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[Ains.]

Originally posted by rcgbob44
The answer to your question Mad Dog Bianchi is that the narrow minded old croanes that ran the british motorcycle industry would not listen to the people that knew what was needed, just take a look at the bBandit & Fury designs that were shelved coz they were a little radicle at the time or the monoshocked BSA MCI horizontal single.

Alas narrow mindedness was the killer of the Brit bike industry.

Next thing you`ll suggest is that they build a four pot version of the Triumph/BSA tripple and maybe even think about an overhead cam.................whatever next!

[Edited on 13-2-2006 by rcgbob44]

Mind you, the engineering unions had a lot to do with the UK motor industry's demise.

Shop Stewards and the usual sucking of teeth, nah mate can't do that, against the rules init. Demarkation that is; that's an electricians job that is. Have to stop and strike if you let that go through. Remember the bust up on the Isle of Grain building a power station. Boiler markers v Plumbers. It's pipes! No it isn't it's an accumulator so it's boiler makers work! Actually ended up putting bricks through each others coaches as they were coming in to 'work'.

6 of 1 and half a dozen of the other. Crap management and overly strong unions.

I read somewhere that a four pot OHC was on the drawingboard back then, or have I missed the sarcasm.

Ains.