Pollution
I
am steadily working my way through Road, the MAG magazine, about
surveys that have been carried out and being treated as gospel by the
powers that be that are completely false. When questioned about the
results you will find some things have been omitted. One such survey
has made a global assumption that there are only one percent of the
journeys in London are on motorcycles and it turns out that
motorcycle journeys are more that two percent of the traffic. The
accident statistics can be halved straight away so riding in London
is much safer than the powers that be have used to try to remove
motorcycles from the traffic. Lies, lies more lies and then there is
statistics! Along the same theme I have finished reading RoadSmart
the IAM magazine winter 2018/19 that has a report in it on pages 40
and 41. Dutch of the BikeShed supporting motorcycling and on the
other side of the coin is Dr Claire Mcloughlin Communications Manager
of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change. In her summation she
quotes a report from
that is dated October 2011. The report does not mention which
vehicles had been tested and that information would have to be
verified and then updated against a selection of newer bikes that are
emission compliant and the equipment being a reliable source of data. It says that bikes are 300 times more polluting than cars . It does say motorcycles use less fuel and produce much less CO2. But the other stuff it did not identify. I sent this on to MAG for them to pursue. If this information is
relied upon, and probably has been it sounds like doom for all old
bike users or at least until the bikes are 40 years old!
One
sunny day at the Museum a fairing, covered in dust bird droppings and
cobwebs was sitting around waiting for a new owner. In my enthusiasm
I gave it a wash with a view that it might just get a better price.
One all the muck was off I could read what it was The Avon
Streamliner and with the help of Martin who looked up the faded
registration number it belonged to a SORN 1957 red BSA 650. Someone
who still owns that BSA might want to know what happened to the
fairing if so please contact me on the Museum e-mail.
On
my last duty at the Museum I was quite surprised to see the Greenford
Police LE on display. It looked fine but I have still not completed
the reassembly. It still needs a wiring harness, handlebar switch and
left twist grip. The right one is Amal so if anyone has a left Amal
grip it would help to finish it off.
I still have the screen to repair and paint and the apron to be refurbished. It is in two parts and glued together and looks like underwear for a very large lady. The screen is held together by 4BA nuts and bolts so I need to get some ordered from the BA bolt shop.
I still have the screen to repair and paint and the apron to be refurbished. It is in two parts and glued together and looks like underwear for a very large lady. The screen is held together by 4BA nuts and bolts so I need to get some ordered from the BA bolt shop.
Recently
we have had some good numbers of visitors and that included a party
of eighteen French students that I had the honour of taking them
around the Museum and answering questions. Not in French I must add
but there was a bit of Franglais. A couple of students had some real
interest in the Triumph Thunderbird cutaway and it was a real
pleasure to be taking some technical details about bikes. Much of my
new found knowledge was from finally reading Ian Spalding’s MotoGP
Technology. It is a book for the anoraks with much interpretation of
the detail changes that you can see to make the bikes go better. It
took me months to read and absorb the detail. It is a shame that Ian
is not part of the BT Sport team as he was with Eurosport. I miss
that sort of stuff.
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