drivel
Can I ask where they get these people that write a load of rubbish about them. It’s like all these car adverts these days, basically someone goes through the dictionary, chooses a whole load of long words then throws them up in the air and see where they land….
Drivel
The Meandering Moustache
Going Big and Riding Small
Honda PCX125 (sports tourer)
Honda Innova ANF125 (Adventure bike)
Going Big and Riding Small
Honda PCX125 (sports tourer)
Honda Innova ANF125 (Adventure bike)
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Re: MV Augusta
It's everywhere...in my day job I sometimes have to consult the spec sheets for heavy trucks. these used to be packed with hard 'weights and measures' information...now they are just a load of platitudes and corporate nonsense, and some pictures of flowers and the youngest and hippest lorry drivers in the world.
Truck purchasing decisions used to be made by hard-nosed fleet engineers, now they seem to be made by 'Julie from accounts'.
But we live in a world where emotions are far more important than facts.
Truck purchasing decisions used to be made by hard-nosed fleet engineers, now they seem to be made by 'Julie from accounts'.
But we live in a world where emotions are far more important than facts.
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Re: MV Augusta
Looks very nice...the larger engine model looks better than the smaller engine model, imho .
Suzuki GSX-S1000F...the KTM 450 EXC-R has gone
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Re: MV Augusta
860mm saddle height is hardly user friendly especially as the pillion seat will probably be over 900mm which further discounts the dodgy hip generation, no wonder it looks like it's been ridden in to a wall
Open your eyes and you see what is in front of you, open your mind and you see a bigger picture but open your heart and you see a whole new World.
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Re: MV Augusta
Hard to take the 500 seriously, with a 19in front wheel and the weight of a small bulldozer.
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Re: MV Augusta
The little bike is 1980s Japanese engineering, with added Chinese pork in an Italian dress.
It repeatedly amazes me...the KTM adv 950 is hardly a fragile lightweight, yet modern 'middleweight' bikes with smaller engines are invariably heavier.
How do they do it?
It repeatedly amazes me...the KTM adv 950 is hardly a fragile lightweight, yet modern 'middleweight' bikes with smaller engines are invariably heavier.
How do they do it?
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Re: MV Augusta
as you know, as it is a rhetorical question? ..Richard Simpson Mark II wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 12:46 pm The little bike is 1980s Japanese engineering, with added Chinese pork in an Italian dress.
It repeatedly amazes me...the KTM adv 950 is hardly a fragile lightweight, yet modern 'middleweight' bikes with smaller engines are invariably heavier.
How do they do it?
the engine and frame are the main components to strip down, in weight. the rest is stripped down to a `minimum` too.
frame is made nowadays of lightweight ali alloy or wotever ... and its thinner and more efficient.
computer modelling,
mass centralisation, multi use of same component (eg shaft)
use of plastics (eg gears in pump? seats etc)
thinner and narrower wheels, use of things sparingly (wiring minimal),
smaller nuts and bolts and other components,
possible use of glues,
and even the engine, if you think about, is not much heavier to go from say 650 to 950cc as its a bit more metal around the cylinder but inside is just space?,
granny sucking eggs ?? lol