Bucket Racing Develops
As bucket racing matured it bred a group of ‘Garagists’, enthusiasts who developed their racing bikes into highly crafted and very speedy racing machines. The addition of racing seats, fiberglass fairings, rear set footrests and gear changes and racing handlebars made some these machines replicas of more modern production racing machines
In addition, home developers engineered the motors of these machines and dramatically increased power outputs from the normal road going power of around 8–12 horse power to outputs often in excess of 20 horse power. It is a tribute to home developers that they were able to create motors that produced power outputs that are directly proportional to factory made GP production race machines
A good example of a well-developed bucket racer is on display at the National Motor Museum at Mount Panorama, Bathurst, NSW Australia and there is also a Honda H100 machine with the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney
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With every sort of company,
With every Jack and Jill?
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