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Does anyone agree that the bikes of the fifties sounded much meatier than the awful foreign tinny sounding ones on the road now? I was a petrol pump attendant, I new whitch bike was coming before it got to me.
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You must mean the British twin cylinder bikes of the fifties and sixties until they were pushed out by the screaming multi cylinder bikes from Japan.
I like both sounds, the japanese 4 cylinder bikes don't sound tinny though, they sound good.
I have a Kawasaki twin that still sounds like the old ones.
You must mean the British twin cylinder bikes of the fifties and sixties until they were pushed out by the screaming multi cylinder bikes from Japan.
I like both sounds, the japanese 4 cylinder bikes don't sound tinny though, they sound good.
I have a Kawasaki twin that still sounds like the old ones.
I think the differnce is due to the engine dimensions. Older bikes tended to have longer, narrower cylinders and newer bikes have more oversquare cylinders which give more revs and a very different sound.
Ducati's are alone in having desmodromic valvegear which I believe is why they have a similar sound to the Rolls Royce Merlin. The desmo system uses a lever sytem to time the valve openings, instead of valve springs.
Ducati's are alone in having desmodromic valvegear which I believe is why they have a similar sound to the Rolls Royce Merlin. The desmo system uses a lever sytem to time the valve openings, instead of valve springs.
I whole heartly agree with you I have a Francis Barnet it is kept in a garage but ridden most days it also gets cleaned and polished at least once a week and serviced regular and it always turns heads and I whish I had �1 for every person who has come up to me to chat about it I was once pulled over by a motorcycle police officer I had not done anything wrong as I thought I might of done when he pulled me over but he just wanted to admire my bike and comlimented me on it