410 cubic inch V-Twin?!

[TxRIIIRider]

Saw this over at the .com site. All I can say is.. Wow.. Definitely wouldn't want one, but it would be cool to ride once!..

Gunbus 410 Cubic Inch V-Twin Motorcycle Completed - The Kneeslider

 

[Sidecar Flip]

1443 pounds unladen. If you dropped the sucker at McDees, you'd have to get a wrecker to get it back up.

I know, everything is bigger in Texas but that's a little too big. It needs a cover on the primary (double row roller chain) as well as a chain guard. Looks like an ankle eater or maybe a leg.

Rich kids toy...Leno will probably buy one.

 

[fastfreight]

not all bad

It does have dual headlights!

 

[Jamie]

Just name it: " US Trade Deficit". Which is both rolling and growing, seemingly without control.

If need be, replace the word "trade" by "common sense", "functionality", "good taste", "credibility", etc. . Any other word that would convey a sense of measure if not reason would fit.

God bless America

Jamie

 

[Sidecar Flip]

Just name it: " US Trade Deficit". Which is both rolling and growing, seemingly without control.

If need be, replace the word "trade" by "common sense", "functionality", "good taste", "credibility", etc. . Any other word that would convey a sense of measure if not reason would fit.

God bless America

Jamie

Jamie Jamie....Isn't that Gunbus made in Austria...one of your neighbors?

It's amazing. When I was 17 or so, I remember lusting over the Munch Mammoth....A monster bike with........I remember the word elecktron castings....nice name for die cast alloy aluminum. Here I am riding an inflation bike..... 2300 R3. Same displacement engine as a Chevy S10 pickup.

Saw a picture of a Munch for sale recently. I just can't understand how I lusted over such a butt ugly bike.

But there was the Norton 750 Atlas with the Roots Type Supercharger too. Featherbed frame, Road Holder forks, Girling oil damped shocks and downward to the Lucas electrics and the Amal Monobloc Carbs. Back then, if you could get it over 100 you had a fast bike. Actually, it was getting it stopped that was interesting. The old half width SLS rear and the DLS fronts were a handful of fadeable mush. You could opt for an MV or a Duck with Ferodo's and maybe stop in a reasonable distance, maybe not.

Excuse my rambling...I'm having a senior moment.

 

[Alister]

If I'm not mistaken...

Those jugs look as though the may have been pulled from, or at least based on, one of the bigger aircraft radial engines of the '40s and '50s, say a Pratt & Whitney Wasp or Wright Cyclone. The displacement would be about right, too (1830ci / 9 = 203ci per cylinder). Can anyone verify this? The site isn't much help at all.

 

[Bohica]

Alister, they do look like 1820 jugs, with longer push rod tubes. I cut my teeth on round motors 1820's, 2800's and 3350's. Those were the days. I love the sound of a round motor, nothing like it. We used to ask the turbine boys how they liked sucking and blowing their way across the states, when we screwed our way across.

Bob

 

[Sidecar Flip]

Bob....

If you took 6 Hardley motors and glued them alltogether, you'd have a round motor. Round motors do make a nice sound, especially with short, straight exhaust pipes.

However, there is nothing like a jet turbine at full military power with the rear nozzles open, especially when they are strapped on a test bed and you are standing a scant 6 feet from the business end.

 

[TxRIIIRider]

Hopefully that's 6 feet and on one side or the other..

 

[Sidecar Flip]

Hopefully that's 6 feet and on one side or the other..

I'm not at liberty to elaborate the details but yes, 6 feet behind a high tensile steel reinforced concrete wall, looking through lexan 12" thick.

Titan boosters too.