more bike porn

[ballpoint]

John lost his job at the guitar factory for putting two holes in them instead of one.  And being unable to tell the difference between feet and metres on a set of plans. 

[ballpoint]

Another Italian bike. A 1961 Ducati 250cc F3 Racer, with and without faring:

 

[Damrongsak]

Nice hand-crafted bike in the style of an old speedway bike.  “The entire cam-chest was modified to use a series of idler gears to drive the lower belt pulley. The Ducati 750 ss cylinder head had also been heavily modified to take its place on top of the factory Buell cylinder. And in order to set the engine vertical instead of forward leaning, I “back-halfed” the cases and mated up a 1959 pre-unit Triumph transmission which I modified to use a hydraulic clutch slave from a modern Triumph…” Shifting is one down, three up. 

 

The "Hydro-Springer” fork is interesting.

 

Story: http://cyrilhuzeblog.com/2015/07/20/speedway-racing-inspired-and-beautifully-crafted/

 

 

And this is cool:

 

 

Nice pic of a Harley CAC 500cc  http://blackcountrybiker.blogspot.com/2010/04/harley-davidson-cac-speedway-model-1934.html

 

[Damrongsak]

Self-driving motorcycles are here!

 

 

[Justgrazing]

29 minutes ago, Damrongsak said:

Self-driving motorcycles are here!

Yamaha's robot ridden bike .. Was timed trialled against Rossi a couple of years ago ( can't remember where ) VR beat it but it showed the concept worked and is under continuing research .. 

'Botboy practicing his best slipstreaming technique .. 

 

[Justgrazing]

Not strictly strictly bike though there is a trialler clambering over that 360 .. Taken for granted as they are such an everyday sight the ubiquitous " JCB " is another piece of brilliant but simple engineering .. They started out in Staffordshire handmaking trailers end of WW2 out of surplus army kit .. by 1953 with half a dozen on the payroll they came up with the original " backhoe " on the back of a front loading tractor .. The rest they say is history .. Such a useful bit of kit it has been copied under license by other plant makers ever since but  aficionados will still only dig trenches with a gen' JCB .. 

 

[Damrongsak]

JCB:

 

" Backhoe fade or JCB fade is a term coined by the telecommunications industry to refer to the accidental damage or complete severing of a communications cable by a backhoe or similar construction activity "

[Damrongsak]

Not sure if these qualify as bike porn, but here are some good moves.  Going sideways, feet up, on one wheel.  Unicycle racing?

 

 

And I just like this pic.  Maybe it's the flag ...

 

[VocalNeal]

10 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

Some later pics of the William Doxford & Sons works where they made big ship engines:

Been inside a couple 

[ballpoint]

9 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Not strictly strictly bike though there is a trialler clambering over that 360 .. Taken for granted as they are such an everyday sight the ubiquitous " JCB " is another piece of brilliant but simple engineering .. They started out in Staffordshire handmaking trailers end of WW2 out of surplus army kit .. by 1953 with half a dozen on the payroll they came up with the original " backhoe " on the back of a front loading tractor .. The rest they say is history .. Such a useful bit of kit it has been copied under license by other plant makers ever since but  aficionados will still only dig trenches with a gen' JCB .. 

 

They are now in the Oxford English dictionary, as the generic term for a backhoe loader:

As well as being the developers of the world's fastest diesel powered vehicle, the 329mph Dieselmax.

 

And not to forget their display team, the JCB Balls:

 

Then there was the village chap who got a job as a handyman at the local manor house.  On the first day, the lord of the manor said "I want you to dig a swimming pool, 150 feet long by 75 feet wide and 10 feet deep". 

"That'll take me forever", protests the chap, "I quit!"

"Oh, I'll give you a JCB" says the lord.

"Stuff your medals, I'm still not doing it!"

[ballpoint]

To get back on track, the JCB farmers' work and play bike concept:

[thaiguzzi]

20 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Germany are not bad either when you look back at that era though a lot of it like the first operational jet powered planes with the ME262 fighter and Arado 234 bomber ( never used in anger as it arrived WW2 too late .. this plane is believed to be the last operational Luftwaffe aircraft to fly over Blighty early in '45 on a reconnaissance flight ) along with projects like the V rockets were all for the wrong reasons .. 

But hey we won and after we got over the hangover and surveying the new order there was only one thing for it .. Jets .. and lots of 'em .. The 50's Brit' aero industry was arguably the best in the world with loads of manufacturers .. Even the A-mericans were reg' visitors to airshows in Britain to watch kit being put thru' it paces with a view to purchase ( and plagiarising ) .. Even the Russian top brass would be cordially invited to Farnborough in stage managed visits to watch our latest military planes doing barrel rolls and full throttle ascents and dives .. 

And one such bit of kit that could not have failed to get their attention was the 50's English Electric Lighting .. Primary task was to intercept Soviet bombers in the event of Armageddon arriving for real .. And intercept it could .. only British made plane of the era capable of Mach 2 and described by many pilots as like getting strapped into a rocket and watching the world go backwards .. Its speed though was matched by its thirst for Avgas limiting early versions operational range but the Russian's had no answer to it .. remained with some squadrons until the mid 80's though not as No1 front line .. 

If bikes are planes then for its consumption alone the Lightning is a Kawa H2 with spannies and no filter .. 

 

 

19 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

OT. Cold War Hot Jets.

 

The only fighter to have caught up to Concorde. Out of service about 1987-ish.

 

Lightning starts at 35mins.

 

# My Dad worked on the Lightnings as a mechanic, later chief mechanic for most of the 22 years he did in the RAF.

Came out aged 40 in the late 70's with a very nice pension which he still gets to this day.

Also took him (and me) all over the world being seconded to other air forces inc Kuwait for 3 and a 1/2 years.

# The above documentary i watched both parts (with my Dad and my son - 3 generations of TG) whilst in Blighty last month.

Absolutely fascinating. Did'nt realize we were so far ahead of the game post WW II.

Unfortunately, typically British, we sold the family silver because we had idiots running the country.

Also, this film showed what a load of <deleted> the phrase "special relationship" was regarding the UK and the scumbag Yanks.

 

[thaiguzzi]

11 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

Nice hand-crafted bike in the style of an old speedway bike.  “The entire cam-chest was modified to use a series of idler gears to drive the lower belt pulley. The Ducati 750 ss cylinder head had also been heavily modified to take its place on top of the factory Buell cylinder. And in order to set the engine vertical instead of forward leaning, I “back-halfed” the cases and mated up a 1959 pre-unit Triumph transmission which I modified to use a hydraulic clutch slave from a modern Triumph…” Shifting is one down, three up. 

 

The "Hydro-Springer” fork is interesting.

 

Story: http://cyrilhuzeblog.com/2015/07/20/speedway-racing-inspired-and-beautifully-crafted/

 

 

And this is cool:

 

 

Nice pic of a Harley CAC 500cc  http://blackcountrybiker.blogspot.com/2010/04/harley-davidson-cac-speedway-model-1934.html

 

Superb post DRSK.

Stunners.

Thankyou for keeping up the high quality additions to this wonderful thread and joining in with JG and BP's wonderful anecdotes.

It nicely eases me out slowly as i don't have to worry about keeping up with constant pics and notes.

Keep up the good work guys.

 

Sidevalve, rigid TRW trials iron spotted at this year's pre 65 a week before the 2019 SSDT...

 

 

 

[ballpoint]

12 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

Thankyou for keeping up the high quality additions to this wonderful thread and joining in with JG and BP's wonderful anecdotes.

It nicely eases me out slowly as i don't have to worry about keeping up with constant pics and notes.

Keep up the good work guys.

Don't be a stranger.  Maybe you could do a regular "letter from Blighty" post when you do shuffle off this forum's coil?

[VocalNeal]

Who knew ? That JAWA's speedway engine was desmo.

 

 

and Belini

 

 

https://www.desmodromology.nl/

[thaiguzzi]

24 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

Don't be a stranger.  Maybe you could do a regular "letter from Blighty" post when you do shuffle off this forum's coil?

Still 'ere mate.

Looks like i may have a Blighty reprieve (Praise the Lord) as said family member is on the mend big time as opposed to being on Death's Doorstep.

Excellent news all round.

Still cutting back on forums/contributions/computers generally though.

 

 

[Justgrazing]

36 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

Absolutely fascinating. Did'nt realize we were so far ahead of the game post WW II.

( top to bottom ) From this to this to this .. The incomparable Harrier Jump Jet that came in the 60's .. So good even the A-mericans bought it .. ( last time I looked Thailand also had some secondhand ones though I ain't sure if they are airworthy anymore ) .. 

The Americans bore deep reservation's about the chances of success in our jaunt down to the S Atlantic 37 yrs ago ( the Vulcan bombing mission drew gasps from them as they considered flying ageing Nuclear bombers that distance wasn't possible and were utterly gobsmacked when it was revealed after the raid the fuelling program that carried it off .. I urge any of ye'z who have an interest in this to read the book " Operation Black Buck " .. It is a superb read ) ..  

But the Harrier proved their scepticism unfounded with a 20+ - 0 kill rate in aerial combat .. And the only one's taken out were by ground based fire .. A truly groundbreaking bit of kit that started out as a flying bedstead .. 

 

Another pic' of a pair of Lightnings in formation .. 

 

[Justgrazing]

Coming back into land with a bit more on bikes .. 

Ducati F1 V8 engine .. Ain't sure 'bout that Duke have no need to go near F1 and its very architecture isn't really F1 .. 

R E the Desmo posts above .. 

Another form of valve actuation is the 

Electro mechanical servo valve ... This has been looked at by various manufacturers for years and in principle does extend the future of the I C engine .. In essence the valves are opened/closed by EM solenoids controlled by a processor taking input from numerous engine sensors .. Advantages are the ability to change the amount of lift , the duration of open/close time and the actual timing itself can be altered as in opening earlier or later or fully variable .. I ain't saying this is good or bad .. On one hand it will make engines more efficient and powerful alongside their conventional bro's but on the other hand engines will become almost totally electronically controlled requiring very little maintenance which is not good news for service sector .. 

 

[ballpoint]

The aviation side reinforces my point on the sheer number of British manufacturers from a page or so ago, though not to the extent that 1,200+ motorcycle manufacturers did. 

Famous RAF aircraft of WW1?

Camel - Sopwith

 

WW2?

Spitfire - Supermarine

Lancaster - Avro

Mosquito - DeHavilland

Hurricane - Hawker

Wellington - Vickers

 

Post WW2?

Lightning - English Electric

Vulcan - Avro

Victor - Handley Page

Valiant - Vickers

Harrier - Hawker

 

Some of those were absorbed into BAe, but all formed by engineers, or family businesses, working away at a problem.  You could add all the less famous workhorses to that, too; Bristol, Fairey Aviation, Short Brothers, Gloster, BAC....

 

To me, though the Vulcan is a beautiful aircraft, and gets the plaudits, my favourite V Bomber was the Victor.  An amazing plane, especially front on.

 

 

And, when they ceased to be used as bombers, they were refitted as tankers - the very ones that refuelled the Vulcans on the Falklands raids, and were used in that capacity as recently as the first Gulf War.

 

Least we forget the true purpose of these beautiful machines, here's a Yellow Sun Mark 2 hydrogen bomb being loaded into a Victor, though this is just a dummy. "Yellow Sun" (it's not hard to imagine what inspired the name), was the name of the casing, the actual bomb inside it being a "Red Snow" 1.45 Megaton thermonuclear device (Which replaced the earlier "Red Beard").  As I said in another thread, gotta admire a company / organisation that goes to the trouble of naming its products, rather than using random strings of letters and numbers - the US equivalent of Red Snow being the B28.

[Justgrazing]

3 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

my favourite V Bomber was the Victor

Good call there B P the Vic' was also the scariest looking especially the bottom pic' .. 

And here's the other 1/3rd of the triumvirate the Valiant .. 

 

[VocalNeal]

[Justgrazing]

3 hours ago, ballpoint said:

Post WW2?

Lightning - English Electric

Vulcan - Avro

Victor - Handley Page

Valiant - Vickers

Harrier - Hawker

And the one that got away the BAC TSR2 .. Arguably the most advanced warplane of the day it suffered crippling overspend on the budget and a lot of political in fighting of the day over that seen it cancelled mid 60's after just 3 had been built to be replaced by the F111 and later Phantom from over the water .. 

a TS' giving it biglicks at take off and in flight .. 

 

[ballpoint]

When a bike dreams...

(From a T shirt)

 

[ballpoint]

2019 MV Augusta Brutale 800RR Pirelli:

 

Or, if 140 Italian horses aren't enough, there's the 150hp RC:

 

(I prefer the pipes and colours of the former, myself).

 

 

 

[Justgrazing]

Dragbikes .. not just explosive acceleration .. 

Yam' TR1 based sprinter ..

 

[VocalNeal]

7 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

 

Suffered the same fate.

[VocalNeal]

Nothing is new? 

 

 

The original stepthru? 

 

 

[Justgrazing]

Founded in Bucks in the 30's .. First trialled ejector seats 1946 .. Suppliers to over 90 air forces latest being the US and UK's F35's .. acknowledged world leaders in the field of pilot ejection systems ..  Martin Baker EJ seats are said to have saved over 7000 lives since first introduced late 40's .. 

 

[Isaanbiker]

On 5/16/2019 at 9:43 AM, thaiguzzi said:

No.

Vomit.

Please stop defiling this wonderful thread with stock garbage.

If you have'nt got anything of historical, classic or customized classy interest to contribute, F##k off.

 

Oh and the red mystery Italian?

Lambretta.

And very tasteful too.

It's classic, only 2656 models were produced of this type, it's fast, has a drive shaft, plus a few more extras I've created and it's mine. Now go and fu__ off yourself!!!

[Damrongsak]

The grass is greener on the inside line.

 

 

Noodle cart racing.  Or maybe the new hi-speed mocy taxi service?