Reading between the lines

[AyJay]

Ta for that Mickey. When I was a teenager, I had the Technical Lego set and had fun building triple and 4 cylinder motorcycles (Give me a break, this was back in the 70s!) and I always built crossplane inline fours because it seemed perfectly logical to space it that way, and I was quite puzzled when I found out that they weren't arranged like that at all.
It seemed clunky having two pistons moving together and just spinning the Lego 'engine' you could feel it was less smooth than a crossplane because the friction of plastic on plastic amplified it. I tried using 3 in 1 oil once to make it run smoother but then the pistons used to fly out of the bores.
Ah, happy days. Don't you just lust after a crossplane Fazer though? Maybe I should buy a Cat C and build one myself because Yamaha aren't doing much at the mo. Hmm.


According to Kevin Ash in MCN, it might just be that Yamaha are in big financial trouble, big enough to question it's survival. Amazing what the exchange rates have done to Japanese industry - Sony has lost billions every year for the last four years and Panasonic have lost money in 3 of the last 4. Sharp is virtually finished, too.