My dad had as he call it a franny barnet, put him of bike for life said he spent more time pushing it than riding it
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I do love a high revving 2 stroke must admit when the gp500s went over too motogp 4 strokes i stopped watching, theres a good documentary about the these mental 500s called unrideables 1 and 2 brilliant and shows just how nuts you had to be to control let alone ride them well worth a watch if you havent seen them
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A lot of those racing 2 strokes were very "peaky" in terms of power output. Lots of power over quite a narrow rev band, let the revs drop off too much and they were flat as a pancake. You could see some of them having real "moments" if the revs dropped just a wee bit and then climbed "on song" as they were exiting a corner! The road going 3 cylinder Kawasaki was notorious for this and would spit its rider off at the slightest excuse! I believe it was nick named "the widow maker" If you don't know about this machine here's quite an interesting video about it
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Sorry to be a know it all but it was Fanny Barnet or Fanny B - Not Franny. Their big asset was the ultra reliable Villiers engines they used. No offence intended, but I suspect your Dad probably didn't do much regular maintenance or ran it on a poor two stroke oil or mixed too much oil into the petrol and got plug fouling. Mine was very reliable.My dad had as he call it a franny barnet, put him of bike for life said he spent more time pushing it than riding it
Dunno whether that was the case,but he was never really into bikes he may have possibly brought a lemon or a friday bike, i had a volkswagon transporter supposedly very reliable it was singly one of the most unreliable motors i have ever had the misfortune to drive, even with carefull driving and regular maintainance, got written off in the end got rse ended by a bmw, when they told me they were going to write it off i jumped for joySorry to be a know it all but it was Fanny Barnet or Fanny B - Not Franny. Their big asset was the ultra reliable Villiers engines they used. No offence intended, but I suspect your Dad probably didn't do much regular maintenance or ran it on a poor two stroke oil or mixed too much oil into the petrol and got plug fouling. Mine was very reliable.
My lc bored out to 375 with stan stevens stage 3 tune tickled big carbs and nikon pipes was a beast didnt do nothing till hit 7000 grand and after that out to 14000 it was squeaky bum time, the amount of big bikes it left for dust up to a 110 before it fizzled out was funny downside was it didnt handle that well puny forks even when i braced them and brake weren't to clever but was lots of fun to ride
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Tend to agree, we used to race the 9E version of that 197cc engine in Karts late 60s and they were fairly competitive in that Class 4 grouping.Sorry to be a know it all but it was Fanny Barnet or Fanny B - Not Franny. Their big asset was the ultra reliable Villiers engines they used. No offence intended, but I suspect your Dad probably didn't do much regular maintenance or ran it on a poor two stroke oil or mixed too much oil into the petrol and got plug fouling. Mine was very reliable.
Going back to the motorcycles the KTM 500 Motocross water cooled was an animal, I had a couple, never raced them but I knew someone who did and he reckoned if you wanted to win that was the one to do it on, but it involved a new piston for nearly every meeting. A very peaky 50hp for it's day.
My mum is 92 and still tells me off when I buy another bike, usually with a “when are you going to grow up and stop riding those bloody bikes”. This, in a high-pitched Italian Nonna accent, never not funny 
The early 80’s air cooled Suzi RM500, Honda CR500 and Maico (490 I think) were animals too. My mate still has his RM500, I haven’t dared ride it for a very long time, will cripple me kick-starting it yet alone falling off itTend to agree, we used to race the 9E version of that 197cc engine in Karts late 60s and they were fairly competitive in that Class 4 grouping.
Going back to the motorcycles the KTM 500 Motocross water cooled was an animal, I had a couple, never raced them but I knew someone who did and he reckoned if you wanted to win that was the one to do it on, but it involved a new piston for nearly every meeting. A very peaky 50hp for its day.
I had a job with the KTM and steel work boots and that was 30 years ago.The early 80’s air cooled Suzi RM500, Honda CR500 and Maico (490 I think) were animals too. My mate still has his RM500, I haven’t dared ride it for a very long time, will cripple me kick-starting it yet alone falling off it
This is a good watch if your into bikes i remember reading that wayne gardeners bike setup only he could ride it, him barry sheen and kevin swantz were my heroes, watched it at donnington in 1990 fantastic day out
I have a Suzuki A100M and I love wringing its neck, small stinkers are a lot of fun to ride, such character. Not unlike our wee 500’s in some ways.
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The early 80’s air cooled Suzi RM500, Honda CR500 and Maico (490 I think) were animals too. My mate still has his RM500, I haven’t dared ride it for a very long time, will cripple me kick-starting it yet alone falling off it
The 350 AJS was a long stroke "plonker" and could deliver a really wicked back fire on the kick start. I gave up kicking it and used to "run 'n bump" it. Couldn't run fast enough now - No, who am I kidding, Couldn't run is nearer the truth!I had a job with the KTM and steel work boots and that was 30 years ago.
