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| Thread ID: 105925 | 2009-12-19 00:55:00 | For old motorcycle buffers.. | John H (8) | PC World Chat |
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| 841101 | 2009-12-19 03:59:00 | Jealous cause your country never made anything worth collecting Joe? :lol::lol: There are many stories in the book about Harleys and Indians. To fans of these marques, they are eminently worth collecting. |
John H (8) | ||
| 841102 | 2009-12-19 04:11:00 | To collect English motorcycle parts, hang a magnet at the back. To collect oil, look down. To get a lighting system, join the queue. (The search has been long, and so far fruitless). Their reliability is legendary. (Legend : A story / fable based on wishful thinking with no evidence to support the proposal.) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 841103 | 2009-12-19 04:14:00 | The bike on the book cover is a circa 1948 Series B Rapide with HRD on the crankcase, and has the rigid Brampton forks. Some strange mod appears to have been made to the seat by adding stays, but it is not clear what has been done or for what purpose. Joe has some funny ideas at times. The only times I ever flooded Amal carbs was deliberately when starting the Vincent....press the tickler until the carbs flooded, saved using the choke, even under icy conditions the chokes were never used. An older colleague of mine at Lucas Gas Turbine/Group Research had a 1938 or 39 maroon coloured Tiger 100 (think it was maroon), that he had had from new. He, and his wife Eddie on pillion, used to enter the ACU trials every year, at least until he retired. I often wonder what happened to his bike, they both died around the same time. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 841104 | 2009-12-19 04:41:00 | Er, taking leave of my senses, that's a Series B Black Shadow on the cover, (else a very dirty black Rapide :) ) and I should have said HRD on the timing cover, though there would also be HRD on the crankcase on the other side. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 841105 | 2009-12-19 04:45:00 | Duffer="an incompetent or clumsy person". I stand corrected, buffer is more apt |
tut (12033) | ||
| 841106 | 2009-12-19 04:54:00 | Er, taking leave of my senses, that's a Series B Black Shadow on the cover, (else a very dirty black Rapide :) ) and I should have said HRD on the timing cover, though there would also be HRD on the crankcase on the other side. Quote: On the cover, main image: Rick Schunk's 1948 Series B Vincent Black Shadow emerges from a Minnesota barn in an artful interpretation of every motorcycle collector's dream. Rick Schunk. Wait till you see the before and after pictures of a Vincent Rapide that was found in a barn and restored. It had been buried under junk in a barn from 1960 to 1982... Oh, and the pix of the naked young woman doing an aerodynamic pose on a Vincent. I didn't notice which model... |
John H (8) | ||
| 841107 | 2009-12-19 06:28:00 | I owned or rode a few Limers - a BSA 440 Victor, Triumph Trident, a Vincent Rapide, 1939 Royal Enfield, and along with other notables, I rode one of my English teacher's 1939 Ariel Square Four . I Googled a few pix of them below . The 440 Victor was the one I remember most fondly . The English, besides the obvious electrics design flaws had a propensity to leak oil and gasoline all over the place, especially when on a kick stand and the fuel shut off hadn't been closed . They were fun but I'm glad they "don't make them like that any more!" I don't particularly like Harleys, but at one time I was a proud owner of a real cop bike - er, TRIKE really . It was a 45 K-model tricycle that the cops used for meter maid services in San Francisco . A real collector's edition complete with the rear box, the tire marking stick and the dashboard desk for holding the parking citations in ready position . It had 4 individual camshafts and intermediate gears with about a dozen timing marks and it took me all of a three month period to time the thing . I still have the barked shin scars to prove it too . The naked engine image number one is the latter version of the 45-KH engine that had side valves, but the trike was a full-blown flathead like the second image of the cop trike . That second image is from the fotofiles of the Lodi, New Jersey Police Department . Number three is from the Owosso, Michigan PD . , circa 1950 . Number four is the Ariel Square Four like one of my teachers had . My bike days are over as these bones don't or won't heal like when I was eighteen with a bullet, so I gave them all up and just look at the pictures . When reliability and blistering speed was needed or wanted, I rode Kawasakis, Yamahas and an occasional Honda . I had a Suzuki X-6 Hustler for a few weeks too: a nasty bike that would toss you off for the meanness of it . The best Ricer was my Kawasaki KZ-650 ( . com/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/product_images/thumbnails/1979%20Kawaski%20KZ650%20Orange%20003 . jpg" target="_blank">bluecatmotors . com) . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 841108 | 2009-12-19 06:32:00 | I've just ordered that book through Amazon at a significantly lower price delivered, than NZ online bookshops sell it for. The price of imported books and magazines in NZ has always been a rip off IMHO. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 841109 | 2009-12-19 06:45:00 | I think im by far the youngest poster in this thread :p | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 841110 | 2009-12-19 06:46:00 | @ Terry - True. | John H (8) | ||
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