Triumph to buy Norton!

Some F1 cars had (in fact, may still have) an electronically
controlled selector drum that could do just that - there was no
mechanical stop.

There but for the grace of software...

 

Not for very long then...

 

Well, perhaps Formula 1 racing could be spiced up a bit by requiring all
racing teams to use Windows 95a.

 

Well, you say that, but everything else you've posted has been complete
bollocks too.

 

The Brough Superior H-4 and the Velocette coupled twin (contra
rotating singles coupled together. The first firm to produce an
inline four was FN in 1904 or so. There was also the Ariel Square
4, the parallel twin dates from before WW1 (Triumph) and various
inline 6 were built in the US.

The history off motor cycling is filled with innovation which
takes 30 years or so to catch on after the initial offering.
Stepped piston two strokes were being built in the 1920s for
example.

Ken Young

 

A twin first followed by a four cylinder IIRC, the 6 was the
either the 250 or 500.

Ken Young

 

Worse: in an admittedly very peripheral way, some teams had my code in
their cars...

 

I don't know who you're talking about so I can't comment. This is my
real name.

 

Learnt to google have we ?

 

Not very well, though: the 500 was a four.

 

Honda raced a (works) 50cc twin, there was no four. A 3 cyl 50cc was
prototyped but never raced.

 

Interesting job!
What impresses me is the mutual reliance of software that does its
stuff, and the mechanical bits that have been manufactured, assembled
and adjusted to within zillions, so it all works (most of the time).

 

No I prefer books, the information on the web is not checked.
IIRC means "If I recall correctly", in other words for the
simpler minded I am posting from memory.

Ken Young

 

Now there's a sweeping generalisation concerning information found on
the Internet.

 

Oh, this is *very* true.

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Oh yeah? By whom? Scott? DKW?

 

I prefer the term I used earlier - VPER (vague, probably erroneous
recollection)

 

I think you'll find Bridgestone beat them at that.

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I am going to have to look the manufacturer up, it may have been
Dunalt. Definitely not Scott and as far as I know when DKW
started supercharging they used a separate piston on a split
single.

Ken Young

 

Usually for material reasons. With the exception of modern computer
control, there's very little innovation now. Nearly every mechanical
improvement was invented in the 1910s/20s/30s but the materials and
metallurgical science wasn't there to make it work in the long term.
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OTOH, Vincent had cantilever rear suspension and trhe engine as a
stressed part of the frame, more than half a century ago, and that
worked fine. But generally, yes, I agree.