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- Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:13 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: BSA Coming back!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 839
Re: BSA Coming back!
That BBC article confirms that the "new" BSA will be electric, other than a few initial 2021 bikes.
- Thu Nov 26, 2020 6:16 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Lock down projects
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5285
Re: Lock down projects
Best looking oil tank ever!
- Sun Nov 22, 2020 7:21 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: BSA Coming back!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 839
Re: BSA Coming back!
Didn't I recently read that the present owner of the BSA name is planning a BSA-badged electric bike?
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 6:30 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Crankshaft experiment
- Replies: 174
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Re: Crankshaft experiment
... at the view of the instruments is maybe some more mph to find... Yes, I hope so. I especially need to see A/F ratio since I'm purposely running "fat" to be on the safe side. The conservative tune has served me well so far- no engine issues at all in 10 runs (including dragstrip tests last summe...
- Wed Sep 30, 2020 5:54 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Crankshaft experiment
- Replies: 174
- Views: 54045
Re: Crankshaft experiment
... Any Video?... One movie- forgot to start the camera on other runs. But it's just a view of the instruments (poor boy's data-logging!). :roll: And what I really wanted to see was A/F ratio, but that gauge wasn't readable in the movie :( . Before next season I'll re-arrange gauges and improve the...
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:01 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Crankshaft experiment
- Replies: 174
- Views: 54045
Re: Crankshaft experiment
I finally got the lakester to a landspeed event the first week of September at the former Loring AFB (12,600' x 300' runway). Plans for a crew fell through, but other racers were very helpful. It was a long trip- 1,720 miles towing with the '59 GMC- but neither the truck or race car suffered any dam...
Re: Star
Wishing you a good recovery.
- Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:46 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Large workpieces
- Replies: 3
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Large workpieces
Who says my little mill can't deal with an 11'9" long workpiece? 

Re: Star
Nice machine!
I'm old-fashioned... Does a modern "geared lathe" use gears to relate spindle rotation to tool travel? Or is it done via computer?
I'm old-fashioned... Does a modern "geared lathe" use gears to relate spindle rotation to tool travel? Or is it done via computer?
Re: Star
I'm glad you guys didn't hurt yourselves. Bikes can be repaired...
- Tue Jun 09, 2020 6:34 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Lock down projects
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5285
Re: Lock down projects
Tom- I suppose you heard that the Loring spring meet is cancelled?
- Mon Jun 08, 2020 5:58 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Lock down projects
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5285
Re: Lock down projects
... Looks like the front axle may be out in front of the steering axis... Sorry I didn't express my comment correctly. I just wanted to point out that trail is measured (from steering axis) to wheel/ground contact, not to the axle. Thus, given reasonable rake, it's quite common for the axle to be f...
- Sun Jun 07, 2020 6:28 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Lock down projects
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5285
Re: Lock down projects
Wouldn't that be positive trail?koncretekid wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 11:38 pm ... Looks like the front axle may be out in front of the steering axis...
- Tue Jun 02, 2020 5:38 am
- Forum: Tech
- Topic: GPS Speedometer
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2089
Re: GPS Speedometer
Tom- is that a virtual needle on the GPS speedometer?
The GPS speedometer in my lakester has only a digital readout. I like the look of yours.
The GPS speedometer in my lakester has only a digital readout. I like the look of yours.
- Wed May 20, 2020 5:26 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Lock down projects
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5285
Re: Lock down projects
Typical "stir crazy" tasks. Example- cleaned out trash under the workbench for the first time since building this house 45 years ago. I discovered stuff I didn't even remember having.
Picture of "found" tools to give to grandsons. And they are all functional!
Picture of "found" tools to give to grandsons. And they are all functional!
- Thu Apr 30, 2020 4:39 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Lockdown wish list
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3183
Re: Lockdown wish list
A somewhat strange realization- looking at the list of bikes in my signature, and trying to honestly say "which one was comfortable ?"- it would surprisingly be the 1940 H-D 45 c.i. flathead! :werd I don't know about long-distance (first bike, only rode it one summer), but I still fondly remember (s...
- Tue Apr 28, 2020 5:20 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Lockdown wish list
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3183
- Tue Apr 28, 2020 5:15 am
- Forum: Project bikes
- Topic: Converting a B50 to wet sump. (aka Boris Johnson)
- Replies: 102
- Views: 14844
Re: Converting a B50 to wet sump.
This would be an off-topic question, except that PowerGlide was mentioned. I recently read somewhere(?) about a H*nda (race bike?) that used epicyclic (planetary) gearing. I can't picture such a thing, since it was a multi-speed box, 5 or 6 speed. Anybody here know of such an animal? Or did the auth...
- Mon Apr 27, 2020 5:17 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Lockdown wish list
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3183
Re: Lockdown wish list
"Naughty but nice"?
- Sun Apr 26, 2020 5:24 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Lockdown wish list
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3183
Re: Lockdown wish list
Barry- off topic- '82 V50III
- Sat Apr 25, 2020 5:11 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Lockdown wish list
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3183
Re: Lockdown wish list
I'm envious.
Almost no bike stuff on my wishlist... except nicer weather (had icy roads two days ago). I just need to replace an oozing petcock on the Guzzi fuel tank.
Almost no bike stuff on my wishlist... except nicer weather (had icy roads two days ago). I just need to replace an oozing petcock on the Guzzi fuel tank.
- Tue Apr 21, 2020 6:19 am
- Forum: Project bikes
- Topic: Lozenge silencer
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3365
Re: Lozenge silencer
Nice work! For clear coating bright metal I like Eastwood's Diamond Clear. It lasts okay on engine parts, but I don't know about on your silencer.
- Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:39 am
- Forum: Project bikes
- Topic: Converting a B50 to wet sump. (aka Boris Johnson)
- Replies: 102
- Views: 14844
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 6:12 am
- Forum: Project bikes
- Topic: Converting a B50 to wet sump. (aka Boris Johnson)
- Replies: 102
- Views: 14844
Re: Converting a B50 to wet sump.
Go for it! Make the [deeper] sump from light alloy with plenty of fins- which will get more air contact than a tank hidden out of the air stream. Thermally insulating it from the engine cases would be desirable- but challenging.
- Mon Apr 06, 2020 5:16 am
- Forum: Project bikes
- Topic: Converting a B50 to wet sump. (aka Boris Johnson)
- Replies: 102
- Views: 14844
Re: Converting a B50 to wet sump.
Having had lots of experience with dry-sump oiling (competition V8 & 4-cyl), I can tell you one reason I would prefer wet-sump, although it would probably be less of a concern for a bike engine. Since a dry-sump system must be designed with the scavenge rate sized greater than the pressure-side rate...
Re: Star
The sarcasm emoticon was so wasted on minety...

Re: Star
Minety- are you joking? Or don't you read your own forums? 

- Sat Feb 01, 2020 5:23 am
- Forum: Suppliers and New Products
- Topic: bend pipes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8760
Re: bend pipes
Nice work!
Is the engine's displacement increased in the same proportion as the exhaust ID area?
Is the engine's displacement increased in the same proportion as the exhaust ID area?

- Thu Jan 16, 2020 6:25 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Exeter Trial 2020
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2670
Re: Exeter Trial 2020
Congratulations!
I had a victor 441 (not the 'Roadster' in my signature) that was way too fast in first gear for trail/woods riding (stock I think?). Do you run slower gearing than stock?
I had a victor 441 (not the 'Roadster' in my signature) that was way too fast in first gear for trail/woods riding (stock I think?). Do you run slower gearing than stock?
- Tue Dec 10, 2019 6:26 am
- Forum: Tech
- Topic: Lozenge silencer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1861
Re: Lozenge silencer
In your quite-recent thread about this (Nov 19th?), someone posted a link to "The everlasting lozenge". I found it a very informative- did you read it? It seemed to me that it provided enough info for someone to build their own muffler.
Re: Star
If the starting rollers had some texture, rather than being smooth...???
Re: Star
I can already visualize Beat concocting motorized starting rollers... 

- Fri Oct 04, 2019 5:23 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Crankshaft experiment
- Replies: 174
- Views: 54045
Re: Crankshaft experiment
Thanks Beat! I'll be watching for some podium finishes with your 3-wheeler.
- Mon Sep 30, 2019 2:57 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Crankshaft experiment
- Replies: 174
- Views: 54045
Re: Crankshaft experiment
Got in two more tenth-mile runs with no damage. Had to abort the first run- about two seconds out the rear tires broke traction and tried to pass me! Gearing was only increased about 12% and I didn't expect wheelspin. On the second run I stayed away from full throttle for a couple of seconds, so I d...
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 5:13 am
- Forum: Tech
- Topic: Lithium-ion battery pack
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2286
Re: Lithium-ion battery pack
I'm amazed how inexpensive miniature electronics are. A BMS for $5? Wow!
- Tue Aug 27, 2019 6:06 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Crankshaft experiment
- Replies: 174
- Views: 54045
Re: Crankshaft experiment
The race car treated me good once more- no issues. :thumb 85.3 MPH at the end of the tenth-of-a-mile was 7,100 RPM, which is getting closer to the engine speed I want to see. I need to improve some things in the cramped cockpit. For example, the required helmet and HANS device prevent me from tippin...
- Sun Aug 25, 2019 3:39 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Crankshaft experiment
- Replies: 174
- Views: 54045
Re: Crankshaft experiment
Tomorrow I'll be at the tenth-mile drag event again... This time with gearing that's more appropriate... 

- Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:58 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Crankshaft experiment
- Replies: 174
- Views: 54045
Re: Crankshaft experiment
Another test-run with no breakage, this time on a quarter-mile track. Didn't learn much, due to a bad choice of gearing- too "tall" to get the engine into its intended rev range.
Re: Star
What style oil ring is it? It doesn't look like any style that I'm familiar with.