My first exposure to the smell of bike exhaust smell was at Etobicoke Centennial park.A MX race with CZ's,Husky's,Maico's etc.They were all burning castor bean oil.Awesome!!!!!!!! I love the smell of the C12 the Muffin runs on.Burnt or raw.
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Group riders - bikes with no CAT and the fumes behind
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LOL, well played sir! I give it a 9.9 (would have given it a "10" except for the use of the word "omits" -hehe)
RedDogDarren
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It may not just be you but I can say it isn't me. I've done the group ride thing starting about 20 years ago with no adverse effects. But we were actually moving in the countryside so most likely no exhaust accumulation reached anyone for any prolonged amount of time.
RedDogDarren
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I had some friends who loved that castor 2 stroke smell. They all went to the hospital they loved it so much.
Griffin
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Then you don't understand the dangers of CO. Try googling it, I guarantee you'll learn some things.
Thanks for such high scores; I haven't seen something this high since those French, figure skating judges in the Olympics. I'm thinking it must have been a long day editing textbooks because there is no way my self imposed, grammer-naziism would allow that to slip. Emits is clearly what I meant...
LannyNguyen
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loool..
You're going to miss that smell when Winter hits.
You're going to miss that smell when Winter hits.
Are you saying that you are not guilty of having a big carbon footprint?I see a big literbike in your sig,not a fuel efficient 250.
Red_Liner740
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We ride motorcycles for pleasure, we take pleasure rides with no ultimate goal of a destination other than the pleasure derived for it. Members here also take the bike to the track where they spend hours circling around wasting gas for no other purpose than their pleasure...and then you come on here and ask if we feel guilty for willfully screwing up the environment?
Sell your gsxr1000, buy a bicycle and call it a day mr irony.
Sell your gsxr1000, buy a bicycle and call it a day mr irony.
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invictus43
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Betcha I won't!
It reminds me of the auto journalist who went back to Riverside, California for a car introduction in the late 80's. The last time he had been there was the late 60's. He couldn't figure out why it was so different..then he realized, he could see the city because there was no orange haze hovering over the valley and his eyes and lungs weren't watering and burning. He finally saw in person the reason why emissions controls were introduced, with much resistance from government and citizens, for many years. I suspect none of us would want to go back to that. Thousands of people die of air pollution every year. It's quaint for a minute..it's an irritant and dangerous to your health for much longer.
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Prince
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One of the biggest complaints is sulphur smell from cats. It's a by-product of the chemical reaction. In the trade, one way to tell if a mechanic was running a customer's car hard was the sulphur smell. Needless to say, he'd get the hairy eye-ball from fellow mechanics.
Diesel is the dirtiest most toxic fuel and the soot belching out of those tailpipes is by-no-means harmless. Diesel is responsible for most of the remaining pollution we (North America) generate. It has to go to bio-diesel, or diesel technology has to go just like two-stroke is going, or actually, gone.
Whatever we do over here in the west...our clean cars, electric cars, bio-diesel, hydrogen, natural gas, it'll all be negated by China anyways. Our efforts in the west are in vane. China just doesn't care.
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rmemedic
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I suggest you take a look at modern 2 stroke design, IE the e-tec used by Evinrude and Bombardier, far from a dead technology.
And there's the Orbital developments out of Australia as well.
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/aus...view_article&Section_id=1020&article_id=10041
No shortage of shoot from the lip cowboys on GTAM, that's for sure.
Red_Liner740
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To add insult to injury, the number one low emissions engine type in Europe is...drumroll please....Diesel.
with the advent of Clean Diesel Technology, Diesel vehicles emit less CO2, NOx and PM than Gasoline...
and the worst part is that you're a mechanic....
with the advent of Clean Diesel Technology, Diesel vehicles emit less CO2, NOx and PM than Gasoline...
and the worst part is that you're a mechanic....
gtm
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I love the smell of a two stroke and can still taste the elf racing fuel iny mouth from the times I've syphoned it.. mmm
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