New Ideas
NEW IDEAS
Barnett YSR50 dutch kit
if your YSR50’s clutch is acting like you’ve got a primary case full of banana peels, maybe you need one of Barnett’s clutch kits. The YSR kit includes two heavy-duty friction plates and four springs, to put some bite back in your driveline. Suggested price is $ 17.60, and you can find out more by contacting Barnett Tool & Engineering, RO. Box 2826, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670; (2 13) 941-1284.
Bombardier Sea-Doo
Quick, now: Name a single-track vehicle equipped with handlebars that you can fall off of at speed, and come up smiling. Try Bombardier’s Sea-Doo. It’s a sit-down-style watercraft powered by a 580cc tandem Twin, rotary-valve two-stroke engine, capable of propelling the craft at a claimed 40 mph. And with an 8.7-gallon fuel supply, this twoseater probably can keep going longer than you can. Suggested price for the Sea-Doo is $4399, and you can find out more by contacting Bombardier Inc., Marine Products Division, 1850 32nd Ave., Lachine, Quebec, Canada EI8T 3J7.
Nostaigia-Cyde engine
If only our Senior Editor Ron Griewe had known about NostalgiaCycle’s Super Vee engine, perhaps he would have stuffed it into the Honda CR500 chassis instead of a Husky motor. The 94-cubic-inch, four-stroke V-Twin certainly should have enough power, even for Griewe. Well, maybe for his next project bike, or yours. Suggested price is $2745 assembled, and you can get yours from Nostalgia-Cycle, 5761 Engineer Drive, Huntington Beach, CA 92649; (714) 891-6263.
SAENG information text #3
Afative Angelenos know about air largely because they can see it, but Charles Saunders, president of SAENG Corp., has a somewhat more thorough understanding of it. And he imparts some of that knowledge in the firm’s third information text. More than a product catalog, the text also offers a brief explanation of motorcycle aerodynamics. It’s available for $2 from SAENG Corp., P.O. Box 1246, Columbus, NE 68601-1246; (402) 563-3444.
Kerker exhaust
Y ou can pipe off, pipe up or pipe down. Or you can pipe in some fresh horsepower to your Honda VFR700 or 750 with Kerker’s four-into-twointo-one exhaust. The firm claims the system weighs 5 Vi pounds, and that it slips onto the stock headers to provide a 1 5-percent power increase. Suggested retail price is $209.95. Find out more from Kerker, 7900 Deering Ave., Canoga Park, CA 91304.
JamioVs World calendar
Make 1989 a vintage year—or a classic one, if you prefer—with one of Paul Jamiol’s 1989 Classic Motorcycle calendars. Each month features a pencil drawing of classic or vintage motorcycles, including such makes as BSA, Royal Enfield, Triumph, H-D, Indian, Norton, Ariel, AJS, BMW and MV. The limited-edition calendar costs $6.50, and it’s available from Jamiol’s World, P.O. Box 281, Winchester, MA 01890.
