Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

EncinoBoy said:
Perhaps the Aermacchi roadracers in the 70's with a brake rotor mounted on the countershaft ?
Did I say Aermacchi I meant Hardly Ableson...two stroke that is..
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There was some logic to it. Less unsprung weight. Not a lot of practical thought though.

If you really don't use the rear then the bike I remember scrutineering would work for you.
Aluminium disc - 6061 sheet afaik - with holes cut in it. Large holes. Big enough to trap the brake pads if it was ever used.....
 
GregT said:
There was some logic to it. Less unsprung weight. Not a lot of practical thought though.

If you really don't use the rear then the bike I remember scrutineering would work for you.
Aluminium disc - 6061 sheet afaik - with holes cut in it. Large holes. Big enough to trap the brake pads if it was ever used.....
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Popular here in classic with an alu show disc for scrutineering. Without 300hp that needs a rear brake to tame acceleration of course.
 
a14rgs said:
Saw this Munch in Peel, during my recent visit to the Isle of Man TT.
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Here's the spec! 😯

Münch Mammut 2000 2001 4 cyl 1998cc 2712 - Yesterdays

Münch 2001 “Mammut 2000” 1998cc 16 valve DOHC turbocharged transverse four # 15 Thomas Petsch, an entrepreneur from Würzburg blessed with the experience and financial strength of a successful CEO, was a dedicated motorcyclist and an avid Münch fan. When in 1997 he met his great idol Friedel...
www.yesterdays.nl
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Another bike designed by Playmobil.
 
Alzero said:
Hillman Imp On a lorry by the River Liffey just outside the Guinness brewery.
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When I was an apprentice with OZ Telecom way back in the '70s, Terry my workmate raced an Imp at Wanneroo and had another Imp for the
road. Those Imps could give the Mini Coopers a hard time, It certainly impressed me, people thought Hillman was a family car, not the Imp, pretty good rally cars back then too.
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That Bevan Imp brings back so many precious memories for me, I knew George quite well, his home and works was in St Pauls Cray, Orpington as my my own first home. When I was spannerring for sidecar racer Brian Houghton, he gained sponsorship from Bevan so as to use an Imp engine,(which itself was a Coventry Climax derivative) the first one we had it in a fairly stock chassis using a Norton Clutch and box, with the rotation of the engine reveresed, it proved usefull, so Tony Batup was commisioned to make a decicated chassis and this time the motor rotated the standard way, and using the car clutch and gearbox, I learned so much about engines during those three years, his Imps were special, he had secrets that he was not revealing, the cars originally ran with very little in the way of ancilliaries to comply with the regs for the class, the alternator was "empty" just running a spindle and total loss electrics, there were other things but later Geoge got more power and torque and those odd friction reducers all came back to stock (ish) his imps were impressive to watch against the like of Gerry Marshall (V8 Vauxhall) and Stuart Graham, (7 litre Camaro I think), Brian Houghton won the Southern 100 on his imp outfit, and by a country mile, and several British club championships.

And you know what??? last week I bought myself a road outfit! Yamaha XJR1200 and Watsonian single seter, with all the right bits and nothing left to add.
CLEM
 
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I was always a sidecar man Cam, have pictures on phone, not very good either, I dont get the bike until the 8th July.
hers a pic of my last road sidecar.
CLEM
 

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Dellortoman said:
Welcome to the sidecar club Clem. How about a picture or two?

Here's mine (the Kawasaki Z1300) with a mate's XS1100 parked in front of it.

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Love the front tyre Cam, did you square it off with a belt sander prior to fitment, no corners in Tassie? Brothers Indian Chief outfit was something else, restored in 1972.... your special folk the lot of you. j.
 
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