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Icycle, a bicycle designed for riding on ice, at the History Museum at the Castle in Appleton, Wisconsin. Icycle museum placard, at the History Museum at the Castle. An ice cycle, ice bike, or icycle is a bicycle adapted for use on ice, usually by replacing the front wheel with an ice skate.
[5] [9] A kick-starter was added by 1953. [10] The Servi-Cycle was claimed to have a fuel economy of 100 mpg ‑US (120 mpg ‑imp; 2.4 L/100 km). [11] The Servi-Cycle used a magneto of Simplex's own design, providing 6 volt electricity for the dual ignition and for the headlight, taillight and stoplight.
Designed by Harry Ricardo. OHV with a 4 valve head Model P 500 1925–1926 made down to the price of £42.17.6 Model N 500 1928 £46 Model X 150 and 175 1930–1934 Model WO 250 1931-33 Twin Port Sloper (1100 made), OHV XO 150 1933 OHV 2/1 & 2/L1 (Light Weight) 250 1934-1936 OHV single 6/1: 650 1933-1935 Parallel twin. Predates the "Turner Twins".
The Softail is the most popular Harley-Davidson model family for heavy customizing and is often used for show bikes. Many aftermarket manufacturers around the globe have specialized in Softail parts & accessories like wheels, fenders or tanks to change the look of the custom motorcycle . [ 13 ]
The smaller model 5 Roto Hydramatic uses the same principles of operation as the model 10. It is 9 lb (4.1 kg) lighter and much shorter in length — a necessary design parameter considering its placement in compact cars. The model 5 is not related to the "Dual Path Dynaflow" transmission used in the Buick Special and Skylark models of 1961-1963.
The Backus Water Motor Company of Newark, New Jersey was producing an early example of a split cycle engine as far back as 1891. The engine, of "a modified A form, with the crank-shaft at the top", was water-cooled and consisted of one working cylinder and one compressing cylinder of equal size and utilized a hot-tube ignitor system. It was ...
As built, the Class 19D was delivered with Type MT tenders with a 12 long tons (12.2 tonnes) coal and a 6,000 imperial gallons (27,300 litres) water capacity, even though the axle load of 16 long tons 11 hundredweight (16,820 kilograms) of these tenders exceeded the permissible limits on the branch lines for which the Class 19D was intended.
Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, released in April 1971 by Warner Bros. Records. The album was recorded between early January and late February of the same year.