On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:50:33 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote:

On Oct 14, 5:20*pm, (UglyDan®©™) wrote:
Nice bike,
*I just got back into riding last spring, with the gas prices going thru
the roof I had to.
Mines a '93 BMW airhead R/100/GS Dualsport, Its good for taking up
logging roads, and on the highway, but not true offroading. *I've put
5000 miles on it since I bought it last April. *UD * *
*http://s391.photobucket.com/albums/o...ction=view&cur...

In a way those big beemer off-roaders remind me of this:

http://www.motorcycle.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8060

I rememebr when Larry Burquist pulled this off, but the sportster was
plagued with problems.

I ahd heard that tee team was so disgusted with the bike that they
took a backhoe and dug a pit in the desert and buried it. Then some
time later somebody found the burial site, dug it up and restored it.

Besides engine trouble it was a suspension nightmare not counting all
that weight thrashing around in the desert.

But where it actually shined was doing well over 100.mph in the
straight passages.

Still it couldn't take it.

They should have used a BMW.

?;^)

Cool story. Thanks.
--
A Harry Krause truism:

"It's not a *baby* kicking, beautiful bride, it's just a fetus!"
[A Narcissistic Hypocrite]

On Oct 14, 6:58*pm, HK's Buddy wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:10:06 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote:
On Oct 13, 8:01*pm, John H wrote:

I love mine. My Harley riding brothers want me to get a Harley. I think
they just want me on something they can keep up with. I told him this Guzzi
will probably last until I die!
--
John H

John, in the not too distant past, I had thought of reviving either my
Ambi or Eldo engine and getting some small boat or craft and coupling
it to a jet ski pump. But at full throttle at possibly 40 mph I
figured the engine would over heat, so Then I thought that I'd need to
build some type of cooling shroud around the cylinders . Well, Not
having the time for such I abandoned the idea. however I have seen
guzzi engines used on small experimental air planes.

Come to think of it, I believe that Guzzi made a V-twin specifically
for actual use small air craft, but don't hold me to it.

They did. They made it for a unmanned aerial vehicle *for the Israeli's,
and the US Army tested some also..

http://tinyurl.com/4j4xqw

Look at the paragraph under the title 'Hunter RQ-5A Air Vehicle'.
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A Harry Krause truism:

"It's not a *baby* kicking, beautiful bride, it's just a fetus!"
*[A Narcissistic Hypocrite]

"The Hunter air vehicle is a fixed wing, twin tail boom aircraft with
a dual rudder. It is propelled by two Moto-Guzzi petrol engines, each
developing 60hp. It is equipped with a global positioning system
navigation system. .."

Way cool!

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:06:19 -0400, DK wrote:

John H wrote:
..

It is proper to quote the name of the person you are Chuckie dotting.

They don't warrant it.
--
A Harry Krause truism:

"It's not a *baby* kicking, beautiful bride, it's just a fetus!"
[A Narcissistic Hypocrite]