An explanation about powerbands

[Alan H]

Unashamedly stolen from another forum (clicky)

What they are, how they are used and generally, WTF.

Pete O'Dell, eat your heart out!!

[Pete O'Dell]

all right Al, I give in lol, I am missing something anyway I thought a power band was what I wound up on model aircraft when I was a kid



ahhhhh just read the PM lol

[Craig380]

So where do I get one?

[Lorenzo]

I actually happen to have one; I will ship for free

[Alan H]

That'll probably be Red or Purple with added vavavoom.

[jabcb]

Unfortunately Dr. Vangina Rusty had access to a time machine and inadvertently killed herself.

She developed the first commercial Powerband but didn't benefit from it due to her untimely death.

(see bottom of article for citation)

[Lorenzo]

That'll probably be Red or Purple with added vavavoom.

It's amazing what people would not do, to squeeze the tiniest drop of juice from their machines....

[titan performance]

I did hear story about a young lad taking his bike into a local shop some years back, and asking to have one fitted!

[tz375]

Don't expansion chambers require a change in powerband or do your pipes come with new powerbands in the kit?

I have a set of J&R pipes which supposedly had a very narrow powerband, bit I didn't get one with the pipes. Do you sell replacements or do you avoid that problem by designing pipes to keep a stock powerband?

And anyone got a lead on any Denco Powerbands. I hear they were the bees knees.

[Suzsmokeyallan]

What that article failed to mention is a symptom called powerband spread. This occurance happens when you ride your bike closely alongside another bike.
Its quite effective when the bikes are the same model/year and even more impressive performance wise when they have on the same brand of pipes.
Basically when the bikes are running side by side, the powerbands spread out between the two engines, practically doubling the performance of each bike.

[Madbuffalo]

What that article failed to mention is a symptom called powerband spread. This occurance happens when you ride your bike closely alongside another bike.
Its quite effective when the bikes are the same model/year and even more impressive performance wise when they have on the same brand of pipes.
Basically when the bikes are running side by side, the powerbands spread out between the two engines, practically doubling the performance of each bike.

I kid you not the reverse of that happened to me once! I was riding along when all of a sudden my GT bogged way down and got obnoxiously loud. The bike began running rich and backfiring violently. It was a cross reverberation caused by an influxed resonance by another motorcycle. I couldn't figure it out until I noticed the Harley Davidson riding alongside me.

Great article.

[Suzsmokeyallan]

I believe you were a victim of product misuse Josh, its obvious that HD rider forgot to upload the optional powerband to his bike off the HD website after purchase.
You gotta read the fine print, if not you can be easily mislead.

[Alan H]

Either that or he was nicking yours, not having a proper one himself!!

[oldjapanesebikes]

Or possibly just a generic issue related to the brand ?

[J54156]

I have some mid-range powerbands for sale.................