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Clubroom => Vintage Track => Topic started by: firko on February 25, 2013, 11:22:22 pm
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I'm posting this photo for no other reason that to show how beautiful a dirt bike can be. The bike is the ex Ramon Perez rigid framed BSA DBD34 Goldstar from Northern California, restored by Tom Horton and owned by my friend Bob Neilson until his sudden death in 2010. To me this is one of those special bikes that are visually just perfect. The only change I'd make would be to replace those excretable Excel rims with period Akront or Borrani mudcatchers.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/BSA_Flattrack_zpse0a4d365.jpg)
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That is stunning! Would sound as good as looks I'll bet.
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Tweety birds in the exhaust!
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That is an awesome bit of kit, I'd sell a lot of my bikes to own that and probably would have to.
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A credit to the builder.
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Yep,
That is just a beautiful machine to look at. Maybe just remove the Excel logo from the rims?
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Here's another rigid framed flat tracker that presses my buzzer...A Sonic framed Royal Enfield Fury 500 (fathead). A fellow Klub Kevlar member has one of these rare engines that he promises will one day be fitted to a Goldy Beeza frame for pre 60.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/clubman24-02-L_zps1f524be3.jpg)
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Or perhaps a Sonic framed Triumph?
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/triumph_trackmaster_rigid_2-580x385_zps295664d0.jpg)
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/triumph_trackmaster_rigid_3-580x366_zps03fcf448.jpg)
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/triumph_trackmaster_rigid-580x395_zps80203d56.jpg)
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That Amal carby on the Enfield looks huge Firko. Do you have any info on the Fury engine? thanks Tim754
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That carby on the Enfield looks huge Firko. Do you have any info on the Fury engine? thanks Tim754
uh oh,looks like the "forks on backwards club"s at it again ;D, :P
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That carby on the Enfield looks huge Firko. Do you have any info on the Fury engine? thanks Tim75
Here's a little bit of info Tim......
With the introduction of the Fury in 1959, Royal Enfield at last had a 500cc sports single to take on BSA?s Gold Star and Velocette?s Venom, though sadly for UK enthusiasts it was for the US export market only. Based on the latest, ?big head? Bullet, the Fury came with a tuned engine incorporating an enlarged inlet port, raised compression ratio and lighter flywheels for a claimed maximum power output of 40bhp. An Amal GP carburettor was standard equipment, though hardly ideal for the bike?s intended off-road role because of its lack of ?tick over?, and the Fury was available with or without lights. Enfield sales literature talked about a top speed in the region of 95-100mph, which should have been easily attainable.
Only 191 Furies were made between 1959 and 1963; this example being one despatched to Royal Enfield distributor Tozer & Kemsley in the USA on 18th June 1960. The machine was supplied without road equipment for competition purposes, as most were, but has been restored with road use in mind. One of a consignment of machines brought back to the UK many years ago, it was purchased by Alan Hitchcock, of marque specialists Hitchcock?s Motorcycles, and restored by Enfield specialist, Steve Hart. The completed Fury was featured in Classic Bike magazine (November 1995 edition) for whom it was road-tested by Mick Duckworth
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/royal_enfield_flat-track_fury_500_zpscf1f02fe.jpeg)
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Very impressive looking machine.
I only ever owned one R.E, a 700 cc 'Super Meteor'.
Pulling power of a tractor from 15mph in top!
"Built like a Gun", but not generally considered as 'in', those days.
cheers pancho
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Firko, love these rigid flatrackers, how do you think they would go on Aussie dirt tracks and do you think they would have a problem with the current MOM's :)
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Firko, love these rigid flatrackers, how do you think they would go on Aussie dirt tracks and do you think they would have a problem with the current MOM's :)
Those old rigids are usually brakeless, but if you made one with brakes?
go for it!
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One in all in.
I'm a Short Circuit traditionalist but we need numbers or the Slider class is in danger of dropping off the radar.
As much as I hate most things US, we need to let em in or die.
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What about a rigid, brakeless DT1 Yamaha ;).
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/dt1rigid_zps83797d75.jpg)
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Yum!!!! Thanks for the Fury engine info Firko .That is up there in sublime looks with the likes of Velocette's gorgeous 500 racers to me.
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um!!!! Thanks for the Fury engine info Firko .That is up there in sublime looks with the likes of Velocette's gorgeous 500 racers to me.
The engineering might have been a little iffy at times but the Pom engines sure looked sweet. The Fury mortor reminds me a little of the BSA DBD32 Goldy motor.
According to Jonesy the Big Head RE Fury motor is pretty much your bread and butter Bullet motor fitted with higher compression, wilder cam timing and bigger valves (and fins). They were popular in the USA flat track and off road market after one won the Catalina GP in the late 50's. Alans found his engine in Sweden of all places and it will problably end up in a BSA frame for pre 60 or perhaps a Sonic rigid frame like the red bike on the previous page. Here's a stock enfield framed Big Head flat tracker from the early 60's.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/royalenfieldmodified2_zps4e40066b.jpg)
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/BigHeadMotor_zps52619c04.jpg)
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For those curious, here's the current Royal Enfield Fury out of India. The Indians have really got their little niche market worked out remarkably well, this is a nice looking little street tracker complete with EFI and new era big head engine. I believe a 60's style desert sled replica type bike is coming soon.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/Royal-enfield-fury-500_12_zps20c87104.jpg)
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/royal-enfield-fury-photo-1_zps80b337d4.jpg)
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I've seen this KR Harley cutting laps at a couple dirt tracks at HBBB. I just found this photo on the Adventure Rider forum with this caption. Saw this in Kilroy's bar in St. louis while in town for a Cardinals game this weekend. There was also a Bultaco and an XR 750 but my pics were stinky because of the light streaming in the windows dated 05-28-2012 which would have it as either having gone back to its homeland or there are more than one KR Harley flat trackers with a duck on the tank. The one at Broadford is bloody quick too.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/DSC_0010c2_zps2aafd4b0.jpg)
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(http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/oo263/ozmaico/IMGP3776-1_zpsad25e32a.jpg)
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Streettrackers are cool, thats what's gunna be my next road bike, or a Motard DR500.
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That's no street tracker Steve, it's a genuine KR750 Harley flat tracker, the predecessor to the XR750. They were the last of the sidevalve racing Harleys. If the photo Paul posted taken at Broadford in, I presume 2010 and the one I posted of the bike hanging in a bar in St Louis in 2012 are the same bike the mystery deepens as to whether there are two or if it had gone back to America.
Back in 1995 I had a ride on our friend Marsh Runyon's KR Harley up the road and back at his home in Fresno CA. I was surprised how quick such a basic bike could go. I think Yamaico Pete may have had a blurt on it as well on another occasion. The bike was actually set up for motocross, an earlier version of the motocross XR900 he bought here to race at the Ravenswood Nats in 92 (bottom photo). Cool bloke with a lot of cool bikes and cars.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/motoKR_zpsfb125c44.jpg)
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/MarshzHDMxer_zps3599c33c.jpg)
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/P2Rouit21Marsh_zps906bf5e2.jpg)
Big Marsh, Dan Rouit and Marsh's Harley Panhead bobber that he built around a motor he found buried in the desert full of bullet holes. I don't usually like chopper/ bobbers much but this bike looks just right.
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firko im pretty sure the kr was there in 2012 as well 2011
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So there must be two KR Harleys with ducks on the tank....who'd have thought ::). They look identical.