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Motorcycle Discussions => Identify these bikes! => Topic started by: KEMP421 on November 18, 2015, 01:49:59 PM

Title: Mystery bike
Post by: KEMP421 on November 18, 2015, 01:49:59 PM

Anyone got any ideas as to what this is ?

Title: Re: Mystery bike
Post by: R on November 18, 2015, 04:03:38 PM

Early 1920s Rudge.
A little less shiny than a new one though....

(http://sumpmagazine.com/classicbikenews/images/1922-rudge-multi-comet.jpg)

Title: Re: Mystery bike
Post by: KEMP421 on November 18, 2015, 05:56:32 PM

Thanks for that - it's a photo an aged uncle in Aussie asked about.

Title: Re: Mystery bike
Post by: cardan on November 18, 2015, 09:26:08 PM

It has the famous "Multi" gear: about 20 speeds by moving the lever on the other side of the bike. The back belt pulley contracts while the front pulley expands, keeping belt tension constant. The Rudge Multi ran from about 1912 - 1922, famously winning the Isle of Man Senior TT in 1914. This design, with the dropped tank, was based on the bike designed by Cyril Pullin that won that event.

Leon