THANK YOU ! ..Franey, Glen, Tom G., TMan, Grumm, Fast Lammy, LSRJunkie, Stan Back, Old Scrambler, Bo, Patrick
for your kind words.
Ohh, it's good to be back here ! Thanks!
Hopefully this will be the beginning of an old dream...
...of racing a Nimbus, coming through.
Its GREAT to hear from you. A pair of Nimbi made it around the world a few years ago!
Yes, they certainly did;
The '
Contempt For Death trip, The Dumb Way Around'.
Those Norwegian guys are absofreakinglutely amazing and their trip...
..is a testament to the sturdiness and durability of these old Danish motorcycles.
I was there, at the Copenhagen Nimbus shop , the day they returned from the trip :
Now will ya' look at those machines !...boy'o'boy, had they taken a beating ?!:
Look at the head-light...ha ha ...it's a tiny flashlight:
Rim-inforcement Ukrania-style:
The frame broke and was "repaired" on every single continent they rolled over.
The last repair was just south of the border from Germany passing into Denmark.
The problem is that the frame is made from ( I think you call it ) spring-steel
which just about no-one knows how to weld properly...and it IS close to impossible
...but HEEEY! There's always
something one can do to stay on the road:
Those guys are freaking brass-balled heroes.
I've had the pleasure of them visiting my workshop before their trip.
Here's Tormod checking the Indian:
The had a blog running throughout their journey. The way the described their massive insane troubles
was absolutely hilarious. Loads and loads of humor .
If you're in the need of a good laugh, please read this:
When we reach Mininia ( in Egypt )
it is a different story. We have to stop for the night,
park at square in the center and ask for a hotel. Within 5 minutes it is 2-300 civilians around us,
demanding to see our passports. Of course you don’t show your passport to strangers so I say no.
The crowd get more and more aggressive, and accuse us for being spies from Mossad.
Everybody knows the Mossad normally drives Nazi-style sidecar motorcycles from the thirties
on their operations, but not Danish ones for God’s sake.
When they understand they will not get to see the passports they threaten to call the police,
so I tell them to go ahead. First a uniformed officer shows up on motorcycle, and he is calm and ok.
Then a plain-cloth officer come and demand to see passport. I ask for his ID, which he hasn’t.
Needless to say, no passport flashing. As the crowd get more and more “intense” I suggest
that we take refuge at the police station, which the undercover cop think is a good idea.
So off we go, with 2-300 nuclear researchers, a fair amount of neurologists, some brain surgeons,
a few rocket scientists and a minority of camel f**kers running after us,
shouting and hoping for the Israeli spies to get hanged at the spot.
At the police station they are polite, and serve us tea and cigarettes.
However, their actions and questioning don’t impress in a positive way:
What are you doing for work?
Where do you come from and what is your nationality (while “reading” the passport)?
Do you carry a lot of gold and diamonds?
They write down the information from the passports and when it is done they
ask our names are again. Then they start to argue about who should have the
paper where they have written down the information.
After quite some time a bright mind recalls they have a Xerox machine so
each one of they can have a copy, even of the passport’s front page.
We are stunned by their ability to reason out this brilliant idea to take
photocopies and just has to congratulate them.
After four hours of phone calls (but never to the Norwegian embassy which would
be the easiset way to check us out from Mossad's payrolls) and clever cross-examination
they take us to a hotel, where it is a tourist police that checked our bags.
Just as well, we might have equipment and a desire to blow up the towns most ran down hotel,
especially as we’re the only guests. Then they fetch us with a police car with flashing lights
and siren to a restaurant, and back to the hotel and placed a guard for the night,
in addition to the tourist police officer.
The next morning they escort us out of town, and could proudly look back at another intricate case closed.
http://kccd.no/blog_en.htmlLars,
It sure looks beautiful!
Thanks Rex.
Can't wait to see what you have done the engine.
Nor can I
.-)
..as I don't have any yet. What you see on the picture is a collection
of junk-parts that I have borrowed from the Nimbus shop and from a friend
Good to hear from you Lars..............Love the Nimbus.....I had one I used to ride in the old country (Netherlands)............
Thanks Bak ! I'm amazed that in this thread alone I've meet one former and one present Nimbus owner.
Never thought that would happen.
Great to see another build from you Lars, I´ve been lurking around in your old build thread for some time and if this one is as interesting as the old one we are in for a ride! ..."
Tack så mycket Anders !
In company with Anders I feel like a retarded caveman banging away with his flint-ax
while looking at this brilliant Swedish guy quietly going about his business building a rocket-ship.
Your build in mind-boggling Anders ! I can only stand in awe.
saw the link the second time around.
that's quite some motorcycle.
it would be nice to have another build thread from you, Lars.
will you be building some salt covers for the rockers, springs and valve stems?
Nope. This baby can cope with it, and who'd want to hide away this magnificent sight:
http://youtu.be/OuMHdFsQeTU?t=25s"The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated"
My contender for 2014. "Odins Fury"
Hi Lars,
Glad to have you back in land of the living.
Thanks Jim ! Glad to be back !
George mentioned what you were up to. We missed having you on The Salt for Speed Week this year
I SO missed being there. I did follow as closely as I could:
SCTA web-radio ( mmmmm, that was a somewhat , shall we say; mixed pleasure)
SCTA run and result lists
and constant updates from quite a few FaceBook pages,
George's friends Lee and Steve's among others.
Hi Lars
Owner of a 1951 Nimbus Type 'C'. I've had a look too and there's definitely potential in that motor, the only bugbear seems to be shaft drive and gearing. Have you had new gears made up? I know there is/was an upgrade available from 3 speed to 4 speed.
Best of luck with it Lars, I really cannot wait to see it fly!
Regards
Peter
Thanks Peter, a fellow Nimbus guy , no less !
I do have plans for the gearing ( more later ) , but as I see it the real problem
with the engine is the engine...ha ha !
It only has 2 main-bearing, though they look like something taken from a steam-train, or something
( these is NOT my photos, but they show what I'm on about )
...so I'm in need of a lot of good advise on how to handle that slight problem.,
and prevent it from jump-rope'ing' and ( Auuurgh !) breaking.
Lighten the (Clutch)-flywheel ? / dynamic balancing the crank ? / weight-balance the individual con-rod-pistons ?
Best of luck with it Lars, I really cannot wait to see it fly!
Thanks. Nor can I
OK: time for turning this into a real build-thread.
I have a whole'lotta' pics , descriptions and questions to ask.
Any help is truly appreciated.