Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

Sold the MIL's Maxima to a 16 year old as a first car.  Mom made rules:  No stickers, decals, slogans, no bling wheels, no mods and no passengers.

Mom, I want to keep the SSA sticker!

Why?

From the inside, it says ass.

914Driver said:

Looks cool, but almost immediately had me wondering which would bottom first, the fairing on the ground or the fork on the bump stop (unless the fork is there already?)

Great things happen when Canada and America work together.

Or whatever.

914Driver said:

The best part is it's apparently REAL.  Like not just a render or photoshop art.  The other veiws look pretty good too.

https://www.designboom.com/technology/zillers-garage-bmw-r9t-custom-made-steampunk-04-05-2020/

914Driver said:

Bloody Mary. What at a fantastic British hillclimb special. And it has a timber chassis. Motorcycle engine. Sometimes more than one. Here's builder John Bolster with it back in the day. (He and his brother built it in the twenties. It's had many incarnations. This pic was much later, probably forties or fifties).

So, I would ask our resident Karen/Ken: the driver is setting up for a corner (right turn) ... is this vehicle under-steering or over-steering? What's the slip angle of fronts vs. rears considering the inherent positive camber of the fronts due to suspension design of the era? Did John Bolster really care? I doubt. He drove it.

ae86andkp61 (Forum Supporter) said:

914Driver said:

Looks cool, but almost immediately had me wondering which would bottom first, the fairing on the ground or the fork on the bump stop (unless the fork is there already?)

 

I assumed it was on air.

Two piece hinged hood now hinged at the back?  COOL!!

914Driver said:

I have questions.  And I can't stop looking at it.

I only wonder why they chose such a small cockpit.

During Prohibition, these were used to rum booze from Canada to upstate NY. (at night)

Art or functional?