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mick Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Hell-bound Posts: 7323 Dayton Oregon Gender:	guess what this is ? 12/14/10 at 19:41:12 Ok name this bike. A new game. [color=#ff0000][/color]
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mick Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Hell-bound Posts: 7323 Dayton Oregon Gender:	Re: guess what this is ? Reply #1 - 12/14/10 at 19:44:32 how about this one ?
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mick Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Hell-bound Posts: 7323 Dayton Oregon Gender:	Re: guess what this is ? Reply #2 - 12/14/10 at 19:47:42 this one ?
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: guess what this is ? Reply #3 - 12/14/10 at 19:48:55 Top one has a Guzzi decal on the tank & that old exposed flywheel thing.. but just what it is, IDK..
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28996 L.A. California Gender:	Re: guess what this is ? Reply #4 - 12/14/10 at 19:49:50 BSA 650 twin
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JohnBoy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 825 Gender:	Re: guess what this is ? Reply #5 - 12/14/10 at 20:20:37 is number three a 1952 AJS single?
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Lupo Senior Member Offline Posts: 356	Re: guess what this is ? Reply #6 - 12/14/10 at 20:22:34 1st one #26 is badged Moto Guzzi but the engine looks Gilera. 2nd one looks Vincent. 3rd I'm guessing BSA Road Rocket.
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JohnBoy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 825 Gender:	Re: guess what this is ? Reply #7 - 12/14/10 at 20:27:25 is number two an HRD/Vincent 990cc about 1952?
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mick Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Hell-bound Posts: 7323 Dayton Oregon Gender:	Re: guess what this is ? Reply #8 - 12/14/10 at 22:13:54 JohnBoy wrote on 12/14/10 at 20:27:25: is number two an HRD/Vincent 990cc about 1952? I thought that #2 would get you guys, Actuall it's a 1000 cc Royal Enfield, or two singles put together by a smart guy.
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Reply #9 - 12/15/10 at 08:21:17

The Japanesse had pretty much dominated the market around here when I was growing up. The only European motorcycle I spent any time with in my youth was a Ducati my uncle owned. It was sold and marketed by Sears and branded with Sear's Allstate Badge. It was a good motorcycle and my uncle let me put several miles on it. The pictures of the old European motorcycles really fascinate me. I know enough about history to realise the Japaneese would have still been building scooters if it wasnt for Triumph and BSA. I remember drooling when the Honda 450 came out and I realise it was a copy of a couple of European bikes. Mick you grew up at a good time, I like to refer to it as The Golden Age Of Motorcycling. I've owned five European motorcycles in my lifetime and right now if I could get any of my bikes back it would be two of the European ones I've owned. A 1974 Moto Guzzi Intercepter and a 2000 Triumph Thunderbird were my two favorites of the 20+ motorcycles I've owned. The Europeans are the true designers and innovators. For the most part the Japaneese copy making small improvements along the way. Right now its 21 degrees here and the old pics are a great way to pass the time. Keep em comin Mick Wink

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Reply #10 - 12/15/10 at 10:38:30

While not intending to be disrespectful of the Japanese, in my opinion, they are the great copiers of everything. Yes, they make minor improvements along the way.

But their greatest skill is copying something, and then building it with excellent build quality.

For those who know far more than I - has a Japanese company ever done any real innovation in any product? Have they really invented anything in the industrial sense?

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28996 L.A. California Gender:	Re: guess what this is ? Reply #11 - 12/15/10 at 11:22:52 The Japanese aircraft industry prior to WWII was said to be innovative. Best example being the Zero. But late in the war, seems to fall into your description as copiers being given several designs by their axis buddies.
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Reply #12 - 12/15/10 at 11:37:20

Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 12/15/10 at 10:38:30:

For those who know far more than I - has a Japanese company ever done any real innovation in any product? Have they really invented anything in the industrial sense?

Uhhh,... ever heard of Sony?... CD"s. DVD"s, Video cassette, floppy disc, ...
Plasma tv's,..
... and don't forget Ramen noodles, the Magnificent Seven, and Karoke'... Grin

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_inventions

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Reply #13 - 12/15/10 at 11:49:55

Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 12/15/10 at 10:38:30:

While not intending to be disrespectful of the Japanese, in my opinion, they are the great copiers of everything. Yes, they make minor improvements along the way.

But their greatest skill is copying something, and then building it with excellent build quality.

For those who know far more than I - has a Japanese company ever done any real innovation in any product? Have they really invented anything in the industrial sense?

they did a good job of copying German Cameras,they copied Lieca,and Roliflex to perfection, my Dad who repaird cameras for a living could hardly tell the difference, strangly enough the giveaway was the black material that covered there cameras,they used an inferior glue ,and it used to peel off easily.the only other way was to look at the lens, it said "Made in Japan"

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Reply #14 - 12/15/10 at 22:19:51

In late 1945, after the end of World War II, Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in a bomb-damaged department store building in Nihonbashi of Tokyo. The next year, he was joined by his colleague, Akio Morita, and they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K.,[8] (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation). The company built Japan's first tape recorder called the Type-G.[8]

In the early 1950s, Ibuka traveled in the United States and heard about Bell Labs' invention of the transistor.[8] He convinced Bell to license the transistor technology to his Japanese company. While most American companies were researching the transistor for its military applications, Ibuka and Morita looked to apply it to communications. Although the American companies Regency[disambiguation needed] and Texas Instruments built the first transistor radios, it was Ibuka's company that made them commercially successful for the first time.

In August 1955, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo released the Sony TR-55, Japan's first commercially produced transistor radio.[9] They followed up in December of the same year by releasing th

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