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BMW's M Endurance motorcycle chain uses an industrial diamond coating to completely eliminate chain lube and tension adjustments

BMW Motorrad says it's created a motorcycle chain that totally eliminates the need for chain lube and routine tension adjustments, using a super-hard, super-low friction industrial diamond coating on the chain rollers. It'll cost you, though.   Read more

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20 minutes ago, Randell said:
BMW's M Endurance motorcycle chain uses an industrial diamond coating to completely eliminate chain lube and tension adjustments

BMW Motorrad says it's created a motorcycle chain that totally eliminates the need for chain lube and routine tension adjustments, using a super-hard, super-low friction industrial diamond coating on the chain rollers. It'll cost you, though.   Read more

 

One would assume the sprockets would be coated as well.

 

Don't know that it would be worth it for maintenance savings alone, but for the AR guys that attempt to their bikes meticulously clean it might be a bargain... 

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Yamaha's 70's ripper the DT400 .. 

Great for point and squirt in traffic but the stock suspension is next to useless for serious off road going .. 

Oh and the fuel consumption especially with the piddly little fuel tank .. like all the 70's strokers from Japan going up in value considerably now as there's few of them left .. 

 

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Another small British manufacturer, Metisse.  Formed in 1959, they had success in the 60's with their grand prix bikes, powered by engines from various suppliers.

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They also formed part of the holy trilogy of Rickman Metisse Triumph

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But are perhaps best known for their scramblers, such as the Rickman Metisse Motocross Grand Prix

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Metisse are still going, producing scramblers and cafe racers

 

MK5 Cafe Racer

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MK5 Street Scrambler

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Steve McQueen Desert Racer, a factory replica of Steve McQueen's Metisse.  Of which he said ‘This rig is the best handling bike I’ve ever owned!'

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A great photo of the 1971 running of the Mint 400 Motocross Race.  Also known as the Great American Desert Race, held in the Mojave Desert.  It was an annual event, open to cars and motorcycles from 1967 - 1976, before it became cars only, with a break in racing from 1989 - 2008.  Motorcycles were once again included in 2019.

 

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14 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Bag of winegums to the first to guess what make of bike this is .. 

 

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That weird, almost Star Trek like, logo tells me that it's an early Japanese manufacturer - Tohatsu.  A bit of Googling then tells that it's a 1960 LD3 125.  They were the biggest Japanese manufacturer by sales in the 50's, but, like the British manufacturers, were out muscled by the likes of Honda in the 60's.  They now make fire fighting equipment and outboard motors.

 

Here's its other side (and the same wall):

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And a zoom in on the name plate:

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14 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

That weird, almost Star Trek like, logo tells me that it's an early Japanese manufacturer - Tohatsu.  A bit of Googling then tells that it's a 1960 LD3 125.  They were the biggest Japanese manufacturer by sales in the 50's, but, like the British manufacturers, were out muscled by the likes of Honda in the 60's.  They now make fire fighting equipment and outboard motors.

 

Here's its other side (and the same wall):

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And a zoom in on the name plate:

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Well spotted B P .. 

They also provided some of the engines used by Honda when he started making bikes .. 

 

 

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