This is so clean . I am not sure what it is or even if it is a one-off custom... https://fb.watch/jKIEmhwKgf/?mibextid=YCRy0i
Very cool bike
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V8 Vintage: Pavel Malanik’s Self-Made JAP V8 Motorcycle
Czech builder, Pavel Malanik recreated a bike from scratch with a homemade JAP V8 engine which took more than five years to build.
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When I first saw him pull-starting an engine with a shaft running out of it, I thought "looks like he's trying to start a radial engine."
While not a true radial, the exposed cylinders look a lot like those of older radial-powered airplanes.
While not a true radial, the exposed cylinders look a lot like those of older radial-powered airplanes.
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thx DaveV8 Vintage: Pavel Malanik’s Self-Made JAP V8 Motorcycle
Czech builder, Pavel Malanik recreated a bike from scratch with a homemade JAP V8 engine which took more than five years to build.
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Air cooled V8
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I remember as a child my uncle starting his very old cat tractor using a "Pony" engine to get it turning to start it. This reminds me of that.
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I used to operate a John-Deere tractor like that. It had a small auxiliary two-stroke gasoline engine that was started first. That was used to start the main Diesel engine. This was before 12V electrical systems and starter motors came along that were powerful enough to start a Diesel engine. What a pain. The two stroke only ever ran long enough to get carboned up and fouled, so it was always hard to start. It also had a hand operated clutch lever that was about three and half feet long. Talk about awkward and difficult to finesse the engagement point.
If guys did not learn to wheelie first on tractors, we would not have perfected the technique on bikes.
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More like lurch four feet forward or backward rather than wheelie, and smash in to whatever you were trying to gently get close to.
That was training for a demolition derby.