Ah, yeah, darn, should had thought about a bit more. But good you said! Lean very bad in two strokes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorge
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Ah, yeah, darn, should had thought about a bit more. But good you said! Lean very bad in two strokes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorge
A treat for you - "Jawa" 539 - https://moto.drom.ru/moskva/sale/jav...-52462496.html
Really cheap, only some 6,6 k euros. :mwink:
Rare as much as unicorn's condensed milk.
Those Jawas fetch high prices in Finland too, but not that high. It is very original design, a classic Jawa, a beauty in a way. Pita those prices since I imagine it was quite cheap back in the day, and would be fun to own one. But with those prices? No.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorge
I am digging Jawa novadays more than MZ. Jawa have better sounds and twin engine is just more cool, even though it can be quite hot :lol8:
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Today lubricated cables, changed main jet to 90 from 100, and retightened cylinder heads to 21 Nm.
Took a test drive and I think a bit more vibrations appeared. It revs better now though and accelerates more eagerly. However, when idling and opening throttle quicly, the engine can stall.
Tomorrow a trip to Lempäälä, so 300 - 400 unknown kilometers for Miroslava. Hmm. Hmm. Maybe have to print a list of truck rental companies :lol8:
Thing with this "Jawa" from the add is her engine. It is also two-stroker, but 250 cc single cylinder with liquid cooling. I expected that Czechs will keep this engine and phase out this old twin, like Miroslava has. I'm not sure, but I believe that exist also air-cooled version of this engine. Pity that they didn't kept this engine.
About bit more vibrations you mentioned: Miroslava is still practically new, so it won't be bad to check and re-tight engine mounting bolts. Not once I have heard that those loose bolts caused increased vibrations. BTW, I saw few years ago on some classic "Jawa", installed some additional silent blocks in order to reduce vibrations. I don't know do they do the job.
And don;t worry if engine stalls when you quickly open throttle. Its the same on every bike with plain, slide type carb (like "Jikov"). In order to reduce this engine stalling, you can find some carb with so called accelerator pump, but nevertheless, "Jawa" is not some feisty 2T cross motorcycle that needs revs and max power instantly.
And good luck tomorrow. :riding:
She vibrated remarkably little with 100 main jet, was like a cat purring :) I am not worried of those vibrations :) They are nothing when compared to times when there was the restricting seal between cylinder and carb.
The carb issues is a bit annoying but will have to take it into account in traffic lights etc., and "wake up" the engine in advance.
Interesting stuff that about water cooled Jawa, did not know that, it certainly makes the old Jawa more desirable. Ah, well, Jawa is great :)
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Some pictures from latest mini trip.
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Met vice president of Yamaha Custom Club Finland. He asked do I belong to any MC club. I said no, so he asked to join his. I said I have Jawa. He said it does not matter. So I said ok I will join. Will be interesting to be there as an Gore Tex Jawa rider. I am not at to pack riding since I prefer to chose routes and speed myself as well as to stop once and a while to photograph stuff. No matter, will have to anyway take a look at pack driving aspects and stuff.
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Jawa went the three day moto trip with no issues at all, always starting by the first kick, and worked like a treat. Have to say it is a huge treat to ride two up a small bike on small countryside roads. So very easy to stop, walk a bit, take photographs, and eventually make u-turn when in the end of road. No wrestling with the bike at all.
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For some reason I am overly fascinated of cheap and small bikes. In my opinion it just hell lot more reasonable to put 3000 euro bike on the road rather than 30 000 euro bike :eek2:
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Now Jawa needs some maintenance. The clutch need adjustment, it wont soon fully release. According to service manual it should had been adjusted at 2500 km. In order to not have too easy time with Jawa, the cable adjustment screw and nut near the clutch lever have been badly stuck, and they are round to start with, so can't use monkey wrench. Oh well, small problems.
Did you see this...perfect look. 28HPhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...660fcd835e.jpg
Yeah, I know that, it is stunning and twin cylinder, which is awesome. The price is a little bit lover than BMW G310R.
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Would be so very hard to chose between those two: to take a modern design or a bit bigger classic twin cylinder bike!
That's not a twin, it's a single and 400cc, Jawa buys chinese four strokes engines.
That engine is from Shineray, so are the gauges.
http://www.motoraren.sk/motocykle/jawa-350-ohc
Owww, you are right! So it have two exhaust pipes coming out of one cylinder :lol8: And more interestingly it is advertised with a number 350 when it is 397 cm³. Hilarious! Since Mash Five Hundred apparently is about the same motorcycle, and is advertised with a number 500. Only tank, saddle, rear fender, front fender, and rear light seem to be different after a brief glance.
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Well..............even though I like the brand Jawa I might be inclined to chose BMW R300G. But is the BMW from India or China :lol8: I thought Jawa 350 OHC would be from India since Maharadja or whatever owns the brand. This is now true globalism, an old revered (ruled in enduro long time ago) motorcycle brand is owned by Indian company, which pushed to markets a motorcycle under the mentioned brand, but Made in China :lol8:
Yes, Mahindra bought the brands , both Jawa and BSA they claim to begin Jawa production in India next year, but that is a misnomer, development will take years before they have anything new. They also plan to develop BSA outside of India, my assumption would be in the UK? Mahindra also holds Peugeot scooters and will be assembling those in Vietnam.
Admit: you have learned here lot of technical stuff! :naughty:Quote:
Originally Posted by moilami
It's called twin exhaust port engine. Pretty common thing on big displacement, four valve thumpers (but not exclusively - check out Chinese "Suzie" GN 250 engine clones, only 2 valves and only 250 ccs, heck, I think I saw somewhere even GC clones with dual exhaust ports). And this doesn't ends - often those big thumpers are fitted with two carbs. All this is is about gas flow, scavenging effect, back pressure...
BTW, did you enter metal scraping business? It looks that you are somehow strive to get near big amount of steel. Where did you found this "Sherman"?
Yeah, have learned, this has been very good place in many ways, and now I am reading books about motorcycles too, want to learn in detail of stuff :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorge
The Sherman is in Parola tank museum.
Did you, by chance, took photo of KV-1E tank, with bolted on additional armor on the turret?
Did not, I passed the museum, took the photo of the Sherman at the gate, but if you want one, I will take it next time I travel to Lempäälä :deal:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorge
Don't worry - Web is full of photos of this KV variant kept in Parola.
http://tank-photographs.s3-website-e...nk-finland.jpg
http://tank-photographs.s3-website-e...heavy-tank.jpg
I thought that he get in cadre too. I think that this KV-1E is only that survived up to this day.
Thanks anyway.
Cool, really the only one? That is amazing :eekers:
However, JS-2 is the beast, Tiger Killer, no need for AP ammo, just blast them with HE :naughty:
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that even Kubinka museum doesn't have one in their collection. "Plain vanilla" KV-1, KV-1S, KV-2, KV-85... yes, but this with bolted-on add-on armor - no. Although, it isn't hard to imagine that somewhere in Russia, in some secluded village, stands on pedestal one of those E variant tanks.
Also, as I know, this IS-2 was much better as bunker buster (which, in fact, was his purpose) than tank killer. German behemoths had better rate of fire and better sights, so any duel can be very tricky for both opponents.
Yeah, well, but imagine what doom's day machine that IS-2 was. It could move to a good shooting position to blast out heavy defense structures, and it could blast away enemy tanks too. While supported by infantry the syn-energies they had must have been the best for the time being.
About tanks: next Saturday in Alabino near Moscow begins "Tank Biathlon", as part of International Army Games. Serbian Army sent two tank crews and team of army cooks for "Field Kitchen" competition.
I don't care about this "tank sport", but I hope that cooks will manage to make good traditional Serbian army bean soup (with cracked sausage and smoked bacon). :lol8:
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Originally Posted by Zorge
Oh, you have it too, cool, what a treat, actually! In Finland we used to have bean soup every Thursday everywhere. Novadays since Finland does not exist anymore as other than northern province of EU, I haven't seen pea soup in ages. Hated pea soup when was a kid but learned to like it, and now I enjoy it and try it out each time I happen to see it in addition to making it myself at home :) Cool beans!
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Yea, that's it. But we add at the add "zaprška" at the end - it's flour, paprika, some garlic and lard cooked together, which is used to thicken bean soup.
Here, Friday is bean soup day. :icon10:
Interesting, bean soup will thicken itself if you just let it boil gently long enough, several hours, which is what we do in Finland.
Take a look at this: http://www.tasteofharmony.org.au/rec...2#.WXRRBK2aeV4
Is it Zorge Approved Serbian bean soup? If it is, then will have to try that variant some day, looks totally delicious :)
You know, this spring I sowed in my garden five different varieties of beans and there is no one universal recipe for all varieties. So, is this recipe you have posted the ultimate one? Definitely no. It's one of many.
Here (in whole Balkans) dishes with the beans vary from thick soup to cassoulet-like dishes. Just type in Youtube's search box terms "Pasulj" or "Grah" (Croatian term for bean) and you'll get dozens and dozens of pretty self-explanatory videos. I personally prefer those thicker bean dishes, like "prebranac" or Macedonian "tavče-gravče" (although, with this heat and drought, I live mostly on tomatoes, zucchinis, eggplants and feta cheese...). It looks something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_9pM-G6GyA
But I have for you one universal advice: before you start to cook any bean recipe, soak beans in water at least for a night.
Awesome cooking video, fuck RTWs, I want to go live into a hut countryside, ride a little on gravel roads, and make outdoors delicious dutch oven food stuffs :deal:
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