Wouldn't happen to have any video of that would you? LOL just trying to
imagine it.
Jim K.
----- Original Message -----
From "Toby Atwater" <tob.sprite.landcruiser at home.com>
To: "Edrick Adams" <je.adams@worldnet.att.net>; "Spridgets list"
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: fastest in reverse bug-i in Fresno
> My French moped (a Solex, singl clyinder 2 stroke 49cc, engine on the top
of
> the front wheel with a stone drive on the tire) starts just fine in
reverse.
> Hardest part is to push the bike backwards and jump on while in reverse.
> lets not talk about steering!
>
>
>
> > I'm told that a the 2-stroke will run in reverse (can't be well though).
> > you're right it was momentum that kept things going. The momentum was
that
> > of the mass of the car and, with the included roller clutch on the trans
> > input, all one had to do was let the engine idle until the car speed
> dropped
> > then open throttle and pick it back up.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Sorkin <cdsorkin@ix.netcom.com>
> > To: Spridgets List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> > Date: Sunday, October 15, 2000 10:18 PM
> > Subject: Re: fastest in reverse bug-i in Fresno
> >
> >
> > >Toby said:
> > >
> > >>wasnt it the early 2 stroke v4 saabs that had no reverse. You had to
> stop
> > >>the engine, turn the key the other way, and it would start in reverse.
> How
> > >>cool is that.
> > >
> > >I don't remember doing that when my father had such a car as his daily
> > >driver in the early 'seventies. His was the first model year that
didn't
> > >require oil to be mixed in with the gasoline.
> > >
> > >No LBC, but that car had an unusual sort of transmission that somehow
> > >managed to store momentum very efficiently so that the engine could run
> at
> > >lower RPMs under certain conditions, a sort of rudimentary overdrive
> > >concept. Does anyone know what that was called, and the basicis of how
> it
> > >worked?
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >
> > >Charles
> > >'74 Midget
> > >'68 Sprite
> > >Bloomfield, NJ
> > >cdsorkin@cdsorkin.com
> > >"How about we duck inside for a Hen?"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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