that's ridiculous and awesome at the same time. Love it. And people think I was crazy when i switch to 125's!!! Talk about a swarm of bees.
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ISDE 2013 Sardinia (Sardegna) Thread
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that's ridiculous and awesome at the same time. Love it. And people think I was crazy when i switch to 125's!!! Talk about a swarm of bees.
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I have a 1989 ISDE viddy with ITA-GM Rossi and USAs LR riding KX80s, its a bitchen viddy. 80s are a blast in the specials and pinnnnnnned speed.
visiteur1948
Husqvarna
Pro Class
80 cc HUSQVARNA 1981
made in france by
nicolas SAMOFAL
SIMA france
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
sleeved down 125??correct?
Another cool picture from Visiteur1948. Thanks - I'm hoarding them all..........
Big external (well, 125cc original castings) barrel and head would have helped the little 'screaming meeemeee'. The 125 Huskies had a rep for being just a tad more prone to the smeeeeeeeeeeeeeep of a seizure than AC'd 125s ( though, they all had that tendency, no matter what brand they were) - though I think I recall the 175 Huskies were notorious for that.
Now there's a size that the "New Husqvarna" should do - from existing KTM engines, as it appears they've hoicked the Husky engines ( Gas Gas may have access to the XLight engine, from what I hear - coooool. who from? - BMW?, KTM?, TVS? - however you look at it, it's great news / a great rumour) a 175cc 2t, plus, say a 390 / 430 4t based on the 350 KTM unit. There's a way to get a 'difference', without much in the way of expenditure ..........
Nah, too bloody sensible, I'd say. I Hope I'm wrong on that.
I've been scrabbling around to find pictures of my XR / CR hybrid I had at the '92 Six Day, as a course worker - if only just to show why so many Euros / Teams liked it, with the result that I got a lot of rides on "Ghost Riders" bikes, especially the 'Bergs, TMs and Aprilias. I used it to "chase" (desperately) the 80cc and 125cc riders at the '92 Six Day at Cessnock. It looked like a production bike - with TLR 250 barrel, a Big Finned head - so it looked the external size of a 600, but when you looked from side on, you'd see so much 'daylight' between the fins, and a skinny little 'barrel tower'. The revs it pulled usually had blokes asking "why I revved the '600' so hard, was it stuck in 2nd" ? No, but it regularly snapped the countershaft, and did so at those Six Days. Rode the last 2 days, with only 3 gears - the 3rd / 4th combined gear held the 2 halves of the countershaft 'together', across the break.
The engine lives - in pieces still -in the cupboard below my 'puter, and I've not put it together since I had a custom mainshaft and countershaft, and 3rd / 4th gear set done, and the rolling chassis sits forlornly behind me amoungst a bunch of other "specials" I've made over the years. Perhaps the craziest thing is the "birdcage / trellis" construction stainless steel centre stand I made for it ( I Love centre stands - once you use them for a time it's hard not to 'want' them ) to clear the chainline for the AMP Torque Eliminator I ran - and now still run on my 500 CRE. The stand is currently living in amoungst my grinding and linishing equipment and I swear it's alive, it keeps getting in my way - I think it, and all the other bits, want to go back together.......
I ramble, moreso than I normally do, when I get nostalgic, I know. I need to put a few of my Hybrids / Specials back together, before I cark it.
The Morini Camel pictured is cool - it would have been surprisingly light - probably a deal lighter than an XR500 / 600 of that era - the engines where quite compact, and light. I think Morinis had the combustion chamber in the piston top, and a flat head surface, with straigt down, parrallel valve angles, hence the exhaust outlet, that many mistakenly thought made them a sidevalver ?????????? S***house, falling rate rear end though - I think the frame maker must have been a Montesa VR fan. Silly Blighter.
Big external (well, 125cc original castings) barrel and head would have helped the little 'screaming meeemeee'. The 125 Huskies had a rep for being just a tad more prone to the smeeeeeeeeeeeeeep of a seizure than AC'd 125s ( though, they all had that tendency, no matter what brand they were) - though I think I recall the 175 Huskies were notorious for that.
Now there's a size that the "New Husqvarna" should do - from existing KTM engines, as it appears they've hoicked the Husky engines ( Gas Gas may have access to the XLight engine, from what I hear - coooool. who from? - BMW?, KTM?, TVS? - however you look at it, it's great news / a great rumour) a 175cc 2t, plus, say a 390 / 430 4t based on the 350 KTM unit. There's a way to get a 'difference', without much in the way of expenditure ..........
Nah, too bloody sensible, I'd say. I Hope I'm wrong on that.
I've been scrabbling around to find pictures of my XR / CR hybrid I had at the '92 Six Day, as a course worker - if only just to show why so many Euros / Teams liked it, with the result that I got a lot of rides on "Ghost Riders" bikes, especially the 'Bergs, TMs and Aprilias. I used it to "chase" (desperately) the 80cc and 125cc riders at the '92 Six Day at Cessnock. It looked like a production bike - with TLR 250 barrel, a Big Finned head - so it looked the external size of a 600, but when you looked from side on, you'd see so much 'daylight' between the fins, and a skinny little 'barrel tower'. The revs it pulled usually had blokes asking "why I revved the '600' so hard, was it stuck in 2nd" ? No, but it regularly snapped the countershaft, and did so at those Six Days. Rode the last 2 days, with only 3 gears - the 3rd / 4th combined gear held the 2 halves of the countershaft 'together', across the break.
The engine lives - in pieces still -in the cupboard below my 'puter, and I've not put it together since I had a custom mainshaft and countershaft, and 3rd / 4th gear set done, and the rolling chassis sits forlornly behind me amoungst a bunch of other "specials" I've made over the years. Perhaps the craziest thing is the "birdcage / trellis" construction stainless steel centre stand I made for it ( I Love centre stands - once you use them for a time it's hard not to 'want' them ) to clear the chainline for the AMP Torque Eliminator I ran - and now still run on my 500 CRE. The stand is currently living in amoungst my grinding and linishing equipment and I swear it's alive, it keeps getting in my way - I think it, and all the other bits, want to go back together.......
I ramble, moreso than I normally do, when I get nostalgic, I know. I need to put a few of my Hybrids / Specials back together, before I cark it.
The Morini Camel pictured is cool - it would have been surprisingly light - probably a deal lighter than an XR500 / 600 of that era - the engines where quite compact, and light. I think Morinis had the combustion chamber in the piston top, and a flat head surface, with straigt down, parrallel valve angles, hence the exhaust outlet, that many mistakenly thought made them a sidevalver ?????????? S***house, falling rate rear end though - I think the frame maker must have been a Montesa VR fan. Silly Blighter.
visiteur1948
Husqvarna
Pro Class
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
bearorso you are demented!! In a great way!!
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
yes morini 3 1/2 (350) and 5s had flat surface combustion heads, my eyebrow raised the first time I saw one disaasembled