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1932 Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...149#post138296
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...638#post118121
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...200#post161258
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...064#post153406
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...939#post160263

seems those valve lifters would have a problem with dirt.

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Originally Posted by jdurand

seems those valve lifters would have a problem with dirt.

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Yep but a lot of early engine designs had exposed rockers and other valve train components once overhead valves came about. Even aircraft engines had exposed moving parts

12 cylinders are better...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwJ0AQa_erM

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Originally Posted by Frank S

Yep but a lot of early engine designs had exposed rockers and other valve train components once overhead valves came about. Even aircraft engines had exposed moving parts

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True, but motorcycles are apt to get a bit dirtier than an airplane or other vehicle engine.

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Originally Posted by jdurand

True, but motorcycles are apt to get a bit dirtier than an airplane or other vehicle engine.

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only because folks are not smart enough to ride them as a transportation vehicle instead of a play toy farm use excepted

I remember way back when when we had a 1917 chevy with exposed valve train. that sucker was one fun ride.

motor cycles are made to play in the dirt with. cars are for the roads.

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Originally Posted by marksbug

motor cycles are made to play in the dirt with. cars are for the roads.

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Nope, motorcycles were made for transportation later became used as a replacement for domesticated animals and machines of burden they only became play toys when city folk felt they were missing out on something, they became bored with only using them as transportation, after all how many places in the city are really worth go to more than once or twice. So they ventured out away from the confines of asphalt and concrete where they found gravel or more likely dirt roads they had to learn a whole new way of riding because of the often deeply rutted and sometimes muddy or soft sandy roads with the occasional rock being in the road this caused them to want motorcycles designed for rougher terrain like those used in the fields by farmers and sometimes ranchers. Inter the street trail motorcycle. Since city folk are easily bored, their lives being little more than go to school go home or go to work, go home pay bills some make more money than their necessities require so they begin buying things they really don't need, just want because joe wage earner across the street or next door figured out he can buy things and pay for them ofer a long period of time More toys to stave off boredom now they think they need a motorcycle that can be ridden over extreme terrains and to prove they have the fastest toughest they have jump and endurance trails artificially made Their machines are now tougher than they are so they practice and practice and make up silly completions to show others just how good they are. Some eventually mature out of the phase some do not and still others use their learned knowledge from experiences to create business to sell safety gear or build accessories to make the machines even more competitive these are the ones who channeled their otherwise bored lives into wealth builders.
So I still say nope motorcycles are for transportation and work, even though I am guilty myself of having ran one of mine against the at the time supposedly quickest 1/4 mile 2 wheeled machine on the market and beat him 2 out of 3 times plus I am also guilty of riding one into a deep gorge and out again looking for someone who had ridden off the edge.

yes they were made for both.just as tractors were made for transportation across the field.kinda like running shoes...you can also walk in them, or skydive!! I would venture to say that the first motorcycle was rode in the dirt.....and the driver was quite excited to do so. I have ridden off a clif.it's not bad till you land in the top of a tree and hear the limbs/branches breaking....but to my surprise none were broke....but I was. dam I miss those days!!!!!

Buy your son a motorcycle for his last birthday...

Before my wife decided I didn't want to ride anymore, I'd put in tens of thousands of miles on two wheels. Most on-road but I loved off-road riding until in college my relatives managed to relieve me of my Hodaka. Only had ONE on-road accident, I was giving a fellow rider a lift and he made a sudden sideways move during a low speed turn. Sure glad I had engine guards, ground one pretty flat.

HODAKA.... witch one? dirt squirt?combatwombat, super wombat? we had a dealer neer us when I was a kid, I used to go there weekley. Ive had quite a few dirt bikes, but never a hodaka. even had a kawazuki!!!!( kawasaki 100 with 10 speed trans/2 range) with a suzuy tm 125 piston,cylinder,head& carb. the kawasaki was a rotery valve and the suzy was reed/piston port... so it was a single cylinder with duel carbs. pretty neet.the kaw had a busted piston&effed cylinder, and the suzy had trans eaten up, so we made one form the 2. those were in deed some fun days.especialy living in japan where parts were cheep.

It was a Wombat, the one with the 5 gallon chrome tank.

When I moved from high school to college I changed the rear sprocket and tires and used it to commute to school every day. That was a really nice bike.

Over a summer break I was doing a bit of a rebuild on it so it would be in top condition for the fall, but as soon as it was apart I was ordered (in the south you obey your elders!) to go work on a relative's house and that kept being extended until the end of summer. Oh gee, guess you'll have to drive a car. So instead I moved to a place across the street from school.

yup I remember that big chrome tanks on them. I was looking at one on flebay a years or so ago.I was thinking it might be fun to have one.....hell my 79 yz 250 hasent been out of the toy barn for 5 years..I get a new pipe for it... a new DG pipe.... what a POS it is, apparently DG was sold and there selling **** now.it dont fit, it dosent have a seat for the pipe flange to seat agnist the exhaust port...it dont work.someday Ill cut it up and fix it. hell it even hits the carb!!! there were no help at all, it seems I have to only pipe that they have ever made that dont fit and isant made right....probably a china made pipe

Back in the day of 2 strokes for endure racing everyone round these parts absolutely had to have Bankie tuned expansion chambers on their bikes. George Bankie sold 1000s of the things for every make of bike you could imagine. I met George towards the end of the tuned expansion pipe era. He and I started fabricating skids and assembling natural gas compressor units then we went together and started building oil well drilling rigs in 1979

thats quite a departure from cycles. and probably a lot more $$ in it too!!