Originally Posted by Mowerfreak
What good is all that low end pulling power on a motor bike??
For riding twisty roads - bags of bottom end torque makes the ride a lot more fun. It's the main reason I love my current ride [Moto Guzzi California 1100i].

Sidecar outfits are another experience again, particularly on dirt roads - and I speak as one who rode one, as my only bike for ~8 years.
I've seen Russian Ural outfits with 1600cc Volkswagen engines in them, but the one that took the cake was a unit I only saw in photos, as it was built and owned by a bloke in WA.

That was the 'Toadmobile', based on a Honda Goldwing frame and a Datsun diff and transmission IIRC, hooked up to a Leyland 4.4L alloy V8!
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Found a pic of that Ural/VW;

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Last edited by Gadge; 30/05/17 02:43 AM.
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