I'm still waiting for cyberkinetic hands

Stretching the forearm tendons really helps too.

Grab the tips of your fingers with the other hand, and bend them backwards as far as they will go. Hold for ten seconds, repeat on the other side, and your forearm problems will go away. Also stretching the arms and shoulders before a session really helps as well.

Back in the very early days of windsurfing......so early it was even just before my time, a couple of hairy gnome like brothers from Germany had a very similar idea. It's funny how innovations keep repeating.

Forearm cramp, eeee by gum, who'd a thought there'd come a day when we'd complain about it. I remember the days before harnesses, the days of iron men and wooden wishbones, before 't ole world got sarft and whimpy. We used to hang on w'out harness, to a floppy old wooden boom with a 6m sail to learn on. We'd do that 28 hours a day, just for fun, wit wooden centreboard pulled out of the slot downwind and bashing into our testicles wit' force of a Cat 9D. Y'tell that to kids of today and they warn't believe it. Soft they are, I'm tellin' ye. Soft!

And that was nothin compared to t' pain of pumping in a Mistral......these windusrfers these days don't know they're born.

Chris249 Psssstttttt Cat D9 tractor. Comes in ranges, D9G D9H (flat trackers) D9L D9R D9T (High drive)

Mineral

Bugger, blew my credibility again.

Yes Freed, arm pump is aggravated by wide grip.
back in the good old days of speedway racing, riders would not even put hand grips on their bars, electing instead to use a few rubber bands in order to minimize grip diameter.

These days we aim for the smallest diameter booms for the same reason.
although when you get arm pump to the point of total lock of your hand on the throttle of a 4valve Jawa (3 times the power to wieght of a F1 car.) it's not quite the same reason.

At any rate I would feel very much like saying

"Thunderbirds are Go". with these in place.

Best winds and merry Christmas
TonyL

Chris 249

I'm sure that F1 cars have more grip than your bikes though

80kg would be a fat all up bike wieght.
come to think of it they were talking around 60kg, certainly you could pick one up.

I was also relating late eighties figures.
the speedway bikes now look better but have to run roost deflectors and mufflers.

Grip doesn't come into it. half way up the back straight of a half mile track, back off slightly and you get traction, then a very sore ass.

may need some further research on the Jawas, but a world of outlaws Sprintcar wieghs in under 600kg and pumps an easy 750HP. pulls in excess of 2.5g side load in corners. They have an average speed on the Bendigo half mile dirt track of 105mph and enter turns 1 and 3 at 135mph. that's with a lap time of 17.5secs. phil Crump was doing 19s laps on the jawa but that was a 4 lap average from a standing start and about 6 yrs earlier.

Merry Christmas Easty,

We are all good at something in our lives, and i really enjoyed my Speedway days.

Sailboarding and kiting are Cheaper.

Next time someone thinks of how much they are spending on kit.
Think $1600 tyre bill per meeting, $200 fuel for racecar, $100 fuel for towcar. Engine rebuild every 6 meetings, $50 oil per meeting. etc. etc.