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baby_ninja wrote:

photomike666 wrote:OK, Back to the questions

1) DJ Fat Boy Slim is also known as?

2) The worlds first production motorcycle was a 1500CC twin (about 1000 were made). But who made it and in what year. Bonus kudos for getting its HP and top speed?

3) What event caused Ronster to reduce his Signature to 'C'?

1. born: Quentin Leo Cook known as: Norman Cook YES

2.Sylvester Howard Roper 1867.... it was a steam engined motorcycle... it did 32mph maxxed out and provided up to 225psi. not sure if that counts as power... ill keep looking for the power figure in BHP Nope - not production.

3. NFI as im a newbie

baby_ninja wrote:alternatively for question 2 u have daimler building a motorcycle in 1885. it was a single cylinder with 0.5 HP @700 RPM and a top whack of 12km/h.

264cc bore of 58mm and a stroke of100mm.... im still trying to find this 1500cc twin ur talking about.....

ZXRobyn wrote:quote="photomike666"]OK, Back to the questions

1) DJ Fat Boy Slim is also known as?
2) The worlds first production motorcycle was a 1500CC twin (about 1000 were made). But who made it and in what year. Bonus kudos for getting its HP and top speed?
3) What event caused Ronster to reduce his Signature to 'C'?

1. born: Quentin Leo Cook known as: Norman Cook YES
2. Mid-30's Crocker developed a high performance V-Twin engine with a three speed transmission which proved to be the fastest American production motorcycle of the era - 105 mph (0-60mph in 1st gear), 90ci - But probably not the first hey?? Plus there were less than 100 made.... not 1000 Nope, a few decades late

Just for trivia purposes tho; whilst reading and reading and reading, something i found interesting was that the Crocker V-Twin was so fast that the company offered a full refund of the cost of the motorcycle if it was beaten by a stock Indian or Harley-Davidson. No refund was ever asked for. And each bike was produced individually to customers specs. Anyway - just a bit of trivia for ya.

3. Dunno. Mmmm still not real good on searching the site for this stuff (I am getting better tho)- I can say it was before May 2004, if that's worth any bonus points lmao.

Zombie wrote:1 - Norman Cook,
2 - cant be arsed to google, some really old bike made by people that are dead now and the company no longer exists!!!
3 The aussie cricket team got into trouble for calling the english Pommies so Ronster changed his sign off as the term "Pommie" is not polictically correct.
PC = Pommie C*nt, now it is just C for C*nt

baby_ninja wrote:Hildebrand & Wolfmüller??? around 1894???

baby_ninja wrote:1.what does jpeg stand for?
2.from what bike did gobert go from before he rode the muzzy's ZXR750R at the superbike round at phillip island in 1994???
3.at what turn did dave#3 come off at the eastern creek track day earlier this year?

lets get crackin...

ZXRobyn wrote:Ooops sorry I'm bout 4hrs late - had computer issues at work......

1. What is the difference between a transexual and a transvestite?
(you had to be there lol).

2. Who invented the back protector? (too easy)

3. When you take someone's KR250 for a spin, what is the first thing that onlookers will see upon your return?
(again... sorry, maybe you had to be there).

Good luck!