The coolest of cool bikes...

[Pete.]

This kind of thing impresses me so much it's hard to find words.

Built during WW2 by a guy who made almost every damn part right down to making the patterns for the engine castings then the castings themselves.

1943 supercharged 4-cylinder 2-stroke by Dennis Jones.

Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aiyD9AxXqw
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[binge]

Fucking epic!

[soforene]

Lidl do a smoke machine for £19.99 that's a lot quieter !!

[Pete.]

[Scythe]

Bit of a history if anyone is interested: https://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/threads/28310-R-I-P-Dennis-Jones

He also worked for Rolls Royce in Derby too
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[Pete.]

That's right where I got the link from. The OP was a friend if his and also apprienticed at Rolls Royce.
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Frost]

Is it euro5 compliant?

[Groove]

Why dont 2 strokes sound like that any more?
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[UnspeedySam]

This guy was truly amazing. Very cool history behind it all.
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[fozzym]

I bet that was a really cool bike in 1943 and back then a fella in a shed with a few tools could buid a bike from scratch.

Try making something to rival zx10, r1 or fireblade in your shed, not a hope!

Them was the days

[Ariel Badger]

Cool as a penguin's bum, BTW some of us still cast our own engine parts.
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[Billing]

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[L-Jam]

[Rowey]

That is amazing.

[stinkwheel]

Not as impressive but possibly approaching as interesting. How about someone riding about on a 1896 Hildebrand and Wolfmüller motorcycle.

Mind you, when it comes to looney-tunes early 2-strokes, it's hard to beat a Scott Squirrel. I've been trying to find a video I once saw of Bill Swallow absolutely ragging the arse off one round Cadwell, pulling wheelies along the straights and generally giving it some full-bore-roar. Seems to have dropped off the internet.
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[L-Jam]

MV exhausts!
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[flyer]

Brilliant, thanks for sharing
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[fozzym]

[L-Jam]

Fozzy, I was joking. I fully appreciate the bike, it's a blessing and a curse that tech is so far advanced, that it's near impossible to compete without a huge budget. Similarly, fixing new bikes involves computers not spanners these days.

As a sidenote, try getting a spanner waver to put four bikes into an amalgamation of superiority.. bikes aren't lego, it doesn't work.
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