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Offline golden_child

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USB Motorcycle engine?
« on: June 28, 2007, 06:18:55 AM »
You read correctly! It's a USB Motorcycle engine. Sorry it's not a SOHC4 but that engine is to heavy to put on my desk anyway.

http://www.geekstuff4u.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=567



Who is geek enough to buy one? Uh...I probably will.

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Re: USB Motorcycle engine?
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2007, 07:14:26 AM »
I bookmarked that page.  Must have one!
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Re: USB Motorcycle engine?
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2007, 08:21:33 AM »
Looks like a model of an old  '66 3/4 Nortribsa 729cc.
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Re: USB Motorcycle engine?
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2007, 08:37:42 AM »
Pre-unit.  Hehe  ;D

They had dual carbs as early as '66, nick?
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Re: USB Motorcycle engine?
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2007, 11:03:42 AM »
not pre-unit

 I know that BSA had twin carb in '66, I had the 650 lightning which was pretty much the same as the thunderbolt, but t-bolt had single carb, lightning had twin carbs

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Re: USB Motorcycle engine?
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2007, 12:07:38 PM »
Pre-unit.  Hehe  ;D
They had dual carbs as early as '66, nick?

It's a little known fact that Nortribsa was a pioneer in the use of twin carbs, dating back to their
'55 1/2 629cc Super Flash Star.
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Re: USB Motorcycle engine?
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2007, 03:22:56 PM »
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Re: USB Motorcycle engine?
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2007, 10:21:49 AM »
Doh!  I had it backwards...  Pre-unit means everything is separate, before they combined the transmission and the crank case into one piece, right?
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Re: USB Motorcycle engine?
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2007, 12:24:40 PM »
right.

 don't worry, I always have to think about which one had the twin carbs.


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Re: USB Motorcycle engine?
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2007, 06:09:03 PM »
It's supposed to be a unit construction Triumph Bonneville. ::) ;D ;D ;D

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