Moto Guzzi built a 500 cc V8 GP racer in the fifties - a replica of which is shown at bike events now. In the fifties it must have been really exotic. Drysdale�s efforts seem to progress very slowly. Has he actually sold anything? All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
-----Alkuper�inen viesti----- L�hett�j�: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P�iv�: 16. marraskuuta 2003 16:33 Aihe: Re: Motorcycles (was Re: Re Bills Chili-was: I feel like Mike Johnston) >"Butch Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I believe Jay Leno (Tonight Show host) has a motorcycle built around a >>helicopter turbine engine. They run about $250,000 >> >>http://motorcyclecity.com/turbine.htm > >You can't top the Australians when it comes to building amazing custom >motorcycles. There is one 2000cc v-twin made by lopping the front two >cylinders off a Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engine! And another made by >taking the cylinders and heads from two Yamaha FZR400s and grafting them >onto a custom crank and crankcase to make an 800cc V-8. > >-- >Mark Roberts >Photography and writing >www.robertstech.com >
