Thursday, March 12, 2009

Frederic Menne's steampunk motorcycles.





Another great find from Ottonero

Translated from Frederic Menne's homepage:
"The motor bikes present on this page are the work of an unknown manufacturer. Obviously impassioned strong cubic capacities with the rustic design, one notices on l' together models a great diversity of part cycles: carrying frameworks on all the models, often tubes some enclosing with more close engine and sometimes tank, suspensions AR sliding or by shock absorbers, drives chain or by tree. One will be able to also note very original work on the front suspensions, whose two models are with rods. When with the engines, all the provisions seem to be tested: flat, parallel, in line and even out of star whose distribution is collapsed most of the time (only one model use a distribution by tree and couples conical). We currently continue our investigation to try to discover d' other models forgotten and sums currently on the trace d' a very rare " Bull Mistress" equipped d' one four cylinder long race in square…"

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