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NAPA121 Mini Moto racer
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Nuclear Red Speedway Rider
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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:01 am Post subject: |
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Makes good sense.
I love bikes but they are firkin dangerous, thats all part of the appeal.
I am taking my eldest daughter out on the bike for the first time (she is 21) tomorrow.
You might ask why I have never done it before. I have always been concerned about her being injured either by a mistake on my part or somebody elses.
However, she rides horses every day, jumps them, does cross country etc and wants to go out on the bike, so I have said yes.
She can borrow clothing and we have a selection of helmets, so as long as they fit OK we are going to head for the coast!! _________________ Blue smoke and a ring ding ding |
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NAPA121 Mini Moto racer
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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Nuclear Red wrote: | Makes good sense.
I love bikes but they are firkin dangerous, thats all part of the appeal.
I am taking my eldest daughter out on the bike for the first time (she is 21) tomorrow.
You might ask why I have never done it before. I have always been concerned about her being injured either by a mistake on my part or somebody elses.
However, she rides horses every day, jumps them, does cross country etc and wants to go out on the bike, so I have said yes.
She can borrow clothing and we have a selection of helmets, so as long as they fit OK we are going to head for the coast!! |
Good man...If she really wants to do it she will anytway so best with her dad _________________ Teamwork makes the Dreamwork! |
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Nuclear Red Speedway Rider
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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Went to Bognor for an ice cream then back via Bury Hill, about 70 miles or so.
One little moment when a silver Corsa wanted my lane as I overtook on a dual carriageway, I need noisey pipes.
She loved it, was amazed at the speed and the lean (and I was my normal cautious self)
Wants to go our again ASAP. _________________ Blue smoke and a ring ding ding |
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biggus illitterātus
Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 31748 Location: Hotel California
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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Nuclear Red wrote: | However, she rides horses every day, jumps them, does cross country etc and wants to go out on the bike, so I have said yes. |
Horses as dangerous, of not more than than motorcycles. The best female riders I know started off on 1hp hayburning road locomotives. _________________
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Nuclear Red Speedway Rider
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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I agree, horrible unpredictable animals.
Anyway I was reading the other day that a horse actually delivers 15 HP and a man produces 1 HP.
When James Watt sold his first steam engines he sold them based on how many horses they replaced, ie one working, two resting, two sick, four sleeping, three eating and three on holiday etc.
So a 15 HP engine replaced 15 horses, it did not do 15 horses work at the same time. _________________ Blue smoke and a ring ding ding |
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biggus illitterātus
Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 31748 Location: Hotel California
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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Nuclear Red wrote: | I agree, horrible unpredictable animals.
Anyway I was reading the other day that a horse actually delivers 15 HP and a man produces 1 HP.
When James Watt sold his first steam engines he sold them based on how many horses they replaced, ie one working, two resting, two sick, four sleeping, three eating and three on holiday etc.
So a 15 HP engine replaced 15 horses, it did not do 15 horses work at the same time. |
Then there's also 'nominal horsepower' (NHP) which was an invented unit to make steam traction engines sound far less powerful than they really were.
Power specifications annoy me because there's rarely anything useful in sales blurb to say what it really means. Power is nothing without driveability/control anyway. But hey us Motorcyclists like to play "Top Trumps" with figures don't we!! _________________
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Nuclear Red Speedway Rider
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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Bourne tells us that nominal power was a commercial unit by which engines were bought and sold, and that it is a quite different measure from actual horsepower. It would appear that the rule for determining NHP was developed by James Watt (1736-1819), the Scottish steam engineer and inventor who substantially improved Newcomen's engine by the introduction of condensing. NHP was calculated by reference to the size of the cylinder bore and the speed of the piston. HP on the other hand is a measure of the actual power produced by an engine, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second or 745.7 watts. This being the case it is not possible to convert NHP to HP or vice-versa.
It is interesting to note from Bourne that even in 1885 there was considerable confusion about NHP and HP. He went on to say "nominal power, even as a commercial standard, is dying out, and need not now be held as of much account". One might question his view on the latter. As late as the mid-1920s the size of some engines entered in Paxman's order book was still being quoted in NHP rather than HP.
Eh? _________________ Blue smoke and a ring ding ding |
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nosnowking World Superbike Racer
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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Nuclear Red Speedway Rider
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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lets get onto the difference between HP and torque, thats always a good one.
Anyway I am shutting my astern guardian valve and going to bed.
Beware of steam hammer. _________________ Blue smoke and a ring ding ding |
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JimBo Pedantic Cnut
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:42 am Post subject: |
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It doesn't matter how many horses you have as long as you also have a steam stop valve ("How To Drive A Steam Locomotive" - Brian Hollingsworth).
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Nuclear Red Speedway Rider
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:08 am Post subject: |
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JimBo wrote: | It doesn't matter how many horses you have as long as you also have a steam stop valve ("How To Drive A Steam Locomotive" - Brian Hollingsworth).
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Ive never driven a steam loco but have driven a few 36000 SHP (Shaft horse power...oh matron) ships. Some times from a control room but more entertainingly from a manovering platfom between the boilers and the turbines.
Extended spindles from big wheels open manovering valves and away you go.
The real issue is what happens to all the steam you use, it comes back as condense via various routes to upset a load of finely balanced systems.
The bridge staff dont appreciated the mayhem caused below by head/astern/ahead orders, they need to learn to park properly.
The main stop valves on top of the boilers are rarely operated but the engine main stops and astern guardians and manoevering valves all get a regular workout.
I have had one occasion when remotely controlled manovering valves refused to work. We were taking 315000 tonnes of crude from Sullom Voe to a buoy off of Liverpool to pump it ashore. We just ran the buoy over when we couldnt go astern.
We had to run down to the valves, take out the overide pins and drive the engines using handwheels on the valves themselves.
When tried later on auto they all worked. Mystery.
Blimey what a ramble. Must go. _________________ Blue smoke and a ring ding ding |
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biggus illitterātus
Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 31748 Location: Hotel California
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Nuclear Red wrote: | Ive never driven a steam loco |
I have... _________________
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