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Bazbro, if you think RLETs cause drag, you haven’t got the point at all. See [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5505]this thread.
There is a Force in CB1100 riding which, like other Forces, has a Light Side and a Dark Side. Talk of ‘pencil erasers’ will see you end on the dark side. No good will come of that.
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So far, the RLETs have not caused wind drag on my CB.
(can't wait to get back into the saddle again)
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(02-20-2019, 08:02 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: Bazbro, if you think RLETs cause drag, you haven’t got the point at all. See [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=5505]this thread.
There is a Force in CB1100 riding which, like other Forces, has a Light Side and a Dark Side. Talk of ‘pencil erasers’ will see you end on the dark side. No good will come of that.
I am suitably admonished!!
I actually remember the time in the '70s when the Japanese started covering the ballends. They dipped them in a clear plastic and I never liked it 'cos the plastic turned yellow and it looked horrible.
I shall be very careful what I say about those wonderful RLETS in future...
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(02-20-2019, 08:07 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: So far, the RLETs have not caused wind drag on my CB.
(can't wait to get back into the saddle again)
So, if they are installed on both levers how would you know? I'm no physis but, I would think, according to Newtonian physics, equal drag would cancel any perceptible pull in either direction, right? Has anyone tried riding with only one installed? That would be a true test of wind drag! Shoot, we could all be losing hard gained HP with these dang things attached!
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Gentlemen..
I give you Dick Mann's 1970 Daytona 200 winning CB 750
I draw your attention to the clutch lever visible against the white stripe in the fairing body
I REST MY CASE
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Gee, PB, the lineage goes pretty far back - thoroughbred it appears too.
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Gentlemen, I give you Gary Jones AMA winning 1973 RC 250 Works MX racer, here racing against Factory Kawasaki rider Jimmy Weinert
I draw your attention to the brake & clutch levers easily visible above his right leg and near the banner background
again... IRMC lol
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Such a "polite looking" dirt track race. I assume the RLETs are not digitized in?
(looks like Robert Plant crouching in the blurry background)
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Lol thats what moto x looked like back in the early 70's.
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For you naysayers, Ferret pictures are accurate!
Here is another case. This picture is a young Marty Smith. I seen him racing, I believe, in the 125cc class at Unadilla Motocross, NY. During the 1970s.