Steady the Edward
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RE: Team Mugen to compete at TT 2015
(11-02-2015, 06:41 PM)Mugen Wrote: Eddy, why are you confused? I thought my post with the reasons why we are doing the programme was pretty clear.
Also, this is the 3rd time within this particular thread you have tried to link the Subaru commercial lap, with the TT Zero and you seem to be trying to imply that there is something underhand going on with regards to payments etc. Up to now I have ignored it but you keep returning with the insinuations and if you are trying to infer something about our company and team in this regard it is something we would take very seriously. So please if you have something to say on this subject lets get it out in the open and put the matter to rest.
In my first mention about Subarus I said that I would rather have you than them as I personally do not like either but at least you are bike related , theirs is a demonstration of something that to me is only there for the financial inducement paid for the privilege as it has no relevance to bike racing , and my point altho not well put is that their lap and yours are 1 lap demonstrations , I am not making insinuations about any untoward dealings I went on to ask and I stress ASK , all be it in a ham fisted way because I can not remember how the concept came about if the TT authorities were financing the event in any way or is the Electric bike industry doing like Subaru paying for the privilege to do a lap at the most prestigious bike meeting in the world , I asked the question purely in a quest for knowledge , not as a desire to be nasty to any one , opinionated I admit to being truthful to my beliefs I try to be but nasty I have never tried to be , if I have up set you in any way please accept my apologies , as most that know me of old on here know I am a stubborn Old Git and vary rarely change my mind once made up
I have said that I will stand down from this thread and have only called back in out of respect for you and feel you deserve an explanation , I am not sure how well I have put that explanation but if you wish to discus it any further I think it may be better by PM for fear of others turning this in to a slanging match , or as I have offered before call me on 07837509203
as far as this post goes I now stand back
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Alfie Noakes
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RE: Team Mugen to compete at TT 2015
(12-02-2015, 10:46 PM)desmophile Wrote: (12-02-2015, 07:08 PM)Alfie Noakes Wrote: Desmophile please check out these guys - Bladon Jets for possible future powerplants to drive generators. It's run by a very good friend of mine Chris Bladon, his twin brother Paul sadly died a few years ago but Paul spent years finding a way to make the micro turbine parts small enough - it was a manufacturing/design process that the big names in turbine manufacture had given up on. They have been involved in hybrid car prototypes and other applications where the size of the drive motor is the most critical thing.
Thanks Alfie, that's very interesting. Bladon brothers rings a bell, didn't they build some very quick and reliable race engines a few years ago?
Yes Desmo, their main interest was Aermacchi 250/350 singles to start with then multi-cylinder motors after that, their own bikes were absolute jewels as was the workshop/dyno, both were racers, their original workshop was in Hemel Hempstead then they moved up to a little village on the North Wales border. Chris was the tech designer/drawer/illustrator and Paul the engineer. Paul passed away sadly after he cracked the process of making the very small central turbine/blade unit from one piece of metal rather than components, the company is his ongoing legacy.
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13-02-2015, 10:03 AM |
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Dougboy
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RE: Team Mugen to compete at TT 2015
(13-02-2015, 12:22 PM)Alfie Noakes Wrote: Didn't realise the Mugen bikes were that heavy, lapping at the times the lovely smelly 250 2-stroke times were doing before course changes is impressive and to be respected, with that weight the chassis set-up must be very very good .. the TT powers that be and govt need to manage/promote the overall emission ideal and image in a better way - there are lots of people that know about battery manufacture costs and infrastructure out there in the real world.
Setting up suspension on heavy bikes is in some ways simpler than very light machines. Provided that the majority of that mass is sprung (not in the wheels and moving parts of the suspension) and also that it is not distributed away from the the CoG.
The force transferred into the chassis is a simple multiple of the mass of the unsprung parts and their acceleration (up and down). Those forces, being similar, will tend to upset a light bike much more so than a heavy bike. In theory at least ;-)
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