Not for nothing dick that is the most far fetched story i have heard from
you to date...
This is a joke right?
The peak RPM is a mile too low, the power band is way too narrow for the
peakiest 2 stroke.
I guess if you tell the same story over and over and add a little every time
this is where you get.
What was the year and exact model of the this Yamaha I work with factory
teams and bet i can scare up a dyno sheet for one. 7 hp give me a break.
maybe you rode it like the BSA and forgot there was another 3000 rpm to go
before you shifted..
Give me a break
Dave...
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> Bryan Savage <basavage@earthlink.net> wrote:.. the only race peak HP
>
> You said it all there, Bryan. It took me many years - - -well
> into my thirties, way back in the "olden days" as my kids say,
> for me to learn that lesson. I remember racing a 500cc BSA
> single at Sebring at the time. At the urging of one of my fellow
> racers, I had bought a new RD-350 Yamaha to replace it. Alas, I
> had to have one last ride one the old Bizzer before I turned it in.
>
> Some of my memories from that day. The BSA had about 25 HP. The
> RD 350, though smaller, had about 48HP. No question as to which
> should be quicker. The BSA was like a friendly old farm tractor.
> Put it in gear, chug away, and start racing. I think the track
> on that bike was something like fourteen turns and eleven gear
> changes. I took it for it's last ride, put it on the truck, and
> fired up the awsome Yamaha in it's brilliant yellow and black
> paint. Fourteen turns and fifty one gear changes later, I was
> way off the BSA's time. I parked the Yamaha, pulled the old BSA
> back off the truck, and went back to racing.
>
> Yeah, that Yamaha had 48 HP aqlright, at something like 7600 RPM.
> It was only seven HP up to seven thousand RPM, then jumped to 35
> HP from 7000 to 7200, and then to 48 HP by 7600 - - - something
> real close to that. If it accidentally slipped below 7000 at any
> point, you lost everything except the base seven HP and it took a
> quarter mile to get back up "on the pipe" again. That's when I
> learned that no matter what the dyno says, or what published HP
> is - - what really matters is how that HP and tourque come
> together out on the race track.
>
> DIck J
> In East Texas
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