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The Classic Marque

Grey - You'd like this pair of bikes-
I ride/rode a mate's Goldwing (shaftdrive)a bit, it was cammed up and ran dual throat webbers-animal of a thing to ride, You could hook into a rh turn and give it a fistfull and it'd nearly lay on it's side, but round a lefty, if you cranked onto it it'd want to stand up, you had to really watch yourself on twisty stuff or you end up in the bush--It semi s...

Interesting design, another view here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_NR#/media/File:Ovalpiston.jpg . I wonder how well the rings sealed being that shape, it reminded me of IIRC Hepworth and Grandage who developed specially shaped rings that applied even pressure all round the bore, they're not round.

Here's a NR500 cylinder head Jeremy. One of two because it was a V4 nominally, but "acting up" to a V8.
The prime advantage was that any ICE is essentially an air pump if you think about it. The more air it can pump, the more fuel it can burn effectively.
Honda had the NR series revving up to around 20,000 rpm. That's on a four stroke FFS!
Honda engineering was and still is revolution...

That's interesting David. So Setright owned 33% of the entire production run!
Funnily enough I don't remember him mentioning his crash in his Car column😏

They did use pre-recorded inserts for outside location scenes.

No I didn't know it was recorded live.

Looks a bit dated, but still bloody good.

Thanks, I knew about it but forgot. Will try catchup later. You know they did it live I presume.

Brilliant.

On NOW.

1st episode of Z cars. Talking pictures TV.

Loads of cars and depicting tough old time coppers. I have no idea how realistic if was, but it was a good watch. So I'm enjoying watching again.

Think it starts with Mk2's.

He did, eventually, Jeremy...well his insurers did. The Bristol is still extant last time l checked, albeit a different colour.
Turns out he owned two of the six such cars built.
Dave

Don't know if it's an urban myth but Honda's VTech engines supposedly haven't had a single failure caused by a manufacturing defect? They are remarkably reliable machines despite their complexity.
8 valves Grey? They did it because they could maybe? Presumably with 8 valves they produced considerably more power than 'standard' 4 valve heads?
Take it LJKS stumped up for your wing David?