16-04-2022, 03:31 PM
Some years ago, I had a Grahame-White cyclecar. Talk about skin of the teeth motoring!
My friend Dick Makin of Rudge motorcycle fame, helped me to make a clutch device for the chain driven dog gears. This is a death trap he said, you will drive this once and it will be gone. I persevered, and on my maiden journey, one of the brakes disintegrated on a slope. (rear brakes only). It was a very thin sheet of metal, with heavy canvas riveted to it, bearing on a miniscule bronze drum. I survived, but Dick was right, off it went to one of the cyclecar fraternity, who have bigger balls than I have.
The Austin Seven is enormously civilized in comparison, it's well engineered, and had obvious appeal to motorcycle combination pilots, especially second hand, who were able to keep the girlfriend in comfort when motoring, without bankrupting themselves.
I imagine the films are still on you tube if anyone's interested- type in Grahame White nut.
Grahame-White vr.jpg (Size: 245.3 KB / Downloads: 204)
My friend Dick Makin of Rudge motorcycle fame, helped me to make a clutch device for the chain driven dog gears. This is a death trap he said, you will drive this once and it will be gone. I persevered, and on my maiden journey, one of the brakes disintegrated on a slope. (rear brakes only). It was a very thin sheet of metal, with heavy canvas riveted to it, bearing on a miniscule bronze drum. I survived, but Dick was right, off it went to one of the cyclecar fraternity, who have bigger balls than I have.
The Austin Seven is enormously civilized in comparison, it's well engineered, and had obvious appeal to motorcycle combination pilots, especially second hand, who were able to keep the girlfriend in comfort when motoring, without bankrupting themselves.
I imagine the films are still on you tube if anyone's interested- type in Grahame White nut.
Grahame-White vr.jpg (Size: 245.3 KB / Downloads: 204)