Riding the Rotary video, movie, NSW, Australia

[wayne]

This is a 5 minute clip of various roads on what's known as "the loop" north of Sydney. It's an excellent day out. Contact me if you're in the area and we'll do the loop.

Some captions highlight various points but if you're from O/S, it shows some varying Australian scenery all from the POV of my tour kitted RE5.

[goandy]

Awesome ride there. Can't believe you're scraping the ?side stand? !!! No mistaking the sound of the rotary though. Love it.

[re5guy]

Hi Wayne, maybe if you slowed down a bit the police could catch up, maybe on the other hand, don't slow down!

Good video, lovely bendy roads, if those are wooden bridges they'd be very nice in the wet I bet!

Regards
Guy

[Al Corelli]

That was a REALLY nice ride. The sounds and sensations were like being there.

I guess seeing you ride so nicely (spirited-ly?) on the "wrong" side of the road makes it more exciting for me.

The kickstand scraping was outstanding!

Thank you for posting that.

[wayne]

Thanks for the feedback guys, glad you enjoyed it and I do mean to contact me if you're ever down under (or in the east Andy).

The scraping is the centre and sidestands Andy. On the RE it's interesting. On other bikes you usually get a "staged" warning, boots, footpeg, stands etc.

With the upright position I get no warning whatsoever by, for example, my boot scraping first. I've got taller rear shocks and high profile tyres which give about 1" more static clearance. The first thing to touch is actually the centrestand on the left and it just nips the tip of the sidestand. On the right I've not touched anything but if I ever get that far I'm afraid it might scrape the pipe which would not be nice.

One of the many reasons I love the RE5 among my '70's bikes. Enough clearance to have some fun without damaging things.

[gerryggg]

Dynamite video, although I did notice you were on the wrong side of the road the entire way. ;D. Lucky for you everyone else did the same.

[darreneleven]

Thanks for that Wayne
I sold all my bikes to buy a house about 15 years ago
I was religiously on the roads with the boys every Sunday morning in those days
I can't wait to get my Re5 up and running
Im looking forward for a ride
The engine sounds good on those corners and hills
Darren

[ziggystardust]

Good video Wayne, enjoyed it very much.

Z

[ap951]

Great job Wayne, I also very much enjoyed it. I really like the sharp & different contrasts that the RE5 has: Bright orange big metal flake paintwork with black stripes, green hood on the gauges, chrome & polished alum & a different sound altogether. I imagined myself riding your bike

[hitch007]

Great video!! I like the part where you unashamedly show off your lack of the dreaded hesitation! Would you be able to tell us what your setup is like? I have fiddled about with mine until I ran out of swear words and have got it close but not quite hesitation free, especially when giving it the boot from standstill. It is not so noticeable in 4th/5th as long as I gently twist the grip.
Any musings on the subject would be most appreciated!
Cheers
Gareth (NZ)

[wayne]

Gareth, I wish I had a black and white answer for you. I don't. That particular bike had a horrible hesitation and I only got rid of it by degrees.

Basically, you really need to have a clean carby to start with and an accurately set float valve height.

If I was setting up a bike now, I would then set the accelerator pump to the latest spec of 28 degrees using the angle meter. After reinstalling the carby, I would set the port valve to open exactly at the same time as the limiter plate touch timing on the secondary throat's actuation mechanism.

You'll need to peer down in front of and behind the carby while twisting the throttle grip but it can be done.

Using this as a start point, I would then ride the bike. If there is a hesitation at this point, I would suspect some other problem. If there is no hesitation you should find though that the bike does have a significant lag in acceleration. I would then adjust my port valve to open earlier, say 1/2 a turn at a time initially and then fine tuning it to maybe just one face of the adjuster at a time (this is would be winding the adjuster out, spreading it wider to open the valve earlier). Hopefully you'll get a smooth accelerating bike with no hesitation.

The book setting for later spec is port valve opening 6 degrees earlier than the secondary port. Using the method above should eliminate a number of possible set up errors compared to using the angle gauge.

I have used this successfully on two bikes but it has failed on a third so I imagine some other issue.

Also note that the bikes can be made hesitation free with the earlier specs, this is just my way.

Finally, while my two cured bikes use stock jets, have you tried the big primary jet cure ? It works.

[hitch007]

Well wadda ya know eh? I have done just what you suggested, winding out the port valve adjuster and although it isn't perfect, the major hiccup it used to take when the throttle was opened has how gone. Yes it still has a wee pause in the acceleration but I can live with that, especially after trying to riding it with the big hiccup!!
Cheers

Gareth

[wayne]

Enjoy it as it is for a while then Gareth. When you're game, try a bit of fine tuning with it.

It took me a long time to get brave enough to remove the carby from that bike. I was too scared, it weren't broke, I dinna wanna fix it.

Glad it may have moved you a few degrees closer.