IT'S MOTORHEAD SUNDAY

Once again it's Motorhead Sunday and I know all you motorheads out there in Blipland have been looking forward to it.  Today's Submission is a 1912 Harley-Davidson Model B motorbike.
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Check out the closeup of the rear wheel assembly and the wonderfully smooth belt drive mechanism in the Extra photo.  It was called the Silent Grey Fellow and was advertised as being capable of taking you anywhere.
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Single cylinder, 4 H.P., battery ignition, atmospheric intake valve, and a total loss oil system.  It has a set of bicycle-like pedals to get it rolling after which the belt drive was activated with a lever. It had a calcium carbide/water activated acetylene driven headlamp (when CaC2 combines with water, acetylene gas is produced..and it burns brightly).  The original price was $200.
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According to the owner (Ken Schneider) it was purchased new by Henry Wick and was given to his son Edward for a high school graduation present. It was bivouacked on a farm which is now part of Road America...America's National Park of Speed.
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It's present owner, Ken Schneider, bought it from Carl Wick (former police chief of Elkhart Lake) who got it from his uncle Edward.  I often see Ken riding it around the Sheboygan Marsh on a warm Sunday afternoon.  It's wonderful to see this beauty being used and enjoyed as opposed to rotting away in a barn somewhere.
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I'd like to see RobinDown riding this machine around Northumberland and treating us to some beautiful photos of it...he might even forsake his beloved GS for it.  On second thought...changing the rear tire tyre looks like major surgery out on the road.
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