Probably one of their other longitudinal V-Twin offerings. Easier to get the drive off
-
Enjoy XS650.com? Consider making a donation to help support the site.
XS650.com receives a small share of sales from some links on this page, but direct donations have a much greater impact on keeping this site going.
Interesting motorcycles, not XS650
- Thread starter Kevin Werner
- Start date
My memory says yes. Before the factory debut of the RS750 either Honda or privateers tried sideways CXs to race the XR750s.
Perhaps not a Bike and not a Car and not an Aeroplane
Hipster customers perhaps
Messerschmitt KR 202 Sport
https://www.neue-kabinenroller.de/en/
Hipster customers perhaps
Messerschmitt KR 202 Sport
https://www.neue-kabinenroller.de/en/
It is pushrod. 9000 or 9500 redline in the CX
Last edited:
"Everytime a CBX hits redline, a mechanic finds his 10mm."
Ryan never fails to crack me up.
Ryan never fails to crack me up.
WOW! What a shed find . . .
I thought Yamaha invented the "Monoshock"! 
Ted started having second thoughts about his life choices.
So far; British registration, ID'd as a Henderson.
Last edited:
On this date, December 30, 1912, Lee Humiston, using a 1,000 cc twin cylinder chain driven Excelsior circled the banked one-mile oval track at Prince’s Playa del Rey, California in 36 seconds flat to become the first motorcyclist in the world “officially” timed at 100 mph.
One week after his milestone accomplishment, “The Humiston Comet,” as he was promptly nicknamed by the press, surpassed Jake DeRosier’s record for 100 miles, trimming nearly seven and a half minutes from the fatally injured rider’s best time. Excelsior had won the race to the magic 100 mph mark and they had smashed the Indian-held record for the 100-mile distance as well.
The publicity was enormous. Every school boy in America knew that a man had traveled at 100 miles per hour on a motorcycle, and that he had accomplished this feat on an Excelsior built in Chicago.
Last edited:
Think you're tough?
HAH!
Jake DeRosier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_DeRosier
A 1912 era Zenith, some interesting early tech for sure. https://www.yesterdays.nl/product/zenith-1912-gradua-770cc-2-cyl-sv-2603/
HAH!
Jake DeRosier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_DeRosier
A 1912 era Zenith, some interesting early tech for sure. https://www.yesterdays.nl/product/zenith-1912-gradua-770cc-2-cyl-sv-2603/
Last edited:
They were made of tuff stuff in them days.
There is a saying in surfing about the pioneers…
“Iron men on wood boards” … hard to find these days, but a few still exist.
That’s an interesting looking drive belt. Looks like small rectangles of fibre reinforced rubber riveted together?
A linked (v) belt. They now make em that don’t require the rivets.
Easy adjustment and eliminates vibrations that you get with a standard (V) belt.
Run em on my lathe motor. A big improvement.
Originally made out of leather.
