This is one of the most unique German Touring Motorcycles I have seen! I am sure some others on the site are familiar and I'm sure there are more unique bikes out there (post some -- would love to see some others) but this just seemed so cool with the laid back seat and retro instrumentation. And it has a 5 cylinder radial engine - which happens to be built into the front wheel!?! No transmission but it says it was able to go up to 85 MPH. Not too shabby for a 1921 bike. I believe the fuel tank is also built into the front end/fork.
Thought the group might get a kick out of this one.
That Megola German made motorcycle was Way ahead of it's time ! it was probably a very smooth ride.I wonder if anyone ever documented a long journey on it in the past and just how reliable it was ?
Tools you gotta give us an update. Are you still working on the bike or has it been put on the back burner? It looks like you started to raise some funds for the build but where are you now? Very cool project and it sounds like it has kept you on your toes with all the curve balls. Good luck!
Just read your thread, tools. I got a real chuckle out of that 'thread repair' on that Hondamatic.
Back in the day, I wanted a larger intake for a bike of mine.
I found a car valve (I worked in a 'valve job specialist' shop) that I could use.
There was a 'valve' room with thousands of valves, so I had lots to choose from.
It had a cast iron head, so I just cut a larger seat to match the valve, and reamed the guide a little to accept the valve stem.
Used the car springs and collets. Worked great. (talking of a 5500 max rpm engine...lol)
When I was in the Navy in 1970 I bought a new CB750 Honda in Japan and brought it back to the states on the ship I was on. I am saying that to lead up to this. My Chief and several of the other guys in my division went out and found a motorcycle salvage yard and bought six ex Japanese police bikes and they were Meguro bikes but I thank were twin cylinder bikes. They even still had the sirens on them, there was a lever you pulled and it would pull a wheel on the end of a cable to touch the tire and make the siren go off. On a side note I thank it was the C.O. made them toss the sirens overboard because someone kept setting off the siren by putting it against a wire wheel on a grinder.
This is one of the most unique German Touring Motorcycles I have seen! I am sure some others on the site are familiar and I'm sure there are more unique bikes out there (post some -- would love to see some others) but this just seemed so cool with the laid back seat and retro instrumentation. And it has a 5 cylinder radial engine - which happens to be built into the front wheel!?! No transmission but it says it was able to go up to 85 MPH. Not too shabby for a 1921 bike. I believe the fuel tank is also built into the front end/fork.
Thought the group might get a kick out of this one.
no clutch or way of stopping the engine driving the front wheel. they have one at Barber and explained how it works when I got the tour a few years back..
"Big wheel rolling and you can't slow down" sounds like lyrics from a song I heard many yrs. ago
That would make for interesting touring on that Megola 640,now I've just got to hear about a person who toured on it 'back in the day'.
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