Twin-Engine Dragbike

[erix]

After building Tommy Ivo's twin-engine dragster from the sixties I wondered if anyone had done a similar thing with motorcycles. It turns out many racers built multi-engine beasts to tackle the dragstrips and the salt flats in the fifties.

Here's Bud Hare's "Dubble Trubble" from 1953:

And this is John Melniczuk's "Parasite" from 1959:

So I imagined some kid in the fifties took my original bobber-style motorcycle from last year and doubled-it-up:

You can see how the bikes were mostly built around stock frames, lengthened in the backbone and bottom and stripped of everything but the bare essentials, thus the bobber turned to this:

Lengthened frame, shortened tank, lowered forks, relocated controls...

Like the bikes that inspired this build, the engines are connected by the primary drive and individually carbureted.

From the other side, showing the shift linkage.

I first built the bike with a red frame but it looked to "show bike" instead of "go bike"!

My son got into the act while I was building this and made a little pit bike to go along:

More pics of both the red and black versions on my brickself gallery: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=erix

ok,

erix

[LegoPanda]

nice, i agree the red one looks a bit to showy

[Alien]

Beautiful creation. the chains detail really draws the attention.

[unimog123]

Interesting model. How many cylinders is that, 4?

[erix]

Thanks for the kind words!

Yes, there are two 2-cylinder engines chained together.