enfiled bullet

I meant the quality of the components as manufactured by Enfield India
Ltd (Eicher) at their state of the art factory in Madras. A crank made
with modern casting methods will be less likely to have flaws which were
common 50 years ago.

If you want improved, buy a modern engine and stick it in, a lot has
happened with engine technology in the last half century.

If you mean SOB improvements of the type consisting of forever
dissassembling and reassembling with the odd component added and
removed, well, thats a different hobby to motorbiking.

I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.

 

Instead of swapping the whole lump, with a modern lump, I'd incorporate
some modern ideas into the design to improve things. Electronic ignition
would be one other example.

That all depends what this motorcycling lark is to you. I don't see the
problem with taking something apart ten times to get it right.

Should that have had a # in front I wonder?

 

Donald wrote:
[Enfields]

**** it, chuck the Enfield completely, and buy a Kawasaki W650[1]. Job
done.

[1] I still fancy a go on one of these, to disuade me from rather
wanting one.

 

I'm afraid that just isn't the case, all these "modern" ideas have all
been done before, usually better.... watercooled V4 motorcycle engine
mr honda? well ajs did it in 1933, and fitted a blower too....

no, there are two*** specific areas where modern motorcycles
technologies utterly blow away the state of the art when my dad was a
lad riding rudge ulsters etc, and neither of them are engine designs...

1/ oil / lubricant technology. this has advanced so far as to be almost
miraculous to a pre-war engineer.

2/ tyre technology, ditto, TT100, nuff said.

everything else is like shakespeare said, nothing new under the sun....

***
I'll grant you there are two other, less significant because they both
have workarounds, areas of advancement, one is adhesives and the other
is electronics.... adhesives make better braking compounds and
technologies possible, eg high performance disk brakes, and electronics
make electronic ignition possible, but I, and drag racers, would still
rather take a belt off of a modern ignition system than a magneto.

 

I did just that last month.

I like the look and the sound of these machines but it didn't
work for me when I rode it.

'Foreshortened' might describe one aspect of it, like the bike
had too short a wheel base(?)

The footpegs are very wide apart (nearly as wide as my RT
engine), with lots of hard metal bits very near my ankle bones.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, BORG

Oh *do* **** off, you tiresome ****.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Well, yes... but. We have the advantage of modern computers with all
their swanky finite element analysis software. We now know things like
where oil flows in an engine with less guess work too[1]. Then there are
materials and electronic components that weren't around then.

Granted.. apart from castor oils I'd say, for specialist racing
applications, they can be better.

[1]I'm thinking about Harley and their early XR750 engine... I read it
somewhere in a book once.

 

I believe filing bullets to be in contravention of the Geneva
Convention.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip

What if you file them under "Not To Be Fired"? That'd be OK, wouldn't
it?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Not if you use an enfilade.

--
_______
..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2
`\|/`
`

 

Heh.

I am not the one to ask about performance, gentle filtering is
what I go for and no crazy mph.

Drum brakes leave a bit to be desired, but the engine pulls at
surprisingly low revs.

I didn't test the flickability, it had only done 700 miles and I
didn't want to drop it.

Handling I was unsure about then just before the man collected it
I checked the tyre pressure... about 10lbs/

Anyway now I want a BMW R80ST

 

Wotcha.

Proves that some things never change ;-)
http://www.moonshiners.org.uk/images/oilfield.jpg

 

now feel the

Another BMW twin

 

Dear Howard

I find most motorcycles have lots of metal bits, all of which by their
very nature are hard, right next to my ankle bones.

That's why I wear boots.

 

Shant.