Scooterotica

sydduckett wrote:Peter sums up the RB family pretty spot on, they are a real laugh but a pain is the backside around town or sitting behind a car and having to up and down the gears.....

Syd, iam surprised to hear you say that as mine and my mates pulls rearly well from low down in fourth gear which makes it a pleasure to ride in or out of town , some people do gear there engines to keep the revs down and to get that extra 5mph at the top end, even though we only spend 5% of our time flat out , i gear mine [46x16 li150 box] to suit me 95% of the time, i can live with loosing 5mph at the top end, for now .

Sydduckett, I'd love to see a dyno graph for your 260, what carb, gearing and pipe will that be with ?

My 260 will be running a Franspeed pipe, pacemaker box, 38mm TMX and a 63mm worb5 crank! I got wood just thinking about it! John at JB got 36BHP out of my TS1 (see article '36bhp rusty nail' in 'show your scoots section), so this thing should be a few more than that, i am hoping

Id be tempted to build one but I know a few people who have got them and they have had grief with them so until all is sorted,i`ll hang on. Keeping the machines ive got on the road is expensive enough.

eibargum wrote:

sydduckett wrote:Peter sums up the RB family pretty spot on, they are a real laugh but a pain is the backside around town or sitting behind a car and having to up and down the gears.....

Syd, iam surprised to hear you say that as mine and my mates pulls rearly well from low down in fourth gear which makes it a pleasure to ride in or out of town , some people do gear there engines to keep the revs down and to get that extra 5mph at the top end, even though we only spend 5% of our time flat out , i gear mine [46x16 li150 box] to suit me 95% of the time, i can live with loosing 5mph at the top end, for now .

This is down to the NK pipe, i have had a franspeed and a jarspeed on and it was far more drivable. The Jarspped pipe was the best out of the 2. i will be puting one on when pennies allow...

These pictures are for you Wax ..... Rb 260,












I will post some photos of cylinder and tuning work in another section soon.

Those ports are huuuuuuuge.

Edited in case my post was seen as rude. (it wasn't meant to be by the way)

Very neat looking by the way.

very neat work, and obviously been well thought out. You're work is almost too good to use! Is that the RB piston that the kit comes with??

cant wait to see the top end!

Top work Guys!

Thanks chaps! i've put some photos of the cylinder and head up in dealers section. Didn't feel this was the place to post it. Have a look.