Cycling
09 June 2004, 09:04 PM
#1
Cycling
Took to the roads again today aged 33 after a 15 year lay off in any kind of two wheeled engineless action, have been on mountain bikes a couple of times but it cames a fairly pleasant shock.
Cant undestand the lack of performance, usually I can match anything off the lights but there was a definte lack of low down power, the mid range was mediocre and the less said about the top end the better. The power source is an old design, conceived in the late sixties with little development since then, in fact weight blunts the performance quite a lot , emissions were high over the test route and economy was appalling, after 15 miles it took twenty minutes to refuel, and a further four hours to cool down. The gearbox was slow and ponderous, it was difficult to gauge which of the 21 gears were engaged and accompanied by a lot of clicking and graunching, hopefully the Semi auto will be better in this respect. The powerplant sounded wheezy most of the time and the dump valve was very audible, even to passers by
The faux leather seating on the Claud Butler Vuelta is appalling, room for only the driver and designed to be a torture implement, it is only adjustable for height and cleaves your buttock in two like an enthusiastic prison daddy. The ventilation is good with air supplied to face and feet at the same time,however no air conditioning sadly and not even on the options list. **** nav was impressive and retained every small detail from the drivers childhood. A phone was installed and worked well for the drivers wife to check on progress.
The tyres are fairly narrow, about 20mm and low profile but provide adequate grip and look good against the standard alloy wheels which incidentally are not up to mounting kerbs.
The steering is very direct, 1 turns lock to lock and weights up nicely with speed, in fact the whole experience would be better with speed, or possibly Heroin or Coke.
Options, the drinks dispenser provided a weclome supply of tepid plastic flavoured tap water for the first half of the journey but the lack of any stowage made the transit of four cans of Stella difficult towards the end of the journey.
Brakes were adequate and slowed the vehicle from over 8 mph several times with showing any kind of fade, abs was not fitted and enabled the driver to do a top 'broady' between Baslow (Drive) and Matlock (Road)
looks wise its a nice machine but when adored with a Fat Gibbon in a Bell End hat the look is ruined, basically best left in the garage to admire.
Cant undestand the lack of performance, usually I can match anything off the lights but there was a definte lack of low down power, the mid range was mediocre and the less said about the top end the better. The power source is an old design, conceived in the late sixties with little development since then, in fact weight blunts the performance quite a lot , emissions were high over the test route and economy was appalling, after 15 miles it took twenty minutes to refuel, and a further four hours to cool down. The gearbox was slow and ponderous, it was difficult to gauge which of the 21 gears were engaged and accompanied by a lot of clicking and graunching, hopefully the Semi auto will be better in this respect. The powerplant sounded wheezy most of the time and the dump valve was very audible, even to passers by
The faux leather seating on the Claud Butler Vuelta is appalling, room for only the driver and designed to be a torture implement, it is only adjustable for height and cleaves your buttock in two like an enthusiastic prison daddy. The ventilation is good with air supplied to face and feet at the same time,however no air conditioning sadly and not even on the options list. **** nav was impressive and retained every small detail from the drivers childhood. A phone was installed and worked well for the drivers wife to check on progress.
The tyres are fairly narrow, about 20mm and low profile but provide adequate grip and look good against the standard alloy wheels which incidentally are not up to mounting kerbs.
The steering is very direct, 1 turns lock to lock and weights up nicely with speed, in fact the whole experience would be better with speed, or possibly Heroin or Coke.
Options, the drinks dispenser provided a weclome supply of tepid plastic flavoured tap water for the first half of the journey but the lack of any stowage made the transit of four cans of Stella difficult towards the end of the journey.
Brakes were adequate and slowed the vehicle from over 8 mph several times with showing any kind of fade, abs was not fitted and enabled the driver to do a top 'broady' between Baslow (Drive) and Matlock (Road)
looks wise its a nice machine but when adored with a Fat Gibbon in a Bell End hat the look is ruined, basically best left in the garage to admire.
09 June 2004, 11:09 PM
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Fine a large hill (preferably one driven up in a motor vehicle), miles from anywhere (so no one can see you), jump on jalopy, hold on for dear life, aim down said large hill, enjoy 
10 June 2004, 08:30 PM
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My buttocks hurt and to top it all the middle of the crank thingy has loads of play in it which explains why the chain was scraping on the front gear whasit, theres about 5mm of play, how much will that cost to sort ?
No onder my brother in law gave it me, its fooked !
No onder my brother in law gave it me, its fooked !
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