Yep ..  about so.

 DD> Was that a 600cc motorcycle?

Shaft drive - No chain.

Had to be careful when it was totally off the ground in that since it was
flywheel and shaft was in line with the bike body, if you gunned it or
stompped on the rear brake while aloft .. it produces a roll moment
sidewise with you on it..  Not the typical plunger fork front end either.

There was an R-69 that was bigger and also, I think, a larger one back in
the 1960's, but I fergit the details.  The racing model was supercharged as
I recall it, thinking back these 40 years or so..  Rinz Sport??

At just under a hundred thousand miles on mine, and with a roller bearing
crank as well, my engine totally froze up as worn out from being run wide
open for a LONG time..  With oil still in the case!  As far as I know, and
I've asked a lot of folks years ago, I've never run into anyone else that
rode one so hard for so long that they wore a lower end out on one!

Best long trip .. Lordsburg, New Mexico to Bryan, Texas, in 11 hours and 10
minutes.   Including the ten minutes I finally had to stop just East of
Fort Stockton, Texas, in the thunderstorm, and lay the bike down over me to
keep the hail from it from bashing me to Hades that strange day.  On the
real long trips with the buddy seat version I used, you lay down flat on
the seat with your arms flat across the bars and use a wedged throttle to
let it just run flat out .. almost like sleeping in a nice bed!   Lesson
learned:

 ***NEVER** ride a bike through West Texas during a heavy frontal passage!

But you know .. perspective is really puzzling at times.  Here was a high
time airplane pilot that totally forgot to get a weather briefing before
riding a motorcycle off into the miles and miles of nothing in West Texas.
Even in VFR conditions scud running underneath a line out in the open that
way, you can count the lightning strikes per minute cloud to ground and
pick the weak point in the plane.  On the bike you ain't got nowhere but
the road or take cover.  And there ain't none for MILES out there I
learned!

It is farther across Texas from Texarkana to El Paso than it is from
Texarkana to Chicago, Illinois .. more or less avoiding the current
discussion about great circle vs polar coordinate distances going on in
some parts here..

    ;)

Mike Luther

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