What Bike Is This?

[Rocky]

We have a road race track a couple of hours from the city called Atlantic Motorsport Park.
There was an annual TT race and racers came from far and near. Our club was part of it and put on the show and shine display.
I think it lasted for about ten years and then faded when volunteers faded away.

I recall one year a six-cylinder Benelli was raced in the capable hands of legend, Dave Roper.
The noise that machine made would rip you ears off. It was owned by Team Obsolete.
That was the first time I had ever seen a Benelli.

 

[Mad On Triumphs]

Google image search is very nice. I will be back later with one from Steve McQueen's collection.

for using his initiative

 

[Rocky]

Keeping the game going, this is a really obscure one.

 

[DaveM]

That is an interesting looking bike and it looks like a small displacement motor around a 125 or so

 

[Greyfell]

Looks like a 1950's Maserati, with a 50cc engine. You didn't obscure the engine cover.

 

[Mad On Triumphs]

Don't know about being an obscure one, but it sure is pig ugly

 

[Rocky]

Looks like a 1950's Maserati, with a 50cc engine. You didn't obscure the engine cover.

You got it
I noticed I didn't cover the engine case until after I posted it
I had no idea Maserati ever produced a motorcycle, but it wasn't the parent car company. It was a sister company set up under the Maserati name under certain strict conditions.
This example is a Maserati 50 T2 SS racer.

 

[Greyfell]

You got it
I noticed I didn't cover the engine case until after I posted it
I had no idea Maserati ever produced a motorcycle, but it wasn't the parent car company. It was a sister company set up under the Maserati name under certain strict conditions.
This example is a Maserati 50 T2 SS racer.

Like MOT, I don't appreciate the appearance, but it is neat that it became part of motorcycle history.

 

[Greyfell]

Ok! Here is the first bike from Steve McQueen's collection. If you know about his collection, then you need to provide more details than simply the manufacturer.

Photo by Barbara McQueen, Steve's last wife.

 

[Greyfell]

For the fun of it, here is a bike that Steve McQueen took a road trip to see, because of its rarity, but he respected the owner enough to refrain from making an offer on it. So, it never became part of Steve's collection.

Photo by Barbara McQueen

 

[DaveM]

I like both of them but have no idea on either but I would jump at saying the second was a HD of some sorts.

 

[Rocky]

McQueen was fascinated with Indians, so I will say they're Indians.
As for more details I'll have to dig deeper.

 

[Rocky]

From way down very deep in the recesses of my tiny brain comes this information - or was it a book
1921 Indian dirt tracker.

1915 "power plus" V twin Indian sidecar rig.

 

[Greyfell]

From way down very deep in the recesses of my tiny brain comes this information - or was it a book
1921 Indian dirt tracker.

1915 "power plus" V twin Indian sidecar rig.

Rocky, you got both of them. You must have read the same book I did; which was a very good book, by the way. The clue about the photographer must have made it too easy.

The 1915 Indian Power Plus V-twin was considered rare, because 50,000 were made for allied services in WW1, but this is only known bike to return to the U.S. Steve McQueen met the owner and observed how much he loved the bike. Though Steve wanted to make an offer (his collection of 120 motorcycles, all in erunning order, had a large number of Indians in it), he wasn't going to "steal the man's wife," figuratively speaking.

 

[Rocky]

I have a couple of McQueen books; Last Mile and McQueen's Machines.

Have a go at this one.

 

[Greyfell]

Rocky, may I suggest not putting the bike name in the file name of the image that you upload for this forum? Now I have to abstain, although I like the bike very much. Is the bike missing the side cover, BTW? I think this one was made for the U.S. market after 1974.

 

[Rocky]

??? How can you see that???
As for the side cover, I have no idea.

 

[Greyfell]

??? How can you see that???
As for the side cover, I have no idea.

I right-click on the photo, and select view image. It opens the image in a new page and lets me view the image larger if I do control-+(plus). I noticed the file name at the top of the page/tab.

 

[Rocky]

I right-click on the photo, and select view image. It opens the image in a new page and lets me view the image larger if I do control-+(plus). I noticed the file name at the top of the page/tab.

I just tried that, but I don't get a "view image" option. I'll stop naming the picture from now on.
Thanks for the tip

 

[Greyfell]

I just tried that, but I don't get a "view image" option. I'll stop naming the picture from now on.
Thanks for the tip

Maybe it is just Firefox that gives me that. Yes, I don't get that with Internet Explorer.