No conventional intake valve or pushrod or intake camshaft lobe, but obviously a side-valve exhaust valve with pushrod and camshaft exhaust lobe. A new concept for me to chew on. Thanks for what you do.
In the late 70's an old antique collecting neighbor of ours had in his shed/shop an old Harley that looked nearly identical to this one, carbide headlight, atmospheric intake valves and all, though it was a V twin. One of my would've, could've should've moments of my past, wish I'd have gotten it now, but... I wanted a "chopper". The ignorance of youth.
You can always read about all these Motorcycls in a book, but actually seeing an hearing them running that’s the real learning. So special. Thanks for sharing again.
You’re right an awesome bike! Some unique features on that one never realized that Harley offered so many different motor styles back then. Great find!
Sometime when you can I’d love to see the throttle parts that goes inside the handlebars. I’ve never seen even one video of the mechanism that is in the handlebars.
If your bottom muscles are strong enough you're sitting on them and the bottom bones. I've ridden more than 150.000 km (93.000 miles) on a Brooks Colt (on a bicycle, without springs) and my nuts are good healthy yet. And don't forget the wonderful single longstroke vibrations - they'll massage the nut pain away 😀!
Good guy that Wade is selling such a nice bike it's in good home and great name Wade is awesome too I would know that also is my name don't get to hear it often. Thanks Matt 😊
Would it be in the best interest on the 100+ year old belt to be treated with a neatsfoot oil or another leather product? Any leather should have something put on them. Great bike!
What a museum piece and in incredible shape! The belt, I'm sure was kept supple using either neatsfoot oil or mink oil. They did the same for baseball gloves back then.
Only 4 horsepower you say? People don't understand or respect what a horsepower really is. You'd be hard pressed to generate a tenth of a horsepower for a sustained duration. A tenth of a horsepower is lifting 55 pounds of weight up a foot in a second. Every second, over and over. So 4 HP is lifting up a ton a foot in a second. That's like carrying a small car up a flight of stairs. Now how far do you think you can get?
Very true. I guess motorcycles were for the elite crowd back then. Of course, that bike would go where Model T's could not, given that most roads were dirt and rut-filled.
@@robj2704 I think you underestimate the nuttiness of old timers. You're talking about a people used to driving teams of animals in frontier conditions. So they had a we're going attitude.
New today, they would sell for $6500-$7500. According to the original price of $254 and inflation adjustment. Makes sense looking at motorcycle prices today. Fits.
Today we're a bit better at manufacturing than they were over 100 years ago. So you have to adjust the price of goods for that too. Those Harleys were basically custom handmade pieces. They were just doing it on a large shop scale.
.i think you needed to advance the ignition firing as you went faster to allow time for the fuel to burn at firing stroke, and retard the firing at lower speeds to allow the piston to complete its top most position...todays engine electronic ignition has these chores already mapped out in the chip from factory in relation to the engine rpm..
Love the old Harleys theres a few in Australia ive seen rare as rocking horse shit ! Awesome bikes! Johnos in Sydney had original parts for 1930s and earlier models there run around bike was a 1012 with side car delivering parts
no rockers, return by suction, i did not know that . ''it really annoys me when i here one spouse dictate to the other.'' he is dead now as we all will be, and he missed hours of joy on his bike. ''' .
Bro why you be using that ugly plastic Fuel can????? Surely you have some super cool historic metal fuel vessels you could be 'keeping alive'! Even a Gerry can would be more worthy than that! I got an old Lesco fuel can that belonged to my Grandfather who used it for everything from fueling up his lawnmower to putting gas in the old farm bike upon which he taught me to ride. Ridding sessions lasted as long as there was gas in the can....
As a lifelong bike rider and enthusiast, i appreciate wheels through time. Good stuff! Classic antique bikes.
No conventional intake valve or pushrod or intake camshaft lobe, but obviously a side-valve exhaust valve with pushrod and camshaft exhaust lobe. A new concept for me to chew on. Thanks for what you do.
check out the intake atmospheric valve spring, today we only need a reed valve to do the job on 2strokes
In the late 70's an old antique collecting neighbor of ours had in his shed/shop an old Harley that looked nearly identical to this one, carbide headlight, atmospheric intake valves and all, though it was a V twin.
One of my would've, could've should've moments of my past, wish I'd have gotten it now, but... I wanted a "chopper". The ignorance of youth.
this is my favorite youtube channel and I am his big fan, wheels through time are the best show,
You can always read about all these Motorcycls in a book, but actually seeing an hearing them running that’s the real learning.
So special.
Thanks for sharing again.
Yeah hearing that bike run is like an echo through time. It was made before World War 1.
Nice! Glad it was stored so carefully over the years
You’re right an awesome bike! Some unique features on that one never realized that Harley offered so many different motor styles back then. Great find!
Beautiful that the cables are running through the handle bar
Lovely Sound!
Cool piece of motorcycle history
just purring right along
I love how easy you make it look to start all of these bikes...
Great bike. Love the old horn on the bars.
His wife wanted him to get rid of it.. HE TOOK IT APART AND PUT IT IN THE ATTIC!! The man is LEGENDARY!!!!
Such a simpler technology! Reminds me why I enjoy riding my 1.5Hp 49cc 2 stroke motorized bike:)-John in Texas
Motor + Cycle , yeah beat walking in 1912, still does.
Thankfully, that motorcycle is NOW where it belongs - lovingly cared for and proudly displayed at the Wheels Through Time Museum.
Wow what a gem. Thanks for letting us hear it. Priceless ♥️
Nice work Matt. What an incredible find and it runs! Look forward to the next one.
Thanks for keepin' 'em running' !
Just amazing that a 108 year old Harley just fires right up.
Great addition to the collection, keep saving them.
Amazing as usual. My "Mecca" WTT. Thanks again for amazing content.
Great Video, keep these types going!!!
$235 in 1912 is the equivalent of $6634.28 (2021 US dollars)
(based on Consumer Price Index)
Sometime when you can I’d love to see the throttle parts that goes inside the handlebars. I’ve never seen even one video of the mechanism that is in the handlebars.
Beautiful!
As always Matt is amazing 😢
Awesome piece of history
First time I've noticed a jump cut just before the startup! What happened there, boys??
Looking at the seat, I am guessing every bump in the road would be a literal punch in the nuts
naaah those soft leather on the seat dampens the compression and rebound settings on the nuts
If your bottom muscles are strong enough you're sitting on them and the bottom bones. I've ridden more than 150.000 km (93.000 miles) on a Brooks Colt (on a bicycle, without springs) and my nuts are good healthy yet. And don't forget the wonderful single longstroke vibrations - they'll massage the nut pain away 😀!
Very interesting place
What an unbelievable addition. She fired up and cussed a lil. Thank Maud it got saved.
I wish you guys were building replicas of some of your bikes it would be cool to buy one.
Amazing.
Good guy that Wade is selling such a nice bike it's in good home and great name Wade is awesome too I would know that also is my name don't get to hear it often. Thanks Matt 😊
Would it be in the best interest on the 100+ year old belt to be treated with a neatsfoot oil or another leather product? Any leather should have something put on them. Great bike!
That was... well, FUCKING AWESOME 🤘🏻
What a museum piece and in incredible shape! The belt, I'm sure was kept supple using either neatsfoot oil or mink oil. They did the same for baseball gloves back then.
We do the same thing now. Before you moisturize leather you're supposed to clean it too. With Saddle soap.
👀 Luv some WTT ..!!
That's awesome.
I look at dude firing up 100 year old bikes like nothing and feel sad when I struggle with an 80's bike
than learn he prepared it
8:32-8:34 at .25 speed shows you how.
Love this channel.
That bike starts better than my lawn mower does.
Have a very similar magneto in one of my parts boxes.
Yes
Good design for gen mower
Please could you tell me how many where exported (if any..) to Europe,and where they sold the most of this lovely bikes!🤗🇨🇭Cheers!!
not much maybe, europe still had Euro 0.2 emissions rules to comply back then😁
Wow amazing!
Very cool. ..
Worth a quid too now days
Way cool!
It may be only 4 horsepower,
Though they are Clydesdale horses.
Only 4 horsepower you say? People don't understand or respect what a horsepower really is. You'd be hard pressed to generate a tenth of a horsepower for a sustained duration. A tenth of a horsepower is lifting 55 pounds of weight up a foot in a second. Every second, over and over. So 4 HP is lifting up a ton a foot in a second. That's like carrying a small car up a flight of stairs. Now how far do you think you can get?
When does the Wheels Through Time board track open?
Looks like one of clives
What kind of headlight is that?
quite advanced for 1912...250dollars was pricey back then, you could get a Ford model T for the price i think
Very true. I guess motorcycles were for the elite crowd back then. Of course, that bike would go where Model T's could not, given that most roads were dirt and rut-filled.
@@robj2704 one of those days where the moped was more mightier and pricier than a car(t) hehehe
@@robj2704 I think you underestimate the nuttiness of old timers. You're talking about a people used to driving teams of animals in frontier conditions. So they had a we're going attitude.
I like it
This bike deserves the title; Hardley Moving Son!
Vacume disc intake valve.?
New today, they would sell for $6500-$7500. According to the original price of $254 and inflation adjustment.
Makes sense looking at motorcycle prices today. Fits.
Today we're a bit better at manufacturing than they were over 100 years ago. So you have to adjust the price of goods for that too. Those Harleys were basically custom handmade pieces. They were just doing it on a large shop scale.
Very kool 🖖🏼🏍
Over 100 - light
Could you do a video on spark advance and retard on these older bikes? The how and why’s please?
.i think you needed to advance the ignition firing as you went faster to allow time for the fuel to burn at firing stroke, and retard the firing at lower speeds to allow the piston to complete its top most position...todays engine electronic ignition has these chores already mapped out in the chip from factory in relation to the engine rpm..
@@fidelcatsro6948 I only know about vacuum spark advance.
@@1pcfred im no smarter than you are amigo.. it is still mind boggling to think about all the gadgets they had on the old bikes .
@@fidelcatsro6948 they had it mostly figured out by then.
Love the old Harleys theres a few in Australia ive seen rare as rocking horse shit ! Awesome bikes! Johnos in Sydney had original parts for 1930s and earlier models there run around bike was a 1012 with side car delivering parts
Looks like my electrica shark bike! 🚲
Yu guys never tell us how to use the spark advance works
Anzani had a nice 350.
-Ducati
🎬📽🔥
you have an aooga aooga horn.
350cc
XR
no rockers, return by suction, i did not know that . ''it really annoys me when i here one spouse dictate to the other.'' he is dead now as we all will be, and he missed hours of joy on his bike. ''' .
$2500 in the day
Sub’d & Bell’d
If Maude was Claude she woulda been knocked out.Unsafe. . Beautiful scooter.
Probably the oldest bike i seen running
Thats $5,471.96 in todays money.
He probably paid more than that for it too.
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Please stop calling them machines! They're not sewing machines, not washing machines, and not dish washing machines! They're motorcycles with ENGINES!
A machine is a device that constrains motion to perform work. Motorcycles are by definition machines. You're welcome.
Bro why you be using that ugly plastic Fuel can?????
Surely you have some super cool historic metal fuel vessels you could be 'keeping alive'!
Even a Gerry can would be more worthy than that!
I got an old Lesco fuel can that belonged to my Grandfather who used it for everything from fueling up his lawnmower to putting gas in the old farm bike upon which he taught me to ride.
Ridding sessions lasted as long as there was gas in the can....
Old
which is funny and very annoying how often he says Harley Davidson it would be enough if he only says Harley but otherwise it bothers me well🤘🏻