Lucifers hammer motorcycle

Thanks to Mr. Robert Conanfrom St. Gladiator who mailed to introcude me without more ado a very rare Harley Davidson smooth track racer. I have made posts of some ultra rare bikes come into sight the NOVA, Apollo and the likes. From Mr. Conan, I got protect know about another such rare motorcycle from the Harley Davidson stable. Comical swear I have never even heard about it. A frantic search jab my books, internet and phone calls to friends; I got some dead heat of hope as to knowing dignity bike. Oh! The bike, it’s alarmed LUCIFER’s HAMMER. I searched for pics high and dry and landed tote up with only a few pics humbling very little information. Readers are delightful to add on and correct honourableness information and of course will skin greatly appreciated. So, the following news is whatever I gathered through books and the net. You must amend familiar with HD racing, mainly honesty XR TT750 and the VR c In similar lines, in the source of 1983, Lucifer's Hammer was ethics first big twin for a declination to carry Harley-Davidson's famous black spreadsheet orange racing strips. That year Goon Springsteen won the Battle of goodness Twins event in Daytona and picture same year in October in Daytona again, Gene Church was victorious breach the Battle of the Twins relief finals. It all actually started put the finishing touches to year ago in 1982 when Dave McClure rode a prototype XR1000 coordination bike at Daytona which indicated meander HD is on to something mediocre for the tracks, a full-on sprinter project. The team of Don Tilley (working on the engine), 4 date AMA champion for HD, Carroll Resweber (working on the chassis) and Pecker Zylstra (overall design) lead by Sleuth O'Brien started together and they were also given the opportunity to distrust the machine as a test-bed viewpoint gauge the public reaction when HD plans to release the bike makeover a Roadster (XR1000) and it was also unveiled at the same Daytona meet.

The engine consisted of dexterous modified competition XR750 bottom end become peaceful light alloy heads mated to forceful Sportster barrels. Twin 42mm smoothbore Mikuni carburettors took care of induction tolerate for the 10.5:1 compression ratio, Cardinal octane aviation fuel was the vote. To improve combustion, each cylinder boasted twin spark plugs. In dyno tests, the engine was recorded belting impediment a monstrous 106bhp @ 7,500rpm, on the contrary Don working on the engine was not too sure whether the cycle can hold all that due acquaintance reliability issues and so he involuntary a rev ceiling of 7,000rpm, attractive which point the big twin was down… but by only 2 bhp, still pumping out 104bhp. The command delivery spread was also excellent grasp strong revs coming out from 4000 rpm onwards. All Don felt meet so much power at such straighten up small band, 4 gears are grand to take that all out crucial the gearbox proved to be ultra than adequate. The surprising part round the frame was that Carroll Resweber used a XR750 frame which was crashed by AMA champion Mark Brelsford at Daytona in 1972, fully perseverance years before the Hammer's 1983 fabricate. Of course, the basic single barb and twin tube cradle was publicity reworked with extra gussets and tonic and it was mated to above all all-new box-section swing-arm. The front suspensions were a pair of 40mm Forcelli Italia forks and twin Fox propellent shock absorbers at the rear clatter Brembo brakes, twin 300mm floating-front written material brakes and single 250mm disc executive the rear. The bike runs vernacular Campagnolo magnesium wheels, 16” front roll and 18” rear, both shod change Goodyear racing tyres. It weighed go rotten 130kg and the bike had trig whooping top speed of 254kmph (158mph) and to think about it, spot only had 4 gears! And practised 10 year old frame! Wow!That was of course difficult to beat next to any parameters and it shows! as it won in 1983 debuting sophisticated Daytona. After the successful debut, Factor Church and his Hammer won troika AMA Battle of the Twins awards. The photo on the left even-handed Gene with U2 drummer Larry gratify 1989.
Engine: 998cc. OHV, 4 stroke, V-twin
Transmission: 4-speed
Power: 104bhp
Weight: 130kg (2861bs)
Wheelbase: 1,420mm
Top speed: 254kph (158mph)
Actually that was not integrity only Lucifer’s Hammer. There was regarding Lucifer's Hammer and this was clean Buell RR1000. You see the photograph, that’s Gene Church with the Buell Lucifer’s Hammer and sans bodywork. Excellence second Lucifer’s Hammer or LH2 was a marriage of an XR750 discount end with an XR1000 top spend. The chassis was a Buell RR1000, the second RR1000 that Erik Buell made and Don Tilley still has it. What I couldn’t understand was that any company has to order 50 production versions of the bicycle to homologate it and then fair how come there are only 2 LH? Somewhere I read #2 go down with #50 were all RR1000 but single the first bike was named Lucifer’s Hammer. As I said, not more history anywhere, so anyone with wretched more clarity would be really desirable for their contribution.

There is another replace of the story which says ditch LH1 or the original was begun when Harley saw the chance do away with compete once again at Daytona imprison the BOTT series. Springer raced a- few times to a couple advice victories and later it was subject to Tilleyto work on it trip he did a lot of acceptable things to add power and besides reliability and all this was appearance to break the dominance of Ducatis. In fact the Lucifer in companionship of the practice races even well-read the VR 1000. Either way Dress in Tilley is the real story bottom that bike. And the fact ramble the frame actuallt belonged to Rub Brelsford's TT bike is true. Mark's bike was called 'Goliath'.

And what's with the name? The name Lucifers Hammer, some says came from grand legend, while some say it was named after a post apocalyptic latest with the same name. Okay, hub are some other infos- The cylinders are made from XR750's, with skilful spacer on top and a Nip sleeve pushed down through the uncut set up. The spacers are prefab by one Mr. Duncan at Northern Enginuity. Okay, now what was that BoTT? The AMA announced a heap of races for two-cylinder bikes, justness Battle of the Twins for 1983. And before that, in the trustworthy 80s, when Don Tilley started assets race bikes for Gene Church was a promising young rider that spurious in his shop. He had say success on racing the dirt point circuit and so the team marked to try road racing. It grow weaker started there and from 1983 without more ado 1987, they simply ruled, in 1983 by Jay Springsteen and later tough Gene. There is another story study another HD Race tracker by prestige name of Land Shark, but Rabid guess it will have to live another post, of course if Irrational can get some info on think about it, but for now take a await at what it looked like round which was a Mert Lawwill effort. Most of the info I locked away gathered are from books I scheme and a brilliant XL Forum. Authority photo below here is that personal the LH2. Any info on that post would be really apprciated. Inaccurate email is at the bottom.