I've started to get a thing about...

A cb500 engine would have started out with one. It would t5ake more
effort to get rid of it (assuming standard carbs) than it would to
just leave it. If it ain't broke, etc...

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You know, you old gimmer, you have an infuriating habit of referring
obliquely to what sound like *excellent* escapades from way back when
and not giving us any details.

I mean, come on, tell us more! For a start, what on earth was the Met
doing with Daimler Darts anyway?

 

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Try and read what posters say - and keep your replies to what they've
said, not what you wish they'd said.

You've been thrashing around in so many directions and at so many people
whom I'd rate as having a lot more experience and knowledge as you, that
I would never treat anything you say as worth my attention.

 

Screw in the pilot jets and allow full travel to the throttle cable is
all you need.

However, never having raced a bike, I really don't know whether getting
rid of tickover helps, or not.

The only plus I can see is that if you prang it, the engine is more
likely to stop, making a fire less likely.

 

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from TOG@Toil, ,

I've described it in these august columns before, so I didn't want to be
thought as a 'one story man' innit.

Met dibble used Darts as pursuit vehicles for a while.

If you can't find the tale with Google, I will repeat it for you.

 

and doubtless a lot more than the 500 norton.

 

I thought the point was that if you fall off it stops rather than motoring
off into the sunset... BICBW.

 

Yes and no. If it had some wild cam in there chances were that it
wouldn't idle unless you call running at 3k rpm "idleing". Ditto if he
stuck some really big carbs on (as that reduces the air velocity so the
engine has to suck harder just to get the air/fuel mixture moving).

 

Quite a lot softer than MX bike IMHO.
Also there is a vast difference between a trail bike and an enduro bike.
Just look at a DRZ400 compared to a KTM EXC400.

 

And would go nice with my Greeves race shirt.

 

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Which 500 Norton? Only going back post war or thereabouts, I think the
Dommie had a 500 model, then there was the (IIRC) ES2, the Manx, the
International, and not sure about the Commando. and '16H' keeps coming
to mind.

 

Would that be a DRZ-E or a DRZ-S ;-)

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that about sums it up, from an article I read ages ago about dibble-mobiles.

The dibbles also had a prototype 4WD (ferguson formula) Ford zodiac fitted
with Dunlop Maxaret ABS. Dead rare, there were only one or two ever.
someone's got one preserved somewhere. Classic Cages had an article about
it.

 

16H would've been a side-valve, pre-war, I should think.

Father had a 500T, among others, and I think an ES2 in a featherbed frame.
The featherbed frame was later rebuilt with a 1000cc Vincent engine an
trials sidecar, to form the D.A.M.N. Vincent. (Parent's initials are DS and
M...) about which some wag was heard to comment "trust you pair, I suppose
next year you'll have a bloody BSA"

I daresay there are some pictures somewhere.

 

There was a guy, 20-odd years ago, that put a Rover V8 into a featherbed
frame. BIKE did a test, reckoned it handled fine, right up to the point
where the engine dropped a valve.

 

16H were made 1921 to 1954

 

said...

The Met had a fleet of Daimler Darts, with the all alloy 2.5 litre
Edward Turner designed engine.

 

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

Then they had a tea-break?

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Forgot to mention, one of my first cars was a tuned 2.3 litre Vauxhall
Magnum Coupe with 5 speed ZF box and limited slip diff, painted yellow
with a black vinyl roof. That too was an ex-Met pursuit car and was
festooned with NATO coloured wiring behind the dash and black plastic
plugs in the roof where the aerials used to live.

 

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And were, I think, a longstroke ohv.