They always run the best...

[Papi]

.. just before they blow.

If you are gonna waste 15 minutes on the interwebz today, at least do it with some awesome video aboard a TZ @ Brands Hatch. That bike is as crisp as she comes, just before the boom boom.


youtu.be/UNVqcFvoRq4#t

:ride

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[HeatXfer]

Wow, nice save. If it had seized on corner I'm guessing the outcome would have been a lot different.

 

[Josh_SLR]

That's a rough way to end it. He was running hard!

 

[RightCoastBias]

That's how Robert Dunlop died. Glad this guy made it out okay.

 

[PorradaVFR]

Man, he was giving it the full beans there...great reaction by that rider, wow.

 

[Z3n]

Fuckin' sandbaggers ball there, jesus.

 

[EastBayDave]

He doesn't leave the pits until half (7:00) into the video....FF...

Started sounding funny a few minutes before it seized. Sounded lean leaving the pits then he kept over-reving it on downshifts. Those guys were fragile enough w/o abusing them. Is it me or did it have a distinct change in sound about halfway thru the stint?

 

[EastBayDave]

Here's a TZ750 at Paul Richard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VbH2vMoGvaw

 

[Z3n]

He doesn't leave the pits until half (7:00) into the video....FF...

Started sounding funny a few minutes before it seized. Sounded lean leaving the pits then he kept over-reving it on downshifts. Those guys were fragile enough w/o abusing them. Is it me or did it have a distinct change in sound about halfway thru the stint?

Agreed, dude loved to overrev his bike. Made me wince every time.

 

[latindane]

He doesn't leave the pits until half (7:00) into the video....FF...

Started sounding funny a few minutes before it seized. Sounded lean leaving the pits then he kept over-reving it on downshifts. Those guys were fragile enough w/o abusing them. Is it me or did it have a distinct change in sound about halfway thru the stint?

I think that was the culprit

 

[stangmx13]

cool vid.

lets hope he watches his own vid and realizes how he blew it. he needs a shift light too. shifting at 10.5k and over-reving almost to 13k. ugh.

 

[KazMan]

That TZ cold seized. Temp should have been much warmer than it was showing.

 

[Papi]

That TZ cold seized.

How do ya figure that? The temp gauge wasn't working, but the warm up time on the bike was ample in my opinion. He was definitely on the pipe a little hard at times, but can't say I wouldn't be either. :ride

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[strictlyJDM]

At least the oil pressure light was working

 

[Papi]

At least the oil pressure light was working

Yeah, there's a lot of "was" at the end.

 

[YellowBastard]

whats with the sideways tach? is that a metric one?

 

[Shaggy]

whats with the sideways tach? is that a metric one?

Yeap... The tach measures metric revs, not standard revs. :laughing

 

[KazMan]

How do ya figure that? The temp gauge wasn't working, but the warm up time on the bike was ample in my opinion. He was definitely on the pipe a little hard at times, but can't say I wouldn't be either. :ride

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That temp guage move about 10 C from warm-up to on track and then some more on the long down hill straight. I would venture to say that there was no tape on the radiator. But it should have been running around 80 C not where it was at 65 C.

The tach's used to be turned so that when the needle was at 12 o'clock you would know when to shift. For this bike, probably between 10500-11krpm dependent on how it was set up. But this was probably a tach that goes to 18-20k rpm so he set it up in more or less a stock configuration.

My dash in 1984-85

 

[Papi]

That temp guage move about 10 C from warm-up to on track and then some more

Dude already said in the follow up messages on teh utoob that the temp gauge wasn't working. My clock shows he had plenty of warm up time. I'd more likely say lack of lubrication and high revs on the downshifting is what screwed the pooch on the little 2T



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