Make your own

http://www.flashbackfab.com/pages/excel00.html

A man who made his own Excelsior board racer. From scratch.

THe story goes through the mockup then making a working bike.

Zebee

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:04:11 +0930

I feel that in honour of that, it should be a 1920s cocktail! (or
possibly bathtub gin....)

There's a followup
http://www.antiquemotorcycle.org/TheMag/features/homebuilts_ex.html
where it gets onto a track. Not a board track of course...

"As the bike was totally untried, our team instructions to Larry were
to just follow behind the other board track racers and just have a
slow tour to see how things went. I noticed he gave it a bit of a
squirt coming out of the turns. On returning from the first few laps,
he reported that it ran well, and seemed to have the potential to keep
up with the other machines. He hadn?t realized that it had only been
running on one cylinder,[...]"


Zebee

 

Yes, he appears to be a very skilled machinist.

Did you read about his dog?


BTH

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:47:07 -0700 (PDT)

Yes. Goes to show that you can be a genius in one area and a
fruitcake in another.

Zebee

 

You not dog people wont ever get it

Maybe you shoulda had a Toto as a kiddy ?

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:15:17 +1000

Why is it "not a dog person" to think diagnosis by psychic is
fruitcake land?

Zebee

 

I never got my mastiff diagnosed by a pschic when he had cancer.

Fraser