SpyderBen
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If you like motorcycles, you will really enjoy this story.
http://www.fark.com/cgi/vidplayer.pl?IDLink=5734912
http://www.fark.com/cgi/vidplayer.pl?IDLink=5734912
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1913 Harley Davidson-1 of 3 known
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BajaRon
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Amazing! I'm surprised he's riding it down a gravel road like that though.
NancysToy
Motorbike Professor
They were built when dirt roads were the norm (beats the heck out of cobblestones). If your gonna ride 'em...ride 'em like they were supposed to be ridden! Parade laps are fine, but they aren't like hunkering down over the tank and driving hard into a corner.
BajaRon
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They were built when dirt roads were the norm (beats the heck out of cobblestones). If your gonna ride 'em...ride 'em like they were supposed to be ridden! Parade laps are fine, but they aren't like hunkering down over the tank and driving hard into a corner.
I am all for nastalgia.. But you'd take a 100 year old, virtually 1 of a kind bike down a nasty old road like that! I'm not sure I could bring myself to do that.
And I'm assuming that rod he's pulling to change exhaust is a Snuff-or-Not setup?
NancysToy
Motorbike Professor
I'd do it in a heartbeat! Just like I would (and have) put on my leathers and flogged my fifty year old, 1 of 148 made, Honda roadracer around a road course at 12,000 - 14,000 rpm...or when I took my 50 year old 1-of-5 known to exist, "Tokyo Rose" Honda on a 50 mile ride at Mid-Ohio.
Not sure about the exhaust setup there. I only worked on one of those exposed-valve V-twins in my life. Those century old relics are well beyond my pensioner's budget!
BajaRon
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I'd ride it but not like that. But since I don't have anything like it, it's just a non-player opinion.
So you think that was a compression release? I'd have to watch it again but I don't think that is what it was. Seemed to be just an exhaust bypass. Though I can't imagine why they would add that except that maybe you get some more HP with it open and it might run cooler too.
Pretty wild all the fuel petcocks. I get some of them but some were a mistery to me. I assume that the ones he was fiddling with are some kind of choke/enrichment process.
Kind of odd. But then they thought a bit differently in those days.
Nope, it's a valve that bypasses the mufler for out of town use. Comming into town, you quieted the bike down, and opened it up out of town.
I own a 1922 Indian Powerplus, doesn't have this item, but I'm into OLD bikes.
That machine is a gem, and jeez I wish the Powerplus started that easily!
Ken
Total loss yes, oil tank location wrong.
The bike has an oil tank between the frame seat down tube and rear fender. Both sides of the main tanks were fuel.
Note the syringe style pump location and plumbing.
Ken
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Lamonster
SpyderLovers Founder
That thing was in great shape. :thumbup: I'm pretty sure Dale at Wheels Through Time has one of those at his place. I'll see if I can find the pics.
LDFIREWORKS
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awsome
clip what a cool motorcycle :2excited:
clip what a cool motorcycle :2excited:
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