Arrsers self taken photo collection.

[NSP]

Other side
I think its a Tank engine
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Where's the wheels and funnel, then?

 

[Carbon 6]

An FN motorcycle, parked inside the owners front hallway in Belgium, it was his fathers motorcycle
and you know what else they made !!
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At first glance, I would’ve said that was a mid-fifties Royal Enfield. Is it a 350cc?

 

[baldbof]

River Witham is a bit high.

 

[Daz]

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Afon Llwydd in Cwmbran.
About 4 feet higher than normal and visibly rising.

Needs to rise about another 30 feet or so

 

[Old Stab]

Needs to rise about another 30 feet or so

Yeah.
That'll ensure Zooport gets washed away.

 

[Joshua Slocum]

At first glance, I would’ve said that was a mid-fifties Royal Enfield. Is it a 350cc?

they do share many design details
its a 1955 F.N. M13 Grand Culasse 450cc single
quite rare now, and probably the end of production, it belonged to the owners father
I have only ever seen them with a solid rear end
its well engineered, and the military used them as well, they also did one with an unusual front fork design
and in the early days a 4 cylinder in line with shaft drive

 

[Wightsparker]

Some tanks had aero-engines fitted. I think...

Didn't the Centurion's Meteor engine have its origins in the Rolls Royce Merlin?

 

[Carbon 6]

they do share many design details
its a 1955 F.N. M13 Grand Culasse 450cc single
quite rare now, and probably the end of production, it belonged to the owners father
I have only ever seen them with a solid rear end
its well engineered, and the military used them as well, they also did one with an unusual front fork design
and in the early days a 4 cylinder in line with shaft drive
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That is beautiful, but the front suspension! I’ve never seen that design before, does it have a particular application, such as sidecar use?

 

[Joshua Slocum]

That is beautiful, but the front suspension! I’ve never seen that design before, does it have a particular application, such as sidecar use?

No
It uses rubber in torsion as the damper
and was designed to handle better on Belgian Pave
having ridden my little Guzzi on Belgian bloody pave, I would easily plump for that system
its like being hit with hammers, my brother owns a massive japanese motorcycle with soft suspension and large tyres
i have small wheels rock hard suspension for those Italian roads, and a fat arse

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[Daz]

Didn't the Centurion's Meteor engine have its origins in the Rolls Royce Merlin?

Yes

 

[Carbon 6]

No
It uses rubber in torsion as the damper
and was designed to handle better on Belgian Pave
having ridden my little Guzzi on Belgian bloody pave, I would easily plump for that system
its like being hit with hammers, my brother owns a massive japanese motorcycle with soft suspension and large tyres
i have small wheels rock hard suspension for those Italian roads, and a fat arse

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Since forming 70 years ago, we have grown into a centre of excellence from which to innovate, engineer, test and implement the market-changing solutions the global transport industry demands.

www.horiba-mira.com

You’re a mine of information. I didn’t know about Pavé, but it’s probably similar to cobblestones. I hadn’t ridden on cobblestones until my wife and I took my GS1000 to Edinburgh in 1978. It was bad enough in the dry, but when it started to rain, I hailed a taxi and put my wife into it and told the driver to take her to our destination. I was convinced that I would drop it at some point.

 

[06FA56Paderborn]

First proper Snowdrop of the year

 

[Joshua Slocum]

You’re a mine of information. I didn’t know about Pavé, but it’s probably similar to cobblestones. I hadn’t ridden on cobblestones until my wife and I took my GS1000 to Edinburgh in 1978. It was bad enough in the dry, but when it started to rain, I hailed a taxi and put my wife into it and told the driver to take her to our destination. I was convinced that I would drop it at some point.

I have a nephew, himself a motorcyclist, and he being young decided to organise the navigation on one of our European Trips
I was more than happy with a map and a set of prompts
I think that we sampled every bit of pigging Pave in Belgium on that trip
every single bit
we may have missed a few feet out but I doubt it
new shock absorbers were fitted on my return, and a new headlamp bowl plus lots of missing nuts and bolts

I wrote an article about that trip
we can laugh now !
and here the bluebird of good fortune shat mightily upon his forehead
and he got a puncture
half a mile from the Hotel
chortle chortle
he being a highly skilled engineer did what all highy trained engineers do
and left it to the old gizzard to sort !

 

[brownhat]

Rained all day, pic from garden, photoshopped it...

 

[Carbon 6]

Mrs Carbon has been working from home since Covid started. She’s finally got her desk and programmes set up to her liking.

 

[ExAuxBalloonCorps]

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Mrs Carbon has been working from home since Covid started. She’s finally got her desk and programmes set up to her liking.

Likes a bit of the black stuff or is that yours?

 

[Carbon 6]

Likes a bit of the black stuff or is that yours?

She has been known to imbibe the odd pint. She’s also poured a few.

This photo was taken in 2015 at the Crosskeys Inn, a well known pub near Toome in County Antrim. It’s probably an area well known to those who served during Op Banner. It’s unheard of for someone to be invited behind the bar to pull a pint in that place. Perhaps they were mistaken by her Canadian accent, thinking she was a Septic from where...the Boston area maybe?

Edit: The one in the original photo is mine!

 

[robinrocket111]

Some tanks had aero-engines fitted. I think...

Quite a number of US Armoured vehicles ran the Wright Cyclone engine. M3 Stuart , M3 Lee/Grant, a number of Variants of the M4 Sherman, Buffalo Amphibians.

 

[Daz]

Pennard Castle a while back

 

[Daz]

Kilver Court Gardens 3 - Better Late than....................................................well, most people would suggest it's just better late