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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: mx250 on May 20, 2011, 11:31:38 am
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Yours for a paltry $750,000 ;D
http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/654/10063/Motorcycle-Article/Rare-1954-AJS-E95-Motorcycle-Goes-to-Auction.aspx
(http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn458/mx250syd/OzVMX/AJS-Porcupine-01.jpg)
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Now that is nice. :)
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Probably a bargain if you consider it's going to present you with at least 4 baby E95's very soon.
How do Porcupines breed? Very carefully.
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So what was the motor out of my dads sidecar worth?
Overhead cam , 500 single , pre war , AJS.
I have never even heard of one except this one.
Dad bought it in a box and it was rooted.
Depends what you mean by sliders.
This is my Dad and Uncle in 1952 or 53.
Sorry about the photo , copy of a really big one, done really badly. :)
(http://i753.photobucket.com/albums/xx172/mike52_photo/Temp/dad.jpg)
This has a interesting motor.
A 500cc overhead cam AJS.
Motor is now in a museum in QLD.
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The Porcupine and the Roarer are kind of the Holy Grail of Classic Race Motorcycles, that bike sold for about 340K 10 years ago with a gutted motor. Team Obsolete built almost the complete internals.
The 3 porcupines that were in the AJS factory when it went broke were sold to an antique dealer for SFA and most of parts went in the skip and were sold as scrap.
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I think that pic is more awesome that the bike.
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what about this one, these things give me the horn
1915 Cyclone Board Track Racer, apparently sold for $520,000 in July 2008
(http://www.bikeexif.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cyclone_board_track_racer.jpg)
The Cyclone is an interesting and historically important motorcycles. Made by the Joerns Motor Manufacturing Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, the engine features shaft-and-bevel driven overhead cams as its most obvious and, for the time, radical feature. The engine presaged modern practice in other ways, including a near-hemispherical combustion chamber, proper caged ball and roller bearings throughout (when other bikes used uncaged rollers or plain bushes), and recessed mating faces on crankcase halves, barrels and cylinder heads, for a secure fit. Even with a modest 5.5:1 compression ratio, the estimated output from the engine is 45 horsepower--on a brakeless machine, no less.
Very few of these Board Track Racers were made in the short life of Cyclone production. The engine, although very successful on shorter tracks, needed further development especially with lubrication, and the underdeveloped metallurgy on the day. It was already very expensive to build, and the factory didn't have the resources to revamp the engine, so by 1915 the Cyclone passed into legend. The motorcycle at auction was formerly the property of 'Shorty' Tompkins.
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A mate of mine who lives at Brookvale has 1 of 25 made Vincent works bike.
Not sure of it's value but I guess it's up there.
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So what was the motor out of my dads sidecar worth?
Overhead cam , 500 single , pre war , AJS.
I have never even heard of one except this one.
Dad bought it in a box and it was rooted.
Depends what you mean by sliders.
This is my Dad and Uncle in 1952 or 53.
Sorry about the photo , copy of a really big one, done really badly. :)
This has a interesting motor.
A 500cc overhead cam AJS.
Motor is now in a museum in QLD.
prewar ohc aj's a R10,(R7 was 350),available in road,or race trim,earlier versons were S,& K for different years,not concidered too rare,(nobody could afford them in the 30's i guess) :P
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Ta Mick.
Checked up now that I know the model.
Not so rare after all.
Still $75000 Au aint too shabby.
Mike
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bloke in a sydney club used to ride a R10 out to the historic races at Amaroo,(on club plates)very nice,i have a photo of it behind the lapscorers tower somewhere,see if i can find it,& post it up, :P
ps really good article on the rebuild of the E95 motor when team obsolete rebuilt the bare bones museum bike,according to then,it's as if the factory guys who designed it "said here try & work out how we did it",apparently the crank machining alone was a work of art!
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I once visited a mate in Jo'burg and his dad (also a trials rider) asked if I'd like to see his collection. So he opens the garage and the first thing I saw was a Vincent Gray Flash. "Paul" says I "as far as I know they only made 8" "yup" he replied. Turned out one made it to Rhodesia and it was this that was in his garage.
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Old mate has just been given a Malvern Star 1948 Auto Cycle 91cc Villiers.
It has a red & black tank any coloured photos or links appreciated around this era bike ?
Thanks A