Anything you like about motorbikes
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by Yorick » Mon Mar 23, 2026 9:21 pm
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 9:01 pm
Yorick wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 8:47 pm
I loved watching that season. Proper megastar. Before he turned weird later in life.
He seemed alright when I chatted to him about ten years ago at Donington, but I think he'd admit to going through a strange patch in the 90s.
He played God last few years when head of MotoGP review squad.
Sacked him and got Simon Crafer in.
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by ZRX61 » Mon Mar 23, 2026 11:54 pm
Yorick wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 8:47 pm
I loved watching that season. Proper megastar. Before he turned weird later in life.
I liked him as Data in StarTrek NG...
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by mboy » Wed Mar 25, 2026 11:47 am
Some good stuff so far guys. Keep em coming…
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by Dodgy69 » Wed Mar 25, 2026 3:53 pm
What year is genuinely recognised as the year the first ever ice motorcycle was made ??
1885 - Daimler Reitwagon , built by German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach.
Well I never knew that.
Yamaha rocket 3
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by Count Steer » Wed Mar 25, 2026 6:46 pm
There's a few possibilities with - where in the UK have motorcycles been manufactured?
eg Coventry was known as the birthplace of British motorcycle manufacturing. What was made there?
(Humber in 1896, then Excelsior and Francis Barnett)
Stevenage (Vincent)
Cleckheaton (Phelan and Moore ie P&M Panthers)
Redditch (Royal Enfield)
Wolverhampton (Sunbeam, AJS)
Birmingham (lots).
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
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by Newey » Thu Mar 26, 2026 4:46 pm
ogri wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 5:45 am
Jawa 250 uses gear lever to activate the clutch as well as the usual hand lever, can be amusing when someone borrows the bike and you forget to tell them
The gear change lever is also the kick starter lever.
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by Horse » Thu Mar 26, 2026 4:56 pm
A-Z of motorcycle manufacturers, fill in _ _ _ s
AJS to Zundapp
Self-mark all correct, but no marks if anyone else has the same answer.
Even bland can be a type of character
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by Newey » Thu Mar 26, 2026 4:59 pm
Question :- Generally, How many OEM oversized pistons are there?
Answer:- 4
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by Newey » Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:02 pm
What are the 4 cycles on a 4 stroke engine.
Four-stroke cycle used in gasoline/petrol engines: intake (1), compression (2), power (3), and exhaust (4).
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by Count Steer » Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:16 pm
Newey wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:02 pm
What are the 4 cycles on a 4 stroke engine.
Four-stroke cycle used in gasoline/petrol engines: intake (1), compression (2), power (3), and exhaust (4).
AKA Suck, Squeeze, Bang!, Blow.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
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by Yorick » Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:18 pm
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Newey wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:02 pm
What are the 4 cycles on a 4 stroke engine.
Four-stroke cycle used in gasoline/petrol engines: intake (1), compression (2), power (3), and exhaust (4).
Ignition, not power.
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by Newey » Thu Mar 26, 2026 6:08 pm
Yorick wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:18 pm
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Newey wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:02 pm
What are the 4 cycles on a 4 stroke engine.
Four-stroke cycle used in gasoline/petrol engines: intake (1), compression (2), power (3), and exhaust (4).
Ignition, not power.
Blame the internet!
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by mboy » Mon Apr 27, 2026 2:28 pm
Any more for any more guys...?
Keep the questions coming... 2 days to go...
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by ZRX61 » Tue Apr 28, 2026 1:58 am
What country banned motorcycle manufacturers from making cars?
Japan.. Honda & Suzuki got in before the ban.
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by Sunny » Tue Apr 28, 2026 8:48 am
Yorick wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:18 pm
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Newey wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:02 pm
What are the 4 cycles on a 4 stroke engine.
Four-stroke cycle used in gasoline/petrol engines: intake (1), compression (2), power (3), and exhaust (4).
Ignition, not power.
I learnt 'inlet' not 'intake'
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by Rockburner » Tue Apr 28, 2026 8:52 am
Sunny wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 8:48 am
Yorick wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:18 pm
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Newey wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:02 pm
What are the 4 cycles on a 4 stroke engine.
Four-stroke cycle used in gasoline/petrol engines: intake (1), compression (2), power (3), and exhaust (4).
Ignition, not power.
I learnt 'inlet' not 'intake'
"Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow".
(As CS said - I think it was the first way I learnt it)
non quod, sed quomodo
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by Sunny » Tue Apr 28, 2026 8:57 am
Rockburner wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 8:52 am
Sunny wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 8:48 am
Yorick wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:18 pm
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Ignition, not power.
I learnt 'inlet' not 'intake'
"Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow".
(As CS said - I think it was the first way I learnt it)
Same, tbf
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by gremlin » Tue Apr 28, 2026 4:15 pm
Make life a bit easier for yourself. Find some more tenuous links to motorcycling such as which SBK circuit is the most northerly, that sort of thing. Widens the scope.
Spoken as somebody who is putting together a Scandinavian themed quiz as we speak. I'm all ABBA'd out.
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by Yorick » Tue Apr 28, 2026 4:18 pm
The ultimate biking question.
What is the next keeper for
@Taipan ?