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In Reply to: How many of you ride motorcycles? posted by howard on April 2, 2007 at 08:51:00:
the one with the power curve that's like a step function!The one on which you never, ever change down in the middle of a corner and accelerate!
Especially revers camber ones!
Musta bin meant for all them straight 'MURRIKEN roads, ah rekkins!
;-)!
My fave of all time was the lil' ol 'road version' of Bultaco's road race 250cc 2 stroke single flat-bottom tank and all! Wot I learnt to go quick on, even rahnd corners, rubbing the boot!
How they ever got all them neddies out of a single, I never figured out! We just wnet and bought the track exhaust and the bits for the carbie and then found out all about brake f-f-fade and cocoa tin d-d-dddrumm brakes!!!!! $#@!!&^^%$#!!!!
Yez could ride all over ut, too, yer could, fanggggggggg - adangggg - adangggggggg!!!
Ear plugs?! a course I wore them!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
Follow Ups:
In the day we sweat it out
On the streets of a
Runaway American dream
At night we ride through
Mansions of glory
In suicide machines
Sprung from cages
On highway nine
Chrome wheels fuel injected
and steppin' out over the line ....The Mach III ... mythical, legendary sucide machine. Nearly took myself out the very first time I rode one. Yes, lined up straight, clear road ahead. Snapped the throttle and found myself sitting on the fender, with the tailight having saved me from sliding all the way off.
Owned a fair number of R5 and RD Yamabangers (was always tryin to go prod. racing). Last scoot was a '79 CBX [with the equally suicidal peanut butter frame (can you say tank slappers at 85mph?]. Road tested one or two others in my late twenties (VFR, and an RZ), but never rode (or bought) again [well there was that rented scooter one summer on Corfu, that I tossed (and the internal dialogue is always the same: man ... that mofo'ing pavement is hard)].
Why do I have the moniker I do? It's a tribute to one of the really great bikes of the late '60s, early '70s. I owned a couple of them, bought from Donny Newell in Brisbane. My brother owned one too. I also had a Matador that I dropped a Metralla motor into - man that thing was fast in the dirt.I remember a little jaunt from the University of Queensland to Mount Tambourine. Quite a few of us racing up the hill. I started at the back of the pack and passed the lot of them on the way up, taking a Mach III on the outside of the last corner before the pub.
Here's a fine shot of one like mine, except this one has the Concentric carby, whereas my first one has the Amal Monoblock.
the lights were nothing marvellous, IIRC.T'other thing I remember was that unless you were going REALLY quick it was a very 'forgiving' bike, kinda taught you itself f'yanowwot'imean!
' ' !? for a bike, that is! As the ground isn't very forgiving - IIRC!!!!
and, if the brakes weren't 'fully into fade' like downhill, you could outbreak anything!
and they weren't crazy expensive either!
Memories, eh?
:~)} !!!
ut's me beard, see!? }
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
No battery. At idle, the headlight put out a dull glow and the horn would sound like a genteel fart. At higher revs, the light from the front was modest to say the least. There was no ignition switch, of course - a little red button was the kill switch.Two-stroke oil could be added to a small tank on the right-hand side and an attached pump could be used to pump a measured amount into the fuel tank - but I always used pre-mix. Many servos in those days had a pump that dispensed pre-mix (lots of lawn mowers about, eh?).
On one of mine the lock wire on the nuts holding the clutch broke and the nuts loosened and carved out a neat hole in the right hand side casing, letting all the transmission fluid out. I cut out a round block of Perspex and Aralidited it into position and fixed that problem. Now I had a little window to see the fluid level in the clutch area. Quite distinctive - and as they say in the Guinness ad - "Brilliant". Yeah, money was always tight in those days, going to Uni and all.
I'd read about cannibalising Hurricanes and Spits during 1940 by the aircrews and Beaverbrook's mob, too.Lotsa bikes had 'NO battery' back then, prolly why it was stored in back-up tape cartridges in me nut.
WE cut OUR teeth on a coupla rusty old BSA Bantams - which IIRC also had NO battery - from the local chook-farmer's aladdin's cave* of a back yard. Played around wiv spanshyunchambers n' STUFF. Resonant systems, eh?
* He even GAVE me an original long Lee-Enfield, ex Boer-War item which I cleaned up. Bought a cleaning kit, a roll of fourby, and a TIN of oil at the disposals store.
I 'got hold of'# some MkVII ball in chargers in cloth bandoliers (in an olive green steel box, too!!!) got access to the next door neighbour truckies overhead drill and some fine bits and dum-dummed them . Used it and them on the occasional feral pig, and the foxes, on the sand-dune bushland running south from Charlestown to Swansea. And then the neigbouring copper Sergeant half-inched it from me. Said it was ILLEGAL, and that I was too YOUNG!!! ...... Bastard coppers!!!
# has news reached GODZOWN about the 10 disappeared LAW RL's from the ammo depot in Sydney's west!???? ........ the yankee plastic fire-once ones!
......
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
;-)!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
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