Matt Spencer wrote:Yea , the Kangaroo was directly desended from Tyranasaurous Rex .
Think of the poor Cave Men .

A renegade Paleontologist claims the T-Rex was a scavenger that could not hunt and notes that the front legs are too short for a predator. He also claims the spine was rigid and the dinosaur was unable to straigten up. The funniest thing was when he declared that the T-Rex was red and not green as practially everyone in the world believes. That claim caused a large controversy in his field but cannot be tested until someone invents the flux capacitor or chronoton particle generator. [There was a working flux capacitor offered on Ebay for only $40,000 and I will never forgive myself for not buying it.]

Murray B wrote:
This Australian fellow with the Merlin bike has stumbled onto a breakthrough without even knowing it, if he could only think outside the box. Why are we all still using wheels like on a cave man’s wagon? Why not use pads like nature has put on a Kangaroo’s feet. If he were to fix pads instead of wheels and configure the engine for maximum imbalance it should hop about six feet per engine revolution. Imagine a Kangaroo that could hit two or three hundred miles per hour with no transmission, clutch, or drive train needed.

Think I saw something along those lines on a trailer for 'monster garages' or some such nonsense.
Had large flexible flappy things instead of wheels - but not enough of them, it collapsed in a large heap on the floor....

So supposedly it ran under ten seconds with only five litres displacement, that is supposed to be an accomplishment? Guys in the States were doing sub-tens in the 1960's with almost a quarter the displacement, in Harley Sportsters and dual-engined Triumphs, and their feats were very well documented.

This is a poorly designed POS, I will take a featherbed Domi over it thank you....

Thank you for your valuable contribution Ben.

For those with bigger ideas, here is another version of 2 aircraft cylinders.
http://www.leonhardtweb.de/de/greybox/s ... ign-16.jpg

Riders under 8ft tall and 500 lbs need not apply ?

beng wrote:So supposedly it ran under ten seconds with only five litres displacement, that is supposed to be an accomplishment? Guys in the States were doing sub-tens in the 1960's with almost a quarter the displacement, in Harley Sportsters and dual-engined Triumphs, and their feats were very well documented.

This is a poorly designed POS, I will take a featherbed Domi over it thank you....

Theres a Bloke called Lucky here , wh'd like to have a word with YOU .

I think the achievement was He actually did it , " R.R. Merlin " and as far as he was inclined , it was a sucess .

Id've left it natuarally asperated , 6.5 : 1 C.R. is fine for 80 Octane , for a street bike .

Matt Spencer wrote:Id've left it natuarally asperated , 6.5 : 1 C.R. is fine for 80 Octane , for a street bike .

80 octane is lower than power kerosene.

What it REALLY needed was the 2 stage compound supercharging that the Merlin had.
Thats quite a lot of boost. Quite a lot....

1950 pump gas in old blighty WAS 80 Octane . 50 T - Bird Cop.R. WAS 6.5 , good enough for a Ton with 40 cubes .

300 cubes I dont think embelishments are neccesary . 200 mph is fast enough on the roads out here .

Matt Spencer wrote:1950 pump gas in old blighty WAS 80 Octane

I know.
But 80 octane is less than power kerosene.
Motorcycle didn't get 100 mph out of the Tbird they tested...

http://www.motos-anglaises.com/motos/tr ... ecord.html

It was those baggy trousers , and they'd sneaked of to the pub . It was raining at the time , So ,
Time ran out. So they Just made it up .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M00f5Rxh ... re=related