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Not mine, don't know about the carb. Cool idea, though.What's that, a big ole Keihin or Bendix carb?
Looks like it would make a great kids go-cart engine.
I was involved with my friend John's McCulloch's like this when I was 13-14 (my folks were the 10th house on what had been a 500 acre Turkey Farm and John's place was on the next former farm's place over, I had the 80 HP Johnson 15 ft. Bonito & lived on deep water & he had the Kart, a waterskiing friendship is how a bunch of hot rodding all kinds of things for the next 10+ years came about) and kids got around on various motorized device pulled together by friends & families (typically mini-bikes and Go-Karts) but a few of us were more extreme than other's. He & I were 2 of them.
That's a great extreme kart, but way beyond the financial abilities of my family or anyone I knew. We always kept our eyes out
for things we could scavenge for free or close to it to build our motorized toys.
for things we could scavenge for free or close to it to build our motorized toys.
We were never able to come up with the money for the awesome brakes like that one has. Everything of ours was used stuff (mostly from the mid 60's) bought from people that had out grown out their stuff, were moving to Maryland or something like that.
We rebuilt/refurbished & fabbed what we needed (with parental help, of course). In 1970 we were 12-13.
My dad owned a small family plumbing, heating, AC business.
John's dad worked in engineering at the NAVY shipyard.
Other friends parents worked at Lockheed/Martin.
So if we needed something, somehow we had help getting the best materials & getting the fabbing done.
We thought everyone's families worked with other families to do stuff like that.
On the other hand, we thought that miracle whip & tomato sandwiches with home made soup was a treat.
But it was because of parental bad times.
So, unbeknownst to us, they were all really sacrificing for us. (As an only child, I was particularly fortunate).
My dad's work truck (& later on the car(s)) had all passed through 1 to 4 other relatives hands before us.
A lot of our food came from the deep saltwater creek in our backyard (where we lived in an above the garage apartment behind another plumbing companies owners home) or the local farms.
For me (if I got to go) going to the grocery store with my mother was a treat to a bus ride across 2 bridges to a shopping center. One time my mother & I walked it & our dog followed. I sat outside the grocery store with the dog, then the bus wouldn't let us on the bus with the dog. So we had to call (on a dime payphone) relatives that had a car to come get us.
So, I guess that being poor (and, as a kid, not knowing it) is relative to what your families can scrounge up.
There was this one rich kid (Jessie) that was pretty cool (his family owned several department stores and his dad was an electronics engineer) & his stuff had a great trickle down effect on many of us.
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It wanted to be in this forum & someone thought that a set of Ape Hangers would get it in!
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My wife and I took the 3 wheel training class this week - they used Ryker 900's. Good information and I especially enjoyed the "drifting" drills - I was the only one besides the instructors able to defeat the traction control computer and get it to drift around some corners. Going to get out this weekend for another couple of hundred miles somewhere.
I still have one of our McCulloch 101's. It had a broken off air vane (a part of the molded flywheel). I found a used flywheel on the internet. Someone took the two barrel Crescent carb that mine had but I have a McCulloch BDC 69741 big mac single pumper carb smooth bore with gross jet monted on it. I think that with a set of reed valves it will be ready for a Go-Kart (something that I do not yet have) again.
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A screaming one at that..
I do pretty good at sitting & driving (so Go Kart [with only one of these engines, detuned to the original 12 HP @ 11,500 RPM] {unlike our original setup of 2 of these, both tuned to 15 HP at 13,500 RPM}) probably/maybe!??Ah, but the real question is "are you ready for a Go-Kart ?"
But I can no longer ride a bicycle for more than a half block or walk more than 3/8 of a mile without sitting down for 10 minutes.
So putting it on a Mini-Bike chassis is out the window, for sure. (The Mini-Bike idea turned out to not be ridable when we were setting up the Go-Kart originally, anyway).
It had serious out of control wheely issues that left people on the ground.
But, most people we knew, had to have a go at it, anyway (after they laughed their asses of at us). The result was always the same (and we got to laugh our asses off while saying "We told you so, that's just what it does".
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That's a beauty! I love the Duc air cooled V-Twins, I owned a 1994 Monster 900 for a bunch of years, super fun bikes to ride.
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Update on the supercharged V3 from Honda...
www.visordown.com
Good to see it evolving in to a reality. So many concept bikes don't. Looks interesting.
Honda finally pulls the wraps off its innovative V3R
The Honda V3R 900 E-Compressor features a 75-degree water-cooled V3 motor, which is said to be good for 1,200cc levels of performance.
We seem to get the same emails :-D
Super impressive if it delivers on the target specs with reliability and usability. Then again, I don't need 200hp, I am perfectly fine with easy-to-use 100HP with good torque, then I don't need the traction control complication either (ABS yes please).
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Aye, 200hp is a lot more than I need too. I am a bit doubtful they will get that and still be reliable however. Seems optimistic.
Really like the way it is designed. Very compact and the electronic compressor suggests to me that potentially it could be tuned for power and/or efficiency. Presumably with different mappings etc.
Really like the way it is designed. Very compact and the electronic compressor suggests to me that potentially it could be tuned for power and/or efficiency. Presumably with different mappings etc.
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I've had a bike for most of my life. I sold my Honda 919 about 5 years ago and miss it. I no longer want to deal with so much motorcycle maintenance, so I intend to buy an electric one when the prices come down a bit
I rather like the Live Wire S2 Del Mar. 113 mile range and 0-60mph in 3 seconds for around $12K
I rather like the Live Wire S2 Del Mar. 113 mile range and 0-60mph in 3 seconds for around $12K