[Mad Mark]

I have a 2009 gsxr750. fantastic handling bike. out of all my sportbikes if I could have one it would the 750.

my other hobby. Yes Americans wear leathers and can corner.

 

[rastas]

I had one of those Suzuki GT550 triple 2 stroke and you just couldn't kill it !
John.

 

[rastas]

I had one of those Sasuke

 

[Kit Spackman]

I've only ever ridden one motorbike, my brother and I once co-owned a Triumph Bonneville with a sidecar, as neither of us had full licences. My right foot will NEVER go rusty as a result, the bike leaked oil like sieve!

 

[rastas]

There's a old saying about British bikes that if they weren't leaking oil they were about to blow up ! As I found was true when my old Matchless seized at 60mph back in the 80s!
John.

 

[rastas]

Speaking of Matchless

the compition models were numerous and so were the wins here's just one with many more to come!
John.

 

[munter]

The Matchless G80 had quite a racing carreer being an OHV 500 single of the fifties.

 

[rastas]

Yes I will be posting pictures of that soon, but this one is one of the most famous and was raced as well, with a little unknown fact that a lot of people don't realise,
The Brough Superior used a Matchless motor!
John.

 

[rastas]

Continue on about the Matchless motor cycle company, the two brothers started out as a motor company and built motors only to be utilised for use for any thing from cycle cars stationery engines and suppling verus bicycle companies with motors as the motorcycle development!
The brothers slowly built this company up, buy up
These companies in financial difficulties like AJS ,Norton and Triumph just to name a few better known one's they changed their name early on to AMC , amalgamated motor cycles! One of the biggest motor cycle company's in the world!
John.
PS, this is from memory !

 

[Wobble]

Although they're not racers, pretty much anything built by Allen Millyard.

 

[Trisha]

Bikes from Brough and Sunbeam made before 1930 represent the very best engineering standard ever attained in the motorcycle industry as far as I know.

 

[longdog]

Surely this must have been one of the greatest racing motorcycles?

And How! Moto Guzzi’s Remarkable V8

velocetoday.com

The Mighty Moto Guzzi V8

If the Moto Guzzi’s pre-war supercharged four cylinder racer seemed ambitious it was nothing compared to the magnificent V8, seen here in the factory museum. It was a final attempt to beat the fours of Gilera and MV, after the rather undignified chopping-and-changing in the Blue Riband...

www.benzina.world

I have visited the Moto Guzzi factory and museum in Mandello de Lario and the Guzzi v8 is a remarkable piece of engineering.

 

[PatB]

Let us also not forget that the motorcycle industry has also provided engines for some iconic cars. JAP (admittedly more an engine company, but definitely bike oriented), Matchless and Harley Davidson-by way of S&S-for Morgan. Yamaha, with their development work on the Toyota 2000 GT. Honda with the S600 and S800, whose engines were far more closely related to motorcycle tech than typical cars of the day, along with the N360/600 range with their unequivocal bike like engines.

Not to mention a thousand homebrew specials, of which the Bolster brothers' Bloody Mary is possibly the best known.

And, of course, the early days of F3, and what some might regard as a spiritual successor, the Legends class.

Cross fertilization in the other direction has been, shall we say, less successful, with such car engined oddities as the Munch Mammut (NSU, though, to be fair, quite strong bike influence in the engine design), the Amazonas 1600 (VW), and some fairly nasty one offs with Hillman Imp power. Oh, and this.

 

[munter]

Although they're not racers, pretty much anything built by Allen Millyard.

He did build a Honda GP replica which was pretty accurate and sounded amazing.

I was hoping an English person would have picked up on my Slippery Sam comment but I guess you were asleep.

 

[Under the stairs]

He did build a Honda GP replica which was pretty accurate and sounded amazing.

I was hoping an English person would have picked up on my Slippery Sam comment but I guess you were asleep.

You’re right some of us are a few hours (brain cells behind).

The first of the super bikes, but I would say say that it’s a Pom thing🤪

 

[Wobble]

He did build a Honda GP replica which was pretty accurate and sounded amazing.

I was hoping an English person would have picked up on my Slippery Sam comment but I guess you were asleep.

Yes, I forgot about his replica and the other comment 'slipped' right over my head.

My favourite has to be the Britten

and Andrew Stroud giving it the jandal.

 

[rastas]

Adrian's bikes are great one offs but even the best weld is floored especially when using cases that has a mixture of aluminium and magnesium you will always have a weakened area besides the weld on both sides witch would be good enough for a vintage bike that's only ridden modestly or even at a stretch a daily runabout
But if you tried to race them your in for a world of hurt! I've welded Brocken parts I've had on my racing bikes just to keep it going until new one came in and these have failed while racing and crashed! Not something I'd be doing on a road bike that's racing at over 100mph I tell you!
John.

 

[Wobble]

Yamaha had their TZ350 but in '73 they also brought out the RD350 which could punch well above its weight in many a production race.

 

[munter]

A legendary bike for sure there, Wobble....and these days commanding huge money for a decent example.

 

[SuperSlab]

Yamaha had their TZ350 but in '73 they also brought out the RD350 which could punch well above its weight in many a production race.

Another one of my favourites from that era!