Our Spit sits at about 3000 RPM when at 55 MPH.
Brad
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On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 19:34:58 +0000 Michael Hargreave Mawson
<OC@46thFoot.com> writes:
> In article <TESEFCgJP5G8EwKj@hargreave-mawson.demon.co.uk>, Michael
> Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com> writes
> >In article <3.0.1.32.20011215081618.013a32f0@mailhub.exis.net>,
> John T.
> >Blair <jblair@exis.net> writes
>
> >>Measure the height of the tire - the diameter from the ground to
> the top.
> >>The circumferance is: C= pi * D, where pi = 3.14....
> >
> >I'm using the standard 155R13s, so I hope that my answer would be
> the
> >same as that for anyone with standard tyres.
>
> Bad form to follow up my own posting, I know, but I have just come
> across a programme on-line which is supposed to calculate this
> stuff.
> According to this programme (which can be found at
> http://pw1.netcom.com/~sgalaba/mph.htm#GearSpeed), we should be
> getting
> 55.97 mph at 3000 rpm in top (with 155/80R13 tyres). I don't
> believe
> it!
>
> Somebody, somewhere, must have the official Triumph figures, surely?
>
> Please? Pretty please?
>
> ATB
> --
> Mike
> Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
> http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
>
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