I remember when he did that - there was an
article about it in Hot Rod or one of the other
now long gone hot rod magazines of the time. I
was into motorcycles then too, had a Whizzer
hidden at a shop down the road and worked on it
every Saturday, trying to get it running all
summer. I'd keep getting close, but then, the
next Saturday, I'd have trouble again. Just two
years ago, I told the story to my mom and she
burst out laghing. She said old Mr. Oliver had
called before he sold me the bike (for $5), and
everytime I'd get close to getting it running, my
dad would go over to his shop after I'd gone to
bed and "sabotage" my progress. Sheesh!
Dick J
--- ardunbill@webtv.net wrote:
> Eight straight pipes 2" x 48" is what I have on
> my Ardun. I copied the
> factory racing pipes on the Vincent Black
> Lightning. They were usually
> only 44" long, but I have an original factory
> set that are 48". The
> cylinder size (500cc) was close to my Ardun,
> and the valve timing very
> similar, so I figured, how could it be wrong?
> A factory Black Lightning
> on 80-10-10 (methanol-petrol-benzole) took the
> World's Motorcycle Speed
> Record with these pipes at 185 mph in New
> Zealand in 1955, running on a
> two-lane public road closed for the occasion,
> the bike was privately
> owned (Russell Wright) and ridden by the owner.
> This was the immortal
> team of (Bob) Burns & Wright, as every Vincent
> man knows.
>
> Having said all that, I know that the lore
> today is that four into one
> makes more power on V-8s. But Willie Glass'
> Ardun that just set the
> XXF/GR record at 159 at Maxton has eight short
> straight pipes (don't
> know the diameter and length at the moment).
> Cheers, Bill
>
>
>
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