Flash 3.26

[Wheelman-111]

Greetings;

I knew it had a bit more, not this much.
Wind 5-10 on left rear quarter. Call it a broad reach.

[Petrock's 1984 Spree]

Dang man thats insane!!
Ya get any speed wobbles at the kind of speed?

Biggest question of all: Are ya still holding it back?

[Bear45-70]

Greetings;

I knew it had a bit more, not this much.
Wind 5-10 on left rear quarter. Call it a broad reach.

Rag sailor terminology, in dirt water Texas no less.

[evilone]

You got me by .1 mph .

Petrock's 1984 Spree...at them speeds my elite was super smooth like a cadillac!

[Wheelman-111]

Greetings:

No wobbles at all. Elite 95mm drums not nearly enough is the only Fear factor.
Only hold-backs are imposing Wheelman Frontal Area and only 1/2 mile run. Mirrors on, Courier satchel on my back and Wheelman don't tuck.
Get better than Spree brakes to stay alive.

Bear I used to be a pretty fair windsurfer.. Corpus bay is windy enough to get fast anywhere else.
I've been measured at 36 Kts. Like the Elite, I know I've gone faster.

[Petrock's 1984 Spree]

I think i'd be too sketched out to even try to go that fast

[Bear45-70]

I'll go that fast on my Aero 125 without worry (CT and at least a 24 OKO and an exhaust), even on the Aero 80 if I ever do any real hot rodding to it BBK and CT with a 21 to 24 OKO and an exhaust, actually I already have every thing except the piston and rings). But on my 50 cc scooters, not gonna happen.

[Wheelman-111]

Greetings:

Sorry this belonged here...

I knew it had a bit more, not this much.
Wind 5-10 on left rear quarter. Call it a broad reach.

Main is now 125 methinks. Temp didn't top 350.
Geartrain harshness still happening, but nothing grenaded.

[catsailor]

wheels,
lol at the broad reach. Are you also a "ragman"? Springtime here in New England too. Looking forward to a long broad reach on my badass catamaran within the month.

[Wheelman-111]

Greetings:

Cat, I used to be a fair-to-decent windsurfing racer. As often happens, life moves you on to other things, but sailing's in my blood.

[Bear45-70]

I learned rag sailing in my youth with an El Toro sailing dingy. I have also sail cats, 18 and 25 foot monos. Years later I trade the El Toro as a down payment on my first race boat. The wife wanted a sail boat, so I bought her a Seattle made Nelson Plastics 8 foot fiberglass sailing dingy. It got stolen, just the boat, I still had the rigging, and just last year I found another Nelsons Plastic sail boat sans the rigging. I got it for free and when I checked the numbers it was my boat to start with. Strange!

[catsailor]

I started as a kid on a sunfish, raced J24's in college, and larger monos after college both blue water and beercan racing. Switched to a catmaran about 10 years ago, and wont go back to a mono. Nothing like sailing at 20kts flat vs 8kts on an incline.

[Wheelman-111]

Greetings:

Well as temps here in Deepinnaharta warm to Mid-Spring levels - Lows in low 70s, highs in low 80s - my 52/125 combination may be getting too rich. Used CustomX22 Corsa bore now has 35 hours and about a thousand miles. I'm none-too-anxious to drop my 52 pilot because of the reassuringly low temps at barely-cracked throttle and the absence of heat spikes. WOT seems to stabilize at about 360 - fuzzy VDO gauge and fuzzier Wheel-vision notwithstanding- with the 126 Main in the OKO 26. It's the messy area in between that's been getting worse. Raspy, stumbly, particularly since my +1000 spring may be getting softer (along with other Wheel-Parts...) and drops the RPM rather rudely at about 40 MPH, right where the part-throttle goes a bit rich - again according to the gauge.

So I examined my K44 needle and marked it at 50% and 25% from the tip - see page 2-3 of this thread. I found the JHK or somesuch had just about .10mm thicker at the middle and about the same at the tip. In it went, producing a much cleaner 1/4-3/4 throttle linearity and no change in peak or off-throttle temps. More testing to be done, documenting mostly for myself here.

[Wheelman-111]

Greetings:

Sorry, forgot this other thread...

Well as temps here in Deepinnaharta warm to Mid-Spring levels - Lows in low 70s, highs in low 80s - my 52/125 combination may be getting too rich. Used CustomX22 Corsa bore now has 35 hours and about a thousand miles. I'm none-too-anxious to drop my 52 pilot because of the reassuringly low temps at barely-cracked throttle and the absence of heat spikes. WOT seems to stabilize at about 360 - fuzzy VDO gauge and fuzzier Wheel-vision notwithstanding- with the 125 Main in the OKO 26.

It's the messy area in between that's been getting worse. Raspy, stumbly, particularly since my +1000 spring may be getting softer (along with other Wheel-Parts...) and drops the RPM rather rudely at about 40 MPH, right where the part-throttle goes a bit rich - again according to the gauge. It was getting just about impossible to ride between 35 and 40 MPH, fine slower and faster, but wouldn't maintain 38.

So I examined my K44 needle and marked it at 50% and 25% from the tip - see page 2-3 of this thread. I found the JHK or somesuch had just about .10mm thicker at the middle and about the same at the tip. In it went, producing a much cleaner 1/4-3/4 throttle linearity and no change in peak or off-throttle temps. More testing to be done, documenting mostly for myself here.

[Wheelman-111]

Greetings:

Well, the thicker needle was a step in the right direction, but Flash 3.26 still had a hard time keeping its throat clear in the midrange. Temps decidedly low - 250 in the midrange cruising mode. I decided to tempt Fate and swapped the 52 for a 50 Pilot. Much better, without discernible impact on middy temps and no heat spikes. I'll check and probably replace the crusty BR8-HIX plug and do a few reads. Sprinted to 66 in under a quarter-mile, and temps stayed at or under 350 at WOT too.