Motorbikes are brilliant

[Blarmy]

17 minutes ago, Line-X said:

Creations like these genuinely warm the heart. Allen Millyard, complete nutter and English eccentric - somewhere between Alan Titchmarsh and Johnny Ball - an engineering genius of the same ilk as Britten and Munro. In 2009, he had the batshit idea of taking an 8litre V10 viper engine and designing and building a motorcycle around it. This thing puts out 500lb-ft of torque and 500bhp and will see 185mph @ 5,000rpm, 215 mph at half throttle and idles at 30 mph yet he's occasionally sighted trundling around the back lanes of Berkshire on it. It sounds like a cross between a Massey Ferguson tractor and a Messerschmitt 109. Shut the throttle too abruptly and the engine braking would probably hurl you over the bars and the opposite side of the home counties. 

 

The ratchet driven centre stand has me howling every time. 

 

 

And next week, join us when Allen takes a Lamborghini V12 engine and installs it in a Honda Super Cub. 

Is he the guy off of of the Motor Bike Show, with the other guy?

[SpacedX]

Just now, Blarmy said:

Is he the guy off of of the Motor Bike Show, with the other guy?

Correct. An acquaintance of Henry Cole. 

 

Some of his inventions and creations are staggering. 

[Daggers]

Proper roads

 

[SpacedX]

23 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Proper roads

 

Whereabouts is this in north Northants precisely? 

[Daggers]

3 hours ago, Line-X said:

Whereabouts is this in north Northants precisely? 

 

[Mike Oxlong]

8 hours ago, Daggers said:

 

Highly recommended. Haven’t ridden a bike in years but the countryside is great and the Buddhist Meditation Centre just outside Thornby do a nice toastie/scone and cuppa in rather tranquil surroundings. 

[Nick]

11 hours ago, Daggers said:

 

My old stomping ground eh, D?

 

Y'know you'd like my new stomping ground too for that kind of riding!

 

On an aside, I've noticed your bike has elements of a digital display on the dash – are you still having counselling for this or managed to take it in your stride?

[Daggers]

5 hours ago, Nick said:

My old stomping ground eh, D?

 

Y'know you'd like my new stomping ground too for that kind of riding!

 

On an aside, I've noticed your bike has elements of a digital display on the dash – are you still having counselling for this or managed to take it in your stride?

The compass decided to spit the dummy and asked to be recalibrated. To do this, you need to ride in tight figures of 8 apparently. 
 

Today I discovered that you can also recalibrate it by taking a really close look at an old Roman road near Bozeat. 

Kinda hoping the folks who did the monument to the crashed WWII Lancaster erect one to my misfortune too. 

 

[SpacedX]

 

 

Sent this off to be imbued with the 'secret sauce' bench tune which was written for the bike and the new exhaust system which itself was engineered around and designed specifically for this motorcycle. Together they are the unique combination and the key to unlocking the potential of this bike. The tuning specialists in the US used to offer a flash but have discontinued it and are instead establishing remote tuning centres around the world providing the bench tune which although expensive, is far, far better. The European one is in Cornwall and has just been licensed for the service - which is good timing because only a few weeks ago I would have had to have sent this to the States. Nonetheless, it's not a nice feeling consigning a grand's worth of ECU to the Royal Mail. 

 

Just need to change the awful bars for some flatter tracker style ones and it's pretty much complete. Impossible to find the pivot pins on the hand controls though let alone release them to allow me to get them off. Probably going to have to go to an Indian dealer. Nothing is easy on this bike. It's just occurred to me while writing this that I'll need to drill the new bars in precisely the right position to accommodate the pins. Joy.

[Daggers]

Out for a day of fun in the sun. Hooked up with the Three Shires Lane, which is a bit insane as it runs right through the middle of Santa Pod. People everywhere setting up for this weekend's event you have to pay £60 to get in to, yet nobody can prevent you riding in on the lane. No one seemed that bothered about me as ?I made my way across and then out the other side.

 

[SpacedX]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

Out for a day of fun in the sun. Hooked up with the Three Shires Lane, which is a bit insane as it runs right through the middle of Santa Pod. People everywhere setting up for this weekend's event you have to pay £60 to get in to, yet nobody can prevent you riding in on the lane. No one seemed that bothered about me as ?I made my way across and then out the other side.

 

This is absolutely brilliant. Kudos. Love it. You don't happen to know one through Silverstone way around Moto GP time do you? 

 

This ****er...

 

 

Makes the previous exhaust sound like a C90. The gates of Hades have been unlocked and the hosts of hell unleashed. Jeez. 

 

It's a similar hooligan tone to this - but expressed in dBs, x5 by an order of magnitude louder!...and much sexier looking

 

 

 

Edited 6 May 2022 by Line-X

[Daggers]

10 hours ago, Line-X said:

This is absolutely brilliant. Kudos. Love it. You don't happen to know one through Silverstone way around Moto GP time do you? 

 

This ****er...

 

 

Makes the previous exhaust sound like a C90. The gates of Hades have been unlocked and the hosts of hell unleashed. Jeez. 

 

It's a similar hooligan tone to this - but expressed in dBs, x5 by an order of magnitude louder!...and much sexier looking

 

 

 

May as well bin the exhaust entirely, doesn’t look like there’s much of it left anyway. 

[SpacedX]

7 minutes ago, Daggers said:

May as well bin the exhaust entirely, doesn’t look like there’s much of it left anyway. 

I might retain the headers 

[Countryfox]

Might go for a Triumph this summer ..  what about an FT bikers meet up ..  early ride to Skeggy ..  breakfast and home … 

[SpacedX]

She's been playing in the dirt today...

 

 

 

[Mike Oxlong]

On 08/05/2022 at 18:04, Countryfox said:

Might go for a Triumph this summer ..  what about an FT bikers meet up ..  early ride to Skeggy ..  breakfast and home … 

Thought you were referring to the make of bra. You know, for the man boobs we get when we get that little bit older 

[SeCrEt FoX]

16 hours ago, Line-X said:

She's been playing in the dirt today...

 

 

 

Do you wear a yellow Aqua bag by any chance? 🤔 If so I saw you yesterday. 

[SpacedX]

4 hours ago, SeCrEt FoX said:

Do you wear a yellow Aqua bag by any chance? 🤔 If so I saw you yesterday. 

Not me, I was up in Nottinghamshire. 

 

Took an aeon to clean today...

[Daggers]

On 21/05/2022 at 20:49, Line-X said:

Not me, I was up in Nottinghamshire. 

 

Took an aeon to clean today...

Clean?

 

Thats what rain is for. 

[Daggers]

 

[PAULCFC]

Going to look at this over the weekend...

[Nick]

On 01/06/2022 at 21:58, Daggers said:

 

We need to talk about the amount of time you have on your hands.

[Daggers]

On 09/06/2022 at 22:13, Nick said:

We need to talk about the amount of time you have on your hands.

Template - takes a couple of minutes to do.

[Free Falling Foxes]

Motorcyclists. A question.

I don't wish to place you all in the same pot as it were, but why do many of you keep revving your engines when stationary and/or moving along slowly?

I recently travelled the whole length of Humberstone Road in slow moving, stop/starting, nose-to-tale traffic. Unfortunately, two motorcyclist were next to me and for the 10 minutes of that journey, were revving their God awful, screaming engines the whole time.

Edited 11 June 2022 by Free Falling Foxes

[SpacedX]

1 hour ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Motorcyclists. A question.

I don't wish to place you all in the same pot as it were, but why do many of you keep revving your engines when stationary and/or moving along slowly?

I recently travelled the whole length of Humberstone Road in slow moving, stop/starting, nose-to-tale traffic. Unfortunately, two motorcyclist were next to me and for the 10 minutes of that journey, were revving their God awful, screaming engines the whole time.

When stationary I very occasionally crack the throttle because it sounds like a sawn off shotgun and it amuses me. I'll blip the throttle when lane splitting or filtering to let drivers know I'm there and closed throttle on the overrun sounds like an artillery barrage. It's a big 1200cc V twin, so a deep resonating sound. Nothing worse though than some twat on the rev limiter on a bike that sounds like a bread cutter. 

 

Lovely weather this morning...