Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

In the 1960s, the most resourceful teenager in our neighborhood married a “spider” bike and a 3 1/2 hp horizontal shaft Briggs engine. V-belt drive, no clutch, push to start, and hand brakes off a junked English bike. He rode that thing everywhere, except Main Street. The cops were willfully blind as long as he stayed off Main Street.