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Fantastic photos! Love the Triumph sidecar with the twin front brake drums. and the BMW with a Suzuki kettle front brake.
 
There are alot of cool guys/bikes over at ADV, and so many great touring write ups. I'd polish my forks to that.
 
looks like some sort of twin cylinder thats parallel to the ground, the crank case seems to be in the back and carbs up where the cylinders should be.
but why? aerodynamics?
 
I think it is a water cooled flat 4 engine. If you look closley there is another plug wire cap at the back. Sort of like a VW engine mounted sideways.
 
Looks like a horizontal-parallel twin, water-cooled two-stroke.
That sounds like a story that I'd like to hear.
 
Weezy said:
I think it is a water cooled flat 4 engine. If you look closley there is another plug wire cap at the back. Sort of like a VW engine mounted sideways.
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DOH!!! Your right, I looked closer and saw the back cylinder. And the drive belt for the valvetrain.
Come to think of it, I read an article on that tortured belt routing somewhere recently.
 
Weezy said:
I think it is a water cooled flat 4 engine. If you look closley there is another plug wire cap at the back. Sort of like a VW engine mounted sideways.
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Oh yeah, good eye Weezy. right below the coils right?


so is this motor built by a company or home made? coolest thing i've seen in a while.
 
Wow....Some nice bikes and that pile of drum brakes makes me drool...
 
LOCKARD666 said:
wow, awesome pics...

WTF is this?
http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=633&u=10069864
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Its a flat four, watercooled, disc valve, 500cc Konig two stroke. A hot engine for the 70s. At the time factory bikes were NOT leased to teams. People searched for competitive engines. This was one of the finds. If I remember right it originally was from an outboard engine. Several sidecar outfits used and a Aussie Kim Newcombe had some success with that motor in a solo. Rolf Steinhausen (a lunatic sidecar GP racer of the period) put in a 100+ mph standing start lap in the Island with using one in his outfit. Stausen and his passenger Josef Huber won the sidecar world championship in '75 and '76. Great motor. Wish i could remember more.
 
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