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spdygon wrote: :ohmy: .....would like to ride that 1000 two stroke

The 500 was a deathtrap. 1000 would be instadeathtrap

I forgot to add - he rides ALL OF THEM regularly - and lets his friends come and take them out whenever they want.

Even the $400K Brough! It is California...

He doesn't ride the McQueen Indian and one other Royal Enfield which has 1.8 miles on the clock!

I'd say there was easily $3-4mill of bikes up there...

HBKwaka wrote:

spdygon wrote: :ohmy: .....would like to ride that 1000 two stroke

The 500 was a deathtrap.

I don't know about that. I grew up riding H1 500's and early H2's as fast as they would go back then.

They had a few bad traits you might say. They kept you on your toes thats all.

Like Randy Hall used to say, As long as the general mass is headed in the general direction of travel and if all the wobbles and oscillations don't bother the rider you will still go fast!!!!

If you didn't know what you were doing they would definitely bite you big time.

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Like Randy Hall used to say, As long as the general mass is headed in the general direction of travel and if all the wobbles and oscillations don't bother the rider you will still go fast!!!!

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seems like sound advice :laugh: !

leon

royalratch wrote: I forgot to add - he rides ALL OF THEM regularly - and lets his friends come and take them out whenever they want.

Even the $400K Brough! It is California...

He doesn't ride the McQueen Indian and one other Royal Enfield which has 1.8 miles on the clock!

I'd say there was easily $3-4mill of bikes up there...

2 years ago, I shipped 2 KZ900's to "KAZ" in California @ Classic Runners.
He sent a trailer to pick them up. Nice Guy, showed up with his trailer. He was a cross country delivery service. Showed me pictures of Billy Joels mansion and massive garage on Long Island. In New York
He shipped stuff there. Told me Billy Joel has 140 motorcycles, same deal. All run and he drives all of them to keep them going.
Must be nice too have TOO MUCH MONEY!

You can never have too much - helps to have some brains to go with tho...

I wonder if the 1000 2-stroke was built by Don Bristol, I know he worked on the 4 cylinder idea and Allan Millyard did 5 and 6 cylinder bikes. I wonder how many were built? Can't be more than 2 or 3...





I would quit my job and happily spend the rest of my life as his personal mechanic. Hell I'd do if for free and sleep in a cardboard box under a bridge.... Damn what a collection.

HBKwaka wrote:

spdygon wrote: :ohmy: .....would like to ride that 1000 two stroke

The 500 was a deathtrap. 1000 would be instadeathtrap

Have you ever ridden one? I had one which I traded in on a KZ900 because it couldn't dissipate the heat on longer summer rides, otherwise it was a great bike.

Bill

Very nice So that's where all the cool bikes went.

It's be interesting to see the internals of that 1000.

Would love to hear the 1000cc 4 cyl two-stroke running - anyone know if there are any video clips available?