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CAPTDON

Just finished watching Magnum Force for the 100th time. Its funny how they use Honda Silver Wings or Guzzi's thru-out the movie till they get to the chase/ jump stuff @ the end of the movie when the bikes magically turn into Triumph Bonnevilles!! I guess the riders know what they want to leave the planet on??

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Brooksie

I'm sure they used upgraded suspension to do it!

uzidzit

The goose is a medium heavy, and the silver wing is real heavy, for its disp, oh by the way shafts do not really take kindly to such antics either.

I guess they used the goose and the hondas, for daily filming because they needed a reliable bike for the film work, they did not need the prince of darkness to strike and hold up production.

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CAPTDON

But it was cool seein the Bonnes doin some jumpin! Can you imagin jumpin a guzzi??

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Old Scratcher

If you want to see the worst bikie movie ever made. Try & get a copy of a mid '70's Aussie film called Stone.
It's years since I've seen it, & I can't remember the plot line (if there was one) But I remember they had all the supposed 1%ers riding around on brand new Kawasaki Z900's. Which could possibly happen these days. But back then, showing up to the clubhouse on a "rice burner", would earn you a long stint in hospital. & no real biker would ever own a new bike, whether they could afford one or not. This modern phenomena of Hell's Angels on shiny new Hogs, didn't really take off (in Oz) until they started making truck loads of money out of Speed in the '80's.

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mag10

any attempt to get a silver wing off the ground will generally go bad. No jumps or wheelies! THe transverse V twin has the same crank rotation direction as the shaft drive. As I recall it was to the right side. The handling of those bikes was interesting too, because the power train torque really wants to help you lay the bike over to one side and fight you on the other.

Odd honda quit making them, go figure!

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ohiorider

I've been around Beemers for years, and was always impressed with how the factory could take what seemed like an impossibly clumsy bike with the obsolete flat twin/shaft drive, and make it competitive. Here's a good video from early 1980's Paris-Dakar racing.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/882774/rally_paris_dakar/

BMW hasn't given up on the flat twin/shaft drive concept in the first decade of the 21st century, either: There's a bunch of video on YouTube - here's a good one.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...83859195&hl=en

Bob

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Old Scratcher

I think BMW motorbikes are a lot like Porche 911's. In that they both use very clever German engineering tricks to overcome a basically flawed mechanical layout, which the rest of the world abandoned decades ago. & it's a measure of German tenacity & genius that they've managed to make both machines work so well.
Though I don't think I'd like to jump a big Beemer. & I like jumping big bikes.

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ohiorider

I think you've nailed it!

Bob

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uzidzit

They made the best bike they ever had when they copied the Beemer, kind of makes you wonder why they went backwards, after that for the next fifty years.

ps I have a love hate thing with the shaft, some of my favorite bikes have had them, but they have limits. However scrounge a ride on the k1200r and it will leave you wondering what they are, a really stunning bike, my only question is why did they bother with first gear on the k1200r, it really could use a gear on the upper end and loose first. (maybe they just wanted to build a wheelie machine through three gears?)

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