I suppose your right. But tongue in cheek, maybe just add some guy wires?The way the engines are mounted on that six engined bike tells me it has never run or been ridden. That little thin strap of steel wouldn't hold much. I think it was built just as a display and not meant to be functional.
Interesting but just a conversation piece.
Tom
If you had seen the beautiful welding , you wouldn't say that.The way the engines are mounted on that six engined bike tells me it has never run or been ridden. That little thin strap of steel wouldn't hold much. I think it was built just as a display and not meant to be functional.
Interesting but just a conversation piece.
Tom
2door is talking about the thin strap steel bar that all those engines are mounted to on the front, I agree with what he said, that mounting would not be sufficient for supporting those engines very well, it is a nice bike for novelty purposes but not for anything else, just a project with no real use in my opinion, but it is interesting even though I never understood why someone would go to so much trouble and expense on something tbat is basically useless, but we all have our own ways of thinking so nothing wrong with that at allIf you had seen the beautiful welding , you wouldn't say that.
The metal strap you saw might have been the throttle for all engines.
These bikes were works of art and I bet that each one could be ridden .
They were very innovative structurally .
My guess is that the owner was/is a professional race car or motorcycle builder.
This is very professional.
Some of the bikes were 5grrrrr
I did not see a website. Probably why nobody has seen them before.
Please don't take me wrong, I'm not hating on the bikes at all, they are good works of someones imagination and mechanical skills, but to me from what I can see in those pics they're just not functional machines that on could hop on and hit the road on under engine power, but still ok if a person like things like that, they would need to have each engine drive a long multiple supported jackshaft that had a single drive gear going to the real wheel to be functional for one thing, and also I don't see how you would ever get them started, if there was some way to hook a single clutch up to all of the engine you wouldn't likely be able to pull the clutch lever with one hand, and if you could, when you released the clutch on all of those engine that rear tire would just lock up and skid from that much resistance...i will try to call the place today and see if i can get an explanation of how these bikes start and ride.
If you saw them in person , you would appreciate the quality and care.