TOUGH AND PURE

Stainless-steel alloys are today found on motorcycles mainly in the form of exhaust valves and exhaust systems. So well-adapted to their purpose have these alloys become that there is no longer even a memory of the exhaust-valve problems that plagued early motoring.

Records of racing at England’s great Brooklands Speedway show exhaust-valve failures as third-most-frequent behind drive-belt and spark-plug trouble. The chauffeurs of moneyed early motorists attended mandatory service