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Just to put things in perspective, reminding us that average Japanese men have tiny little hands:



nearly 7HP from ONE of these suckers...

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Heck Dokk I had a 1/4 scale RC off road car with pistons that big!

[TSR]

Yeah, but I bet your 1/4 scale car did not go 120mph...

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Nope ( geared for 60mph) but it was industrial rated for 3000+ hrs... how'bout those little buzz bombs! 45 mins or less?

[TSR]

Au contraire, these buzz bombs benefited of a German discovery from 1959, the use of forged pistons from Mahle and the revolutionary Nikasil, a new nickel-based alloy applied onto the aluminum cylinder walls. The first to use this technology was Kreidler in Germany. This, combined with new Celron bearing separators in new, high-tech crankshaft bearings and precise ignition timing, made these engines virtually indestructible, able to run an entire racing season without ANY maintenance. It took many years for the Japanese to catch up on this technology.
In 1978, I dominated the AFM Championship in the USA on my works Morbidelli 125cc, defeating the might of the works Honda and Yamaha bikes ridden by the very best, that included the young Randy Mamola and Freddie Spencer, without even changing a spark plug ONCE.



This 2-cylinder machine produced 46HP at 16000 rpm, and had a top speed on 150 mph +
All that from a 7.4ci engine... not exactly your regular moped.

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Love the old photos Dokk!

[TSR]

I had a really cool girlfriend then, and she made albums of everything I was doing and kept all my stuff protected. This is how much of my slot car stuff got saved, and all the pictures and articles in the papers survived! She was wonderful.
And then one day, she left me for a druggie and moved to Las Vegas with him. So obviously I was not as good as I thought I was!
Never saw her again...

So I got married.

[HarV Wallbanger III]

I think you made the right move Dokk. Now go take back the cold you gave her!