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Old 09-08-2015, 05:02 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The Black Pearl: a (wannabe) steam powered motorbike.

Last sunday my wife sang with her choir at the annual Museum Wharf party in Nieuwegein (where they also practice weekly).
Being a wharf, they also had some antique ships and nautical items on display, there were paint boots etc. for the young visitors while the fully grown kids around were entertained by the Amateur Steam Club with all their toys.

Of which this one caught my eye:
The Black Pearl.


Designed and built to operate on steam, they had to convert it to pressurized air to get it road legal.
So not a steamer, sadly. You'd still own the road.

I would have loved to see it on the move but it was just on display.
There was enough action anyway, like an ancient horse drawn steam powered fire engine pump that caught fire, ironically, and had to be escorted away from the crowd.

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Old 09-09-2015, 12:45 PM   #2 (permalink)
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That's wild.

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Designed and built to operate on steam, they had to convert it to pressurized air to get it road legal.
Hopefully they took video of it running on steam before they did the conversion.
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Such a pity that it couldn't be road-legal if remained steam-powered...
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The legalities intrique me! Why couldn't it be road legal under steam power?
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Indeed, it is not the first of its kind, see this nice rendering:

http://www.coroflot.com/higginsc1/Train-Wreck


Which Rene Van Tuil acknowledges in this gizmag article:
http://www.gizmag.com/revatu-steam-p...k-pearl/37135/
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custom specialist Rene van Tuil, owner of Revatu, makes no effort to hide what inspired the name of his latest creation, it is a 2011 design by Colby Higgins that is likely to have sparked his creative flame.

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