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From: Andrew Chapman on 26 Jul 2010 06:06
Salad Dodger wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:32:08 +0100, Pip Luscher
> <pluscher(a)live.invalid.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> <HEROIC FAILURE MODE>
>
> I rode my KH250 from Falconwood station back to Gillingham
> (A2/M2/A278 - including the long drag up from the Medway bridge)
> after it had lunched its near-side piston rings.
>
> It was everso untidy in there after I'd whipped the head off when I
> got home.
>
> In my defence, I was only 19, and it was only 29 miles.

If we are on tales of this kind I once rode an MZ250 from Birmingham to
Leeds with a holed piston. Somewhere around Coventry it started
misbehaving and would only run with the throttle wide open - so I just
held it against the stop all the way. My mate (who owned the bike came
up the next weekend and we stripped it down to find a hole in the
piston. He just replaced it and it was fine. The MZ250 might have
been a bit agricultural, but it was a solidly built thing (with totally
c__p brakes!)

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From: Pip Luscher on 26 Jul 2010 14:02
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:55:58 +1000, Jordan <jprincic(a)yahoo.com.au>
wrote:

>Pip Luscher wrote:
>>
>> They may be shite old Brit iron
>>
>
>Boy, some people are impossible to please.

Don't get me wrong: I'd love to own one (and a DBD34 Gold Star), or at
least ride one for a couple of hours, but they are, when all is said
and done, a machine whose time has been and gone as a superbike.

--
-Pip
From: Jordan on 26 Jul 2010 19:34
Pip Luscher wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:55:58 +1000, Jordan <jprincic(a)yahoo.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Pip Luscher wrote:
>>> They may be shite old Brit iron
>>>
>> Boy, some people are impossible to please.
>
> Don't get me wrong: I'd love to own one (and a DBD34 Gold Star), or at
> least ride one for a couple of hours, but they are, when all is said
> and done, a machine whose time has been and gone as a superbike.
>

Not quite dead yet, as new engines are still being made to very close to
the original designs. For example: <http://www.irvingvincent.com/>

Old is gold!
From: Pip Luscher on 27 Jul 2010 17:15
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:34:58 +1000, Jordan <jprincic(a)yahoo.com.au>
wrote:

>Pip Luscher wrote:
>> Don't get me wrong: I'd love to own one (and a DBD34 Gold Star), or at
>> least ride one for a couple of hours, but they are, when all is said
>> and done, a machine whose time has been and gone as a superbike.
>
>Not quite dead yet, as new engines are still being made to very close to
>the original designs. For example: <http://www.irvingvincent.com/>
>
>Old is gold!

Well, not so old in this case.

Still, 165BHP at 6500 RPM and 130 ft lb at 5800 RPM from a V-twin. Hur
Hur Hurr!

Pity it's only a marketing device. Also, unlikely to even get through
SVA over here.

--
-Pip
From: Jordan on 27 Jul 2010 18:01
Pip Luscher wrote:
>>
> Pity it's only a marketing device.

I'm sure they'd love to sell you one.
At the price it should come with help to get through local road
compliance rules. Vincents were never cheap!

Jordan
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