| Today's Motorcycle Trivia - 09/30/02 |
| Retro | Okay...let's start back up with a relatively easy one.....
How many horses did the first V-Twin motor rate??
Ride safe!
Retro
"Life may begin at 30, but it get's real interesting around 150."
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| MidniteRoady | Been looking, but don't see what I need to find. Found a 1903 Indian....am I close?
Farmer Mike
01 MidnightStar
"I don't wanna pickle, just wanna ride my motorcickle"
Edited by - MidniteRoady on 09/30/2002 23:00:44 |
| MidniteRoady | More digging and found this on the Indian site- -
"The 1907 Twin, with its 39 cubic inch engine producing 4hp."
Farmer Mike
01 MidnightStar
"I don't wanna pickle, just wanna ride my motorcickle" |
| Retro | Yup...that's the answer I had. There is a lot of misinformation out there...I have seen accounts of 1903, 1904, and 1905 being the first year of the production V-Twin.
Ride safe!
Retro
"Life may begin at 30, but it get's real interesting around 150."
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| MidniteRoady | Now I can't even find the link where I saw 1903.... The Indian site in the 1906 time line says something like 'testing V Twin. Must be close in there somewhere...
So, Do you need my address to send the TV I won?
Farmer Mike
01 MidnightStar
"I don't wanna pickle, just wanna ride my motorcickle" |
| Retro | Nope...you get what's behind Door #3!
Look... NOTHING!!! 
Ride safe!
Retro
"Life may begin at 30, but it get's real interesting around 150."
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| KCLu | 
This is a 1903... look close, I can't tell, is that a V Twin?
Ride safe & Sparkly!
Lu
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| Retro | Nope, not a V-Twin. HD didn't even begin prototyping a V-Twin until 1907. In 1903 HD only made 3 bikes (not 3 different models - 3 bikes total) and they were a single cyclinder design.
Ride safe!
Retro
"Life may begin at 30, but it get's real interesting around 150."
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| KCLu | You trivia guru you! 
Ride safe & Sparkly!
Lu
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| Retro | It's amazing what you learn just trying to come up with a trivia question. When I did the Lawrence of Arabia one I was positive that he died on a Vincent Black Shadow. I even found a page that told me this was true:
http://www.angelfire.com/wi/VinWidow/
But alas, just because you read it on the Net doesn't make it true. As we all know (from reading UB trivia), TE Lawrence died on a Brough Superior.
It's tough coming up with good trivia ...especially questions that this crew can't answer.
Ride safe!
Retro
"Life may begin at 30, but it get's real interesting around 150."
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