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Radial Engine Powered Motorcycle
The Kneeslider, JRL Cycles ^
| May 2006
| The Kneeslider
Posted on 05/24/2006 8:25:47 PM PDT by StarfireIV
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To: StarfireIV
Shouldn't that be "radio"powered motorcycle?
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posted on
05/24/2006 11:42:40 PM PDT
by
taxesareforever
(Never forget Matt Maupin)
To: RS
62
posted on
05/24/2006 11:59:57 PM PDT
by
kenth
To: kenth
I'm guessing these radials throw oil like crazy. Rider would be covered in it.
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posted on
05/25/2006 12:19:12 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: RS
That actually looks like an insanely efficient placement for full use of the rotary engine...if the weight of the back wheel doesn't get the bike stuck all the time. Funky spoke setup, too.
I wonder why none of these homebuilts have tried the direct axle setup, even as a trike? Probably serious issues with controlling the axle, with these big engines, but a small engine would work.
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posted on
05/25/2006 3:01:21 AM PDT
by
LibertarianInExile
('Is' and 'amnesty' both have clear, plain meanings. Are Bill, McQueeq and the President related?)
To: Squeako
What's to keep the torque from that sideways radial from turning the bike on it's side?
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posted on
05/25/2006 3:54:12 AM PDT
by
CPOSharky
(Go home and fix your own country before you complain about ours.)
To: kylaka
That was my point. There never was a carrier based in-line water cooled engine. They weren't reliable enough. And radials are much lighter, always a carrier based consideration.
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posted on
05/25/2006 3:57:14 AM PDT
by
CPOSharky
(Go home and fix your own country before you complain about ours.)
To: CPOSharky
Possibly some kind of counter-rotating disk. The gyroscopic forces on the bearings would still be intense.
To: calex59
All bombers had radials.A few bombs, I think, were dropped by Lancasters and Mosquitos. Most Ju88s had inline engines too, although the radiator design gave it the look of a radial.
To: Kirkwood
If there's no oil on the outside or pooled on the ground.... there isn't ANY on the inside.. [Wisdom from a second-tour T-28B/C Instructor]
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posted on
05/25/2006 5:23:09 AM PDT
by
Wings-n-Wind
(All fo the answers remain available; Wisdom is gained by asking the right questions)
To: 308MBR
It makes a neat hydraulic motor, as well as an airplane engine. Any V-twin is just a pie slice out of one. Not all of them, IMHO. The HD style common-crankpin engines are. Some of them are more like a vertical twin with the cylinders staggered.
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posted on
05/25/2006 5:25:24 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: martin_fierro; JoeSixPack1; StarfireIV; Tijeras_Slim; blackie; BraveMan; pt17; uglybiker
That reminds me of my first motorcycle! The hamster cage was more stylish on mine, though . . .
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posted on
05/25/2006 5:45:17 AM PDT
by
BraveMan
To: StarfireIV
"There was mention of a supplemental electric oil pump which drains the oil out of the lower cylinders on shutdown thus preventing piston rod damage and also builds up oil pressure before the thing gets fired up."
That's a problem. I had a friend that had a 39' Scarab radial on his plane and he always checked by pulling the prop through to see if it was locked up.
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posted on
05/25/2006 6:19:40 AM PDT
by
dljordan
To: martin_fierro
The Wankel engine would look much better.
73
posted on
05/25/2006 6:32:06 AM PDT
by
wizr
(John 3:16)
To: org.whodat
"How many time has the radial engine been reborn? Every time so far it's proved to be a good air pump and that's about all."
That's just silly. Ever hear of the B-17? It did pretty well with its four engines. Radial engines powered most aircraft for a long, long time. They worked very nicely, thanks.
Sometimes, broad statements like yours just beg for a response.
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posted on
05/25/2006 6:55:37 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: StarfireIV
I picked up the current Popular Science at a bookstore yesterday, and one of the "What's New" items was a bicycle wheel with a 25cc (I think) *rotary* engine built into it, designed to easily install in the front forks of any bicycle to convert it to a moped. The fuel is kept in a standard water-bottle sized container, that fits in the water bottle holder on the downtube. Looked pretty ingenious to me- no idea if it will work or not.
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posted on
05/25/2006 11:44:46 AM PDT
by
TexasBarak
(I don't know about you folks, but I aim to misbehave.)
To: MineralMan
That's just sillyAt one time the t-model was state of the art, but the last time I checked the year was 2006, not 1940's. and if you had ever studied power mechanics you would find that all combustion motor are first and foremost a air pump.
76
posted on
05/25/2006 4:41:11 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
To: JoeSixPack1
Jim Feuling and his truly magnficent idea were taken from us far too soon...
Requisicat In Pace
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posted on
05/26/2006 10:00:57 PM PDT
by
StarfireIV
(John Galt was an optimist)
To: KDD
Did you see the report on GUNBUS also under construction. Jugs taken from a Pratt and Whitney sized radial.
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posted on
05/26/2006 10:01:50 PM PDT
by
StarfireIV
(John Galt was an optimist)
To: nightdriver
Sigh... Yep, and It could be sooo simple like the glow plug light on old Mercedes diesels. When the light goes off, the oil pressure is at, say 70%. When you start the engine and the pressure builds up from the mech pump, the aux pump shuts off. You could have six figure odometers like the old MB oil burners too.
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posted on
05/26/2006 10:11:58 PM PDT
by
StarfireIV
(John Galt was an optimist)
To: StarfireIV
"
When you start the engine and the pressure builds up from the mech pump, the aux pump shuts off."Of course, and when the pressure falls below a certain value, it would come back on. That way, hot oil, hot day, idling engine in traffic would have the advantage of keeping bearings flooded and lifters pumped up.
It would definitely increase engine longevity.
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