From 1951

[anotherkiwi]

An electric version of this would pique my interest

http://steampunktendencies.tumblr.com/post/149643469349/urban-motors-jawa-sprint-motorcycle-with-a

 

[Amoto65]

A Raleigh Wisp was my first powered bike in 1972 i am sure i pedaled it more than i rode it , possibly due to the fact i never had the money for petrol.

 

[TedG]

Blimey don't get me started on Honda and their 125cc five cylinder racer of the mid sixties revving to an astonishing 22,000 rpm and 130+ mph.
I still have the memories of that sound.




Sorry I think I might have drifted onto the wrong forum.

 

[flecc]

Blimey don't get me started on Honda and their 125cc five cylinder racer of the mid sixties revving to an astonishing 22,000 rpm and 130+ mph.
I still have the memories of that sound.

And their six cylinder 250cc, which can be seen and heard on this YouTube video

The 125cc is on this YouTube link.
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[TedG]

And their six cylinder 250cc, which can be seen and heard on this YouTube video

The 125cc is on this YouTube link.
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Now you have done it and got me back to Oliver's Mount when Rob Iannucci brought a Honda 6, an MV 3 and an ex Pasolini Benelli 4, all genuine ex works bikes fettled by Nobby Clark.
Mick Grant was involved and I think Dave Roper. The sound of those around that parkland was pure music to old folk like me.
Wish? Turn the clock back for a day to the Ulster GP 1966 and let me live again.

The UGP circuit is but a ten minute drive from were we live now and a 30 minute drive from where I was born in 1950.

We are going to be in trouble soon on an e-bike forum.......

 

[TedG]

Have that video on favourites. The audience were proper shocked, some of them thinking that the sound of rear wheel starter engine was the bike! Brilliant when the 6 fired up.
Brief shot of the genius Erv Kanemoto in the last few seconds.
There is also a clip (but I have lost it) of Mick Grant on ex Hailwood 500 4 on a Dyno. Wonderful sound and brute power.

 

[Jonah]

Found this in the museum in Elgin. They say a quarter of a million of these were made.

 

[the_killjoy]

Talking of gutless wonders can I also nominate the Philips Panda, there was a good reason not many were ever seen on the road

 

[Jonah]

Found this in Glasgow Transport Museum.

 

[TedG]

Found this in Glasgow Transport Museum.
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Surprised that the length and weight are in metric back then.

 

[mike killay]

Found this in the museum in Elgin. They say a quarter of a million of these were made.
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I had one of those Cyclemasters.
Very reliable, had it for ages, nothing went wrong other than regular de-carbonising because we were using ordinary 30 grade engine oil then at a ratio of 16 to 1