Nice looking engine Al, all you need now is the other 7 cylinders, seriously though, I did read a long time ago some chap, where else but the USA had a motorcycle frame with a MERLIN engine in it.
I wonder if there is a small radial engine that could be put into a M’cycle frame?
Jim.
Lincoln .7
Jim, some people are amazing – Australian engineer ‘Lucky’ Keizer knew of some surplus Mosquitos lying around in the desert near his home, and chopped 2 cylinders from the V12, and made a 5 litre motorcycle from it…
Folk have put radials in motorcycles, too – roasted nuts, anyone?
I suspect it’s more of an air flow reason Jim – my Harley-Davidson has the same 1930s hemispherical combustion chamber design as found on radials, but the valves are convex on the intake, flat on the exhaust!
Come to think of it, the old Shovelhead does look like a slice from a radial…
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