Following logically from the previous topic how about the above!!

While staying at the 'Belvedere Hotel' on Loch Prom in the early 80s I remember watching a chap dismantle his blown up Trident motor, he removed the centre conrod and piston (it was broke!) and installed a Jubilee clip over the centre crank journal so he could run it as a 2 cylinder without loosing all the oil pressure!!! I wonder if he ever made it home?! I wonder which poor sod now owns that Trident?!

Martin

The first year I went to the tt with the bikes was 1970, I had a Bonny, my mate had a C15, The fist day we were there, my mate siezed his C15 solid at Kirk Michael. We scrounged a towrope from someones house and I towed him back to Douglas, because the Bonny was quite high geared I had keep the speed at about 60mph so that it run & pull ok. I thought it all went quite well untill we stopped.My mate was white with fear !!!. We pushed it all the way up Bray Hill to the cross roads at the top then went down to the sea front & the hotel.

 The next day we found out that if we had gone straight on at Quaterbridge it would have bought us right to the hotel !! Happy days.

Same mate,  I had a Thunderbird outfit, we were on the way to Silverstone in the early 70's, nearly there and my mate,who was in the chair starts to shout & knock my leg, when I looked to see what he's going on about I can see that the engine's on fire.

After much huffing & puffing & running round like headless chickens we manage to blow the fire out. We found that the petrol tank had cracked  around the petrol tap and run down ont the magneto.

  He managed to hold a rag on the tank untill we got to Silverstone.

 And the bodge we used to seal the tank for the the return trip  was...........................soap, normal household soap we found in the Gents toilet, crumble it or shave it, make it into a paste, hey presto one sealed petrol tank, it lasted well over a week till I could sort out another tank.  

Alan

I came from Sweden to the island for the first time 1970 on a brand new Kawasaki 500 H1 Mach III, white and blue. An oil seal at the gearbox was leaking and it was repaired with a piece of the rubber tube from the portable gas stove, a Coca Cola can and some barbed wire. Better than new!

On the way home the chain broke on my pals´s Honda and made a great hole in the engine. We could see the gearwheels in the box. It happened close to Immingham and from there the Triumph Bonneville in the gang had to tow the CB with a rope all the way back home. The torque in the Kawa was not enough. The Honda was repaired with some fantastic British? stuff called Belzona. Does anyone know if it´s still existing? 

Great that it´s still on the market! Yes, I mean the two component stuff you mix together, Belzona. When ready it looks like aluminium.

It was used by Swedish rider Borje Jansson in his 125 Maico and the 250 Yamaha. He used it in the cylinders to change the gaz streams in the two stroke engines. I was his mechanic for a while and I know that he gained 3-4 hp, from 30 to 34 at 13 000 rpm, in the 125cc single cylinder Maico. That´s proved 1971 in bench tests at the Maico factory in Pfaffingen, Germany. I hope that I don´t tell any secrets now!

He raced The Mountain Corse twice. His name is not correctly spelled in the TT database. There it´s spelled Bo Janssen. I´ve told the webmaster several times to correct it but nothing happens...Check the results! The mentioned Yamasaki was a Kawasaki 250 racing bike with a 250cc Yamaha TD2 or TD3 engine. I don´t remember if the TD3 was launched 1971. Anyone who knows?

Borje, now 65, will maybe show up at the TT this summer with the Maico. It´s still running!

My mate Martin lost his gear change lever three miles from Assen on his Honda Transalp and rode it across Holland, Belgium to Calais on to the train and off again and up to the M25 around it and then home to west London - no bodge needed - new clutch very much needed! All done in top gear!

Rev