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The history of Castrol in Bike Racing The winner of the 1925 motorcycle race about to cross the finish line Release date: 21 March 2005 Since the dawn of motorcycle racing before the First World War, Castrol has been as inseparable from the sport as the distinctive smell of Castrol R oil. For many decades the fine-scented castor oil flavoured the racing paddocks everywhere from Assen to the Isle of Man, from Brooklands to Monza.

Castrol became involved in motorcycle racing soon after organised competition began in the early 1900s. The official Motorcycle championship would not begin until 1949, but the world's most famous brand of oil was there in the thick of things more than 30 years before.

Castrol was a mainstay of racing in the inter-war years as the oil of choice for privateers and factory teams alike. As racing on two wheels established itself, most of the winning machinery had Castrol inside it.

With the start of the official World Championship after the Second World War, Castrol was used by such marques as Gilera and Norton. It was a time of thundering single-cylinder four-strokes up against a handful of exotic multi-cylinder machines like the Gilera ridden by triple champ Geoff Duke, and its spiritual successor, the dominant MV Agusta used by legendary multiple champion John Surtees.

Glow fuel is METHANOL, NITROMETHANE, NITROBENZINE, and CASTOR or SYNTHETIC OIL. No gasoline or other petroleum distillates are used ever. Many now run on straight methanol and oil.

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Sounds a tad exaggerated but I did try "gasohol" (10% mix) in a bike I had. Ran ok but got 10% poorer gas milage so I suspect the alky didn't burn at all. Worse, my bike stalled when I switched to reserve after a couple fills of the mix, leaving me stuck in the sticks. The alchohol had mixed with a tad of water and the whole mess (about a gallon) had precipitated out into an unburnable mix in the bottom of my tank. I've avoided it like the plague ever since.

We used to use methanol in race bikes year ago but they needed close to 15:1 compression ratios to burn it efficiently. EPA won't let car mfgrs do that cuz the nitrogen in the air "burns" at those ratios making nitric oxide - one of the worst parts of SMOG. Thats why they made mfgrs cut compression ratios back in

Trucks do pay higher taxes but not enough to compensate for the damage they do to roads. Blame Nixon. The interstates were designed to support a given weight and trucks were limited to 60,000# IIRC so as not to exceed that even if slightly overloaded. When Nixon ordered 55MPH the industry hollered so he upped the limit to 80,000. That flexes the roadbed too much creating breakup and rapid wear. You can see the damage as tire-size ridges on asphault interstates - asphault simply cannot support the weight.

The soluti> Truckers if they don't have the prorated Arizona tag must pay at

In article , Bret Ludwig wrote: # The fact is taxing gasoline and diesel fuel is the single most #efficient and fair way to finance roads there is. No. It's not. Take for example the Toyota Prius. It gets really good mileage. So for the number of miles driven--and the wear and tear on the roads that it causes, the Prius owner pays a lot less tax per mile driven than, say, the guy who gets 10 mpg out of his V-12.

In fact, CA wants to figure out a way to track the mileage of cars so that they can get more money out of the hybrid owners at the pump. My guess on this is that they will probably track it at your smog check and send you a bill for the miles driven--even if they were not in the state, or they will require tracking transceivers in all vehicles to log where you are going.

# The other problem is that vehicles wear roads disproportionately as to #weight. A 1974 Cadillac Eldorado doesn't wear roads any more than a #Toyota Tercel, but a tractor trailer at 80,000 lbs wears them at #something like thirty times the rate of the Cadillac. The speed of the #truck and the distance between the driver and trailer tandems puts a #ripple on the road at a certain pitch or length. If trucks paid their #proportional share of road wear and services trucking would be much #more expensive. Efficient regional railroads, not the highways, are #the cheapest and most efficient way to move heavy freight. This is very true. And I am sure money hungry states will be looking at this as a justification to tax by type of vehicle as well as by the number of miles driven and the number of gallons of fuel bought...

/herb

Of course no one likes to have to pay more than someone else. But then again, no one likes to be subsidizing someone else, either. Your trip ticket might have been paying part of the share of those with the tag.

Depending on whose ax is being ground and whose ox is being gored, one big truck causes the same amount of pavement wear in one trip as somewhere between 5,000 and 20,000 passenger vehicles.

Of course like so many other things, it all depends. In this case it depends on tire pressure, axle loading, axle spacing, suspension type, lane wander, cross-section pitch, highway type, highway age and other things. Surprisingly, GVW doesn't matter as much as axle load. What matters is how many pounds of weight are where the tire meets the pavement.

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Page down to pg 17 and look at "Table ES-3. 2000 Federal Over and Underpayments by 20 Vehicle Classes". It shows what certain types of vehicles underpay or overpay their share of highway costs to the US Federal government. Some commercial vehicles are overpaying.

L.W.(ßill) Hughes III wrote:

I love driving over the six inch ridges at intersections from big trucks. Really shakes my kidneys! Jeeps bounce a lot more then passenger cars do.

It's really much more fun on in bumper-to-bumper traffic on slick roadways at 70 MPH in a 5-ton truck -- with an axle width just a few inches narrower than all the big trucks run.

Not any glow fuel I ever used. Typically alcohol, sometimes with a bit of nitromethane and an oil. The older ones definitely used castor oil, which had pretty much a smaller but similar effect as the aircraft castor oil did on older pilots. Aka why there was always an outhouse near the landing fields.

L.W.(ßill) Hughes III proclaimed:

If you don't contract out construction of your highways to your governors illiterate brother in law, the trucks don't do near as much damage.

Vito proclaimed:

Yeah, there'll probably be some really big women in those gay bars down along the waterfront by next year. Oh, you meant the other type....

I figger you got two choices since we've screwed the railroads into extinction:

1. Subsidize truckers.

1. Starve to death. And not be able to get a casket shipped.

L.W.(ßill) Hughes III proclaimed:

"Lee Ayrton" wrote>

Especially with tires prone to hydroplane ....

"Lon" wrote

To be sure, but nobody has a way to stop it so we need a work-around.