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In Reply to: RE: I agree... hand crank in every car! posted by Victor Khomenko on November 21, 2024 at 05:18:30
Old engines can easily make your heart race.
Go back 100 years to these guys (all over 100 yrs old) and one appreciates the "start button".
The grey one was the power generator at a hospital in Minot ND, +6000lb. 15HP at 350 RPM, this takes 20min of a gasoline blow torch to attempt to start (a very early diesel). No crank, you hang on the flywheel spokes to turn and bump on compression and if lucky, it fires and runs the opposite direction.
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Both Yamaha street singles, SR500 and SRX600.
Both had compression releases but you had to be careful with the 500. Little too much gas and you'd be kicking like mad for the next 10 minutes.
I liked the 500 better than the 600, even though the 600 was faster and handled better.
The 500 was more comfortable and made more torque at low RPM.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
I only had one big single, a BSA goldstar that was bored to 600+.
I got it from a guy who got a chrome moly frame, bored it out and raised the compression and proceeded to break his leg starting it when it backfired.
I started and rode it a couple times and thought boy this is a real handful and not what i needed and never road it again.
Still have a 850 Norton commando and an old Honda 450 and a someday project bike, but these days i like working on them more than riding.
Highly underrated bike.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
Yep, started like as the "scrambler" CL but eventually all that was left of that were the folding foot pegs. Here it is around 1976 bored to 500, half race cams when i was done haha. Still have it although it's looking sad.
Had friend in the 70's that worked at a BSA / Triumph "Chopper shop" that had a large bone pile and I ended up making the honda part BSA / Triumph for the cloverleaf peg grinding.
My brother and I had a Scrambler 90--you can see one just like in the movie Independence Day , same color and everything--and the CB450 looked huge to my eyes.
IIRC, Honda ended up increasing the displacement to 500cc.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
Ahh the 90, what a bike! In H.S. i had a CL160 and a friend Glen had the 90 with knobbies. It was a far better dirt bike than my 160 was.
The 160, 305 and 450 where back when Honda was active supporting privateer road racing including race parts. I think there may have been a 125 too but the 160 could be bored to 175, the 305 to the 350 class and the 450 to 500 class. By then, that was my interest. Another friend got a 750 which to me seemed big and very heavy although fast.
Ducati made a 350 and 450 singles i had the hots for on and off.
I lived on a gentle sloping road in the early 80's, and would coast my Kawasaki down the hill, pop the clutch, instead of kick starting it.
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