[mscuddy]

Re: No it won't.

"A new air/spring damper system at the rear of the machine which BMW claim is a world first application."

Hmmmm…can you say 1975 Falta Replica 250 & 400 CZ?

Those Krauts have always stolen Czech technology anyway (take the Tatra=VW Beetle connection for instance).

Let’s hope they don’t try and copy the CZ’s ignition system too. That would make the towrope a must have item again.

 

[mscuddy]

Re: Points not electronic....

But not the points. Flimsy cheap phenolic and weak sheet metal construction. I use to break dozens of 'em every month. Either the phenolic would break or crack, or the metal would fatigue and snap. Oc course, this was on a Jawa, but they were the same animal. (Never seemed to bother me on my 250 chay zed though). Finally fixed it by constructing a set of SOLID STEEL points with a Honda 90 phenolic, and Chevy stovebolt spring, held together with a 440 screw. Never broke after that.

Anyway, I was thinking about the Femsatronic they put in the Falta replica around 1975. What's that smell? Fry sizzle....

 

[mscuddy]

No, it's not the price. It the maintenance.



Seals break, get dirty, or wear and the air leaks out. I use to carry around a 10 speed bicycle pump back in the 80's when air forks were all the rage.



Springs work just as good, and don't "leak".



Air suspension gets reincarnated every decade or so, and forgotten again soon after.

 

[mscuddy]

Yeah, but just picture Horst Leitner in the 1973 ISDT sticking his 750 through some sapplings in Mass-a-choosits, at speed...



...and I'd fork over the $$$. What the hell, no pockets in a coffin.



Check this link out: http--www.isdtr2004.org-finbike.jpg



Yee hah. No torque problems there. Just hope the cylinders don't get stuck between some trees.

 

[mscuddy]

It's dampened with oil. Not air. Air is for the spring.



You really should have known.

 

[mscuddy]

Didn't have my specs on. Wow, guess it is something new. Air throttles, imagine that...