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"GREGORY 1100 MACH 1" Hillclimber - 1100cc methanol-burning 60-degree v-twin made from 2 Jawa DOHC speedway engines made and raced by Phil Gregory. The first version had chain-driven camshafts, wire-spoke wheels.
"SGR ANVIL" Royal Enfield engine, 976cc, circa 1921 in a modern retro frame.....
FLAT-TANK MYSTERY
"JAPSA 8" JAP engine 8HP 996cc (similar to Sunbeam circa 1920) in a home-made welded frame, with a 4-speed 1930s BSA gearbox (Blue Star/ Empire Star) , BSA M20 girder fork.( Sadly, these pics were used in a scam on Craigs List in 2010, pretending to be on sale in Shetland - send money order to this PO box and we'll send you the bike etc).
"JAPLESS 750" 750 JAP sidevalve engine in a Matchless Silver Hawk frame belonging to Steve, UK.
"JAPKOPP 680" - Adrian Ernst's 680 sidevalve JAP engine in a German "Dürkopp" frame, BSA A7 gearbox, stronger wheels and brakes and lots of improvised details.Front wheel from MTX 80 .See Facebook V-Twin Specials Group for update.
1943: 1000cc: "NV Albin" - Swedish Military v-twin...................................Norvin
Another one of Pete Thompson's B50 v-twins ("Thompson V")... compare with the one above. Made from two B50s in an A10 chassis with A10 gearbox. Pete Thompson built 5 of these
"Street Tracker" Egli-Vincent......................................................................................JAPBEAM : Sunbeam_JAP special with sidecar......................................................"NORTLESS" Matchless in a Norton ...
.................Yama-Wannabe-Vincent................................"DUCADIAN"... or is it an "INDATI"?...........Mystery engine (note tippexed downtubes and exhaust....... new Indian motor in a special..................Yamley
"Enfield Special" (engraved on the chaincase) spotted at an auction - Norton plunger frame; Royal Enfield v-twin engine; with homemade "Norton" mag-drive cover, and spare original Royal Enfield one.
DTZ Brough with different front wheel and other changes
"Widow Jane" Vincent Rapide custom by Keino Cycles: http://www.bikeexif.com/vincent-rapide: vincent-rapide "rear frame and swingarm are from a 1948 bike, and the front end is from somewhere between 1951 and 1953. The engine is dated 1949, making it a ‘transitional’—a late Series B, or early Series C."
REVISITING SOME SPECIALS
JABSA - JAP engine in a BSA M20 frame
Hedton (Swedish Hedlund racing v-twin engine in a Featherbed) from the other side, with a different front end.Here's a man building a Hedton/ Hedlon: albinracing. The interesting Google translation of the Swedish text gives this:
"I was in the day and greeted Ramsnidarlegenden Sune Olsson Hedemora (SOH)
and Sune was crafted to a very interesting bike with a newly Hedlund V twin to be fitted with spray and candies. More pictures here
Consider what some people are good, but on the other hand, there is probably a genius in all of us just have to find talent and get appreciation.
I myself can perform a trick with coffee spoons that not many can, they you. See ya"
Neville Cushing's Ariel-JAP
Tony Harris's ES4 Norton 1000
"ISR engine" in a Rickman Metisse frame....\.........."Jiminson" in flight mode..............Norcati (Ducati engine, Norton Featherbed frame).
Allen Millyard's Honda SS180 - from two Honda 90s
Chris Launders' chop with a DTZ JAP engine fitted with PANHARD barrels and heads (Panhard is a French car manufacturer since 1890)
"NARLEY 2" Harley KR 750 flat track engine in Featherbed frame
"MATCHLESS 700 V-TWIN” Two Matchless 350 top ends on 350 cases that are modified and welded. Henk Wierenga. Netherlands (extracted from the videos)
"BSA-BITSA C22" Jo Marchand (lives near Nantes in France) created this 500cc BSA v-twin from two BSA C11G top ends on a C11G bottom end, squeezed into a C11G frame stills extracted from video - see V-Twin News p.4 for the video
THE WHEELBARROW - special with a Howard rotavator engine - extracted from the video..... and another view of "HOWLEY 1340" Aus built V- twin 1340cc motor in rigid early Harley frame and a Triumph 4speed box has had neck bearing turned down to take Japanese front end... was on the road in the Sixties; motor still runs.(extracted from video and glued together).
Rex-OEC 1935 1370cc JAP Two-Wheel-Drive (museum exhibit)..............................JAP 750sv in an Ariel chassis(thanks to Mats Olofsson
OLD V-TWINS
Norcroft-Enfield project continues after relocating to India
HOME-ENGINEERING
Copy of a Series 1 Vincent-HRD Rapide
ANZANI CORNER
See Anzani Project at Jockey Journal ...... 8-Valve Anzani in home-made frame -made from "3 junk 1923-24 Harley frames with a new tubing here and there"
spot the imposter
PROTO-CROCKER
............................................................................................Bigsby................................................................................................................................................and another view of the “CROCARIEL” Crocker engine - a 1939 61-cubic inch big twin (the design was inspired by the BSA Y-13) - in a pre-WWII rigid Triumph frame, plus Triumph front end and transmission, with an Ariel tank (note heavily modified downtube).Silencers from circa-1928 Royal Enfield sidevalve 1000cc v-twin.
...and another Crocker special................................and extremely rare Indian with updraught carburettors............. Indian CHOUT - Chief and Scout combination.
CRAZY INDONESIANS...
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Honda C70 converted to 300cc "W" engine ........................V4 made from two Honda CB250s.................................400cc Flat Twin made from 2 Honda Tigers
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"CB glatik double silinder type boober.................................1000cc Radial V5 made from a Honda Tiger 200!!!
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v-twin CB250 made from 2 Honda 125s.............................Full length radial 5 film showing how it was made
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CB100 L-Twin, 1975.........................................................5-cylinder radial being ridden
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