Popular Post Justgrazing Posted October 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 15, 2019 Check out that polished half fairing .. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Justgrazing Posted October 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 15, 2019 This was up before but is a nice homage to a Vincent .. and the XV lump is the nearest out of Japan to resemble a Vincent engine .. which is why they are sought after by bike builders .. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ballpoint Posted October 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 15, 2019 Another bike from falcon Motorcycles: The Bullet, which started as a derelict 1950 Thunderbird frame and engine: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballpoint Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 6 hours ago, thaiguzzi said: Pre unit mate. So pre 63. Fair chance the top end of the motor is 9 stud '70, and mebbe got a '70 crank and rods in it. all doable. But that is a P/U bottom end. However, the bike has some nicely done, UNUSUAL touches. The weird timing cover with extension piece, the use of a front half unit primary cover, with a pre unit rear half - very neat, Jap 6 spring clutch. I like the colour details and contrast on the rims and front brake. Stored pics in my computer files, ta. According to their site: The Kestrel started as the unit engine of a 1970 Triumph Bonneville, which was cut in half & re-engineered. With the exception of a few critical pieces everything – including the frame, front forks, gas & oil tanks, exhausts, handlebars, levers, even the cylinders – was fabricated in-house. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Justgrazing Posted October 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 15, 2019 Rare reverse cyl liquid cooled 250 MZ from the mid 60's .. Mid 50's 350 .. MZ's take on the flat twin .. TS125 cooled out East German style .. ( should drop the stickers and insulting tape across the headlight ) .. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post canthai55 Posted October 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 15, 2019 Want a brand new Egli Vincent ... or a brand new JAP ... http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/britvtwinsnow.html 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post thaiguzzi Posted October 16, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 16, 2019 (edited) 18 hours ago, ballpoint said: According to their site: The Kestrel started as the unit engine of a 1970 Triumph Bonneville, which was cut in half & re-engineered. With the exception of a few critical pieces everything – including the frame, front forks, gas & oil tanks, exhausts, handlebars, levers, even the cylinders – was fabricated in-house. Sorry, i'm looking at the pics, but i don't see it. I don't understand the fwd extension on the timing cover, as i can't see anything externally being driven from it. The rear extension to the timing cover could be a modified electric start ES timing cover driving a mag possibly? And even if it was a unit once, why? I mean, i'm one to talk, to this day i don't think any one has ever put an all iron 8 stud top end on a unit bottom end, but there was a method to my madness.... I'll have a look at their website later. Cheers. Edit. So i just looked at their hipster clever website. I repeat, W H Y ? You are correct, it is a 70 unit motor with the box band sawed off. Then one off alloy CNC machined barrels made (why?). Then a unit timing cover fabricated to look like a P/U one. Why? I could go on, and on, but it'll make me look like a d##k, so i won't. Nice bike.... Edited October 16, 2019 by thaiguzzi 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Justgrazing Posted October 16, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 16, 2019 (edited) Top bike is a rare Yamaha 450 2-Trac 2 wheel drive with a Dakar style headlamp fairing .. Couple of modded DT250's .. Edited October 16, 2019 by Justgrazing Sp 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Justgrazing Posted October 16, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 16, 2019 (edited) RZ250 .. A YPVS lump in a trellis frame .. This one has been cooled out with a bit of bodywork .. Edited October 16, 2019 by Justgrazing Sp 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Justgrazing Posted October 17, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2019 (edited) The carrier operated Hawker Seafury .. Not as well known as some of the other WW2 darlings this was by the hand of Sid' Camm who designed the Typhoon which is why there are similarities from the wings back t'wixt the Fury and Tiffy .. What makes this unusual for a Brit' fighter was the Bristol Centaurus 18 banger radial engine over the Typhoon's Napier Sabre 24 cyl .. Radials are generally more complicated to build and bigger ones more prone to overheating than more conventional engines and Brit designers always seemed to prefer liquid cooled Vee lumps .. that makes this plane the only British fighter of that time I can think of that had a radial .. but it obviously worked as the Fury ended the war as one of the fastest piston engined planes at 460 mph .. it was also heavily armed with four 20 mm auto cannons plus the usual array of direct fire rockets and bombs that they were all kitted with by then .. Edited October 17, 2019 by Justgrazing Sp 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Damrongsak Posted October 17, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 17, 2019 (edited) Here's a stock 1980 RZ250: There are lots of other pics in the Yamaha "Collection" here: https://global.yamaha-motor.com/showroom/cp/collection/ 1956 YC-1 Edited October 17, 2019 by Damrongsak 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Justgrazing Posted October 18, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2019 Yamaha RZ or R1-Z to give it its official moniker .. which caused confusion when they called their later 1 litre Sports job an R1 also .. so these were always referred to these as RZ's .. either way a YPVS lump in a trellis frame .. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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VocalNeal Posted October 19, 2019 Author Share Posted October 19, 2019 23 hours ago, Justgrazing said: Yamaha RZ or R1-Z to give it its official moniker .. which caused confusion when they called their later 1 litre Sports job an R1 also .. so these were always referred to these as RZ's .. either way a YPVS lump in a trellis frame .. If I put those bars on and removed my NSR fairing I might ride it a bit more. I wonder what front end I would need? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Damrongsak Posted October 19, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 19, 2019 Smart car with a turbocharged 1300cc Hayabusa engine. 470 HP. http://www.speedhunters.com/2018/07/470hp-turbo-busa-powered-smart-car/ And another: 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post canthai55 Posted October 19, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 19, 2019 Finally - I see a Smart car that is not stupid !!! 555 Altho' ... accidents another thing, saw one and glad I was not in it Same same Jazz 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mogandave Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Finally - I see a Smart car that is not stupid !!! 555 Altho' ... accidents another thing, saw one and glad I was not in it Same same JazzWhen I traveled with the carnival back in the ‘80’s, an independent’s son had a 3-wheel HD golf cart powered by a KZ-1100. When I saw him the next year he had it in a 4-wheel cart... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DILLIGAD Posted October 20, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 20, 2019 My uncle had a Black Shadow. He could only afford it, because he worked tax-free in Hong Kong.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Justgrazing Posted October 20, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 20, 2019 20's Motosacoche 750 bevel shaft OHC's .. Superb old bikes are these .. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randell Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Could some one please explain to me the reasoning for the plenum that the pipes go into and the tail pipe comes out of. Is it just for the look or a technical reason . I have never seen anything like this before. Thank in advance Randell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randell Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 10 minutes ago, Randell said: Could some one please explain to me the reasoning for the plenum that the pipes go into and the tail pipe comes out of. Is it just for the look or a technical reason . I have never seen anything like this before. Thank in advance Randell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randell Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 On 10/15/2019 at 4:14 PM, Justgrazing said: Check out that polished half fairing .. Sorry fellas I screwed up this is the bike in question and why the plenum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogandave Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Sorry fellas I screwed up this is the bike in question and why the plenum?Cat? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justgrazing Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 4 hours ago, Randell said: Sorry fellas I screwed up this is the bike in question and why the plenum? As Mogandave has already mentioned it could be a catalytic converter .. The bike looks like it may have fuel injection and if that is the case and it is a " closed loop " system then a cat' and lambda sensor are needed to monitor and clean up the emissions output .. But could possibly be just following the latest fashion of a collector silencer with short exit pipe/stub .. Buells had something not dissimilar for yrs though the Bu' silencer looked like it had been nicked offa truck .. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Justgrazing Posted October 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2019 Dinky little Diamant and a bit of Diamant tank art .. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Justgrazing Posted October 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2019 Like many motorcycle manufacturers from days gone by Motosacoche founded 1899 never got past the late 50's .. the 250 Opti proddie racer below is one of the last of them .. which is a shame as their early bikes es'pesh the Vee twins are quite superb machines .. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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