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"With the steam engine becoming more common to power mills and factories, it wasn't long before experiments to adopt the steam engine to the bicycle began. The first successful marriage of a light-weight steam engine to a bicycle frame occurred in 1867..."
I mean it was natural really..Steam engines and bicycles are a perfect marriage.
Keep you warm in the winter..emmm...Well thats all I can think of.
Doesn't show the bag of coal you have to drag behind you though.
[url= http://www.stanleymotorcarriage.com/SteamPacingBike/index.htm ]Steaming along.[/url]
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Yikes! I can see that getting out of control.... you steam along creating draft, the boiler fire gets hotter and hotter, you go faster and faster.....
There's a guy who does all the vintage shows with a Haleson, which gets up a fair bit of speed. Lovely looking bike and the rider has a proper vintage beard to boot
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Gas heated steam engines would have been wide spread years ago if it wasn't for the hold the oil companies have on our way of life, once the oil runs out that will change!
When the oil runs out but we still have plenty of gas ?
Steampunk ones are even nicerer;
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I think Rusty90 photo is one of my neighbours! Well it looks like a local bloke with classic bikes, who I helped once load one of them into his van.
(Small world if it is)
Alan Emuss from Staffordshire according to my Teifi Vintage Show catalogue, which is where I saw him.
staffordshire certainly fits, and so does a quick BT address search of his name.. small small world.
It seems I did indeed help load that bike once!
Amazing. Not many other bikes from 1904 (I think) still working today I would have thought.
Ask him if you can try it out at Cannock Chase !
they're fossil fuel fuelled internal combustion engined steam punk styled motorcycles wwaswas.. not steam powered but very perty
yunki, yes, was just looking to post some nice pics of 'old looking but modern' bikes really.
I sometimes ride my bike when 'steaming'!
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