thank you for all compliments and welcome greetings.
at first: sorry for my incorrect english. i hope, one or the other sentence is understandable.
it was in 1978 I raced a 1000ccm SOHC engine in an egli framed bike (dymag magnesium wheels, lockheed brakes, ceriani front fork, bilstein shock absorbers, a.s.o). my first try with 1000ccm (rc eng) ended with a broken conrod. after that I used rc golden rods. they did a better job and the engine run flawless (bigger inlet valve, yoshi valve springs, yoshi daytona camshaft, cr 31 carbs).
best of all: the bike weighted 162kg with oil, without fuel, street legal.
30 years later I decided to build such an engine again. it was my plan to put the engine in my friends (peter) egli. but as days go by, I wanted to rebuild this bike completely again. its also time for minor improvements:
the large backbone frame is an ideal basis for a light racing bike. the frame is light, rigid and simple. but an oiltank in a horizontal tube makes trouble. I always used an oil pressure gauge, therefore I know whats going on. under hard braking, or longer downhills there is no oil pressure for many seconds. no joy for all sliding bearings. the 2L extra oiltank (under the carbs) was no help at all. as I remember, I had an 3.5L aluminium extra tank integrated in the frame triangel (as I fabricated for peter´s egli 6 month ago). nevertheless the oil in the backbone tube makes trouble.
my new frame will be an egli klone, but without an frame integrated oil tank.
I will go for an 4L aluminium oiltank in the frame triangel. in the tank integrated an oil separator an when necessary a second overflow tank under the seat hump (see peters egli gallerie).
62.5° rake and 120cm trail was good in the 70ies. but the present shows other figures. I will go for 64.5° and 85-90 trail (18" wheels). I remember we had adjustable (trail) fork clamps on an 750 gsxr (maybe I will try to reproduce a set) for my 1000ccm project.
enjoy the pics.
have a good time.
mec
I am from austria.
