Topic: Electric Drags

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Took my Machine up to the Mason-Dixon Dragway a while ago

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Preparation

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The Competition

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The Burn Out

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The Race--Up against a 144 volt Sparrow--Please note excited expressions on the faces in the crowd.

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The Tape

[Bob Wessner]

Please note excited expressions on the faces in the crowd.

 

[HITMAN]

That would be so much fun if it were up here.  I did something fun several years ago with a self-propelled mower body, 2-car batteries and a Ford big block starter (I was really supposed to be cleaning my garage, boy did I catch hell).

[chung]

WOW! That frontend has me baffled, more details please. Or better view? again..... WOW

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To Chung:


The bike is a tilter-which means the front end is a modified 4-bar linkage and tilts into corners through the use of the left hand jockey stick--fulcrum setup
The outboard vertical springs are a "regular" sliding pillar type suspension.
The inboard angled springs keep the bike upright when you are not tilting.
Other than that --pretty normal front end!

[bill440cars]

              Phil,

                  Man, I don't see how you ever figured out how to put that together, much less get it all adjusted out and make it perform. How did you get started and what gave you the idea on this? I stand amazed.

                                                                Later on, Bill  

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Obsession is the key ingrediant.
This is actually my second tilting 3-wheeler.
Works better than the first one, but not perfect yet.
I remembered seeing a picture of the Flexi tilting sidecar from the 20's or 30's.
Thought I could do something like that.

[Brunow]

Hell man  go live your freakn dream!

Some nice... thing you have! 

[bill440cars]

Obsession is the key ingrediant.
This is actually my second tilting 3-wheeler.
Works better than the first one, but not perfect yet.
I remembered seeing a picture of the Flexi tilting sidecar from the 20's or 30's.
Thought I could do something like that.

         Yeah, My Dad told me about a guy who had one years ago. He was forever parking it, getting off and walking away, and forgetting to put the kickstand down. For those who don't know, it will fall over.
                                                              Later on, Bill

[chung]

I saw a little thing on TV the other day and realized that yours must be a leaner. I'm gonna have to stick with the sidecar for now. My friend has a clone of a 1928 Morgan Beetleback with Fiat frontend with a 750/4 between the wheels. He also has a Scorpion with the BMW K100 amidship. Sweet cars, like getting out of a VW Beetle and into a Ferrari GTO.