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Nice looking V2 made from a 350 Enfield, complete with a proper starter.

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2009/04/17/royal-enfield-musket-update/

That thing sounds frikkin fantastic! Great looking bike!

What a beautiful machine!

Beautiful! Here's another one from 1935:

Bengt, for last couple of years there's been a guy who made a beautiful running replica of this very Husqvarna V-twin model and who has shown it at the El Camino Classic Motorcycle Show near where I live here in California.

Here's a picture of the bike taken at this year's show and which was posted as a link in BA.com's Ride and Rallies forum a few weeks back...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8730972@N05/3935075922/in/set-72157622242485388/

Now, here's a question for ya:

I talked to the guy who made this, and he told me that there where no surviving bikes of this model in existence out there anymore, and that he built his bike from scratch using some existing records and blueprint that he had found through the process of a very involved search.

And so, do you know if the one which you've posted here and which looks to be in a museum (possibly the Husqvarna Museum, maybe?) is ALSO a replica, and thus would confirm to me that that guy was accurate with his facts?

Brough Superior
1939 SS100 I think.

Colin, I'm not sure what you're sayin' here, but if you're thinking that the Husky I saw in California has a Brough's JAP engine in it, it doesn't.

Look at each photo of the engine cases again, and you'll notice that they're completely different. And even though the pushrod tubes run parallel to each other in that Husky as they do on the old JAP motors, there are also differences in the head design between each of them too.

The guy I talked to said he actually cast the complete engine himself from those old plans I talked about earlier.

(but then again, you might just be sayin' here that you'd sure like to own a Brough Superior....and who the heck wouldn't, eh?!)

Yeah Dwight, as the title of the thread suggests. This is a machine I could learn to live with. I'm not implying that the Husky has the Jap engine. (sorry if it came across like that)

Love that Brough Superior , always have liked that bike and would love to have one but my pockets are not that deep. Would love a 37 Speedtwin too but can't find the cash for that either. I would like to have one of those V twin Enfields too if they were available.

Huskys and Hodaka or how ever you spell it. Those Honakas were wheelie machines.Geared very low and could keep the front end up until you wanted to drop it.

Dwight, I nicked that pic from the web. The (race) bike in the pic can be found at a German museum (here). Haven't seen that one myself. I was just meaning to show that "we" also built v-twins back in the day. My brother is actually using a Husvarna v-twin engine from 1926 (!) in his new chopper project. A complete authentic one (1926) is standing in his shop for inspiration...

Another nice conversion from down under.

Carberry V Enfield

Road test.

what amazed me is that it's an RE 350 engine with an extra cylinder. I first figured it was a standard v-twin fitted in there. Makes it even more impressive!

Also: Vincent V-twin - Accept No Substitutes

Yes that was it, and it was getting rained on!