Oddball engines and prototypes

[guyhockley]

This might be interesting, text only version for your dial-up connection, Greg;

http://forum.theimpclub.co.uk/viewto...022&view=print

Full fat with pictures:

http://forum.theimpclub.co.uk/viewto...p?f=10&t=30755

[guyhockley]

Found it.



Something a bit odd, the article implies it was never completed but...



from a contemporary french magazine. Looks pretty complete. Could just be a trial assembly, I suppose. Also found this:



Possibly the same picture as in the thread I linked to. Hope this helps someone, anyway.

[Michael Moore]

Greg,

http://www.eurospares.com/graphic2.htm

has links to the photos of Lyster's bikes. I've got a few others on file which aren't on the website

cheers,
Michael

[Michael Moore]

here are some more:

[Michael Moore]

and still more:

[Michael Moore]

and one more:

[Grumph]

Thanks gents. I'll pop over to my local library on Monday and look at it all on their broadband...
But I did look at the French pic and it's probably the best period shot of the bike I've seen. Some anomalies though..
The frame is the early type as done for the lightweight singles - but it has the Lyster handlebar mastercylinder and what appear to be one piece cast discs.
The 450 - which is chronologically later - has the more common floating mild steel discs and is the evolved frame as in the bare frame pic.
Same as the one I have here except I'd have to say the one here is rougher....MIG welded instead of bronzed.

Got a surprise at the Imp forum thread - there's a well known Kiwi special builder Peter Jones - but not the same one.

[husaberg]

Thanks gents. I'll pop over to my local library on Monday and look at it all on their broadband...
But I did look at the French pic and it's probably the best period shot of the bike I've seen. Some anomalies though..
The frame is the early type as done for the lightweight singles - but it has the Lyster handlebar mastercylinder and what appear to be one piece cast discs.
The 450 - which is chronologically later - has the more common floating mild steel discs and is the evolved frame as in the bare frame pic.
Same as the one I have here except I'd have to say the one here is rougher....MIG welded instead of bronzed.

Got a surprise at the Imp forum thread - there's a well known Kiwi special builder Peter Jones - but not the same one.

A few lyster stuff i did earlier
https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/a...p?albumid=5076

[Grumph]

A few lyster stuff i did earlier

The pic of the 7R engine in Lance Weil's ? Bike made me chuckle. The same combination I was looking at Friday, the cambox was hard up against the top frame rail in the one out here. Well over an inch of clearance in the pic. Every one hand built....

[guyhockley]

In this picture from the blog Husa posted a link to earlier, seems to be a different radiator arrangement. Bike seems a bit lacking in that department, either way?
But, most importantly, what's that strapped to the seat hump? Tape recorder?

[husaberg]

In this picture from the blog Husa posted a link to earlier, seems to be a different radiator arrangement. Bike seems a bit lacking in that department, either way?
But, most importantly, what's that strapped to the seat hump? Tape recorder?

I think that was you dude...........
No idea what it is on the hump.

[Grumph]

It's a battery in the seat hump. Coil ignition, lucas distributor visible as are coils. Pipes run too close to put it under the seat so in the tail it goes...
The pic in Mick Walker's book showing Colin on an airfield runway somewhere, riding it and looking down at the engine, shows the battery better.

[husaberg]

It's a battery in the seat hump. Coil ignition, lucas distributor visible as are coils. Pipes run too close to put it under the seat so in the tail it goes...
The pic in Mick Walker's book showing Colin on an airfield runway somewhere, riding it and looking down at the engine, shows the battery better.

This one Greg


For Will, something i had never seen before a factory Rotax gp bike from 73 note the gearbox.

Not sure if i ever posted the laydown bomedair 500cc twin

[guyhockley]

Battery, DEUH! Don't post at 2 o'clock in the morning when you've just come back from a party...

Husa, when I googled Colin Lyster, one of the results was this thread from about a year ago and you posted a link to The Vintagent blog, so I didn't link to

http://thevintagent.com/2016/10/27/r...-lynton-racer/

Some of the pictures are the same ones as other places, there are only so many in existence from those pre-digital days, I guess.

[guyhockley]

For those, like Wil, who don't realise what high tech, finely developed machines Harleys are...

https://www.hotbikeweb.com/removing-...utters-is-snap

The link itself kind of gives it away!