Pics of Deneysville Motorcycle museum - 27 Sept

Hi

The breakfast run to the Lakeside Avenue Inn was good! I took the boring but fast N3 and R59 route to Deneysville. Coming back, was a bit more scenic - via the R549 to Heidelberg and then short stretch of N3. Breakfast was R60 and R20 for entrance to the museum. I met the legendary Simon Fourie and his wife at the museum too.

What scared me was the thin rubber on those racing machines - how the heck did they stay upright?




Look at the complicated arrangement to get power to the back wheel:


I really liked the look of the Ariel


Beautifully restored!

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

Maybe, one day, this one will be in a museum too?
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mario wrote:Hi
What scared me was the thin rubber on those racing machines - how the heck did they stay upright?

For their day, that was a fat tyre...!

mario wrote:
Look at the complicated arrangement to get power to the back wheel:

All the British bikes used that arrangement - Primary drive chain or belt from the engine to a separate gearbox behind the engine, then a secondary drive chain from gearbox to rear axle...

Harley Davidson still uses that arrangement today.!

Thanks for sharing Mario.

Yeah... those old bikes are classy.

Funny how they have so many drip pans - I assume for all the leaking oil - and I thought Fiat didn't make motorbikes