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crowster69
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Post subject: heres something in aussie thats a bit different  Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:58 am |
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Location: chiangmai Thailand
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Dukerdr
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Post subject: Re: heres something in aussie thats a bit different Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:50 am |
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Location: McKenzie, TN
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Wow, that looks like fun!
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TT1-F1
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Post subject: Re: heres something in aussie thats a bit different Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:26 pm |
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It even has a GPM clutch! very nice project
Jarno
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teetee2
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Post subject: Re: heres something in aussie thats a bit different Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:25 am |
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Just in case its not known, Bob Brown built Kevin Magee's TT2, as well as the bike Alan Cathcart used to campaign BOTT. The following is an excerpt from a Cathcart test.
"OK – best to own up at the start, and admit that riding the Mach 2 Corsa at Zwartkops took exactly 23 years off my life, taking me back to the days when I raced the air-cooled Bob Brown Ducati F1 Pantah with some success in late-’80s European BoTT races (Battle of the Twins was what we called ProTwins back then) - and caused big problems for Ducati technical boss Massimo Bordi! See, my 125kg/112bhp carburetted V-twin built in Melbourne, Australia, on which first Kevin Magee, then Aaron Slight, had the beating of the official Honda and Suzuki importers’ entries in Down Under racing before I brought it to Europe, went a whole season in 1988 without ever once being beaten by one of Bordi’s new fuel-injected desmoquattro 851 Superbikes then reaching customers worldwide - and he was the one who had to field a pile of stroppy telexes every Monday morning from exasperated customers wanting to know why the Australian Banana (as the yellow air-cooled Pantah got nicknamed in the Bologna factory) kept beating their latest-and-greatest fuel-injected Superbikes!"
cheers
A
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sports
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Post subject: Re: heres something in aussie thats a bit different Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:10 am |
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Well spotted Greg. It looks a million dollars, All period parts too. Who else has spotted the curious braking arragement though ?
Maybe its my age, has it just been a long day, or does the really camera lie. Are they 260mm discs, matched to forks with 280mm caliper brackets ?? --- or just a trick of the light. Is it really is how it appears, (maybe it isn't)
I'm fooled.
Shall we all have a vote on it ?
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ducttf1
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Post subject: Re: heres something in aussie thats a bit different Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:19 pm |
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Hey Glyn, My eye's are weary as well but it sure looks like you are right. The camera angles are strange though so it is hard to tell. Very nice period parts, not a big fan of yellow as the main color. Lou
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pantah_good
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Post subject: Re: heres something in aussie thats a bit different Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:02 pm |
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260 rotors are lighter. Besides, brakes just slow you down.
Bill
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Andrew K
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Post subject: Re: heres something in aussie thats a bit different Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:54 pm |
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