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MOTOBRICK.COM => The MBdotCOM Community Center => Topic started by: Chaos on November 16, 2016, 12:16:45 PM
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Very cool video from early 1900's https://youtu.be/6m8PmMQK76s
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Very cool.All you needed was a hammer an a couple of spanners! :clap:
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Awesome, thanks for sharing!
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I think Urals are still made this way. You can see some videos online :popcorm
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Just after the 8 minute mark there's a great cloud of smoke when they start up a couple of the bikes. Just like a K75 firing up.
Chaos, there's an airborne sidehack about 9 minutes in.
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I think Urals are still made this way.
I think that hammer is the only tool in a Ural tool kit.
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And a sickle so you can find it in tall grass.
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And a sickle so you can find it in tall grass.
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Here's a film about building Jaguar cars in 1961:
http://silodrome.com/documentary-one-leap-ahead/
Amazing how much was done by hand -- all the repetitive labor combined with skilled handwork. Imagine balancing crankshafts all day long for years on end.
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I would have bought a Jag for the interior smell alone. When Ford bought Jaguar they knew they would have to invest a lot to upgrade production facilities. In fact, they had to start all over. Existing plant was long obsolete. It cost them far more than they had calculated it would. Low marks for due diligence.
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John Lang, is that T E Lawrence on his Brough Superior?
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Here's a film about building Jaguar cars in 1961:
http://silodrome.com/documentary-one-leap-ahead/
Amazing how much was done by hand -- all the repetitive labor combined with skilled handwork. Imagine balancing crankshafts all day long for years on end.
Wow, seeing all those brand spanking new Mk 2's was a trip. So used to seeing them rusty, rotting interior and flat tires sitting behind a garage. The spin in the E type made me wish it was 1962 again. Thanks for posting, great way to loaf around on a sunday morning.
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It is indeed T E Lawrence astride his Brough Superior SS100. He had several of them. According to Wikipedia (which has the same photo) he called this one George V. Jay Leno's Garage has a video about the SS100.
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It is indeed T E Lawrence astride his Brough Superior SS100.
The new Brough Superior's prospective price is approximately $64,000USD and it is not even engineered for mounting tragkorbs. :nono
John's post brings up this interesting point (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32622465).
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Notice that in the photo Lawrence is wearing the uniform of an army private. He was the British Army's youngest-ever colonel at the end of WW1. At the height of his fame he left the Army and joined the Air Force as a mechanic under an assumed name (Leading Aircraftsman Shaw, if memory serves). When discovered, he resigned and re-joined the army as a private under yet another assumed name. His stated desire for obscurity is somewhat undermined by his practice of standing next to his portrait in the National Gallery hoping to be recognized by visitors.
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I would have bought a Jag for the interior smell alone. When Ford bought Jaguar they knew they would have to invest a lot to upgrade production facilities. In fact, they had to start all over. Existing plant was long obsolete. It cost them far more than they had calculated it would. Low marks for due diligence.
Oh yea, the whole Premier Automotive Group experiment...they say that when Alan Mulally first entered the parking garage at Ford headquarters he asked where all the Fords where, since all he saw were Jags and Land Rovers
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Occasionally (read twice) I have run into a guy Tony at my mates place. He virtually built a RTV Vincent from scratch. When RTV went broke he managed to secure bare unfinished engine castings off them. He proceeded to machine, tap holes and polish and manufacture most of the required bits. It is a copy of the RTV, he made all of the body work and I believe he used a modified Norton frame. I believe it is 1200cc and sports a starter motor although apparently when at home he starts it on a powered roller. I now have a camera permanently on my bike hoping to get some pictures. There was an article in Motorcycle Trader about three years ago on it. If I do ever run into it again I will photograph and post.
Regards Martin.
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If you cant fix it with a hammer it must be an electrical problem.