Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!

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Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45684

By Scalyback - Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:47 pm

- Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:47 pm #45684

Oh Norm oH!, don't

My breaths becoming all short... A new super meteor type engine, to just bolt in.

I shall go to bed quickly, I have a bullet meteor to dream about!

YAY!

REOC 15084
Tabellarius de verbis. Ostensor gaudium

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45686

By Thack - Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:04 pm

- Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:04 pm #45686

Forgive me for this, but the thought that comes to my mind is: why?

I don't mean why did the guy develop the engine - he did it because it was an audacious challenge and an achievement he could be proud of. I mean why on earth would anyone buy one, when there are many V-twin bikes already on the market, from the common-as-muck to the sublime (and expensive)?

It's an untested engine that (presumably) uses existing RE components. Now that hardly counts as a recommendation! Even with our most rose-tinted glasses on, RE are probably still fast-forwarding their way through the 1990s in terms of technology. Yes, they're coming on fast, but they aren't up there with the Japanese, Americans and Italians yet.

So, although I take my hat off to the guy, who has achieved more than I could ever hope to, I still can't imagine why anyone would risk a shed-load of money on one.

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45687

By Norm - Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:06 pm

- Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:06 pm #45687

Carberrys were a financial disaster as well

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45688

By Scalyback - Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:13 pm

- Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:13 pm #45688

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I WANT A SUPER METEOR

I WANT A SUPER METEOR

I WANT A SUPER METEOR

!!!

REOC 15084
Tabellarius de verbis. Ostensor gaudium

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45689

By Norm - Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:42 pm

- Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:42 pm #45689

Scaly they are an awesome bike, just the right balance of everything

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45692

By Bullet Whisperer - Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:42 am

- Mon Mar 16, 2015 8:42 am #45692

Here you go, Scaly ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N85c6xJhJ08

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45695

By Mark M - Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:43 am

- Mon Mar 16, 2015 9:43 am #45695

Excellent vid, music by Montrose, "Bad Motor Scooter" which has to be on a motorcycle compilation album!REgards, Mark

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45701

By Thack - Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:49 am

- Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:49 am #45701

Mind you, despite my scepticism I do like the very low-revving aspect of it.

Dunno about the oil pumps, though. He's doubled the oil flow, but then it is divided over both cylinders, so at the top ends at least, the oil flow is only the same as the stock iron-barrel. At the bottom end there's twice as much oil flying around, but that only puts it on a par with the AVL engine, and well short of the oil flow of the UCE.

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45710

By Adrian - Mon Mar 16, 2015 7:08 pm

- Mon Mar 16, 2015 7:08 pm #45710

From what I've seen of them they are very competently engineered, though entirely impractical for me.

Scaly, while you're lusting after a parallel twin, I think this one might also do it for you - that's if there were a few more about, they seem even rarer the the genuine Fury:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPp_kU9YLgw

A.

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45719

By Norm - Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:13 pm

- Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:13 pm #45719

Scaly if the hundreds of thousands of dollars that were lost on the Carberry debacle there could be countless Super Meteor motors kicking around now. Golden opportunity lost