Dammit! BigIain wins!

The Jackal made it to 136,000km before worn-out rings and scored bores
made starting a painful ordeal and took 35kph off the top speed (down
to 125 or so).

Still, that's not bad for a high-revving (8500rpm @ 100kph) 250cc
machine.


BTH

 

Well, at least you're not short of spare GPX bits....

Cheers,
Tex

 

Well, to the Jackals credit...

My first Spada went 190,000km, but I killed the original motor at
~120,000km at turn 9 at the Creek, it got an (alledgedly) 10,000km old
second hand motor from Metros which was running great (if a little
cma-chain-rattly) 70,000km later when the man-in-the-van sent it off the
the great Spada rideday in the sky...

My "new" Spada has ~95,000km on it, but it got a "new" second hand
30,000km old motor in it before I got it (thanks to the previous owner
lending it to a friend who proceeded to wheelie it the entire length of
the old road several times, or so the story goes...)

The Monster has a bit over 130,000km on it now, but it has had some
attention:
http://www.mighty.com.au/~bigiain/monster_jigsaw/large/engine.jpg

big (and I haven't ridden around Australia, yet...)

 

I had an RZ500 motor that looked like that for around 6 months.
Surprisingly (to me at least) it went back together ok when the time
came.

 

Nice shed. Weird slice-of-toast battery.

Gary

 

That looks suspiciously like a standard issue NSW Department of Education
table under that cardboard box too!

GB

 

Not guilty! Thats a cheapo pine dining table bought soon after I first
moved out of home mumbleteen years ago...



big (still not sure what the battery comment is about though...)

 

Iain Chalmers wrote:

Might be a bit thin by BMW standards I think.

 

Hmmm... they probably don't want to see the half-the-size-of-that-one
battery thats in it now then eh?

big (they'll probably make some obscure reference to a salt shaker...)

 

In aus.motorcycles on Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:21:54 +1000

maybe he thinks it comes from a toaster-tank BMW?

Zebee
- waiting to see how many really old airheads there are...

 

Well, it would tie in nicely with the dinner table theme.

GB

 

Mine are only 24 and 26.


Gary (sold my 69S some time ago)