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25/2/2016 at 12:49am
Location: Lichfield
Outfit: Coachman Amara 450
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Quoted by ST1100: Lots of lovely old bikes, but take notice of the sand and/or drip trays underneath some of them ....... and when I say "some" of them you will notice the ones with the drip trays or sand are all the British bikes whereas the non British ones do not need them.
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The reason for this is because on the old British motorcycles, the two bottom halves of the engine were designed with a vertical split with a sealing gasket between them. This was part of the oil sump in the crank housing and eventually the gasket would absorb the engine oil and eventually start to leak which the problem only became worse. When the Japanese hit the British motorcycle market they designed the engine sump to fit together horizontally which was a genius method of curing problem of the oil leak.
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