Paul's Rants - Ill informed 'experts' using other peoples material & spreading bad 'information'.

[@stevec-b6214]

the best rant yet! I read an article describing this expert, who fitted an expansion chamber, and now at 70mph his fizzbang was doing 6000rpm, before fitting this exhaust it was doing 8000rpm at 70mph!! Fantastic bit of kit - an exhaust that changes the gearing. I wonder where he is now? - Wait a minute....

[@jimanderson4981]

Always love listening to your rants. Saves me the trouble of my own 👍

[@staryjanek]

Oh my goodness, what a bloody cheek !!!

[@richardsimpson3792]

I skimmed through that video...most of the bikes featured are actually collectable now so clearly lots of people want them back.

[@grantbaker3336]

Well done Paul for bringing that to our attention so we can all leave him an appropriate comment!

[@cp4512]

You’re right. There’s a lot of dodgy misinformation out there.

Thanks, Paul - you cheered up an otherwise damp and dark, wet afternoon! Keep your frank and honest videos coming.

[@damiantuttle1348]

😂😂😂😂....vacuum bags 😂😂😂😂 oh god I pissed myself I'd forgotten about them 😂😂😂

[@kevinmurphy724]

Hello Paul, there's nothing like a good rant, good remedy for the poor weather. Growing up in the seventies I always hankered for the Honda SS50 ultimate cool bike to me. However, back to the serious point of making your bike go faster, you can't make me believe that we kids cut up cereal boxes and made a small block of cardboard and pinched my dear Mum's pegs and fixed these to run against our bicycle spokes! I am positive we all went at twice the speed!😂 thise were the days. Cheers Kevin. Thanks for the laugh.

[@willz666]

The mighty Micron exhaust......Goes faster, handles better lmao

[@georgemalkin6546]

Excellent rant. A lot of BS trying to baffle brains on KZbin, and of course down the pub, you have to learn to think for yourself and sift the wheat from the chaff.

[@peterwilson8797]

Bit of a cheeky that bud. Glad you were notified.

[@ianstewart576]

Nice one Paul. Completely agree with you, and I do like your rants. Keep up the good work. Thank you.

[@mervynprice7009]

What an enjoyable rant. I owned an original Honda Cub. The one with the push rod engine. No excuses, I was young & stupid. Going down hill it would really go & the needle would go round the clock & touch the stop. I learned my lesson the hard way. Never do this please, in my case it cost me two new speedometers. Touching that stop breaks the speedometer, I know this for certain because I did it twice, going down hill too fast. Doubtless, this is why the later models were never quite as fast as those early ones. I suppose the speed would have been around 55 remembering that they would read more than one's actual speed.

[@bruceclark5627]

The moment you hear the A.I. generated voice,best to ignore,.....Cafe Racer T.V.being the exception to that rule.

[@niallsommerville9813]

Absolutely, pity there is no redress against disclaiming idiocy. I did manage to get some of my personal bike photos removed from a similar video by a self certified expert and I have heard similar nonsense talked about early Hinckley models. Thanks for the link but personally, I wouldn't give them the benefit of a click through.

[@rkurtz8534]

There’s a chap who uses a picture (taken at a bike meet) of my pre-war BSA in his advert for ‘scrap bikes and barn finds wanted.’ Bloody cheek…..

[@borderlands6606]

The fastest 50cc racing bikes could exceed 100 mph by some way, but these were machines subject to a full rebuild after every race, with a team of professional mechanics on hand. Bits of copper piping were notable by their absence.

[@Paul-pb3vq]

Just had a quick look at the other channel in your link Don’t think you need to worry Paul about that other channel , Comments on the other channel are ripping that other channel to bits. Keep up your great work fella .

[@deltabluesdavidraye]

Best to stop him from abusing your content

[@deltabluesdavidraye]

Hello Paul, I do enjoy your knowledge.

[@Desertfox170]

Just sold gsxr 1100 and bought a 50 cc FSI 😂😂 for more power

[@rodneygunn788]

Always love the guy that asks me if my 2002 Enfield is real just say no it’s imaginary

[@4ager505]

Out of curiosity, tried to watch the vid in the link...bad music was annoying...information was sketchy or false...narration by AI voice...used WAY too many words, whole thing could have been done in 2:00 minutes. I had to give up on it at the beginning of the RE part. Didn't see you, Paul in the part I endured.

[@martytoal6547]

I’d a guy recently tell me about the Yamaha rd 750 lc and how good it was,when I told him he was talking boll*x he trumped the conversation because he actually bought one brand new and he knows because his mate raced one as well🤷🏻‍♂️

[@martinowl]

Fancy you not knowing the copper pipe up the exhaust hack! 🤔lol. I think many of us have been guilty of repeating unproven claims as fact, normally gleaned from the motorcycle press.

[@peter7624]

Yeah, some say all you need to do is fit an Iridium spark plug and a K&N air filter for Fireblade-like performance. What an easy tune up..but it''s all in their imaginations, like go-faster paint. Your rants are informed rants Paul, the "man in the pub" and many others are just hot air. Keep up the excellent posts Paul Your'e always spot-on.

[@MrJimbo4557]

Love your channel and it's no nonsense approach. You remind me of the days long gone when it was true mechanics and head scratching solutions. Your rants are priceless and add even more to your excellent channel.. 😁

[@paulhenshaw4514]

Thanks 👍

[@DavidGarside]

I've just found somebody using one of my videos made around St Mary's Island in Northumberland. Re-edited with their own titles on his travel channel....what a cheek ! I've reported it as copyright. I've watched your link, and this bloke really wound me up. I've known several of these 'bad bikes', and they've not been anything like he describes. If you report as copyright, he could receive a 'strike' which if turns out to be a regular thing, he could be removed from youtube. You keep your videos coming, they're very informative and entertaining. Thanks Paul.

[@williamnethercott4364]

That's a photogenic location but pinching somebody else's video is beyond the pale.

[@DavidGarside]

@williamnethercott4364 . They actually used my video, re-edited the titles, etc, to add their own !

[@williamnethercott4364]

@@DavidGarside FFS!

[@niallsommerville9813]

Just had a thought Paul, make a video (with AI voiced intro and disclaimers of course) sat in a pub with a mate who offers a selection of guarantee'd go faster hacks for old bikes while you nod sagely.

[@johnmahoney4523]

Well well well, I'm going through depression again at the moment. Thanks Paul, that video really has cheered me up today. Love the ' man up the pub said' 😂 we say that to people who talk pooh. Chaz and dave called them, bar stool preachers, anyway we used to produce the best steel on our little island. The bikes he called rubbish are probably ones he's worked on. Keep up your good work, Johnny ringo. 👍😎

[@deltabluesdavidraye]

Synthetic does give a slight bump in h.p. but come on its not gonna change things much. Iridium plugs and so on.Nowadays they put that tiny tipped electrode on those and the platinum ones,so tiny that it wears faster and burns cooler than a old school copper electrode. Seems like if a product is better because of materials they still find a way to screw it up. I remember when platinum plugs had a full sized electrode and lasted much longer.Now try to find those ,they aren't available.

[@Frank-e9p]

It's all of 70 * here in sunny Florida this morning and I think it's a cool morning hahaha😂.

[@750triton]

Why did I know that channel would be a yank? 🤣😂 FS1E was a 2 stroke and that bloke in the pub was talking about using an expansion chamber type pipe on a 4 stroke Yamaha YB? Genius

[@paulhenshaw4514]

The 1970's - 80's YB100 was a 2 stroke, a bit like a scaled up FS1E.

[@4ager505]

Respectfully Sir, I submit that bad manners, faulty information, ill formed opinions, and idiocy are not solely reserved to the USA. There are still some of us YANKS alive and riding who love and appreciate our wonderful Brit bikes...the ones we discovered in the days of our youth. Please have a nice day...

[@brucehosie5344]

I had a fsie dx (£40 quid scrapyard) with a micron and pre mix and smaller sproket and big rear tyre and would mange just 50 plus with a following wind and then still seize, leak oil , blow up etc as a 16 year old much fun and learning was had. My sister had an A100, Suzuki version of YB and I passed my test on that, I swear it did 65 and a half on way home! Later on stopped by plod dong 92 on my 65 Triumph T90 , was well impressed! Point is , and I agree with you whole heartedly, back in the day there was much bollox spouted down the pub, these days ill informed crap everywhere on the internet, as bikes age the amount out there that haven't been buggered about with by someone ill informed will only decrease. Thankfully you and your like still survive and are hugely appreciated and enjoyed, keep moaning mate, I'm thinking of buying a pipe so I look clever whilst I moan!!

[@750triton]

Funny you mention the A100. I bought a 2 year old one. I saw 80 mph on that clock but due to optimistic speedo's of the day, it likely did no more than 70. I only weighed as much as my mums damp apron though. Other mates on 100 and 125 bikes would keep theirs to 45 because they said "I don't want to overheat it", which often meant I was waiting for them miles away on the route, having a cig in a layby. Yes, it can be done.

[@TheYorkie1954]

watched part of that bloke's video, couldn't make it all the way through. He seems to talk absolute bollocks

[@radboo4384]

😊

[@billcarson1971]

Someone else had a video claiming, “ The 10 worst motorcycles of the 70’s”. Some of the bikes he mentioned, Norton Comando, Triumph Trident,Honda 500t and Harley Sprint 350. I owned these bikes. They were all good bikes. Why did he say they were bad? Because someone told him they were. He was now officially an expert on You Tube.

[@brucegoldsmith3721]

Well dang! I just found a guy using one of my square four clips on his own video! It would have been nice to be asked.

[@markalton2809]

I remember the 70mph FS1E claims from when I was an apprentice. One lad swore blind to me that his Garelli would do 90 😂. That same lad also had the notion to check if his fuel tank was empty by peering into it with a lighted match, he turned up for work the next day minus fringe and eyebrows.

[@williamnethercott4364]

Classic rant! "The man in the pub" - I went to school with a few of those. One who thought the best way to get extra acceleration for overtaking was to go up from 3rd gear into sixth and open the throttle wide. Then there was the one who gained an extra 10mph from his little Honda by going down a couple of teeth on the rear sprocket, just as you mentioned. Finally there was one who vehemently maintained that no Norton Commando could keep up with his Suzuki 250 because it was superior to any British bike. What gets me is not so much the folly of much of the things they say but the agressive way they insist that they're right and no other opinion could possibly exist.

[@danielmcneil3004]

Well said Paul. Keep up the good work and exposing the crazies and trolls in your videos. Always enjoy your channel. Cheers, Dan ✌️🏍🇨🇦

[@2wheelvintage361]

I had someone take one of my videos to use for his, luckily it was just to show the model and nothing else. But I see this nonsense advice on Facebook as well. Someone asks a question because they are having an issue, and all the armchair mechanics come out and just muddy the waters with their misinformation. Good rant!

[@billykershaw2781]

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[@SLED-55]

Good one Paul! It’s an amazing to listen to the bench racing crowd sometimes. I have to give them credit that at least they’re somewhat interested in motorcycles. One must remember to have the brain engaged before letting the clutch out on the mouthpiece!🤣 What’s the disposition on the shiny Triumph with the low oil pressure?👍

[@paulhenshaw4514]

Hi and thanks! Regarding that Triumph, the owner fitted an original type relief valve, the spring in which felt much stronger apparently and he tells me it now shows 70 - 80 psi !

[@SLED-55]

@@paulhenshaw4514 Great diagnosis! Another one gone!👍

[@hermangibbs8163]

Thanks Paul.

[@deancooper7952]

Standing on the shoulders of giants,deformation of caracter ? Bad bikes = mechanical imcompotence!

[@kevinparker9407]

Even a quick look at the link you mention makes me suspect this is AI generated clickbait including the voiceover by KZbin.

[@p--n]

I've checked out the link, and the guy in the pub sounds like AI to my discerning ears.

[@bananabrooks3836]

9 months old that channel. Only a KZbin money seeker.

[@bobward2101]

I watched a couple of mins of that recently posted crap and asked Have you even rode a motorcycle ? 👍🏻