Race chassis

[Grumph]

Just get Mainfreight to pop one on a pallet and send it to you.

That's getting old...and i'm still waiting to hear if the Hayabusa engine I sent north has arrived in one piece.

I'm not optimistic...

[husaberg]

That's getting old...and i'm still waiting to hear if the Hayabusa engine I sent north has arrived in one piece.

I'm not optimistic...

Almost a week or over?
The hayabusa must be over 2 liters now.

New imperial cantalever with a linkage and underslung braced swingarm unit construction 1930's

[Grumph]

You forced me to hunt this out and post it.
The Bentley and Draper rear suspension set the cause of rear suspension back considerably.

[F5 Dave]

Ahh you'll never get it to handle right if there's a hinge holding the rear end on. Sheesh!

[husaberg]

Ahh you'll never get it to handle right if there's a hinge holding the rear end on. Sheesh!

One should always drive your Bentley Gentley

[guyhockley]

Over on the Old Multi thread, Husaberg posted some scans about Granby Yam 125s.

https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/s...post1131021058

Same Basic Spondon frame design, but presumably stretched a bit, and modded to detachable downtubes:

http://www.racingoutoftime.co.uk/?tag=silk-scott

[guyhockley]

Back to monoshock BSAs.

[husaberg]

Back to monoshock BSAs.

They made others later with DT175 engines (not a joke either)
BSA tracker /NTV rambler






Or the Gt50 boxer/Beaver/Brigend
With a 50cc Moto Morini engine



But seriously Eric Cheney made a 2 shocked cantalever from in about 1971/73 for the new XL250 engine bike he made
It was a beautiful looking bike, like all of his other bikes.

not so much in this picture though

[guyhockley]

Yeah, I meant "proper" BSAs
Later than the one's you posted, there was BSA Regal in Southampton, who upset the purists by launching the SR500 engined Gold Star. I think it was in their window that they had a prototype (maybe called Barracuda?) that had a very Tony Foale/Waddon type frame, similar to the one at the start of this thread. Got any pictures of that? I would google it but I'm on phone data at the moment.
There was quite a lot of Yamaha content in later "british" bikes.
I used to live in Hampshire near Eric Cheney, never met him but knew people that remembered him from back when he worked for Les Archer. He had a reputation for being a bit "difficult". My boss knew him and the Archers and we also had dealings with Ken Heanes so I've seen a few Cheneys. Confusingly, there's an American flat-track frame builder with the same name.
There's a bloke who is or was restoring one of Phil Read's Cheney Yamaha road racers and he seemed to feel that Simon (?) Cheney wasn't up to his father's standard, sadly.

[Grumph]

One of the guys local to me who worked in the UK motocross scene tells a story of when he worked for Eric.
They'd been working to get a prototype finished and Eric got called away to London for a meeting.
The lads in the workshop got it finished as promised and then looked at it and thought "we've got the time, lets get some bits polished "
My friend took the alloy tank up the road to " A bunch of Pakis who did all our polishing" (his words)

When he went back to get the tank the following day, it was spread and distorted badly....over heated in polishing.

Apparently he worked most of the night to do another tank before Eric got back.
Eric's comments when he saw the finished bike were to the effect that it didn't look bad, but he didn't like the tank and they'd better have another go at it...

[husaberg]

Yeah, I meant "proper" BSAs
Later than the one's you posted, there was BSA Regal in Southampton, who upset the purists by launching the SR500 engined Gold Star. I think it was in their window that they had a prototype (maybe called Barracuda?) that had a very Tony Foale/Waddon type frame, similar to the one at the start of this thread. Got any pictures of that? I would google it but I'm on phone data at the moment.
There was quite a lot of Yamaha content in later "british" bikes.
I used to live in Hampshire near Eric Cheney, never met him but knew people that remembered him from back when he worked for Les Archer. He had a reputation for being a bit "difficult". My boss knew him and the Archers and we also had dealings with Ken Heanes so I've seen a few Cheneys. Confusingly, there's an American flat-track frame builder with the same name.
There's a bloke who is or was restoring one of Phil Read's Cheney Yamaha road racers and he seemed to feel that Simon (?) Cheney wasn't up to his father's standard, sadly.

Those phil read bikes always looked great with the Dunstall forks and disks and the rear disc as well,
I never figured out what the rear was, some sort or airhearst Kart?
I wonder if Ferry Brouwer is still alive.
I read a story about Read a while back it seems his trick was to visit all the other pits and talk to the riders and raise Faux concerns about parts of the track.
It was said to work on most of the racers other than Hailwood who used to just tell him to "piss off"

[Frits Overmars]

Those phil read bikes always looked great with the Dunstall forks and disks and the rear disc as well,
I wonder if Ferry Brouwer is still alive.

My mate Ferry is very much alive and enjoying it.

[husaberg]

My mate Ferry is very much alive and enjoying it.

Can you ask him what Phil Reads rear disc set up was on the cheney.
I do remember the yam 4 reps i never put two and two together

[Frits Overmars]

Can you ask him what Phil Reads rear disc set up was on the cheney.

I seem to remember that the rear caliper came from Lockheed.

I do remember the yam 4 reps i never put two and two together

Come again?

[husaberg]

I seem to remember that the rear caliper came from Lockheed. Come again?

The RA31.....