My brother's new ride

[Brian in Dawson Creek]

My brother’s new ride, ever since we were kids his hobby has been antique vehicles and the ford flat head V8 in particular. Last few years he’s been talking about getting a V8 motorcycle from Honest Charlie’s in the USA.
http://www.honestcharley.com/honest-...torcycles.html
I told him he was nuts and that he’d never get it across the border and if he did it would arrive piece by piece. Honest Charlie’s weren’t to sure they could get it to him either as they had never shipped one to Canada. Long story short, it arrived last week.

I’ve also included a link to a small movie file of the bike running, sounds neat and I hope the link works, it is a fairly long download if it does work at all. Some folk on the Canadian forum reported download time of anywhere’s from 10 second to just over a minute and some had to right click and save as a file

Brian
http://www3.telus.net/wood/feb%202008%20010.mov

[cabinetman]

Very cool bike. Using a flathead...who woulda thunk. Kinda reminds be of the 500 HP Tomahawk, V10.
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[ironhat]

Very neat. That thing has to weigh a ton!

[Uncle Cracker]

Didn't have time to do the download, unfortunately. I'm too busy putting a Mercury 225HP outboard in my blender...

[mater]

That is a neat ride. Those V8 flatheads were good engines.

[Pappy]

I've seen V-8 bikes before but most are mounted sideways. Makes me wonder if it would be possible to build a V-8 shaft drive on a standard frame.

Are the audio/video off, or is the throttle backwards?

[jking]

Very cool. I'll have to try to download the file when I'm at home. Nothing sounds quite as sweet as a flathead V8. My dad had a old truck with a flathead & glasspacks on it. It was so quiet at idle you could barely hear it. It didn't go very fast (partly due to gearing), but, nothing else sounds quite like it. The bike looks very neat.

[Santa Clarita Len]

Flat Head Water pumps

That is a neat ride. Those V8 flatheads were good engines.

Except for the water pumps which had an internal bolt in each one that always rusted and a socket wrench would tend to round off the head. Anyone else, other than me, remember this oddity?