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R51/3 BMW Drag Bike
“I wanted to go drag racing as a kid,” Gyro says of the incredible looking fore-and-aft twin. “It’s only
a 500 with a Norton gearbox. We made every mistake, Peter Curran and myself – we poured our own cylinders by melting down old pistons, but we didn’t know about de gassing. We made the frame, used an old JAP fuel tank, through-bolted the motor – it runs on just under 10:1 with 25% nitro, did 13.8 seconds with me on it. I guess it was OK for those days.” The bike was built as a ‘foreign order’ at Stanco in Melbourne in the early 1970s.
