03-11-2019, 03:58 PM
Hello Duncan,
Indeed strange and ingenious and as we say in french "Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire compliqué?" Why make it simple when you can make it complicated?
I find there four silly ideas (at least):
-The heavy rotating engine would provide a giroscopic effect like on the dreadful Solex bike I hated when young
-The same engine will badly add to the non suspended mass at the front
-A simple calculation shows that for 800 rpm the bike would do approximately 60 mph, hmm... No possible clutch and no gearbox.
-I would not want to have any work to do on the engine needing to reach it behind the spokes and certainly not any serious work needing to remove them and then respoke the wheel...
Sorry, but no, I won't buy!
Indeed strange and ingenious and as we say in french "Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire compliqué?" Why make it simple when you can make it complicated?
I find there four silly ideas (at least):
-The heavy rotating engine would provide a giroscopic effect like on the dreadful Solex bike I hated when young
-The same engine will badly add to the non suspended mass at the front
-A simple calculation shows that for 800 rpm the bike would do approximately 60 mph, hmm... No possible clutch and no gearbox.
-I would not want to have any work to do on the engine needing to reach it behind the spokes and certainly not any serious work needing to remove them and then respoke the wheel...
Sorry, but no, I won't buy!