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Post by Paws on Feb 16, 2008 4:39:27 GMT 12.75
Thanks Steve Korot for that question cause it makes my day!
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Post by OLKoot on Feb 16, 2008 9:47:20 GMT 12.75
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Post by RogueWarrior1957 on Feb 16, 2008 18:48:30 GMT 12.75
My question is.... Does this bike make my butt look big? My classic Royal Enfield Bullet 500 Deluxe...straight out of the good old days. They are still in production in the Middle East and India since that is what the Brits taught them to build back in '55. These were rebadged in this country and sold by Indian Motorcycle in the 50's to fill their niche for a smaller bike. The dirt bike version was called an Indian Woodsman, and the street version was called the Indian Tomahawk. First bike with swing arm rear suspension, first bike with cushioned rear hub, and first twin cam engine. They were a trendsetter on track and field in their day until the Japanese bikes hit the scene with cheaper prices and high revving 2 stroke motors. They have a diesel version overseas. How'd you like to kick that one over? We're talking 22:1 compression ratio on the diesel model. -Rogie-
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Post by Two Tales on Feb 16, 2008 20:06:54 GMT 12.75
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Post by Paws on Feb 16, 2008 22:01:59 GMT 12.75
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Post by Paws on Feb 17, 2008 9:45:53 GMT 12.75
Damn, that really is a nice looking bike! I'll bet she handles like a dream too. The "set" reminds me of the mid 60's Hondas in the 250/360 range where you can sit down and hold her up with your legs on the ground and still clear the ground on take off. I sure wish I were 40 years younger! Forty years ago I was running around Manila on a Dukati 125 terrorizing the natives. Then back at Clark Air Base I bought a Lambretta scooter for general shits and giggles. I used to ride that standing up. Hell to get old but at least there are memories if you make some I guess. You know Rogie Dad had a Tomahawk when we lived in Marion, 57 I think, he rode it to Athens (a trip; of about 140 miles) set at the curb turned it off it backfired and set itself on fire and burned completely. Poor bastard took a Greyhound home and bought himself a bicycle. He never got a driver's license until 64 when he finally bought himself a car. ;D (62 Chevy Impala soft top.)
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Post by OLKoot on Feb 17, 2008 10:42:15 GMT 12.75
I will never, ever get on one of those things.....I had two wonderful experiences......Once making a right turn and went into the wrong lane coming at me cause I forgot to down shift, and once my wifes two cousins bought a hog and asked if I wanted to try it....So I did.....I took off okay down a country road, came to a "T" in the road, so I thought I'd turn around to go back.....Well I turned around , but found I couldnt get it going(shift it into first) so I sat there and waited until some one came looking for me....You see, I'm a happy camper on 4 wheels!!! ;D ;D ;D Nice pic Bill, and nice ride too
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Post by RogueWarrior1957 on Feb 17, 2008 13:18:07 GMT 12.75
Chick bike! Nice one though! Show me the chick who can kick start this puppy without it kicking her over the moon, and I'll kiss her tenderly and call her darling! ;D Unless you know it's secret, it has a nasty temper upon starting. You do know that the British military (big hairy Scotsmen) used these puppies all over the world...they were bullet proof. India used them in the 40's and 50's when they kicked the ca-ca-doo-doo-poo-poo out of the Pakistani's. Put dirt tires and lower gears on these little rascals and they'd climb a telephone pole. Thump-thump-thump-thump...sounds like a Norton or a TroyBuilt on steroids.
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Post by Paws on Feb 17, 2008 14:00:38 GMT 12.75
Seems I remember that Dad's would kick the heck out of him on the first stroke then he would flick a little lever before he kicked it the 2nd time. Also I think that was the one he had with a suicide clutch. You want to see the chick who can kick one of those over go up to the USO category and take a peek at the Veterans Services Officer, Michele, for Athens. She isn't only cute; but rough too!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 3, 2008 17:12:27 GMT 12.75
It looks a little like the bike Elvis roade in the movie, Roustabout.
I like the older bikes, even though I ain't no biker. I used to own a few dirt bikes coming up, but never had a street bike. My grandaddy was a biker for many years after WWII before granny settled his hash after a bad accident.
He'd bought one of them with the gear shifter on the side and totalled a '54 ford when he hit the passenger door at about 55! Didn't do much for the bike either and he was pronounced dead at the scene, but woke up in the morgue an hour and a half later and scared the hell out of a censored attendent when he stepped off the table and pulled the sheet off of himself. He didn't mind the being dead part, but he never got over the fact that one of the ambulance drivers stole his watch while he was dead.
He had all sorts of bike stuff with pictures of the old Harleys and Indians and such. His cousin sent most of a German military motor bike home to Indiana a little at a time while he was quartermaster in Italy during WWII also that he talked about often. As far as I know, it never ran, but it was a big joke that he'd have gotten the whole thing home if they hadn't have tranferred him back to the states! ;D
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Post by RogueWarrior1957 on Mar 4, 2008 16:58:13 GMT 12.75
Not too far off base, Tobe. If memory serves me correctly, that bike in the Elvis movie was a Triumph Thunderbird...don't remember what year exactly, but I'm thinking about a '57. Royal Enfield used to make a few big bikes too. There was a V-twin called the "Interceptor" and a big V-4 called the "Constellation." They ceased to be in 1967 when the factory in Redditch, England closed down. Most exotic of the Brit bikes was the Ariel Mark I which featured a Squareline 4 engine Engine had two cylinders fore, and two aft in a vertical configuration. There were two crankshafts which were meshed by a gear on the primary case side of the bike...the cranks turned in opposite directions and was the oddest thing I've ever seen. They were 1000 cc's and I'm told they ran quite well when tuned properly. This marque also played out around the mid '60's Okay...I'm off the bikes. Now you can have the thread back to talk about rag-heads, sand-buggerers, and fatassed women in veils and burkas. -Rogue-
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Post by Paws on Mar 5, 2008 2:28:27 GMT 12.75
;D I'd rather hear about the bikes! Maybe we ought to copy these last few over to the bike thread and delete them from here. I jpersonally don't care where the show up it's just a bitch to find a topic later on when somebody goes looking for it.
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