Really? Are you positive? If so, why so negative? Or is that your mischievous sense of humour and you're just leading us on...
It is my humble opinion as a lifelong electronics engineer and designer that Silver soldered cables would be the lowest possible resistance*, therefore the best performance at starting. The silver will fill in nearly all the air gaps, allowing all the copper cores to join to the terminal. When crimped, only some of the copper surface is in 100% contact with the terminal. For this reason silver soldering is superior to crimping, but much more labour intensive and the materials involved cost more. I suspect that Silver soldered fittings would add at least £10 to the cost of a set of high capacity cables. Note there is downside. The copper cable will loose it's flexibility at the point of the silver joint, which if not properly supported could fracture, lowering the effective cross-sectional area therefore increasing resistance as the cable is exposed to vibration. You will need a very accurate low impedance meter to measure the difference between a well made crimped and a silver soldered cable. A nice touch would be to see whatever the final connection is to have it varnished or sealed to prevent corrosion. *Silver is the most conductive metal at motorcycling temperatures. Copper offers a cost effective alternative at 97% the conductivity.
Purchased one (Abba Bike lift, as in the picture) yesterday lunchtime.... Just under £400 with a few kits.. really looking forward to it.
Nope...he definitely exists. And washes my car down at Tesco's ...really nice guy, from some part of Africa. I can recommend him.
Sounds as though it might cut down on the corrosion causing increasing resistance at every joint, factor though...?
They are fab - I have 2 now with a dozen adaptors. Lets just say they were happy with the Performance Bikes article that I happened to mention prior to the photo shoot
