If it wasn't for Norton
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Here's a Ecosse for cheap $65K. Its take off spin out is something that became second nature for me avoid on my P!! and on THE Gravel. Can happen to any happy handed fella with power to spare right off idle. Sounds darn good in this sound bite.
Better get what fun ya can while ya can I say or "eat desert first - life is uncertain".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJDdo7xMCcc
http://www.ecossemoto.com/
http://motocorsa.com/post/for-sale-ecos ... -3-seconds
Better get what fun ya can while ya can I say or "eat desert first - life is uncertain".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJDdo7xMCcc
http://www.ecossemoto.com/
http://motocorsa.com/post/for-sale-ecos ... -3-seconds
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The first time I rode an 883 was in Iowa. It was not fast but it was acceptable if you weren't in a hurry.
The next time I rode one was here in Pueblo with a bit more altitude. I grabbed a handful of throttle and nothing happened. Eventually I realized it was gaining momentum. It was in bad need of some big pistons or a blower. Jim
The next time I rode one was here in Pueblo with a bit more altitude. I grabbed a handful of throttle and nothing happened. Eventually I realized it was gaining momentum. It was in bad need of some big pistons or a blower. Jim
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Exotic materials and fancy constructed doodads is awesome to see in use. If not so much money to burn like me and my 'Norton'. I want variable threshold inverse digital throttle response,ie: too much slows ya down and letting off jerks ya forward. What lights my fire is isolastic 'high' compression dragster on low centrifugal fan boost and not much mass to push. Think its possible on pump gas to get 2 lb ft out of each two valve'd cubic inch displacement? Think it'll be loud enough with a hollow megaphone? Boss Hogs make the ground throb but they don't corner well and can't hook up well for their mass. Also want a sleeper with big fairing and lowers and hard bags so looks like a wimpy ole cruiser with a huge gas tank, so extra confusing when i ask if I can tag along ... till bored >>> Plug in your dream machine numbers in this articles equations.
Alan acotrel left this in race rule post. Torque pressure rules till detonation or tire disintegration.
http://www.epi-eng.com/piston_engine_te ... dstick.htm
Alan acotrel left this in race rule post. Torque pressure rules till detonation or tire disintegration.
http://www.epi-eng.com/piston_engine_te ... dstick.htm
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Sometime in 1968 one of the big US cycle mags (it could have been Cycle World) proclaimed the 883 Sportster to be the fastest production motorcycle on the planet. At the same time we could see one in TV action every week on "Then Came Bronson".
I was 14 years old and wanted a Sportster in the worst way, especially after reading the magazine article.
That all ended when I told an older friend named Vincent about the magazine article. "What a load of bullshit" he says. "There is an old English bike called the Vincent, they stopped building them years ago, but they are faster than any Harley".Wish he hadn't said that, kinda doomed me into the Vincent.
Glen
I was 14 years old and wanted a Sportster in the worst way, especially after reading the magazine article.
That all ended when I told an older friend named Vincent about the magazine article. "What a load of bullshit" he says. "There is an old English bike called the Vincent, they stopped building them years ago, but they are faster than any Harley".Wish he hadn't said that, kinda doomed me into the Vincent.
Glen
