Thanks Trevor

I feel I must thank Tervor for his contributions to this site, although I dont current ride a bantam his knowledge of racing 2strokes has given me so much food for thought and has helped me greatly when preparing my MT

My pleasure Mike, thank you for the plaudits, Its always gratifying to help and why I am here. I hope the MT goes all the better for my small input!

Trevor

I endorse your remarks mm_tribsa -- thank you Trevor -- if I´d had the sort of info in 1968, that Trevor has been putting out here I´d have had a go at some serious tuning myself instead of leaving it to others to do for me. I cannot criticise Derek who persuaded me to build Icarus-1 in the first place we all thought that following Dr Joe Erhlic´s ideas was all there was to it and after all, he made the EMC fly -- or was it young Hailwood who made it fly? Quite frankly I was too heavy for a Bantam anyway and Derek providing Icarius-1 with a good torque curve was probably the better way to go -- plus Icarus-1 was reliable... Blair came in with the QUB as I was head-hunted away from Blighty and the Bantam Club. I excuse my lack of personal tuning on always being too busy which I regret now that it is too late.

But there was also a lot of progressive development of engines plus the cycle parts -- plus streamlining, of course -- in the club during its existence and one could point a finger at certain times when chancy new ideas -- like water-cooling came in -- and max-revs got into double figures... etc... etc.....

Cheers!