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ERIE S-1 BERKSHIRES
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Board track single-cylinder

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Is anybody interested in building a board track single-cylinder motorcycle engine ?
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Yes.
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I'm currently looking for a Harley peashooter engine but I'm planning on using a Buell Blast single-cylinder guts and building a vintage outward appearance on it
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ERIE S-1 BERKSHIRES wrote: Wed Aug 15, 2018 11:38 pm I'm currently looking for a Harley peashooter engine but I'm planning on using a Buell Blast single-cylinder guts and building a vintage outward appearance on it
Bring lots of zeroes if you want a genuine period HD engine. As for the Buell, I think there are a lot more realistic candidates for such a conversion. Even an older style Briggs would be a better choice; not a powerful choice, but a more "correct" style.

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Not a board track racer but a bike in the spirit of those raced at the famous Brooklands circuit in the UK. I built myself a race bike to represent the sort of thing that was raced at Brooklands in the late 1920's, genuine Brooklands bikes are thin on the ground with astronomical prices to match! I used a Kawasaki crankshaft and it's gearbox internals as a basis, everything else is carved from billet on manual machines. Engine runs backwards and gearbox internals rotated 180° along the shaft axis' and run backwards, and yes the bike does go forward! Kawasaki clutch converted to dry operation etc etc. A lot of fun designing everything from scratch and it goes rather well too!
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ERIE S-1 BERKSHIRES wrote: Wed Aug 15, 2018 11:38 pm I'm currently looking for a Harley peashooter engine but I'm planning on using a Buell Blast single-cylinder guts and building a vintage outward appearance on it
If you've got the BB guts, I think they'd be perfect for your project.

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