JHOLLAND1
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Megola
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SouthBendModel34
Diamond
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The gyroscopic effect of that much rotating mass in a wheel that steers, on a motorcycle that must lean into turns, must have been "very interesting"
Finegrain
Diamond
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How do you get going on such a thing, from a dead stop? Kick it off the stand and away you go? 
Regards.
Mike
Regards.
Mike
MetalCarnage
Stainless
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How do you get going on such a thing, from a dead stop? Kick it off the stand and away you go?
Regards.
Mike
There has to be some kind of clutch system in the front hub to disengage the "drive" otherwise you wouldn't be able to stop at all. The thing that I think would be the most damning about the design is the lack of transmission. The system is efficient as there would be no losses because of a transmission. On the other hand, the only way to meter your speed would be the throttle and I can't believe that radial would have enough rpm variation/torque at all rpms to make it effective.
-Ron
johnoder
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Don't be surprised if forum owner Milacron swoops thru here and deletes all these vid threads with meaningless titles
JHOLLAND1
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johnoder
yes, I do stretch the limit on thread titles-- but more recently endeavour
to post titles friendly to Google search-- a high hit rate should be pleasing to
forum owner
but even if the thread disappears after hours or day or two--regular readers
may have experienced the sense of wonderment of mechanical things constructed
decades or even centuries in the past
jh
Jay Leno's Garage
1922 Megola Touring
http://www.hulu.com/watch/395300
yes, I do stretch the limit on thread titles-- but more recently endeavour
to post titles friendly to Google search-- a high hit rate should be pleasing to
forum owner
but even if the thread disappears after hours or day or two--regular readers
may have experienced the sense of wonderment of mechanical things constructed
decades or even centuries in the past
jh
Jay Leno's Garage
1922 Megola Touring
http://www.hulu.com/watch/395300
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Capp48
Aluminum
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- Ohio, Cleveland
No. No clutch. Start it on the front wheel stand. Rock forward and away you go. Not many stop signs or lights back when this was produced. After the engine was warm I suppose you could bump start it. Ciao.
bridgedog
Hot Rolled
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I would like to see this in action. I also wonder how well it turns.
Herb in Delco
Cast Iron
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I knew the previous owner of Leno's Megola. Had several conversations with him about it. While that one lacks a clutch, he told me that a later model had what looked like in the ad the same engine, but incorporated a clutch in the hub. We spent some time speculating how this was managed--we both were very much "into" old bikes--but never even felt that we had come close to solving how it was done. I know that Greg (the PO) rode the thing a couple times. but only a couple hundred yards at the most--and I don't remember him making any comments on the handling.
Herb K
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