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Moto Trivia - I'm Gonna' Get You Guys Yet!
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:58 pm
by dallara
Okay, you guys have been making mincemeat of me on the recent "Moto Mania Trivia" bikes, often getting ones in *MINUTES* I was sure would take at least hours, if not a day or two...
Well, here's one I would bet pretty heaby no one is going to get very quick.
It was famous... Real, real famous... Absolutely state of the art in it's day, and also defeated the giants of the industry...
Can anyone identify this one???
(Photos were slightly re-touched to hide the brand logo, but nothign that would alter the lines, etc. of the bike...)
Good Luck! (and here's hopiong no one nails it in two minutes again...
)
Cheers!
Dallara
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:04 pm
by arkline
500cc BSA Scrambler?
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:24 pm
by Boxerboy
BSA 500cc Gold Star/scrambler
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:28 pm
by Deans BMW
Ariel 500 Scrambler.
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:43 pm
by r1150rider
Matchless, (?) but I have no idea which model...
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:28 pm
by mlodahl
I'll vote for a Matchless G80. The oil tank & forks are decidedly not stock and made me think perhaps G85, but that doesn't look to me like the Rickman-inspired frame I so dimly recall ...
- Martin
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:34 pm
by mlodahl
Already I retract that. The Matchless & AJS engines located the magneto in front of the cylinder rather than behind it, so gas dripping from the carb didn't find so handy a source of sparks. I'm now leaning toward the Ariel hypothesis.
- Martin
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:29 pm
by DSKYZD
Sten Lundin's Lito.
Edit:
Make that Sven Arwidsson's Lito, #26....Like the one Sten won the World Championship on in '61.
DSKYZD
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:34 pm
by new2BMW
I believe that bike started life as a 1958 Ariel red Hunter 500cc with an aluminum head. Something similar to this.
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:16 pm
by darthrider
Clewstroka?
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:49 pm
by new2BMW
DSKYZD nailed it. It looks like this is the page that Dallara found the pictures. Cool bike!
http://members.chello.se/arwidsson/lito.htm
Yep, DSKYZD tagged and bagged it...
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:36 am
by dallara
Yep, DSKYZD tagged and bagged it... and quick, too!
Damn! You guys are really, really good! I really thought the Lito would go at least a day or so... But you got it in just a few hours...
Hell, less than 30 of the damn things were built, though the engine design lived on in Husqvarna's and Monark's.
I truly applaud you guys!
Hmmmmmm...
I'm really going to have to think about the next one, but something tells me no matter what I come up with you folks will nail it early!
Cheers!
Dallara
Re: Yep, DSKYZD tagged and bagged it...
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:07 am
by riceburner
Dallara wrote:Yep, DSKYZD tagged and bagged it... and quick, too!
Damn! You guys are really, really good! I really thought the Lito would go at least a day or so... But you got it in just a few hours...
The wonders of Google....
Riceburner...
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:15 am
by dallara
Riceburner said:
The wonders of Google....
Okay, 'Burner... I's gots to know...
How do you search Google with a picture?
Cheers!
Dallara
