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Horsley-Anarak
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God help my grandkids

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This will piss off any potential daughter in law:)
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Will be worth the effort, even having to sort out a cooling system.
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
Roll me up and smoke me when I die
Regret is just a memory written on my brow
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:P
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When he grows up, he might like this bike.
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Rob Ripley
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That looks like an aircooled Eclipse, I used to run a 5HP twin ...... until the conrod separated at 7500RPM.
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Charles uk
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Then why the radiator?
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
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Rob Ripley
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I was commenting on the first image.
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Charles uk
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Sorry!
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
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Rob Ripley
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Not as sorry as I was to sell it after it was rebuilt.
The rod let go at the big end, and folded up in the piston, there was a small chip to the bottom of the barrel liner, otherwise no (at least visible) damage. I made a wooden blank of the surviving rod and a foundry cast another for me, and did most of the machining and balancing for me. I learnt how to scrape the big end to fit. Many months later (this was around 55 years ago) I fired it up and ran it. By then I many more attractions that took my time (and money) so I sold it.
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