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Title: Nice looking jap
Post by: Moto63 on December 23, 2019, 06:01:50 PM

As the title suggests folks... nice looking jap on bike exif site for ones perusal

Title: Re: Nice looking jap
Post by: mthee on December 23, 2019, 09:00:33 PM

Thanks! I've linked to the website mentioned in the article as carrying a fuller lowdown (and it is!) on this beauty.

https://ironandair.com/blogs/news/born-of-speed

Title: Re: Nice looking jap
Post by: Moto63 on December 24, 2019, 01:56:39 PM

Cheers for the link Matt, I absolutely love the jap engines. Takes me right back to watching the speedway in Bradford back in the 70’s.... oh the smell 😁 👍

Title: Re: Nice looking jap
Post by: Smithy on December 25, 2019, 08:51:22 AM

I think the JAP engine is one of the most beautiful engines ever made and so quintessentially British. I was offered an ex-speedway JAP motor back in the 80s by Dennis Rogers a well known Nottingham motorcycle breaker (and handy pilot of his red Morgan called The Wandering Blob) for about twenty quid. Sadly and to my eternal regret I turned it down.

Ian

Actually coming to think about it Dennis always claimed he was the wandering blob not the Morgan!

Title: Re: Nice looking jap
Post by: JOOLZ on December 25, 2019, 11:32:42 AM

Great looking bike, I used to own a JAP sprinter great engines