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- From: groh@omicron.cs.fsu.edu (Jim Groh)
- Subject: Re: All-wheel drive???
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 15:11:41 GMT
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- In article <1jnmm3$qkg@agate.berkeley.edu> robinson@cogsci.berkeley.edu (Michael Robinson) writes:
- >I was talking to a friend the other day, and he told me about a motorcycle
- >show he went to a while back.
- >
- >He claims he saw an old Spagthorpe prototype that had a driven front wheel.
- >It was a water-cooled bike, but instead of a radiator, it had sort of a
- >boiler affair. They ran steam lines down the front forks to a steam
-
- <much technical stuff deleted>
-
- Absolutely correct, it was the Spagthorpe Indomitable. It was developed
- during the time that BNG (British National Group) owned Spagthorpe, shortly
- before the orignal family bought it back. It was developed by Wilhelm
- Grotonwicke Spagthorpe, AKA Willie G. Spagthorpe, as an answer to the
- Japanese invasion of hi-tech bikes. The market response was something
- less then enthusiastic and only 4 additional units were producted. (I
- think Malcomn Forbes had one, one blew up on the bonnie salt flats when
- the cooling water became contaminated, and the other two lost in the
- sands of time.) I had a picture of the prototype, but alas it has faded
- with time (a lot like me), and the picture just won't scan.
-
- >--
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Michael Robinson UUCP: ucbvax!cogsci!robinson
- > INTERNET: robinson@cogsci.berkeley.edu
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