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Post subject: Re: Motorcycle with a airplane engine  Posted: 07 Dec 2020, 21:33 |
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Is it just me, or is there nothing at all stopping his butt crack from taking some major abrasion from the rear wheel if he happens to slide back a little in the seat? Just looking at that made certain parts of me pucker up!  What a wild looking machine. Definitely a showcase for some serious engineering talent. When I saw the title of this thread I immediately assumed it was about the Rotec-powered bikes shown here. Radial engines sound terrific on airplanes. Yeah, they don't sound so bad on bikes, either! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VU-ULR ... nel=R28R36
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Post subject: Re: Motorcycle with a airplane engine Posted: 09 Dec 2020, 15:12 |
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Username Protected wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am8hV5Al514 So he gets the heat from the engine right on his shins. Doesn't sound too comfortable to me. Oh, and he better not run over a bottle cap, he might scrape the undercarriage. Dan
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Post subject: Re: Motorcycle with a airplane engine Posted: 10 Dec 2020, 13:44 |
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Username Protected wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am8hV5Al514 So he gets the heat from the engine right on his shins. Doesn't sound too comfortable to me. Oh, and he better not run over a bottle cap, he might scrape the undercarriage.
This is not about comfort or practicality any more than a custom chopper is. You do realize that, right?
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Post subject: Re: Motorcycle with a airplane engine Posted: 10 Dec 2020, 19:39 |
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Cool as he!!
Creative engineering at work. Need more of this.
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Post subject: Re: Motorcycle with a airplane engine Posted: 11 Dec 2020, 17:48 |
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Username Protected wrote: Is it just me, or is there nothing at all stopping his butt crack from taking some major abrasion from the rear wheel if he happens to slide back a little in the seat? Just looking at that made certain parts of me pucker up! What a wild looking machine. Definitely a showcase for some serious engineering talent. When I saw the title of this thread I immediately assumed it was about the Rotec-powered bikes shown here. Radial engines sound terrific on airplanes. Yeah, they don't sound so bad on bikes, either! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VU-ULR ... nel=R28R36Back in the '80s there was a guy that sliced the front two cylinders off a Merlin engine and put it in a cycle. Corrected. Was in 91. It's out on Google. Looks kinda like the old Hesketh.
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Post subject: Re: Motorcycle with a airplane engine Posted: 11 Dec 2020, 20:56 |
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Username Protected wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am8hV5Al514 So he gets the heat from the engine right on his shins. Doesn't sound too comfortable to me. Oh, and he better not run over a bottle cap, he might scrape the undercarriage. Dan
His knees double as CHT probes and the shins are for EGT
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Post subject: Re: Motorcycle with a airplane engine Posted: 14 Dec 2020, 14:05 |
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Username Protected wrote: This is not about comfort or practicality any more than a custom chopper is. You do realize that, right? Avid motorcyclist since 1961. There isn't much I don't realize regarding motorcycles, some choices just make no sense to me (including this one). Dan
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Post subject: Re: Motorcycle with a airplane engine Posted: 14 Dec 2020, 14:18 |
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Username Protected wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am8hV5Al514 So he gets the heat from the engine right on his shins. Doesn't sound too comfortable to me. Oh, and he better not run over a bottle cap, he might scrape the undercarriage. Dan
BMW motorcycles with horizontally opposed engines had your toes right under the cylinder. Hell in the summer but great in the winter.
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Post subject: Re: Motorcycle with a airplane engine Posted: 18 Dec 2020, 00:04 |
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I am surprised or maybe i missed it....Does he run it LOP?
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Post subject: Re: Motorcycle with a airplane engine Posted: 18 Dec 2020, 00:04 |
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I am surprised or maybe i missed it....Does he run it LOP?
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