What Bike Is This?

[Baldeagle]

No sorry Rocky,try again.

 

[Rocky]

Another shot in the dark. Neander?

 

[Mad On Triumphs]

Sunbeam

 

[DaveM]

If I just looked at the motor I would say an Ariel but the rest of the bike puts me off that idea

 

[shanered6]

thats what i thought Dave !

 

[Rocky]

If I just looked at the motor I would say an Ariel but the rest of the bike puts me off that idea

At first I thought that too.

 

[Spanna]

It's a 1930's 750cc straight 4 nimbus, bloody horrible! Haaa
Always looked like it was made out of an old petrol mower frame and few other bits and pieces, interesting engines though, maybe in a more conventional frame it would have looked better?

 

[Spanna]

If you don't know, Nimbus where a Danish motorcycle manufacturer, I think maybe the only one. Good job they concentrated more on beer making?
However even that is a matter of taste?
Think nimbus stopped making motorcycles in the late 50's to concentrate on vacuum cleaners, says it all really.

 

[Rocky]

I would never have guessed that!

 

[DaveM]

Well that was a first for me as well.

 

[Spanna]

I am a mind of useless information, but it keeps me occupied.

 

[harper6t]

Its a Nimbus ?

 

[Baldeagle]

Sure is,there is a guy in the U.K. Sells them!! As spanna says,4 cylinder,14,000 were produced and many exported to the US?Base model made 18hp. Then a sport model was introduced making a heady 22!!
Bikes were conceived for sale to Post Office and Danish military.
It's a 750 OHC and the cam drive is taken off the dynamo.Weighs 185 kgs.
They reckon the steel frame is impossible to drill.
What a strange machine.

 

[Spanna]

Ok I was going to post this, don't know if it's my iPad, but I can't seem to see a motorcycle anywhere on the picture? So I will hunt out another.

 

[Spanna]

This is the real one people, maybe it should be which car is this? Good luck!

 

[harper6t]

That looks like a militaire

 

[Rocky]

Excelsior?

 

[Spanna]

Yes it's a Militaire, an armchair of a bike. 4 wheels on it if you count the drop down stabilisers each side which can be cranked up or permanently down? There is something strangely attractive about it, even though it's the length of a bus. So well done Alan, your go.

 

[Rocky]

Another one I never heard of.

 

[DaveM]

Well this was also a first for me so I found this video on it, @Spanna a very cool submission from you


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLvvMOsr25E