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03-15-2007, 02:18 PM
:icon_pale Aero Bike
http://www.cycleworld.com/assets/image/2006/Q3/091520061821017012.jpg
Cycle World (http://www.cycleworld.com/article.asp?section_id=3&article_id=174)
.....It's in James' personal shop/office, though, that we ran across his latest and most outrageous motorcycle, a whack-job chariot powered by an Australian-built seven-cylinder Rotec 2800 radial aircraft engine, basically a scaled-down 172-cubic-inch (2800cc) version of a WWII Wright Cyclone producing a claimed 110 hp. Gone is the prop, and power makes its way from the crank to a 90-degree take-off that drives a belt pulley attached to the clutch/transmission. Final drive is by chain on the right side. Torque reaction should be, shall we say, interesting…
http://www.cycleworld.com/assets/image/2006/Q3/091520061821017012.jpg
Cycle World (http://www.cycleworld.com/article.asp?section_id=3&article_id=174)
.....It's in James' personal shop/office, though, that we ran across his latest and most outrageous motorcycle, a whack-job chariot powered by an Australian-built seven-cylinder Rotec 2800 radial aircraft engine, basically a scaled-down 172-cubic-inch (2800cc) version of a WWII Wright Cyclone producing a claimed 110 hp. Gone is the prop, and power makes its way from the crank to a 90-degree take-off that drives a belt pulley attached to the clutch/transmission. Final drive is by chain on the right side. Torque reaction should be, shall we say, interesting…