Topic: Building a Rocket III!

[loonymoon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKEuzxC4eGc

[Rocker]

Nice!

[fishtoft]

Over nine hundred years of bike building! time seems to have flown by.

[bryanj]

OK where did you guys get acess to the hidden Triupm true pictures!!

[gregimotis]

"Argument is added from the argument lobe of the female brain, allowing the rocket III to change directions in a second."

 

[Ecosse]

I've watched this three times in a row already! Thanks for the post, I have tears in my eyes still!!

[loonymoon]

I like it because it's so "british" and is a parody of themselves. Can you imagine a similar self-piss-take done by Harley about the VRod?

[Ecosse]

I agree, this is somethings the Brits do well and I admire them for it.

I grew up on 'Python and the rest; my Ecosse blood cringes at my own Anglophile tendencies.


Ecosse (proud Yank)

[loonymoon]

he he.

I did check your profile to see if you were a Scot or not Ecosse!!

[STL Hawkeye]

Great braking system!
- I wish I had a nickle for every time I had accidently hit someone who had dropped their badger in the road, due to not being able to make an emergency stop.

[Ecosse]

he he.

I did check your profile to see if you were a Scot or not Ecosse!!

Well, I'm proudly born and bred in the U.S. but half Scot by blood. I'm also a fan of the Ecurie Ecosse team and two of their more famous prodigies Sir Jackie Stewart and that farm boy Jimmy Clark.

[Jonesy]

Jimmy Clark's Ford-powered Lotus is on display at the Henry Ford Museum (near where I live)- The one that he drove to victory in the 1965 Indianapolis 500 Mile race. Too bad he was killed in a racing crash a couple years later...

[Ecosse]

Ahhh, the sixties. Before racing machines became high speed bill boards and the Brits OWNED motorsport. Sorry Ferrari! And in those golden years when national colors reigned, a white and red car from the east made its debut. Too bad Honda sucks in F1 these days... there, I said it!

[SteveD CB500F]

Strange isn't it.  Honda and Toyota just can't hack it with the F1 boys, the Brits breathe on the Cosworth, Merc and BMW engines, put them in a decent chassis and clean up!

Oh and of course there's our new star(let).

[Ecosse]

New star(let)? You're not referring to Lewis Hamilton are you?  From the first GP I was a fan, well actually it was following an interview and noted champion quality in the kid. I firmly believe it takes more to being a champion than winning races, it takes character and class. Alonso, while good behind the wheel, is a primadonna among primadonnas and the new kid in his seventh race is rattling the Spaniard. As for Honda, the privateer Honda team is threatening to embarrass the works team. I should end on a motorcycling note; if one goes to Jay Leno's Garage (he an ex-New Englander and half Scot, see how I squeezed all that in?) you can see his street legal replica racer Honda. Watch the video clip too! Gotten quite off the subject haven't we? 

[Jonesy]

Strange isn't it. Honda and Toyota just can't hack it with the F1 boys, the Brits breathe on the Cosworth, Merc and BMW engines, put them in a decent chassis and clean up!

LOL! The car Jimmy Clark drove had a derivative of the Ford Fairlane V-8 (nicknamed the "Bundle of Snakes") that was fitted with elaborate DOHC heads That were reversed from the conventional setup- instead of the intake manifold feeding the cylinders from the center of the V and the exhaust manifolds hanging off the side of each cylinder bank, the exhausts were placed in the center of the V. This made for a sweet-looking racecar, but a nightmare for locating the intake components!

[Ecosse]

Great photo! If I ever break up the 'cycle' of Honda wallpapers this will be it!! I had forgotten about that early Ford as well. I'd like to see Octane magazine do a piece on that. Jay Leno writes a column for them don't ya know.