The Worlds Fastest NIMBUS

[nanno]

This is gonna look so awesome on the salt!

[bones]

The Gods will be pleased!!

[desperate]

Looks great & sounds even better! See you on "THE SALT" my Danish friend!
If you've not organised anywhere to "pit" park up with us Brits, we're bringing 10 bikes this year.

[olepaw]

Very interesting story. Good luck with it, it looks great!

[octane]

Lar's it looks great and the sound is awesome. Nice work.  

Thanks a lot Glen.
You need a new t-shirt ?



You COULD look just as tough as me...ha ha:

Hey, Lars seeing the bike uses a drive shaft.....what are you using for gear ratios???

Erhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh: this will give you an idea...maybe.
It's nut, I know

Lars, you've done it again sir, beautiful build!  

Pete

Thank you Pete

Odin should be pleased

He is ... he's riding his eight-legged horse Sleipnir around in circles in pure joy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir

Awesome build Lars. Much attention to detail.

Thanks Taurock, I do my ( rather limited ) best

DAYUUM !!!!!!!!

I have NO idea what that means, but ; thanks

Amazing work, absolutely beautiful bike !!    

Thanks. Glad you like it

A work of art, just beautiful

Thanks a lot Mt'boy !

very nice, Lars.
the big end on the con rod sure is beefy .

Franey

They are; and most importantly: the crank hasn't broken ............................... yet

Hi Lars...

Looks more than bloody good!!!

Patrick

Thanks Patrick Owl !!!

This is gonna look so awesome on the salt!

Thanks Nanno. I hope it will set tires on the Salt this year.
No too sure right now, what with my financial situation and all that crap.
But still: where there is hope , there is .................... erhhhhhhhhhhhhhh .... hope

Looks great & sounds even better! See you on "THE SALT" my Danish friend!
If you've not organised anywhere to "pit" park up with us Brits, we're bringing 10 bikes this year.

Chris, my man : thanks for you kind offer ... on second thoughts ; I'm sure the Nimbus
will start dripping oil in large quantities if I camp anywhere next to a bunch of Brit bikes .-)

Very interesting story. Good luck with it, it looks great!

Thanks Olepaw !

I'll do a proper update, but for now I'll just post a new video of the Nimmer
running a whole lot better and more  aggressively than on the previous one,
where I had forgotten to ....mumble mumble mumble ... never mind; here it is;
turn up sound and enjoy: ( note how the video-recorder is thrown back at the surprise of
the sound of the thunderous ROAR from Odin's Fury ... he he )

https://youtu.be/X5VteB3SmY4

[Glen]

Looking forward to seeing you,  new wow sure.

[octane]

Hi all you good folks !

" The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated "
Mark Twain

SOOOOO, some 8 years past by, where my life took some twisted, and sometimes not too pleasant, turns
and the NIMBUS was kicked to a corner of the shop, and occationally taken out to do some work on.
Didn't want to post here unless I had something to show for it.
Now I'm officially retired, and have finally spend a few weeks to get it ready and roadworthy.
Still need a few details to fix, but I have plenty of time to do it according to plan which is 'official'
presentation in 3 weeks. I have a shi..p -load of pics I'll post later and I'll post the final assembly.
In the meantime here's a very art'y photo ( black&white is 'art' ) of the present stage in my new shop.

Good to be back and I hope you're all doing well !

[55chevr]

Great news.  Look forward to seeing Nimbus on the salt flats.

Joe

[octane]

Thank you Joe !

[octane]

Semi-slowly but surely going according to plan.
For now, this is my favorite image of the build ( work in progress )

[thefrenchowl]

Nice Lars...

Same here, life gets in the way (but in a good way for me... See below...) but planning a return...

Hope to meet you again!

Patrick

[octane]

Good to "see" you again, Patrick !
Just to clearify: everything ( well, allmost ) is in a 'good way' here now.

Yeah, you have a few good hours of work ahead of you with that .. erh .. HD Shovel Pan Knuckle Iron -head (?).
1) What's the plan ?
2) That carburettor; is it on of them slightly wierd sort of direct 'injection',
no float-chamber -thingies ? 'Jet' -something ?

Cheers !

I believe that's you behind my INDIAN in 2012

[WOODY@DDLLC]

2) That carburettor; is it on of them slightly wierd sort of direct 'injection', no float-chamber -thingies ? 'Jet' -something ?

Tillotson diaphragm carbonater me thinks!

[thefrenchowl]

Octane, I've got most of the bits....

T'was dismantled in circa 1969... Collected it last month...

It is a factory one-off 900cc XLR-TT Sportster Road Racer in so-called High Boy cycle parts.

Ex Lance Weil, a Californian who came to GB in 1967 to race it with some success.



And yes, good old Tillotson w/o float, pressure diff between AP and venturi vacuum admits gasoline in carb via a rubber diaphragm actuated inlet valve.

Like on the little motor driven chainsaws and works at any angle...

Patrick

[octane]

Ohhhhh, that looks absolutely brilliant.
Congratulations with finding such a gem !

Any plans for spiffing it up / modifications ?