NOS. sounds silly, but worth it?

Originally Posted by Viney

Just buy a thou!!! You WILL invalidate your insurce by the way as its illegal to have NoS on the road.

Other than that, what fun

1. havnt got enough money to buy a thousand
2. thousands are heavier and turn slower
3. i like to tinker with my bike.
when i get enough cash for a thousand, i will buy one, but at the mo, the odds sack up in favour of nos.

and plus it is legal to ahve nos on the bike, but not to use it. Not really a law which can be fully instated. As a lot of drag bikes which use nos are also road legal.

NOS (Nitous Oxide) is a compressed liquid, which contains about 35% oxygen. There fore when injecting it into your fuel air mixture you have more oxygen so therefore a larger explosion generating more power.

Originally Posted by riktherider

and plus it is legal to ahve nos on the bike, but not to use it. Not really a law which can be fully instated. As a lot of drag bikes which use nos are also road legal.

I'm no expert on the matter by any means, but this is my understanding of the situation too. Not sure how convinced the insurers would be of your claims that it's never used aside from on trackdays (which presumably is what you'd say).

Originally Posted by plowsie

Nitrous Oxide - got need for speed?

No, just wondered what it was.

Like the other guys say it inserts Nitrous Oxide in the fuel and air mixture, being 35% oxygen it inserts more air thus giving more power

[Stu]

I forget, was it PaulSV650S or RhythmJunkie that suggested you dump a load of oxygen through your SV650?

Yer i remember that, it was some time last week, but they mean as a more permanent mod, NOS is a selective mod(as in use it when you like), that mod i think was do it and it'll be like that until you change it. Which from what i remember someone saying can do serious damage. I may be wrong lol.

[northwind]

A big shot would kill your engine, basically no doubt of that at all, probably not the firt time but it wouldn't take too long... So you'd basically have to cripple it to very low hp levels, in which case it wouldn't be too benificial. Sort of like with the turbo chat, you could do it, provided you didn't mind beign so conservative with it that you might as well have not bothered. Obviously, I've never fitted NOS to an SV so this isn't gospel, but, I'd file it under bad idea...

Didn't know that about being illegal on the road, though, interesting that.

Originally Posted by Viney

Just buy a thou!!! You WILL invalidate your insurce by the way as its illegal to have NoS on the road.

Other than that, what fun

yep just buy a faster bike.

Or buy one of them turbocharged Hayabusa's lol

NOS itself isn't spcifically illegal (ie prohibited explicitly within C&U, MOT or Road Traffic legislation), nor is using it.

It only becomes illegal when the vehicle's insurance doesn't cover the modification and it is fitted and in an operable condition.

IIRC, there's only one manufacturer's NOS kits (Wizards of NOS/Highpower) which are insurable, and then only through some specialists like Adrian Flux/Bikesure and Greenlight. Part of the reason is that most kits use non-BS/EU stamped cylinders, which aren't legal for use for the purposes of carrying compressed gas in a vehicle.