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Re: silly question....
« Reply #15 on: April 22, 2014, 09:05:19 AM »
I always thought this forum was based on wife beating.  :-\

.....and Rabbits in Disney films  ;)
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Re: silly question....
« Reply #16 on: April 22, 2014, 09:34:02 AM »
I always thought this forum was based on wife beating.  :-\

No Mark, that is just sick. There is no humour in wife beating.  :(

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Re: silly question....
« Reply #17 on: April 25, 2014, 03:52:19 PM »
I'm with Jethro "Mantra for the club Has Always been....For Those With An Interest In Four Stroke Singles !"

Anyway I always thought that to "thump" like an old Panther probably involved a heavy flywheel. If you wanted a quick reving engine, for instance in a racing bike, a lighter flywheel was needed. As usual I have probably got it all wrong and some one will come forward with their physics "O" level and talk about torque etc.
Having long since been an admirer of large heavyoil standing engines with large flywheels which only fired when the revs dropped below a set RPM, that is what I understand as an engine that Thumps, SWMBO says I cant have one though or a T20 fergy.
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« Reply #18 on: April 25, 2014, 07:21:33 PM »
In which case the club desperately needs to visit the Museum of Internal Fire during the next trip to Cwmdu.

Thundering great engines with flywheels bigger than people, some singles.
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« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2014, 07:41:17 PM »
Well, as a Cornishman (celebrating our new found position in Europe), I am of course familiar with Trevithick's Beam Engine...
which powered/drained/lifted& lowered miners all from the one reciprocating beam.... (you can see one working at Wheal Jane near Redruth (sadly powered by compressed air now.... ) the flywheels of these engines reached 20' (but no flywheel in Trevithick engines, just relied on a single huge piston) in diameter.... one complete cycle .... anything from 15 to 30 seconds!... now THATS a thumper :-)

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Re: silly question....
« Reply #20 on: April 27, 2014, 04:40:23 PM »
Now a proper thumper engine is a Bollinger engine found on some older narrowboats.
Could listen to them all day long.
Another thumper is the BSA M21 side valve engine. Now that would climb up the side of your house on tick-over.
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Re: silly question....
« Reply #21 on: April 27, 2014, 04:54:16 PM »
Well, as a Cornishman (celebrating our new found position in Europe), I am of course familiar with Trevithick's Beam Engine...
which powered/drained/lifted& lowered miners all from the one reciprocating beam.... (you can see one working at Wheal Jane near Redruth (sadly powered by compressed air now.... ) the flywheels of these engines reached 20' (but no flywheel in Trevithick engines, just relied on a single huge piston) in diameter.... one complete cycle .... anything from 15 to 30 seconds!... now THATS a thumper :-)

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Thats brilliant but NO thump-thump now sadly but phut=phut!
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Re: silly question....
« Reply #22 on: April 27, 2014, 07:52:33 PM »
I didn't notice that rabbits in Disney beated their wife ....

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Re: silly question....
« Reply #23 on: April 27, 2014, 10:27:06 PM »
I didn't notice that rabbits in Disney beated their wife ....

Have you seen Thumper in Bambi ?
Always Banging his other half behind the scenes....   ;) ;D

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Re: silly question....
« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2014, 02:44:21 PM »
Now thats a thumper !!!

   and another although to be fair this a non compressing gas engine, but it sounds great and if it were possible to fit it in a bike frame it would probably fire once a mile
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Re: silly question....
« Reply #25 on: April 29, 2014, 03:44:43 PM »
As well as the XBR I have a Gilera Fuoco 500cc single cylinder four stroke three wheel scooter is it or am I eligible?

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« Reply #26 on: April 29, 2014, 07:54:55 PM »
If it goes bang on every fourth stroke, as far as I'm concerned.... you're in

it'd be a bonus if the bike did the same  ;D

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Re: silly question....
« Reply #27 on: April 29, 2014, 07:56:07 PM »
I didn't notice that rabbits in Disney beated their wife ....

Have you seen Thumper in Bambi ?
Always Banging his other half behind the scenes....   ;) ;D

Jethro

In France, Thumper is called "Pan-Pan" which can be traduced as "Bang-Bang", silly too ...

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« Reply #28 on: May 03, 2014, 05:57:01 PM »
Thanks SteveL the wife is happy so I guess that means I'm in.

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« Reply #29 on: July 11, 2014, 05:54:01 PM »
Found this 20 RPM   
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