Brit Bike Quiz

[Voltaire]

1. The banking sidecar that Freddie Dixon won 2. the first sidecar TT with.

no....more to do with going and stopping...

[PeteJ]

no....more to do with going and stopping...

Ah. Well, my first two I was sure of.

Douglas were very early with disc brakes (stopping) and hemi heads (going), so I'll guess those as the things you have in mind.

I am determined never to Google these quizzes....

Cheers

Pete

[pete376403]

Three cylinder inline two strokes - who had them first?

[Voltaire]

Ah. Well, my first two I was sure of.

Douglas were very early with disc brakes (stopping) and hemi heads (going), so I'll guess those as the things you have in mind.

I am determined never to Google these quizzes....

Cheers

Pete

disc brake and twist throttle.... I didn't know about the Hemi heads.

[Voltaire]

Three cylinder inline two strokes - who had them first?

Were they German?

[pete376403]

Nope. This is a brit bike quiz

[Ixion]

Got to be Scott

[pete376403]

Nope.

1915 Royal Enfield. Prototype, didn't make production.

http://www.oxfordshireroyalenfield.co.uk/history.htm

[Big Dave]

Nope.

1915 Royal Enfield. Prototype, didn't make production.

http://www.oxfordshireroyalenfield.co.uk/history.htm

I call foul on a prototype! :-)

[smoky]

However I was sure a friend of mine in the Uk had one of the first ever production Commandos' - a 67 or 68 model, and it was an 800?
So I googled it;
"1967: The Commando is BORN! With just three months left before the Earls Court Show, the decision is made to go with Bernard Hooper's idea to hang a rubber mounted Atlas engine in a completely new frame with a massive single top tube. Hooper and Bob Trigg finish the design and produce a machine in time for the Show. The experimental P10 800cc twin"

http://www.nortonmotorcycles.com/company/history.asp


???

[pete376403]

I call foul on a prototype! :-)

Well if a prototype is a test design where the feasibility and bugs are worked out, I'd say a lot of Brit (and USA) bikes have never made it past the prototype stage, despite being sold as a production machine.

And 1915 was probably not a good time to introduce a new engine, what with WWI and all

[DougB]

Only two right and I lived right through that period. First bike in 1953.
I should have payed more attention.

[invisiblehand1]

yup 10/10

did have to pause on the size of the first commando (and guess) the others were easy - God I am an anorak!

[ntst8]

However I was sure a friend of mine in the Uk had one of the first ever production Commandos' - a 67 or 68 model, and it was an 800?
So I googled it;
"1967: The Commando is BORN! With just three months left before the Earls Court Show, the decision is made to go with Bernard Hooper's idea to hang a rubber mounted Atlas engine in a completely new frame with a massive single top tube. Hooper and Bob Trigg finish the design and produce a machine in time for the Show. The experimental P10 800cc twin"
???

Me thinks your wires are crossed, the quote about the P10 i think is the first half of a sentence which goes on to say it was abandoned pre production, in favour of the Commando. I beleive this is the P10, looks like Dominator running gear with the 800 o/h cam engine.

[smoky]

Me thinks your wires are crossed, the quote about the P10 i think is the first half of a sentence which goes on to say it was abandoned pre production, in favour of the Commando. I beleive this is the P10, looks like Dominator running gear with the 800 o/h cam engine.

Maybe - or maybe he had an unoriginal bike?
I had a 750 Trident and he had the Commando with an 800?
I remember the Trident was probably more than 10 years newer but struggled to beat a Commando 750 a guy in Huntly use to ride around on, until I got to the 5th gear, I had longer legs than he did - I think the Trident was one of the first 5 speeds around at the time