by "Spridget" (dustbustervans)
Published 01/21/2017 at 16:41
by "Spridget" (dustbustervans)
Published 01/21/2017 at 16:41
Tags: Indian
STARS: 2
Tell me about this.
"ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)" (adabofoppo)
01/21/2017 at 16:47, STARS: 2
It’s quite small, old, and rusty. Probably worth shit-tons of money. I’d buy it if it’s cheap.
"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
01/21/2017 at 16:48, STARS: 1
That is one tiny watercooled engine. Daaamn.
"facw" (facw)
01/21/2017 at 16:52, STARS: 1
It appears to be a bicycle...
Is that motor ever connected to anything?
"Spridget" (dustbustervans)
01/21/2017 at 16:52, STARS: 0
I don’t have the faintest idea.
"facw" (facw)
01/21/2017 at 17:00, STARS: 0
In any event, as is obvious from the design and label, this is the company you are looking for (started out as bicycle company and moved on to motorcycles): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Motocycle_Manufacturing_Company
"The Lurktastic Opponaught" (oppolurker)
01/21/2017 at 17:02, STARS: 0
It looks like it should be in a museum.
"JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t" (jawzx2)
01/21/2017 at 17:09, STARS: 3
I believe this is whats known, charitably as a “tribute”, “art” or less euphemistically as “a fake”. That is a more modern (though still old) air-cooled engine with a radiator (actually I think it’s a heater core) pasted onto it, the welding in the motor-brace parts of the frame is clearly of poor quality, much less so than the rest of the frame (because the frame is a standard mass-produced bicycle frame of some type that someone has hacked up), the panels that say “indian” on them would clearly never hold fuel and are tack welded and rivited on... that’s supposed to be the fuel tank... the wheels are too new, as are the tires (no such a terrible offense), but the wheels are clearly modern bike wheels designed for modern bicycle brakes. it has no transmission of any type... also, note the electric headlamp, any motorcycle that old, if it had a headlamp at all, would have an acetylene headlamp, as they had no electrical system beyond the spark magneto.
yeah, i’m calling fake on this.
what real early Indians should look like:
"JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t" (jawzx2)
01/21/2017 at 17:26, STARS: 1
early Indians may have been “turn of the century” in their design and features, but they were high-quality, professionally-built machines and would never show the kind of carelessness/ineptitude seen in the welding on this.
"scoob" (scoobsti)
01/21/2017 at 17:32, STARS: 0
It is absolutely not a good first bike.
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
01/21/2017 at 17:45, STARS: 2
It’s a B & S lawnmower one, isn’t it?
"The AE86 of Mt. Akina (Hachi)" (theae86)
01/21/2017 at 18:53, STARS: 0
It’s an indian.
I’d probably find a way to daily it.
That’s all I know.
"bob and john" (bobandjohn)
01/21/2017 at 18:55, STARS: 0
it appears to be fuck old.
I honestly cant find anything on it. must be 100 years old. (not kidding)
"Stephenson Valve Gear" (stephensonvalvegear)
01/21/2017 at 23:39, STARS: 1
Ya know that is just a 5HP Briggs & Stratton in a modified bicycle, don’t you?
"Spridget" (dustbustervans)
01/22/2017 at 10:46, STARS: 0
Nope, I had no idea. I don’t know shit about motorcycles or bicycles.
"Stephenson Valve Gear" (stephensonvalvegear)
01/22/2017 at 13:13, STARS: 0
I didn’t intend for that to sound as rude as it reads... my apologies. I’ve been around small engines so much that I suppose I’m a bit jaded.
I like what they did; from a distance it does look like an old Indian board tracker. But they took a flat head B&S, looks to be either a 3 or 5 HP model, and modified an older bicycle frame so it would fit. Those particular engines were made from the 60's through the 90's, the horizontal shaft versions being used on tillers and such. The aluminum block flat head models were pretty much discontinued when the overhead valve Intek series were introduced in the 90's, with some overlap in production. So, while the engine is kind of old, it isn’t early 20th century motorcycle engine old. They have removed the normal gas tank and substituted a little tank of some sort for it. The radiator is just for looks, I suppose, since it isn’t connected to anything and those engines are air cooled anyway. The “tank” that says INDIAN on it looks to be a sheet metal piece that is draped over the top tube of the bicycle frame.
I’m not bashing what they did... it is a cool project... but it isn’t an antique motorcycle by any stretch of the imagination. Hope that helps.