Cycle or Plane

Bill Greenwood · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:42 am

Take a look on www.SuperBikePlanet.com for the 07 Long Beach show. There is a custom motorcycle pictured designed to look like a warbird. It has six Allison type exhaust stacks on the side, rivet lines in the metal tank and seat and a P-40 style sharks mouth. My son Charles sent it to me as a PM titled " your Christmas present." This is finals week for him in law school at U of CO.

K5DH · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:23 pm

Bill, have you seen any of the custom bikes powered by radial engines? Do a little Googling and you'll find several. Cool stuff!

Cheers!

Django · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:38 pm

Nah Bill, what you really need is a hot rod.

maxum96 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:06 pm

2 different radial engine powered motorcycles,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUx35zuI5GI

Django · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:36 pm

The Jesse James bike has been painted since those pics...

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d56/D ... radial.jpg

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

Django wrote:

The Jesse James bike has been painted since those pics...

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d56/D ... radial.jpg

What is the hole in the seat for? The relief tube????

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

Bill Greenwood wrote:

Take a look on www.SuperBikePlanet.com for the 07 Long Beach show. There is a custom motorcycle pictured designed to look like a warbird. It has six Allison type exhaust stacks on the side, rivet lines in the metal tank and seat and a P-40 style sharks mouth.

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/image/archive/longbeach07/2/LB_2.htm

Django · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:20 pm

bdk wrote:

Django wrote:

The Jesse James bike has been painted since those pics...

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d56/D ... radial.jpg

What is the hole in the seat for? The relief tube????

Ventilation. :lol:

Just a design element, I'm sure.

Canso42 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:46 pm

Maxum96,
Can you tell us what the engine is? Early this year there was a photo of a radial engined bike that went around but the engine was 'in line' instead of 'transverse' mounted. That one was Navy blue with a bodacious T-28 with a polished prop behind it. The T-28 was numbered 133 or 131 or something....seems like I saw it for sale in an ad recently for one of the big-name a/c brokers' ads.

Canso42 -ex biker.

Django · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:56 pm

Here is the site for that one. http://www.jrlcycles.com/page/page/4187437.htm

retroaviation · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:42 pm

Canso42 wrote:

Can you tell us what the engine is?

http://www.rotecradialengines.com/

Gary

Rogue · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:34 pm

Django wrote:

Nah Bill, what you really need is a hot rod.

Yep! I love me some "Back Seat Betty"!
(I'd even drive that POS '36 back there)

Y'all gonna bring BSB down to Round-up? :twisted:

Canso42 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:55 pm

That is too cool! That's it all right. The blue chopper in the website video is the same one I was referring to.
canso42

Django · **Posted:** Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:27 am

There is a big group of us in discussion on coming down again for the Roundup. I'm not sure if I can or not, but I'd like to! We were also talking about hitting Midland on the return trip. What's another 650 miles at that point, right? As for Back Seat Betty, he is on his own schedule. He is certainly invited though.

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