Motor Bicycle Building

Book in excellent condition - facsimile of the 1906 edition. All detail inquiries welcome.

Here you get a reprint of a very scarce book from 1906. Back then if you wanted a motorcycle, you had to build one. From scratch! You get the details on building a 3-1/2 hp engine (3-1/2" bore x 2-1/2" stroke) around which you build a bicycle frame. It's not speculation. This is a motor bicycle that was actually built and probably terrified the local gentry. Most of the book deals with the castings that form the joints in the frame, and the fabrication of the engine itself. And that means lots of detail in fabricating the piston, connecting rod, muffler, points, cams, valves, spray carburetor, ignition coil, and all the rest.