This is 1 cool wheel!! hope not a repost.

[brendanp]

If this is a repost, pleas take me out back and shoot me.
I found this on gixx.com. Some serious engineering here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da1C1...eature=related

[Pittenger5]

Id take a hubless wheel over that any day.

[schleppy]

Not my style, but that's friggin' impressive.

[KillBill]

That is awesome

[Wishbone]

Very cool.


But what's the point? No brakes and extra unsprung weight.

[benVFR]

I'm having a nearly impossible time finding anything about it on the web...

But my nomination is an early (pre-1940?) motorcycle that was in the Guggenheim exhibit.

The front axle was the crankshaft, the engine was contained inside the front rim, the engine was a 3-cylinder rotary, and the crankshaft stayed in a fixed orientation and the engine rotated the wheel around the crankshaft.

This is the "original" meaning of rotary engine. I'd be able to find this motorcycle I think if Wankel fans weren't continually referring to their engines as rotaries when they should probably be referring to them as Wankels.

(There were many rotaries produced before the wankel was invented, many famous WWI airplanes used them.) On airplanes the crankshaft was fixed to the nose of the aircraft, the entire engine spun on the front of the plane and the prop was fixed so it spun with the engine.

They died out by the end of WWI because the engine was a giant gyroscope and that limited RPM & Power. But that motorcycle was quite a piece of work.

[benVFR]

There it is.. from german wikipedia.. it was called the Megola and/or Pax and was created by someone named Fritz Cockerell in the 1920s.

[SRTie4k]

I never thought steampunk would work its way into motorcycling.

[TheIglu]

Cool design, but the person who made that video should be shot.

WAY TO SHOW THE SAME SCENES OVER AND OVER AND ADD IN FAKE FILM STREAKS AND REMOVE THE COLOR YOU DOOSH

[benVFR]

Well that one was not steam, it's gas, but I did find a steam powered motorcycle with a rotary steam engine in the back wheel from the 1880s.

[brendanp]

Cool design, but the person who made that video should be shot.

WAY TO SHOW THE SAME SCENES OVER AND OVER AND ADD IN FAKE FILM STREAKS AND REMOVE THE COLOR YOU DOOSH

Yea, I totally agree.

[SRTie4k]

Well that one was not steam, it's gas, but I did find a steam powered motorcycle with a rotary steam engine in the back wheel from the 1880s.

Steampunk is a style, not directly referencing steam powered.

[ChicknStripEatr]

One malfunction at highway speed and that thing would look like the destruction of the first transport machine in the movie "Contact".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdcE3VyKv5U

[benVFR]

Yah I know Steampunk is a style, I was just mentioning that due to the irony of a real steam powered MC.

Steampunk didn't come to motorcycling though.. this stuff is ancient history compared to steampunk and was part of the inspiration for sure.

[#1 masshole]

not bad but I agree the video sucked

[rbrais]

Looks cool. Definately a work of art, but damn, could you immagine a malfunction at like 70 or 80?

[spydah]

its great, until your shoelace gets caught in it.

[Quigs]

If this is a repost, pleas take me out back and shoot me.
I found this on gixx.com. Some serious engineering here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da1C1...eature=related

That is absolutely awesome. I love steampunk stuff.

[CapeRoots]

But what's the point? No brakes and extra unsprung weight.

dude..