Steam Powered Bicycle- from scratch

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HoughMade

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• Oct 12, 2009

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This not a replica of the 1906 Roper that has been posted before.

This guy built himself a steam powered bicycle- looks like back in the '80s- love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqBK...805587D2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=69

 

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• Oct 12, 2009

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Awesome, I want.

(Stop putting ideas in my head Hough! The voices are bad enough! lol)

 

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• Oct 12, 2009

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Thanks For Posting That. Ron

 

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• Oct 12, 2009

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pretty cool.

somewhere on MBc theres a link to a video of a replica build of the Roper steam bike, found here:
http://www.stanleymotorcarriage.com/SteamPacingBike/index.htm

 

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• Oct 13, 2009

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Always wondered, if you could condense the steam back into water and reuse it in a closed system, it would be much less restraining. Not sure it would be practical for our purposes. Although pictured on the vid, is a very small engine. (Hmmm, push trailer?) The return already being close to boiling temp, would be a mighty efficient system except for that whole exploding thing. Always a trade off, eh?

Way OT,.. Dave, just noticed your sig. During the good Mr. Barry's last ficticious run for president, I made beer, well, I cheated. A buddy of mine in S.A. designed lables and at a book signing, presented him a few bottles. Sure it was a children's book, but hey...

http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2007/10/strumpdate-4.html

 

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• Oct 25, 2009

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they have huge cooling towers at power stations. To cool the water for reuse.
I was reading a book about vintage farm tractors. They had a large condensor radiator on the front of them.

I geuss the bike doesnt use so much steam. So a cooling condensor wouldnt have to be all that big.

 

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• Oct 25, 2009

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alecw35 said:

they have huge cooling towers at power stations. To cool the water for reuse.
I was reading a book about vintage farm tractors. They had a large condensor radiator on the front of them.

I geuss the bike doesnt use so much steam. So a cooling condensor wouldnt have to be all that big.

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Cool thought Al. Got me thinking a simple used radiator would work.

 

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• Oct 25, 2009

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great post... that guy is brilliant!!!

 

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• Oct 25, 2009

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Thanks for sharring guy's!

 

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• Oct 29, 2009

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Oil Problem

On Jay Leno's Garage, he remarks that since you inject oil into the steam, you always have the problem of oil in your water. That always prevented a real, closed system. They never figured out a way to separate them out.