I found the twin of that Starfire parked in a gas station parking lot when I was in college, repainted purple. I actually liked it so much I did a title search on it and wrote to the owner, who was a sweet old lady who was going to fix it up "someday"... sigh...
Fixed gear, but there are two sets of holes on the crank handles ( not sure of my terminology here) that allow him to make the equivalent of a gear change depending upon how far away from center the pedals are mounted. It has a cool disk brake setup.....
Fixed gear, but there are two sets of holes on the crank handles ( not sure of my terminology here) that allow him to make the equivalent of a gear change depending upon how far away from center the pedals are mounted. It has a cool disk brake setup.....
Ahhhh-so....clever arrangement....positioning the pedals farther from the axle will increase your distance traveled (with greater effort) per revolution, having them closer to the axle`s centerline is better for hilly terrain. Smart !
Ahhhh-so....clever arrangement....positioning the pedals farther from the axle will increase your distance traveled (with greater effort) per revolution, having them closer to the axle`s centerline is better for hilly terrain. Smart !
Well the revolution stays the same..... always 1 to 1. However moving the pedals further from center gives you a bit more leverage to climb hills..... Unfortunately the change cannot be done on the fly.
Ahhhh-so....clever arrangement....positioning the pedals farther from the axle will increase your distance traveled (with greater effort) per revolution, having them closer to the axle`s centerline is better for hilly terrain. Smart !
Beats me! I just thought it was cool, took that shot while we were on vacation in France earlier this month. It was on display at a little museum in Giverny dedicated to antique diesel stuff. Most of it was static machinery but this one had wheels, figured it fit the "other things" category the OP included...
[update] It's a Societe Francaise Vierzon tractor, apparently... big "SF" badge on the front and "Vierzon" marking on the top of the radiator shell. I still can't tell what is going on up front, looks like a cast manifold of some kind peeking out with a thin metal plate to cover it, and then below that some kind of light duty plumbing. Check this video (more on that page I didn't look at), looks like may be related to how you fire up one of these beasts - they have a propane or air tank attached down there: