Great Display! Thanks for sharing, you lucky son of a gun!
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Interesting motorcycles, not XS650
- Thread starter Kevin Werner
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Been getting in some garage time and my Harley project is getting close to done.
What model Sportster is that? I’m noting the two brakes on the front wheel.
It's a 2005 1200 Roadster.
That’s a great looking machine. Love the colours. Twin disc front end looks really good. Never liked the single disc styling on such a big bike.
I owned an '04 XL1200R...one of my favorites. Put Wilwood rotors on with EBC pads. It stopped then..
A NICE DUCATI FOR AUCTION
The link shows better images: https://www.carandclassic.com/aucti...8:01:26Z&bsft_lx=13&bsft_tv=76&bsft_bk=block1
The link shows better images: https://www.carandclassic.com/aucti...8:01:26Z&bsft_lx=13&bsft_tv=76&bsft_bk=block1
I did the twin disk front brake conversion on both my Sportsters that I ran sidecars on. Dealer actually "insisted" on it after I had a cracked rotor on the 1988, also installed a fork brace. That was after around 800 miles with a sidecar. Went on to put close to 100,000 total on that outfit and even put a larger sidecar than the original one and never had another cracked rotor so maybe the dealer was right?
I'm still lovin' this one:
put up by @Kevin Werner 27/4/2022. I think it's mostly because of the patina, maybe also the simplicity.
Wouldn't get me riding a bike wiv no front brake on the roads though.
put up by @Kevin Werner 27/4/2022. I think it's mostly because of the patina, maybe also the simplicity.
Wouldn't get me riding a bike wiv no front brake on the roads though.
That is everything a motorcycle should be, and nothing extra. Motor, wheels, handlebars and seat. Add fuel and fortitude and GO!
I'd love to ride that one, at least for a while.
I'd love to ride that one, at least for a while.
Nice looking scooter. I’d like that (I want any bike I see). Would however prefer if was an older round case engine.
WOW - I've been around bikes for more than 45 years and was an avid Cycle World reader in the 1970s, but I have never seen the RZ201 before. Obviously, Yamaha dropped it before they lost their shirt on it, in contrast to Suzuki who chased the equally cool RE5 down a very expensive rabbit hole that nearly bankrupted the company.
The problem with rotaries (Wankels if you like) is that they have inherently have poor volumetric efficiency and difficult machining geometries. This results in expensive engines that burn a lot of fuel, have extremely hot exhaust gases (and so they require big stainless steel mufflers) and have atrocious emissions performance (and so they need very large and expensive catalytic converters meet government standards).
As for durability, a Mazda engineer once told me that some RX7 and RX8 sports car engines seemed to run forever with no apparent internal wear at all while others were totally shot within 20-30,000 km (about 12-20,000 miles) - and nobody could figure out why. One outcome of this was that they had to replace A LOT of rotary engines with new units, but the owners hated this because the cars were no longer numbers-matching vehicles and thus, their collectability was significantly reduced.
I was a massive fan of Speedway in the UK.
the smell of Castrol R was infectious on entering the local stadium.
Then the noise and the spray of gravel ash as the bikes laid over on the oval track; wonderful memories. This bike brings it all back.
It ain’t a track star but evokes those dreams of days gone by.
