Susan wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:10:


Now, now.  You know that no one would laugh at you  

In our 500 cc four cyl two stroke we used to get the jets flow tested to make sure all four ran the same, we also matched ports, compressions, squishes, pipes and stinger lenghts/diameters

Clive W  

Looks like I'll need to find some other way to get a sound clip.  I was able to record it with my Palm's voice recorder but it's only clear at idle.  When I rev it at all it becomes extremely distorted and really sounds like crap... just too loud I guess.

I am still waiting on my local Mac Geek to get back to me on how to use what I got to do it Rob....

But.... after listening to Gregs sounds clips.... I can say that its Very close the the Raask pipe and somewhat close to the Jardine in sound. Both those were similar to me....

But the Super Trapp was superior in sound to all of them. Well I guess its a matter of oppionion but it was "mellower" at high rev. Similar at idle. But a sort of mutted buttery tone at "squalling rev".  A bit more smooth than the rest. If you like that sort of thing. Perhaps you don't.

klx650sm2002 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:10:


Exactly!  And you have no idea how long I searched the web for a good digital picture.  None of my old conventional photos are worth scanning.

I eventually stripped it down, installed a plastic tank and fenders, new shocks, stiffer reed valve, over bore kit....that bike would pull stumps, wheelie, or kill you trying.  

Oh and did I mention "Diesel"?  That was one of the known wierd things about that engine.  All you had to do was miss shift and slam the throttle open at the same time....next thing you'd know it was wide open and the kill switch wouldn't stop it.  The darn engine would redline without a spark and the only way to stop it was dump the clutch....always good for a rush.

It was good that I was only 28 when I had that bike  8)

Okay, got it.  I'd say the MAC sounds somewhere between the Raaske and SuperTrapp, leaning more toward the Raaske side.

On some crows, yes.  Those on dress uniforms will have it while those on dungarees and work jackets, etc. won't.  The color on this one looks like that of a work jacket.  Also, though I don't remember for sure, it seems like there were three groupings like seaman/airman/fireman that used different color stripes for the dress blues.  Seaman had white, airman had green and fireman had red.  Seems like it all became one set once you made E-4 and wore chevrons instead of stripes.  That is, until you reached gold lifer status with like 16 years straight good conduct... then yours became gold.