A FIRE BREATHING MONSTER...Picture 120 mph, no brakes, wide open throttle, a exhaust choked wolfpack and a strong faith in God to see you through. NOW THAT WAS RACING ! ! !
These were the years when the transition was from the powered bicycle. 61cubic inches = 1000cc. 30.5 cu in or 500cc each cylinder. What a sight it must have been to watch these bikes run around the old tracks. Thanks for the video.
I have been a bike freak all my life. Owned at least 40, 6 presently, as a self employed machinist , I have never hit the big time financially, and if I won a mega million lottery, not that I buy tickets, and have little dreams about aquisitions, , a bike like this would be the first to search for. Lights? REG.,? Ins,? Talk to my lawyer !!!!! In all seriousness, God bless you for keeping this bit of history original and showing it to folks like me. Willy.
My Harley has 17 lights including the .title ones like license plate, fender tips etc., plus blue strings under the tanks to light up the chrome. Loud LIGHTS save lives! And I'll bet after this filming, he started wearing ear protection!
What an awesome Machine. Especially because you can see everything operating. Like the Sound, the look, the History of board track races thats bond with it. Wish more young people like me would be interested in such way.
This is awesome! Watching the work of this bike's engine I couldn't get rid of thought that it was not just working 4-stroke engine, but a kind of submachine gun firing with bursts. This thought came to my mind during watching these blue and orange flashes visible inside cylinders' cover and appearing at the exit of exhaust pipe, and the shooting sounds ringing out at the same time.
Very cool. nice machine. Love seeing the old ones run. That must have been quite a machine in the day. Kinda like to Moto GP bikes today. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent sir. I had no idea the Pistons were exposed and you can see the skirts. Also I don't understand how the Flames are coming out of the cylinder heads as well as the exhaust. Most informative and well done. Thank you.
Awesome , what a find!! Great job getting it together , I cant believe how it sounds...Very Nice, Thanks for sharing..It looks like you have a great shop also..Dave
Those "cut outs, relieve the very high exhaust pressure in the ports. Some guys do that to outboard engines, which exhaust underwater and cause a lot of back pressure. It gives significant power increase, but sounds really nasty and ruins the serenity of the lake.
It was because they didn't understand the concept of valve overlap. This was their 'fix'. No-one really did, until Harry Ricardo nutted it out about 10 years later.
This thing was made for one purpose; to dominate the track. The engine was optimized as much as was possible for the period. Lubrication is total-loss. I would imagine that it was intended for the top end to be rebuilt between races...
@@michaelmcneil4168 Not solder....babbit metal.. soft alloy of tin, antimony, copper, and usually lead..... It's how we made bottom end bearings back in the day. Pour in the metal, let it cool and then hand scrape it in to an exact fit with engineer's blue and a hand scraper. They held up well, especially considering the crap oils of those days (which why castor was popular) and very 'casual' oiling systems.
there isn't a million of these v twin racing bikes and all of them have ported heads to try to vent heat to stop it burning the 8 valves look on the internet if you don't believe me.
I think that's a 'ported' engine. On many race bikes of the era the cylinder was opened to the air towards the bottom of the stroke. It was supposed to allow rapid expulsion of exhaust gasses but some speculate that it really just gave a crude supercharging effect. Either way ported engines did make big power, as well as big noise. It also made control of the intake charge almost impossible, hence the blip throttle. If I understood what I read correctly anyway...
I can remember as a kid in the early 1960's there were still some of these old Indians and vintage Harleys set up like this to ride the " Wheel of Death" and I had much respect for those riders in that steel and wooden sphere going balls out.
Fucking LOVE this! My Grand-dad raced one here in NSW in the 1920s. I'm sure I remember seeing the engine in the early 1960s - or it may have been my father's 8-valve Harley. Fuck, it WAS nearly 60 years ago...
@itTAKESaWOLF I'm guessing that either (a) they had a guard over here that protected their legs, or (b) their riding position meant that their legs were out of the way...
Makes you kinda have that frankinstiene feeling"shes alive " lol good solid engineering lasts for generations for all to admire ,looks like she's gotta bit of poke too
It's an Indian 8 valve racing engine, four per cylinder. It's designed this way, One exhaust valve dumps into the pipe the other the head port. Absent the exhaust systems used on more modern motor cycles, an exhaust flame is normal. But then, any engine running directly out of the exhaust ports will have an exhaust flame. Valve timing has nothing to do with it. No leaking valves, no over heated heads, just an old engine running as it was designed to run.
Wow. W-O-W. What I don't get is why oil isn't flying out of those holey cylinders and day-um, that flying rear tire is only an inch away from grabbing floor traction and hurtling bike and rider into the far wall.
A FIRE BREATHING MONSTER...Picture 120 mph, no brakes, wide open throttle, a exhaust choked wolfpack and a strong faith in God to see you through. NOW THAT WAS RACING ! ! !
These were the years when the transition was from the powered bicycle.
61cubic inches = 1000cc. 30.5 cu in or 500cc each cylinder.
What a sight it must have been to watch these bikes run around the old tracks.
Thanks for the video.
My Grandfather raced one of these in Australia in the 1920s. Love this!
"so where should the exhaust come out?"
" legs are fine "
The KING of the track for the era. The baddest of all cycles! The nostalgia that it holds is priceless.
You are one lucky guy!
I have been a bike freak all my life. Owned at least 40, 6 presently, as a self employed machinist , I have never hit the big time financially, and if I won a mega million lottery, not that I buy tickets, and have little dreams about aquisitions, , a bike like this would be the first to search for. Lights? REG.,? Ins,? Talk to my lawyer !!!!! In all seriousness, God bless you for keeping this bit of history original and showing it to folks like me. Willy.
Can you imagine what a set of stones it took to ride this beast? Much respect!
ive watched this vid at least 5 times over a couple of years and every time l get a big shit eatin grin, love it, thanks for sharin,,
@Shadow Rider Most probably.
OMG mustie 1 after 7 years im your sub hi!!!
Probably the best video I have ever seen of a motorcycle running ever
The fact that it has 8 valves is astonishing in an engineering standpoint. While most modern motorcycles have less.
Nice to see a boardtracker actually running rather than the museum bikes you see at auctions.
This Sound is my alarm at 6:00 a.m. a Really. Warm up just to start the Day. Thanks for the video. I love old school motorbicycles.
4 valves per cylinder in 1915 in a motorbike, that's amazing
you know you're a manly man when your motorcycle's explosions happen outside of the engine like its no big deal
loud pipes save lives,
Or at least gets their attention!
My Harley has 17 lights including the .title ones like license plate, fender tips etc., plus blue strings under the tanks to light up the chrome. Loud LIGHTS save lives!
And I'll bet after this filming, he started wearing ear protection!
OMG MUSTIE 1 8 YEARS AGO!!
I can't stop watching this... thank you.
What an awesome Machine.
Especially because you can see everything operating.
Like the Sound, the look, the History of board track races thats bond with it.
Wish more young people like me would be interested in such way.
That old rusty bicycle looks and sounds more brutal than the modern bikes with their 1000cc engines
No u
Me pet animals
Will ride like a bag of shit
No exhaust straight from the head
because it is
exposed rocker arms and push rods are beautiful
This is awesome! Watching the work of this bike's engine I couldn't get rid of thought that it was not just working 4-stroke engine, but a kind of submachine gun firing with bursts. This thought came to my mind during watching these blue and orange flashes visible inside cylinders' cover and appearing at the exit of exhaust pipe, and the shooting sounds ringing out at the same time.
They thought of everything. Now, you can light your cigar without having to stop to light a match. Brilliant!
Wat en pracht van en motor...zeker all de mooite waard,om hem aan de praat te krijgen!! Thumbs up!!
I'm obsessed with motorcycles from this era.
Clearly THE most badass bicycle around.
4 valve cylinder heads 110 years ago. They knew something about future.
This is not 110 years old. It is 100 years old.
@@AwsomeVids83 nñjuy09
Yes.... Rudge made a 4 valve bronze head for some of their road racing bikes.... Nothing new under the sun...
8 valve....
whats amaizing listen again an antique old gasoline motor , it is incredible , congratulations
Love the fact these old bits of kit still exist, yet still run!. Nice one!. Nuff said!. 🙂
Awesome in 2019
Can you imagine what the average spectator thought of this in 1915.?
That had to be some experience!
A real Indian board track racer ... wow. Mind blown. Thanks for posting this.
the reasoning behind those exposed exhaust ports is so the rider can make on the fly adjustments to ignition timing and see the change
and what are the holes at the bottom of each cylinder for? .. crankcase venting?
You you are saying those are kind of an EC-You, then?
I'll be over here.
EC-YOU :D
You are being serious ?
Michael Lang I thought they were for cooling the exhaust valves
One of the coolest bikes ever!
man i would pay to ride this !!!!!!!!! unbelievable machine well done and thanks for sharing
Everything about that motor looks so so cool fire coming out of the heads bring it back!
LMFAO Imaging riding that thing to school. Even a Bugatti would be boring compared to that :D
xXAlmdudlerXx I rode mine to school lol everyone wanted to ride it lol
Sounds Great! Keep that leg clear!!!
seriously hardass.. from a time when men were men and us boys watched in awe
Just love it
this is some next level crazy right here
Wooowww. Im impressed. Good filmed,no one in between camera and bike. Perfect shooting. nice sound-details and at last patina. :-)
Cool! Must have been nuts on those tracks......
Yep, love those blue flames, and as gunbroker100 said it's normal operation for an old beast like this. Thanks for posting.
LOVE THE FLAMES AND THE BEAUTIFUL OPEN STRAIGHT PIPES.....🎶🎵🔥🔥🔥🔥🎵
Man...goosing the throttle on a centry old scooter...can't get much better than that
Very cool. nice machine. Love seeing the old ones run. That must have been quite a machine in the day. Kinda like to Moto GP bikes today. Thanks for sharing.
That engine sounds more badass than a modern Harley. Cool flames coming out too.😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Excellent sir. I had no idea the Pistons were exposed and you can see the skirts. Also I don't understand how the Flames are coming out of the cylinder heads as well as the exhaust. Most informative and well done. Thank you.
Awesome , what a find!! Great job getting it together , I cant believe how it sounds...Very Nice, Thanks for sharing..It looks like you have a great shop also..Dave
very interesting and impressive old rig, and slightly frightening.
WWI era.. wow they looked bicycles at the time! What a beautiful history piece
Holy shit!! That bike shoots flames the same way my old 1977 XLCH Sporty 1000 did!
Good gravy. That little motor bike sounds like a freakin' air plane!!!
Those "cut outs, relieve the very high exhaust pressure in the ports. Some guys do that to outboard engines, which exhaust underwater and cause a lot of back pressure. It gives significant power increase, but sounds really nasty and ruins the serenity of the lake.
It was because they didn't understand the concept of valve overlap. This was their 'fix'. No-one really did, until Harry Ricardo nutted it out about 10 years later.
Combustion engines are inherently incompatible with serenity
I have to hand it to the guys who used to race those things around the track for hours. What real men are made of.
It has an awesome sound when everything is hitting
The best thing i've ever heard in my life :)
thats the best thing ive seen on youtube to date
This is amazing, I just ran across this today. Thanks for posting this up and please do not touch it (restore) it is perfect!
that thing is almost 100 years old and sound INSANE
@caterpillarnut there are holes drilled into the exhaust ports to aid in cooling
This thing was made for one purpose; to dominate the track. The engine was optimized as much as was possible for the period. Lubrication is total-loss. I would imagine that it was intended for the top end to be rebuilt between races...
Especially not having factory matched, machine milled bearings. They used to have to pour their own solder into the journals every so often.
@@michaelmcneil4168 Not solder....babbit metal.. soft alloy of tin, antimony, copper, and usually lead..... It's how we made bottom end bearings back in the day. Pour in the metal, let it cool and then hand scrape it in to an exact fit with engineer's blue and a hand scraper. They held up well, especially considering the crap oils of those days (which why castor was popular) and very 'casual' oiling systems.
OH my left leg - well it burnt off while racing !
looks like it would start your left leg on fire and it sounds angry and beast-like!!! Love it!
It has that "turn me loose and hang on" kind of sound..... great bike...
That is a savage sounding bike!
How do ride it without burning your pants up?
I think he still has some work to do!
nope thats how they were have an flame proof inner leg on your pant leg or stick your leg out like a jonny ten men
luis vermillion If see a million of these old bikes running and none of them had fire coming out of them.
there isn't a million of these v twin racing bikes and all of them have ported heads to try to vent heat to stop it burning the 8 valves look on the internet if you don't believe me.
nope and stupid mods they were the cutting edge for the time
looks like a bike with an engine, sounds friken awesome
Very awesome ! I wonder why the holes are in the head like they are .insted of coming out of the pipes? still awesome
What a beast!!
This thing is a rat rod bike!
what a raw sound! I like that!
@schlusselmensch - thats also a possibility , reading the plugs are the best way to check for best mixture
Goh daar zou ik best wel een stukje mee willen rijden! Wat een ervaring lijkt me dat! 999,6cc op een rijwiel vergelijkbaar met een fiets. Wauw!
that engine is FREAKY!!! it'll burn the rider's knees off!!!
Iron American Dream on TH-cam.
Irons what made all those old motorcycles happen.
I think that's a 'ported' engine. On many race bikes of the era the cylinder was opened to the air towards the bottom of the stroke. It was supposed to allow rapid expulsion of exhaust gasses but some speculate that it really just gave a crude supercharging effect. Either way ported engines did make big power, as well as big noise. It also made control of the intake charge almost impossible, hence the blip throttle. If I understood what I read correctly anyway...
Nice....love the leg warming feature!
Meraviglioso!!! Bravo baffo!
Amaizing!!
Beautiful running !
Ha Ha Ha what a Beast,fire breathing dragon strapped to a bicycle.F....., Awesome.I,m still building my 741.. cheers from Down Under
I can remember as a kid in the early 1960's there were still some of these old Indians and vintage Harleys set up like this to ride the " Wheel of Death" and I had much respect for those riders in that steel and wooden sphere going balls out.
THE BEST... SHOW... I LOVE INDIAN
Fucking LOVE this! My Grand-dad raced one here in NSW in the 1920s. I'm sure I remember seeing the engine in the early 1960s - or it may have been my father's 8-valve Harley. Fuck, it WAS nearly 60 years ago...
My neighbor uses the same engine in his camper generator and runs it all night long.
Bill Bright i bet he doesnt sleep then lol
Bill Bright your neighbor has a $20,000 engine powering his generator.😊
Are you can sleep ?
And that is why I am going today and get my 320w solar panels, 4 of them for my camper van ;) (and batteries so it will have power over the night)
OLD,BAD AND DANGEROUS...love it!!
Man! That thing sounds possessed!!! Indian forever!!
@itTAKESaWOLF I'm guessing that either (a) they had a guard over here that protected their legs, or (b) their riding position meant that their legs were out of the way...
Very cool! I wouldn't wanna ride it, mind you, but it sure is cool!
crazy fast with that light bike
A rare thing! Thanks for posting!
Como nao gostar de um motor tão especial como este......valeu
Thanks for posting,,I enjoyed your video of that awesome machine
Makes you kinda have that frankinstiene feeling"shes alive " lol good solid engineering lasts for generations for all to admire ,looks like she's gotta bit of poke too
Awesome sound !
@SH1974
Do you really think this guy would destroy an engine like that?
Come on! This man is a specialist with these type of engines!
It's an Indian 8 valve racing engine, four per cylinder. It's designed this way, One exhaust valve dumps into the pipe the other the head port. Absent the exhaust systems used on more modern motor cycles, an exhaust flame is normal. But then, any engine running directly out of the exhaust ports will have an exhaust flame. Valve timing has nothing to do with it. No leaking valves, no over heated heads, just an old engine running as it was designed to run.
it spitting blue fire, wow what a great engine
Fire breathingly awe inspiring!
Wow. W-O-W. What I don't get is why oil isn't flying out of those holey cylinders and day-um, that flying rear tire is only an inch away from grabbing floor traction and hurtling bike and rider into the far wall.
This is art for my eyes.
Bruno Junqueira & ears
was made for hard people
Sheet, EVERYONE was hard back then.
Wonderful bike 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍👍👍👍👍
Now, take it for a spin..
What a engine!