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From: Roger Hunt on 16 Mar 2007 12:02 Bob Scott wrote >Roger Hunt <nospam(a)nospam.demon.co.uk> writes >>Oi! Now steady on there. >>British bikes did not and do not leak oil. It is simply a cheap smear > >'snot a cheap smear - given the price of decent monograde dinosaur it's >a damn expensive smear. > My Constellation once decided to let go the left cylinder and I got a proper drench of hot oil all over my left boot/foot/leg etc. >Mind, I was horrified at the rainbow the father-in-law's Laverda 500 >left on the wet road last weekend. I was riding it & had stopped to see >why the bother-in-law's laverda[1] had stopped - they don't tend to run >very well when the earth lead isn't connected. > Montjuic? The most impractical and antisocial motorcycle ever made. (I have an early road test here, where the author's five year old child could easily touch the foot pegs.) -- Roger Hunt
From: Roger Hunt on 16 Mar 2007 12:03 wrote >Thus spake Roger Hunt (nospam(a)nospam.demon.co.uk) unto the assembled multitudes: >>>And a drip-pan the size of an olympic swimming pool. >>> >> Oi! Now steady on there. >> British bikes did not and do not leak oil. It is simply a cheap smear >> thought up by other nations' motorcycle industries. > >My C15, and later my Tiger 650, didn't do cheap smears. They did bloody >great expensive deluges that probably single-handedly kept OPEC in business >during the 1970s. > What caused the Oil crisis? British bikes no doubt. -- Roger Hunt
From: Bob Scott on 16 Mar 2007 12:30 Roger Hunt <nospam(a)nospam.demon.co.uk> writes >Bob Scott wrote >> >My Constellation once decided to let go the left cylinder and I got a >proper drench of hot oil all over my left boot/foot/leg etc. My old 750/4 did something like that - I missed (pure idiocy on my part) one of the oil seals when doing a rebuild, found I'd got one left over at he end & shrugged to myself thinking it wouldn't make much odds. My right boot never leaked again & i had the engine back out of the frame the next weekend to put one seal into the head. Horrible contraption - felt guilty when I sold it. >>Mind, I was horrified at the rainbow the father-in-law's Laverda 500 >>left on the wet road last weekend. I was riding it & had stopped to see >>why the bother-in-law's laverda[1] had stopped - they don't tend to run >>very well when the earth lead isn't connected. >> >Montjuic? Alpina. >The most impractical and antisocial motorcycle ever made. >(I have an early road test here, where the author's five year old child >could easily touch the foot pegs.) I'm too big for a Monty. Herself can reach the pegs comfortably but can't reach the ground at all & strains to reach the bars. I'm sure we could modify one to fit but I'm not sure I want anything to do with running such a gloriously obnoxious device. One of the guys in the club has one & it's damn quick on the sort of roads the triples struggle on. Damn good brakes as well - I almost rear ended him once upon a long ago when the Aprilia Pegaso I was riding turned out not to be able to shed speed nearly as well as the Monty. IIRC he went into the entrance of the petrol station where the rest of the ride out were refuelling in & I made it in via the exit. -- Bob Scott SFC1000 Pegaso 650 RD350LC "I was at the lowest point in my life - my house left me, the bank reposessed my wife, my dog made me redundant, my boss was leaking oil and my bike died - then I found the word of Sochiro..."
From: Roger Hunt on 16 Mar 2007 12:42 Bob Scott wrote >Roger Hunt <nospam(a)nospam.demon.co.uk> writes >>Bob Scott wrote >>> >>My Constellation once decided to let go the left cylinder and I got a >>proper drench of hot oil all over my left boot/foot/leg etc. > >My old 750/4 did something like that - I missed (pure idiocy on my part) >one of the oil seals when doing a rebuild, found I'd got one left over >at he end & shrugged to myself thinking it wouldn't make much odds. It's always horrible, finding something left over after a rebuild. Hey-ho. >>Montjuic? > >Alpina. > >>The most impractical and antisocial motorcycle ever made. >>(I have an early road test here, where the author's five year old child >>could easily touch the foot pegs.) > >I'm too big for a Monty. Herself can reach the pegs comfortably but >can't reach the ground at all & strains to reach the bars. I'm sure we >could modify one to fit but I'm not sure I want anything to do with >running such a gloriously obnoxious device. >One of the guys in the club has one & it's damn quick on the sort of >roads the triples struggle on. Damn good brakes as well - I almost rear >ended him once upon a long ago when the Aprilia Pegaso I was riding >turned out not to be able to shed speed nearly as well as the Monty. >IIRC he went into the entrance of the petrol station where the rest of >the ride out were refuelling in & I made it in via the exit. I never rode one thank goodness. I had a Pantah 500 at the time, and that was bad enough what with me being far too tall for it. It did go along twisty roads very quickly though, provided I had the nerve to go for it. -- Roger Hunt
From: Chris Newport on 16 Mar 2007 12:48
A.Clews(a)DENTURESsussex.ac.uk wrote: > Thus spake Roger Hunt (nospam(a)nospam.demon.co.uk) unto the assembled multitudes: > >>>And a drip-pan the size of an olympic swimming pool. >>> >> >>Oi! Now steady on there. >>British bikes did not and do not leak oil. It is simply a cheap smear >>thought up by other nations' motorcycle industries. > > > My C15, and later my Tiger 650, didn't do cheap smears. They did bloody > great expensive deluges that probably single-handedly kept OPEC in business > during the 1970s. > So big deal, they probably needed some work. My LE Velo has never lost so much as a drip. The Tiger 100 never lost any oil until the conrod went through the bottom. The Dominator never lost oil in the 5 years I had it. |