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I was also wondering whether the little bloke I saw had a motorcycle licence. I thought I'd read somewhere that you have to be able to touch the ground with at least one foot when stopped, so how would he have passed his licence test? But I just did a few word searches on the road rules for motorcycles and couldn't find anything related to putting feet on the ground, so I guess there's no such requirement.
 
Motorcycle shop I worked at built a sidecar for actor Kenny Baker ( R2-D2) using a Honda NF75.
He was knocking on the workshop door and Des peered through the glass at the top to see no one there..
Knock-knock, again Des could see no one declaring “ Bloody kids!”.
This went on and Des decided to wait in readiness holding the latch behind the door for the next knock where he planned to boot the door open!
Poor old Kenny was flattened against the workshop wall. Not funny really..
 
Because we are now so PC, the vertically challenged person on a motorcycle reminds me of a guy in my home town that used to ride a new GPZ1100???

He would pull up to a stop and straddle off so sideways he hung off the side like a GP rider mid corner. Mind you, if you chastised him, he’d belt the shit out of you.
 
Once saw a guy in Paris on a handlebarshift Hercules who was so short he had an extra footrest at the height of the side panels. Took off standing on the regular footrest with his right foot and the climbed up to the second footrest while already going at speed. I was extremely impressed.
 
I had no idea who this bloke was till the end of the vid and I saw who his Dad is, one of my favourite riders. He keeps saying Kenny's old bike, but which Kenny. That took a while to know.

 
Dellortoman said:
Strange looking crank with big end journals offset by only a few degrees.
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Am I seeing things, or in the last shot are the first two (4) crankpins offset pairs at 180deg plus the small offset and the second two (2) single pins at 90 and 270 to the first pair. Must be a weird looking V6? Initially I thought it was a VW VR6 but yeah it just makes no sense at all. A lot of effort to go to if it's just a dummy part to demonstrate the (awesome!) machine. Great tooling and the like, I loved the way they could use a long narrow turning tool to finish the journals on the left sides, then index the tool 180 and reverse the rotation in just a second or two and use the same tool to cut the other sides. There would have been some programming go into that job...

Lamborghini (ie VW / Audi) did a V10 with a 90 deg bank angle and 18deg offset crankpins to get back to an even firing interval. It lowered the engine height compared to a 72deg bank with common pins. Of course, silly idea because these days the even fire thing is not important with modern engine management, and the odd-fire is better for traction and the common crankpins are stronger. Later ones had common crankpins and an odd-fire, I presume the split-pin engineer was sent off to over-complicate things somewhere else in the VW model lineup. The even fire one sounded better though!
 
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