Who or what is your second love.

you put a baggie under the seat, or is it that the crank is now, approximately, 30 degrees from where it was?
 
I have "interests" in many other things, but the main focus since I was at least 13 in 88, has been old motorcycles. The Norton first caught my attention then when my uncle showed me an article in one of the mags on the new Honda Shadow that he was gonna buy. The following article was about an "old" Norton Commando and it just blew my young mind away. THAT was what bikes were supposed to look like!
In my teenage years I loved music of course, and sang/played guitar in a band until my early 20's. We weren't that good, which is why we gave up after too many years trying, but we had a blast. Just finished putting all my cd's on an ipod, just have to move on to the vinyl now.

I've started collecting small engines built buy the J.A.P motorcycle company, just cause I'll probably never afford a real JAP v-twin in a Featherbed frame. Small 80cc two strokes used on lawmowers and garden machines. cute little things, I just picked a rotary hoe yesterday that has interchangeable implements to cut the grass and other things. $10 and I figure I have most the carby bits missing to make it work. Last week I got a neat crank start Villiers engined Rover mower, absolute beauty, only $5.
Who or what is your second love.


Who or what is your second love.
 
Wow Cowboy don I have been wanting to build a bike from a old style bicycle with a old small motor, I do not want to do one of the new cheap looking things, I want to use a old frame with old parts and a real old motor, I didn't know JAP made small things like that. Are the easy to find in England? How would I find one here in the US. What componies used them?
 
Hey GT,

Ya I didn't know JAP made these things either, but I've been finding a few here in South Australia. That mower works a treat and is self propelled. I got it with the carb a bit bodged together, but used parts from the other two engines to make it work. I see lots of stuff on ebay in the UK, and there's plenty of stationary engine forums based there as well.
I think bicycle powered by one of these would be pretty damn cool. Even betther would be if you could mate two of them to a common crank and have a JAP vtwin, a la Alan Millyard http://chalopy.blogspot.com/2011/06/ct70-v-twin.html
 
Vincent made some lawn mowers just before they went out of business, think of one of those engines in a bicycle frame!
 
Well my other habbit is Scuba Diving. I'm taking my instructors in August, so I've been busy preparing for that. Here is a pic of me in the Bahamas in March.

Who or what is your second love.
 
That Shark is almost smiling.
Looks like great fun, exploring another part of the world, but I'll let YOU tell us about it.
 
Super Tigre Italian Raceing ( model aeroplane ) engines , flew a bit of Control Line ,
which is good training for coordination to avoid breaking the neck on Motorcycles . :?:

Aerobatic and Raceing planes. Fly on 50 to 70 feet of steel wire , two lines . 1/4 to 1/2 mm dia .
You steer with handle .Like a cross between rideing a bike , fishing and flying a kite to steer .
Used to be all the rage 50 Years Ago . :shock: T.V. and remote control erroded the
status quo . Though its still catered for and has Comps and meetings .
 
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