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From: Oily on 25 Jul 2010 15:05

"Pip Luscher" <pluscher(a)live.invalid.co.uk> wrote:

stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com wrote:
>
> >Pip Luscher <pluscher(a)live.invalid.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> I overtook one on the Aprilia a few days ago on the A14, and saw one
> >> this morning in Black Bear HD's car park as I was taking T to nursery.
> >> They may be shite old Brit iron but I do like seeing them.
> >>
> >> Given their rarity, I imagine it was the same one.
> >
> >I saw one on the way to Chimay. It was just in front of an old boxer...
> >by the side of the motorway.
> >
> >I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. They were proposing
> >to ride it the two miles to the next junction. Madness.
>
> Hmm. I have ridden an XS750 frm London to Cambridge on two pots and a
> Guzzi one mile on one pot to get home, but neither was a) spewing oil
> out of the exhaust or b) churning bits of piston around the cases.
>
I took a complete cylinder and head off a Douglas on a cat's eye and rode
it home on one (left hand) pot with the other balanced on the tank. I was
only about three miles from home but the loose conrod had badly worn the
camshaft at the bottom and cut through the case and was hitting the mag at
the top by the time I got home. I was lucky in that it ripped the end of
the right hand cable off.


From: Champ on 25 Jul 2010 16:36
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:00:38 +0100, frag <news4(a)ukrm.co.uk> wrote:

>> I rode my ZZR1100 5 miles to the dealers after it had thrown a rod out
>> the front of the crankcases.

>CrankcaseS?

>I know you love odd strange modified bikes (with the single intention of
>going faster - an admirable trait it has to be said), but a ZZR1100 with
>two crank cases?

Pretty much every Japanese bike I've come across, and certainly all
the inline fourts, have two crankcases.

hth
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Champ
We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.
ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo
neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: Mark Olson on 25 Jul 2010 16:46
Champ wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:00:38 +0100, frag <news4(a)ukrm.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> I rode my ZZR1100 5 miles to the dealers after it had thrown a rod out
>>> the front of the crankcases.
>
>> CrankcaseS?
>
>> I know you love odd strange modified bikes (with the single intention of
>> going faster - an admirable trait it has to be said), but a ZZR1100 with
>> two crank cases?
>
> Pretty much every Japanese bike I've come across, and certainly all
> the inline fourts, have two crankcases.

OTOH, all the Jap bikes I've ever seen have two crankcase halves-
which combine to make a single crankcase.

From: Champ on 25 Jul 2010 16:54
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:46:09 -0500, Mark Olson <olsonm(a)tiny.invalid>
wrote:

>>>> I rode my ZZR1100 5 miles to the dealers after it had thrown a rod out
>>>> the front of the crankcases.
>>
>>> CrankcaseS?
>>
>>> I know you love odd strange modified bikes (with the single intention of
>>> going faster - an admirable trait it has to be said), but a ZZR1100 with
>>> two crank cases?
>>
>> Pretty much every Japanese bike I've come across, and certainly all
>> the inline fours, have two crankcases.

>OTOH, all the Jap bikes I've ever seen have two crankcase halves-
>which combine to make a single crankcase.

You say toe-may-toe, I say toe-mar-toe...
--
Champ
We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.
ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo
neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: frag on 25 Jul 2010 22:44
Hear Yea! Hear Yea!
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:54:29 +0100, Champ writ...
>
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:46:09 -0500, Mark Olson <olsonm(a)tiny.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> >>>> I rode my ZZR1100 5 miles to the dealers after it had thrown a rod out
> >>>> the front of the crankcases.
> >>
> >>> CrankcaseS?
> >>
> >>> I know you love odd strange modified bikes (with the single intention of
> >>> going faster - an admirable trait it has to be said), but a ZZR1100 with
> >>> two crank cases?
> >>
> >> Pretty much every Japanese bike I've come across, and certainly all
> >> the inline fours, have two crankcases.
>
> >OTOH, all the Jap bikes I've ever seen have two crankcase halves-
> >which combine to make a single crankcase.
>
> You say toe-may-toe, I say toe-mar-toe...

You tinker.

Back of the class, now!


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