Just going through the starting proceedure would be great. Twin magnetos flick on - yes contact, Spitfire starter button press - yes, traction control - wot? 2-3 mpg oops perhaps not.
Bentley
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Just going through the starting proceedure would be great. Twin magnetos flick on - yes contact, Spitfire starter button press - yes, traction control - wot? 2-3 mpg oops perhaps not.
Bentley
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deploy the yak!
met the owner with this bike at the paekok hill lookout one day, one hell of a beast!Originally Posted by Tigadee
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Somewhere in Oz...
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The metal is always nude.
Info on the above bike...
http://thekneeslider.com/archives/20...gine-for-sale/
One of our readers from the land of Oz left a comment on yesterday's post about Roland Sands, suggesting another possible engine for the bike. What Dodgy found was a 5000cc Rolls Royce Merlin V-twin motorcycle engine!This engine was built in 1982 and was adapted from a 27 liter V12 aero engine by Australian engineer Lucky Keizer. According to the listing it was used in a streamliner that holds the current Australian record for the 3001cc+ class. The particular V12 used as a source for this V-twin was originally at home on a Mosquito bomber.
The engine uses a handbuilt crankshaft, has 4 valves per cylinder, runs a Rochester carb on a GM 3/71 supercharger. It also includes nitrous with water and glycol cooling. Power output is in the 500 horsepower range though no torque figures are given, those are the numbers I'd like to see! It weighs 330 pounds.
This engine was previously installed in a motorcycle and the photo here has circulated around the Internet for some time. Lucky Keizer has put the engine up for sale, ready for someone else to install it in their own VERY special V-twin custom.
Of course, if you start with a V12 and make a V-twin, you have the makings of 5 more, right? Some resourceful machine shop should look into that, you never know, there may be a huge market for monster V-twin motorcycles. You have to wonder, though, what the rotating mass in that engine would do to the bike's handling when you try to tip it into the turns, could be exciting!
Thanks for the pointer, Dodgy!
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Whoever destroyed a Merlin engine, should be stabbed with a screwdriver that has been dipped in acid which has been laced with AIDS.
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At one time they weren't that rare, have a look up at what happened to the Mosquito aircraft the RNZAF had
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You'd have to question the steel bar for rear suspension and front brakes off a 150cc. Sacrilidge on a Merlin though.
The metal is always nude.
You mean like in the movie "633 Squadron" when the movie makers destroyed 2 real ones.....
Swoop....don't fast forward to 9:10.....it'll make you cry...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A04o_kVonQ
and while we're at it...RNZAF aircraft dump in Rukuhia....oh to travel back in time !!
http://www.wings.net.nz/oldwings/rukuhia.html
(Apologies for getting off topic)
"...you meet the weirdest people riding a Guzzi !!..."
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off topic again but what the f.
What a great site, Oh the RAF still do it. Once two Jaguars passed below me Langdale valley once - Its a dead end valley.
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Hmmmm let me see....other than the ones mentioned previously
- Munch Mammut
- Dodge Tommahawk
- Triumph Rocket
are a few factory standard ones.
There are millions of customs. Including "das Panzerbike"...
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And this: "1,600lb ft @ 1700rpm" would be worth the cost in gas.
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Turn the sound up ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw6UWPaTUt0
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And let's not forget this one, and it's a V12....
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