What colour powerband should I put on my 50cc?

[Matthie]

Right I am really confused now.

I know the powerband is the range of revs you get the most power right?

Well I was outside work today and these two chavs from work, who know something about bikes started asking me if I had a powerband on my GPR 50. The conversation went something like this:

Chav: "Nice bike mate bla bla bla..."
Me: "Thanks all that...."
Chav: "Have you got a powerband on this?"
Me: *Laughs*
Chav: "Do you?"
Me: "Theres no such physical thing mate"
Chav: "Wtf? Yeah there is!!!!"
Me: "Nah mate..."
Chav : "OMFG, yes there is! Damon had one on his bike..."
Me: "Im sure he did mate"
Chav : "Oi Chris *to the guy in the car* dont bikes have powerbands"
Chav2 : *Comes over and has a look at my bike and at th engine* "Yeah you dont have one mate" *points at a little cover on the side of the bike* "Have you ever taken this off?"
Me: "No..."
Chav2: "Yeah if you take that off theres a little pin inside, if you pull that out then you will get power from lower in the rev range"
Me: "Im sure I will mate."
Chav2: "Yeah you will see this thing that turns inside and theres a pin that stops it"
Me: *Baffled*
Chav2: *Puts his ear right next to it and gets me to turn my ignition on and off* "Nah mate I can't hear yours it must be electric"
Me: "Oh right..." *Totally amused and confused lol*

I was just so confused because I know everyone rips it out of chavs who think powerbands are physical things but they seemed so conviced about them...well it amused me.

But just for clarification, they were chatting bollocks weren't they?

Cheers,

M
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Tutton says: I hate random hardons, they are so weird...

[Scouse]

No, they sound pretty much spot on with that

[Blau Zedong]

A powerband is the rev range during which an engine works most efficiently, that is all. On highly strung 2T's it feels more violent as the porting / exhaust design is such a compromise that it is very inefficient at certain engine speeds, i.e. giving a relativly flat bottom and midrange, yet all of a sudden gas speeds etc rise to a level where the porting etc makes sense and the engine suddenly becomes uber efficient, hence the big step in power.
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[Matthie]

[virus]

Maybe they were talking about a powervalve?



Cheers
John
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[Barry_M2]

They could have just been confusing it with a power valve, which is probably what most people do. Coming from the old ypvs days.



EDIT: Sorry John, didn't see your post above!
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[Matthie]

Yeah maybe. Just made me chuckle...

Then they starting telling me to take a hammer and chisel to the end of my fuel tube thing (cant remember the name lol) incase I had a washer in the end
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Tutton says: I hate random hardons, they are so weird...

[Pete.]

It's called an exhaust
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Matthie]

[Pete.]

Washers in the fuel line - lol!
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Damon]

[Moonie]

What are you talking about Matthie?

The newer GPRs come with powerbands as standard!

White GPRs have Satin black for cruising low down torque, and the red ones have white powerbands for unbermegaturbosuperboost past 7k revs.

Some people have no idea
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[Matthie]

[Damon]

[Matthie]

[tutton]

You blatently had a suspicion they could be real hence the making of this thread,
which invalidates your opinion on anything on this forum ever again.
You should have slapped him around the face and asked if his car had a t4 turbo that he might of bolted on too?
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[thegubner]

[carlnicholson...]

This has become so common, every bike I've had has been met with a comment from a chavvy 16 year old educating me on the presence of a 'powerband' and yet completely unable to actually define what the fuck he means.

What the hell is happening with the new generation of teenagers? This country is royally fucked in a few years time.
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[Pete.]

It's not a new thing, must be 15 years ago some lad was telling me about how his mate "bolted another powerband on the side" of his crosser
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Matthie]

[tutton]

Sure he didnt mean the powerband as in when the bike has most power

Like 2smokes are near top of gear as low down there gutless.
just fort of that altho you cant bolt that on lol.
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[Matthie]

[Pete.]

[kawashima]

I found this on google
https://www.carinacharms.com/dev/images/items/125x500/TenPowerBandWristbandStack.JPG
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