I'm Bruce Linsday, I'm here at the Motorcyclopedia Museum today in Newverton, New York.
We're going to run this motorcycle today and it's kind of a special event, I'm sure there's no other 1897 motorcycles running anywhere in America today, except for at Motorcyclopedia Museum here in Newverton.
We're going to try and start it up clay with it a little today, but first let me show you a couple features on this bike.
This bike for emissions system has only dry cell batteries in this box, so it's a total loss ignition.
This big copper box here is a carburetor, it fills the fuel to about that level, it draws air down through the top, it crosses surfaces of gasoline, and it sucks it into the motor, so it's a surface carburetor, no jets, no throttles, nothing.
We've got a single cylinder motor mounted off the rear axle, it's gear driven to the axle, it's got a differential in the back there, full differential, direct drive,
so you want to stop, you've got to shut it off. For controls you have gasoline, air, you've got spark advance, and you've got compression release, so you've got everything to do with one hand there, and you've got a front and a rear brake, and that's all the controls you have.
We're going to try to start it up and have some fun with it.
We're going to start it up and have some fun with it.
We're going to start it up.
Boy that was fun, this is the greatest thing in the world, 115 year old motorcycle, just cruising around the parking lot, that's good.
