Most radical GP bikes?

Jumkie · Oct 4, 2015

Dr No said:
Oh dear. An opinion contrary to the "Japanese got the Nortons banned trope".
Can't have that, can we?

For the record, Wankels (rotary = WW1 era radial engine with fixed crankshaft - mental) are ....... cool. They are .... for emissions and consumption, just like my beloved two-strokes. They sound great and one of the coolest things in cars was the redline buzzer on ye olde RX7.
Ever driven a Mazda 1200 with a tuned 13B, Jum?

Nah, bet ive heard one. Sounds bitchen.

Hence my lighthearted, rotary stole your girlfriend? We both know rotary could never do that. If anything they'd steal your boyfriend.

Dr No · Oct 4, 2015

...., man.
Just saw your new name.
Saw that band yearrrrs ago with my mate, Luci.
Who is now my best mate's wife.

You are making me feel old. Ah well, no work tomorrow. More beer. 'night.

Jumkie · Oct 4, 2015

propagandhi said:
Thx doc. Good to see so many of the old guard still being active.
Shout out to : cobra,lil red,madmex and teenage .......(now u ban him?gtfo),stiefel,gekko ,roo and geo.

New faces too. Thought at first jps was to doc no what margarine is to butter but you're cool. Here's your aMa invitation. So sparrow is our Lydia with a strap on? Welcome

Welcome back Clitoris.

AntG · Oct 4, 2015

Dr No said:
Oh dear. An opinion contrary to the "Japanese got the Nortons banned trope".
Can't have that, can we?

For the record, Wankels (rotary = WW1 era radial engine with fixed crankshaft - mental) are ....... cool. They are .... for emissions and consumption, just like my beloved two-strokes. They sound great and one of the coolest things in cars was the redline buzzer on ye olde RX7.
Ever driven a Mazda 1200 with a tuned 13B, Jum?

They had no real reason to ban it though did they as it wasn't as if it was dominating. From what professional racers who actually raced it said it was fast as .... but handled like a pair of saggy .... which is what made Hizzy's Senior TT win on it so incredible, because it shouldn't have done it.

I loved it though, proper radical bike that and they made a road version called the F1 so it could pass homologation for British Superbikes and Ian Simpson won the championship on it.

Jumkie · Oct 4, 2015

Hey, keep saggy .... out of this. No need to get little sparrow all worked up.

Keshav · Oct 4, 2015

propagandhi said:
Thx doc. Good to see so many of the old guard still being active.
Shout out to : cobra,lil red,madmex and teenage .......(now u ban him?gtfo),stiefel,gekko,kesh ,roo and geo.

New faces too. Thought at first jps was to doc no what margarine is to butter but you're cool. Here's your aMa invitation. So sparrow is our Lydia with a strap on? Welcome

Is that a Chana-cat?

dafeller · Oct 13, 2015

Having followed GP since the mid-1960s, I have never shaken the image of the Monark 500cc kneeler from 1973. It was powered by an engine based on the Crescent outboard
motor (square-4 two-stroke I believe), but the bike attempted to build bike and rider together via a prostrate and kneeling position in the monocoque frame (I think it was a mono).

L8Braker · Oct 13, 2015

Wow, thanks for that image dafeller, a very interesting looking bike. That had to be scary as hell to ride.

Keshav · Oct 13, 2015

dafeller said:
Having followed GP since the mid-1960s, I have never shaken the image of the Monark 500cc kneeler from 1973. It was powered by an engine based on the Crescent outboard
motor (square-4 two-stroke I believe), but the bike attempted to build bike and rider together via a prostrate and kneeling position in the monocoque frame (I think it was a mono).

Most excellent! Pretty amazing the kind of organic shapes people came up with before everything was done in some cad cam computer program.

Jumkie · Oct 13, 2015

dafeller said:
Having followed GP since the mid-1960s, I have never shaken the image of the Monark 500cc kneeler from 1973. It was powered by an engine based on the Crescent outboard
motor (square-4 two-stroke I believe), but the bike attempted to build bike and rider together via a prostrate and kneeling position in the monocoque frame (I think it was a mono).

Crap, that is pretty awesome looking for its time. 73'. I've never seen this as I was probably still learning to run. This was raced in GP? Any video on this thing? Searched YouTube for "Monark 500 GP", nothing. Would like to see this beast in action.

Dr No · Oct 13, 2015

There was Manx Kneeler at one point.
Gonna have to look into this Monark.

The Konig flat four was outboard based, I think....may have been a bespoke design. But don't have my books at hand.

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