Steam powered motorcycle pics
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Steam powered motorcycle pics
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RE: Steam powered motorcycle pics
Along with chain- shaft- and belt drive I can add rod drive as a new variation to the list though. Probably not a fast ride, but torque is tunable with a twist of the pressure valve, and should increase linearly until the cylinders blow!
RE: Steam powered motorcycle pics
Looks like something we might see in the Henry Ford museum though.
Reidh
RE: Steam powered motorcycle pics
Question...If it were not for the 'suicide' front door, I would think that car on the right was a 36 or 37 Nash. Anyone know different?
Rod
RE: Steam powered motorcycle pics
It appears the 'boiler' has never been fired, or fitted with a shell. Just as clearly, the front downtubes were routed forward and down to clear the boiler assembly. I'm guessing a modest water tank would fit behind the seat, between the cylinders. Or maybe that would be the fuel tank, and a water tank would fit where a normal motorcycle fuel tank goes.
The bike is resting on blocks where a centerstand would be, and the rear wheel is slightly off the ground for what is clearly an engine test with an external steam supply. I think I see 'motion blur' on the rear wheel spokes and a little exhaust steam behind the rear wheel, suggesting that the first two pictures (duplicates?) were taken with the engine running.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Steam powered motorcycle pics
On a (distantly) related note, I spotted a beutiful tin-lizzie coming up behind me on the road one Sunday last year, obviously on the way to one of the many local drive-in car shows popular around here. Problem was he was throwing so much white 'smoke' I expected he wouldn't make his destination. He pulled up behind me at the light and all was made clear when I decifered "yelnatS" on his radiatorless bonnet in my rear-view mirror. Tickled me to find the old puffers are still roadable!
RE: Steam powered motorcycle pics