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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 106416" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>That's no excuse. Someone gave me a ride across Des Moines on a Triumph Thunderbird when I was 8 or 9 and I was hooked for life on motorcycles, but I still manage to be hooked for life on physics as well. My career as an experimental physicist was sparked in no small measure by my love of mechanical objects resulting from having to ... er, I mean, being privileged to get to repair my British motorcycles. </p><p></p><p>Even with an A/F gauge, knowing you need to, say, go two sizes larger and then swapping for a jet that is one size <em>smaller</em> despite being marked two sizes larger can be frustrating. I suppose that zeroing in on the correct jet using a batch marked with random numbers could be "entertaining," but it's not the kind of entertainment I enjoy. Then consider trying to do this on a twin with just the one A/F sensor, where one replacement jet could be larger than the marked size and the other one smaller.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 106416, member: 2806"] That's no excuse. Someone gave me a ride across Des Moines on a Triumph Thunderbird when I was 8 or 9 and I was hooked for life on motorcycles, but I still manage to be hooked for life on physics as well. My career as an experimental physicist was sparked in no small measure by my love of mechanical objects resulting from having to ... er, I mean, being privileged to get to repair my British motorcycles. Even with an A/F gauge, knowing you need to, say, go two sizes larger and then swapping for a jet that is one size [I]smaller[/I] despite being marked two sizes larger can be frustrating. I suppose that zeroing in on the correct jet using a batch marked with random numbers could be "entertaining," but it's not the kind of entertainment I enjoy. Then consider trying to do this on a twin with just the one A/F sensor, where one replacement jet could be larger than the marked size and the other one smaller. [/QUOTE]
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