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I still have roadrace motors being used on the track and I recently got back from 6 days on the salt supporting Sir Eddies Rocket.

But most of my riding anymore is on the street. Safety is in how you go about it.

My injuries on the track have been broken fingers and a broken collarbone.

My injuries on the street have been road rash and bruises.

My most serious injuries were on a dirt bike -I put myself in the hospital for 6 weeks riding a DT1 -250 when I was in high school.
 
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"Been most fortunate through times of unsound judgment".... I've got to second that one!!...... I"ve been Lucky lots of times, that's not to say that I haven't had my fair share of spills. Including a broken right collar bone, also while riding a Yamaha dirt bike, (when I was 13)..... Anyway we're de-railing Jim's thread..... Glad you got it back together & in record time if I might add. Cj
 
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Jim, I cam understand how people simply want to make their Commando the best, but I don't understand why they do it with a road bike. Yesterday I was driving through our town and parked by the side of the road was a very lovely and close to original 850 Commando which I would love to own and cherish. But at all costs, I would preserve it's originality because that is here the value is in an old bike. I am now 78 - I had my first bikes when I was 15. However when I was 14, I had gone with my uncle who had a Triumph Thunderbird, to watch Geoff Duke race the Gilera at Fishermans' Bend in Melbourne. My whole live has involved motorcycles, they even helped me fail most of my year twelve exams, which resulted me in studying part-time while working to become a scientist. I started with a Model 741 Indian and a 250cc T6 Triumph, progressed through many hotted-up Triumph 650s, then went road racing when I started having too many near misses on publis roads. These days my motorcycle keeps me alive. What I am about is improving my Seeley Commando 850 and proving it by racing. When you improve a road bike, you cannot really use it in the way nature intended.
I really like the work you do. However have you ever thought of building a race bike and finding a good rider for it? When you achieve through racing, you are competing against other dedicated guys. If you come out in front, you have really done something. In Australia, we have one guy Jerry Kooistra who owns an engineering business. He raced small capacity Honda twins with a girl as rider. He has done what he set out to do and now has given the game away. We have Ken Horner who is doing similar with the Irving Vincents. I think the work you are doing is excellent but 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating'.
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Al you should come riding with my mates and myself, we been riding together for over 45 years now and we push our bikes to the limits as well ourself's but we know each other ways and have never had any serious accidents or injuries while we been together, we have come across accidents but mostly solo riders involved, you say public roads are unsafe well we do our thing away from danger and where the usual Sunday riders go for their short hops, we average 500kms on our Sunday rides and have found some great rides where we can do our thing safely, you just got to know where to go, a lot better than going around and around and around the same track over and over again.
I have never been unsafe yet on public roads but I do keep my eyes open and look what is happening around me while on the bikes.

Ashley
 
Now that Jim Comstock is using short skirt pistons and is happy with them - maybe the next thing we'll see is solid alum Nicasil coated cylinders without liners and shorter stiffer skirts protruding from the bottom. Should at least work for the more popular 750s and 850s.

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I think comnoz has answered a lot of queries and made a most profound statement in the earlier video. Which I'm preparing to peruse a second time to further assure everyone there's no doubt as to his skills & abilities. All so that you may sleep better tonight knowing his judgement is sound..... Besides I really enjoy hearing his bike growling at the world. That booger moves on.
 
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Al you should come riding with my mates and myself, we been riding together for over 45 years now and we push our bikes to the limits as well ourself's but we know each other ways and have never had any serious accidents or injuries while we been together, we have come across accidents but mostly solo riders involved, you say public roads are unsafe well we do our thing away from danger and where the usual Sunday riders go for their short hops, we average 500kms on our Sunday rides and have found some great rides where we can do our thing safely, you just got to know where to go, a lot better than going around and around and around the same track over and over again.
I have never been unsafe yet on public roads but I do keep my eyes open and look what is happening around me while on the bikes.

Ashley
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Ash,
There is a group of my mates who go riding together every Sunday around the hills near Warburton. They are all ex-A Grade riders. They practice out-braking themselves into corners from extremely high speeds. I know where not to go. I've had about 3 crashes on race track at speeds above 90 MPH. The only one which did me damage was a slower one at about 70 MPH when I dislocated my chromo-clavicular joint in the right shoulder. It is the only time I really believed I could be killed while road-racing. If I had been on my back instead of my side, when I reached the ripple in the bitumen . . . ?
 
Riding fast on public roads is OK as long as you know where the road goes and what is around the next bend. Also you need the car drivers coming from behind you to not have mobile phones in their hands.
 
This morning I was greeted with four cows on a bend. Cars dont seem so worrisome after that!
 
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I suspect GPM's are fine nowdays. I just have a hard time with them because I remember back when you would buy a pair of GPM's and hope they were within .005 inch of each other or 20 grams. I would hope there consistency has gotten better in the last 40 years....
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What are "GPM's"?
 
Hey Jim, if you bring that billet cylinder with you to the Lake of the Pines Rally I can try it out on my build for you!
 
Well I made it back from LOP.
2400 hard, fast miles since the new pistons and I am happy.
The engine is now very quiet with the cast pistons and a stock cam.
It has used less than a quart of oil so far. I am impressed since I was running ~90 mph a lot of the time and the temp was in the 80's and 90's.
It is still running the oil I put in it when I assembled it.
-Royal Purple HPS 20-50. It is still clear on the dipstick.

The only work I had to do was to tape a piece of heater hose across the top of the windshield to stop the severe wind noise that started when I shortened the windshield one inch. It looked like hell but it worked great.

I was enjoying the ride enough that I actually ran out of fuel once on the way home. I didn't know I could go through 6.5 gallons in one sitting. Lucky I was still in Texas because a guy that I had just passed pulled over as I rolled to a stop and he just happened to have a can of fuel. :D
 
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