DELIVER-E POSTIE SCOOTER

Australian inventor Simon Williams found out that delivery bikes being used nowadays have many drawbacks, so he decided to design one himself. He even quit his job and worked as a postman for 18 months just to get a sense what they need in a bike. He discovered that the ones currently in use are noisy,  a hassle to manually back up, and could easily fall over when perpendicularly parked to a slope. The Deliver-e has two electric motors, one on each rear wheels, it has a reverse gear as well. The prototype weighs 120 kg (264.5 lbs) and it can speed up to 80 kph (50 mph) and it has a range of at leas 60 km (37 miles).

Simon Williams ausztrál feltaláló úgy gondolta, hogy a manapság használatban lévő postás motorok nem igazán felelnek meg az elvárásoknak, szóval úgy döntött, hogy majd ő készít egyet. Ennek érdekében még a munkahelyén is felmondott, csak hogy 18 hónapra beállhasson postásnak, hogy megtapasztalja mire is van szüksége egy levélkihordónak. Rájött, hogy a mostani gépek túl hangosak, nagyon nehéz őket hátrafelé mozgatni, és könnyen feldőlnek, ha egy lejtőn merőlegesen kell megállni velük. A Deliver-e mindkét hátsó kerekén van egy-egy halk elektromos motor, és tolatni is tud. A prototípus 120 kilós, és kb 80 kmh-val tud repeszteni 60 km-en keresztül. 

 

source: http://www.gizmag.com/deliver-e-electric-trike-for-posties/18117/

1962 KTM PONNY II SUPER lV DELUXE

Our reader, Viktor Várhelyi,  from Hungary submitted these fantastic pictures about his beautiful KTM Scooter. He didn't provide us with much info, but I guess the restoration was done by him. We love it.

Thanks for the pictures Viktor.

Egy kedves olvasónk Várhelyi Viktor küldte ezeket a fantasztikus képeket gyönyörű KTM robogójáról. Nem írta ugyan, de úgy gondoljuk, hogy a felújítás az ő munkája. Nagyon szép motor. Köszönjük szépen Viktor.

  

More Artur Fenzlau...Austrian motorcycle and motor racing photographer....this time in 1955....

Following my previous post I'm staying with Artur Fenzlau and his camera...great, sharp, interesting photographs taken on the 26th and 27th March 1955 during practice and racing on a hill climb circuit organized by the Motor Sports Club "Around Vienna" which started in Klosterneuberg and finished in Josefinenhutte...
I've been onto Google Earth and fiddled around and think I could have the actual course...well as it is today...

Again acknowledgement is made to the Technical Museum of Austria in Vienna and the estate of the late Artur Fenzlau for this non commercial posting of these photographs...

Most of the riders are un-named, however the NSU works rider, H.P. Muller riding an NSU Sportsmax #1

and Erwin Lechner (50) on a 125cc KTM; Gerold Klinger (5) on an RS 500cc BMW;Rudolf Grimas (19) on a 125cc Mondial are the only other riders identified.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MEGASCOOT FROM O.RAY COURTNEY

One night in March, 1950, O. Ray Courtney worked until two a.m. and drove home discouraged. He was trying to design a better motorcycle. He wanted one with the seat forward, with better cooling, better springing and a more beautiful body. Discarded sketches littered the floor of his shop.

That night in a dream he saw a steamlined beauty skim across a flowered field. Too excited to report for work the next day, he hastily put his dream on paper – and he is riding that dream cycle now through the streets of Pontiac, Mich.

from: http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/custom-motorcycle/

DAVE IVERSEN'S 1941 HARLEY FLATHEAD 3 WHEELER

from: http://www.iversenoriginals.com/projects/cycles_details.php?detail_id=9

Artur Fenzlau...Austrian motorcycle and motor racing photographer....a look at some of his photos from before WW2........

Artur Fenzlau was an Austrian motorcycle and motor racing photographer from a young man in the 1920's up to his death in 1984.

His extensive photographic and negative collection has, in the main, gone to the Technical Museum of Austria in Vienna who have digitised much of it and it is available for the public to view on their website....
http://www.technischesmuseum.at/
If English is your first language, you are better logging onto the URL using Google Chrome as it has a translation facility.
The copyright for these images is held by the museum and the estate of Artur Fenslau and I acknowledge this for their use on this blog and post which is non commercial.
So I've selected a few of the images for this post...some from the Swiss GP in 1935 and 1936, some from some minor GP events in 1932 and 1933 and the others from the races near Vienna in June 1939.

 1933 Odenburger Landerkampf,#14,Franz Falk Velocette.

 1933 Odenburger Landerkampf,#16,Emanuel Völkl ,OHC Norton 350.

 1932,GP von Odenburg..Velocette in the foreground.

1935 Swiss GP, pit lane Fergus Anderson, KTT Velocette(14).

 

1935 Swiss GP, 500 Husqvarna.

1935 Swiss GP, Jimmy Guthrie (16), Norton...

1936 Swiss GP, Jimmy Guthrie, Norton.My thanks for Charlie Huckins for picking up the original date error I'd made. I'd typoed it as 1935, when it is 1936.

1935 Swiss GP, start line.....

1936 Swiss GP, Otto Ley, works 500 supercharged BMW.

1936 NSU factory team, Swiss GP...

1936 Swiss GP, 500 Husqvarna Ragnar Sunngvist...

1936 Swiss GP, 3rd May, Stanley Woods chats with journalists before practice starts...

Start of practice, 9th June 1939, the 2nd Viennese High Road road race...G.Hildebrandt on a factory 500 BMW...

H.Thorn-Prikker (71), during practice, 10th June 1939 on a 1938 Mk.7 KTT Velocette...

 

During practice, 10th June 1939, Bruno Ahlswede on the ex Roger Loyer 1936 IOM TT Mk.6 KTT Velocette. The bike was destroyed during a firestorm in an air raid in Hamburg, WW2.

During the race, 11th June 1939, Bruno Ahlswede, ex Loyer Mk.6 KTT Velocette...

During the race, 11th June 1939, G. Hidebradt, works BMW....

H.Thorn-Prikker, Mk.7 KTT Velocette, 11th June, during the race...

 

Hermann Deimel (84), Velocette, during the race, 11th June 1939.

H.Kellner (122), BMW, 11th June 1939, during the race...

Kurt Pogner (114), BMW, during the race, 11th June 1939.