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Cannot resist another picture of Andreas Georgeades’ fabulous H16 engine. The stuff of dreams.
Of course it brings to mind the fabulous BRM H16 they built for the 3 litre Formula. They even considered a 4 valve version. !! BRM never did anything the easy way, having at one time a hulking 4 cylinder with pistons like young dustbins and valves like toadstools to the H 16 with pistons like thimbles and valves like domestic pins.
All that lovely machinery, Whey Hey.
“Working in the same small garage workshop, he’s building a new engine, an H16, a 16 cylinder engine consisting of two flat 8 cylinder boxers engines stacked on top of one another and joined by a common drive gear linking the two crankshafts. Its design is much like the old Formula One engines built by BRM in the 1960s.”
WHEY HEY !!
I used to adopt a riding position similar to this to get a bit more speed out of my Bantam, on occasion I lay flat on the seat with my legs horizontal, but only on straight bits of road, you could get up to 48 mph like that.
ROYSTON VASEY MEMORIES
It is hard to believe that Miss Timkins of the twin set and pearls was once this motorcycle riding flapper but she assures us it is.
In my youth I was a keen watcher of Motorcycle Racing and I used to divide the year up into three parts:- Anticipation, Realisation & Misery
Now in those days there was no motorcycle racing on TV, so it was all a case of going to see the races live.
Anticipation stretched from January 31st when the season first came into sight over the horizon to Easter when the first races of the season took place at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire and my Gold Star hammered over the straight, flat unpotholed roads of that delightful County. Realisation stretched from there to about the 22nd of September when the last races of my season took place at Oliver’s Mount, Scarborough. Then came Misery through until the 31st of January broken only by the Modulated Respite of Christmas, modulated depending how Christmas went in the romance stakes.
BIKEPUNK
All very well but when you come to the junction with the main road your front wheel will be on the opposite pavement before you can see that big truck hurtling towards you. I don’t think those forks would last past the first of our local potholes.
I could not resist this, which captures the whole spirit of a Brooklands racing bike. Found on a site that has a load of bikes made from old watch parts.
Velocette Mk VIII 1939.
Tradition dies hard in England. Velocettes raced with girder forks up to 1952.
“EJ Potter, the Michigan Madman,” built a continuously evolving “widow maker” Chevy powered drag bike over the years, a crazy machine with the V8 mounted sideways and direct drive to the rear wheel. When the engine was fired and up to speed, he kicked out the stand and off he went in a cloud of tire smoke, aiming the bike the best he could. It was always one helluva show!”
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Found this in Solvang Vintage Motorcycle Museum’s page and it set me off looking at Vincent Black Lightening pages and led me to this.It also led me to dig out a couple of pics of George Browns NERO at a sprint at Sherburn in 1957.Note how George has just two fingers contolling the clutch on this 1000cc monster. My 350 Gold Star BSA took all my strength to pull in its clutch and once out of traffic clutchless changes were necessary to save some grip in my wrist.It had close ratio gears so it worked quite well.
Apart from this Black Lightning the museum has some gems of racing bikes, an Excelsior Manxman, G50 Matchless and AJS Boy Racers of various vintages.
Note:- In 1957 no multicoloured Faux racing leathers for the rider on the right.
Vanity, 1907
Frank Cadogan Cowper
about time too!
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Road at Pico Do Arieiro
Indeed. References this recent news story ..
