Very cool flat tracker.

[firko]

What about a rigid, brakeless DT1 Yamaha .
                                                               

[Tim754]

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.

[firko]

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.
                                                
                                                                                

[firko]

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.
                                                                
                                                                                

[firko]

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.
                                                            

[paul]

[Curly3]

Streettrackers are cool, thats what's gunna be my next road bike, or a Motard DR500.

[firko]

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.
                                                   
                                                     
                                                     
                                                     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.

[paul]

firko im pretty sure the kr was there in 2012 as well 2011

[firko]

So there must be two KR Harleys with ducks on the tank....who'd have thought . They look identical.