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.
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.
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.
yes morini 3 1/2 (350) and 5s had flat surface combustion heads, my eyebrow raised the first time I saw one disaasembled
