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Misc / Open / Engineering interest
« on: January 28, 2024, 11:30:35 AM »
For those interested in engineering thinking, design and application, this is a really really good watch

https://youtu.be/m7uZu_Wsdis?si=6lJopnvW44Uqvx11

A very lucid walk through of race car design engineering, Honda powered  :)  with many gearbox and clutch component design shared with bikes.

Quite long, but very worthwhile viewing.

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Misc / Open / CB 750 On't telly
« on: April 14, 2023, 02:13:19 PM »
Anyone see the eposide, last night, of Mike Brewer dream cars (or something like that) in which they trade their way upwards to give someone their dream car.

One of the vehicles bought and sold was a CB 750 partly built by a restoration expert "Andy" as he didn't want to complete for reason of, too much work.
Usual description, motor gone through, new tank and painted bits to go with it. The show "fall guy" for drama was most of a 4 into one system, without silencer.
Que explanation by Mike as, rare as hen's teeth, impossible to buy, no replacement made of the 4 pipe system needed to complete. He'll get on the blower to "World wide" contact network to see if he could locate such unicorn items  :)
Cut to later round up, he'd located a chap called David Silver no less !! and found none available to supply for another 5 months  :-\ but good news, customer had returned a set he didn't need  ;D that could be purchased for a reduced £900 yay, pipes arrived, Elvis fitted them,  set final drama of the " will it start, won't it start" shenanigans just for the punters you'll understand. 
On the button, first time........but looks like a lot of throttle Elvis is using to keep it going there :o

Sold via bidding to happy new customer.

Cut to real target, Caterham super 7 for happy ending. Aaaaaah.

Oh, and the alignment of #4 downpipe looked, ahem, not quite matching other pipes, that's just from a quick look in telly land editing.  Probably why they were returned to DS if that's definitely there.

Reg no PMF 115R and thought they said a 1972 model, painted fork ears too, likely a bitsa. Thought it had K2 top yoke and clocks, possibly.

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Misc / Open / Technical appreciation
« on: March 28, 2023, 12:00:30 PM »
For those interested in deeper examination of mechanical parts within some engines

https://youtu.be/F39gjxxGHfY

Warning, for the impatient it may not be for you  :) slow delivery but a very lucid look at this element of engineering from Brian Garvey.


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SOHC Singles & Twins / Replacement fork triple clamp
« on: March 13, 2023, 07:35:09 PM »
Unsure if posted already https://youtu.be/9mj7plpnemw as title with someone making available new part to substitute for damaged/ no longer available items.

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CB750 / CB 750 Profile
« on: March 02, 2023, 07:50:28 PM »
https://youtu.be/s6SzJsHOR9o

Looks interesting,  haven't watched it through yet.

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I love this era superbike racing, pretty good looking modern build

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Link to site https://ultimatemotorcycling.com/2014/10/17/freddie-spencer-tribute-cb1100-benefit-ride-kids/ as its built for charity auction.


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The Black Bomber Board / Bike for sale
« on: January 18, 2023, 10:37:23 AM »
Possibly of interest to someone https://youtu.be/wCpd_yaw5OI no connection to me, but came up on associated interests while listening to music.

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Misc / Open / Electric bikes discussion.
« on: January 09, 2023, 09:18:53 AM »
It's a fairly short article, but does illustrate just how much of a challenge it is to match combustion fuels in numbers that attempt to operate in the same performance field https://www.crash.net/motogp/feature/1018665/1/triumph-electric-power-let-s-not-kid-ourselves

In an ideal situation these developments and consideration would have happened 20~30 years ago, in which case decisions wouldn't be in such a forced state now and with more evolved solutions to accomplish differences in end user profile.

I've put the race link here as I believe it offers more open comparison of raw capabilities in direct numbers than alot of the consumer facing fluff that's put out currently. 

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Misc / Open / 1974 Grand Prix racing photography
« on: January 06, 2023, 08:00:40 PM »
Some really cool images from French GP

https://youtu.be/17g6xTsIM9Y

 :)

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Misc / Open / Monster posting.
« on: September 22, 2022, 02:22:56 PM »
Looking at Ken's thread on disc brake material, I was doing a little digging in such topic and came across this on the  .net Honda forum http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=109502.0  :o :o :o ;D

It's about the thirteenth post in the thread, quite an adventure by all accounts  :)

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Misc / Open / Bimota HB1
« on: April 26, 2022, 04:41:58 PM »
As title, thought this was a lovely looking bike from 750 motor start point.

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From this published review https://www.classicbikeguide.com/bimota-hb1/  :)



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Misc / Open / Yoshimura story
« on: February 26, 2022, 12:17:38 AM »
As title,  history of Yoshimura that I've not seen before

https://www.yoshimura-rd.com/blogs/yoshimura-history/part-07-1969-1972-four-into-one-revolution

Multiple pages,  near bottom of page are two arrow for going through the site, not that obvious initially. Quite a bit to read.

 :)

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Tricks & Tips / One off exhaust mock up
« on: February 12, 2022, 08:39:54 PM »
Discussion on here some time ago about building a bespoke exhaust system,  found this while wandering the www https://youtu.be/5xQavghdb14 and thought it was quite an elegant low-risk cost of prototyping something individual.

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Misc / Open / Contemporary music
« on: January 29, 2022, 08:09:43 PM »
From the years of our bikes (well loosely) https://youtu.be/fkOR-ivyS5A it gets there after a bit  :)

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