MIAMI MERKEL LIGHT motor project

[thehugheseum]

Very rare motor here flying merkel ties and bicycle lineage.

Missing a piston but that is an easy retrofit with a modern shelf piston.

This would make a great motorized bike with big guns lineage.

$4500

 

[thehugheseum]

heres what the bike they originally went on looks like .

 

[Cooper S.]

heres what the bike they originally went on looks like .

You didn't post a picture

 

[thehugheseum]

 

[thehugheseum]

bump age

 

[Bikermaniac]

Wow, I always wanted one of those motor-bikes. GLWTS

 

[filmonger]

Interesting..... looking at a raleigh 800 twin for about 1900 euro and there is this Miami case i thouight I might be able to build up. I'll think about my options here.

https://www.yesterdays.nl/product/miami-1916-engine-parts/

 

[thehugheseum]

Interesting..... looking at a raleigh 800 twin for about 1900 euro and there is this Miami case i thought I might be able to build up. I'll think about my options here.

https://www.yesterdays.nl/product/miami-1916-engine-parts/

ya you gotta be careful......the Miami/merkel top end cylinder is very particular......unlike most of the other bikes having a same bore/bolt pattern......that yesterdays motor is probably the same one circulating for years now......nobody can do anything with it so it gets sent away.......as for the Raleigh I think the English stuff is great quality but for some reason most collectors want American, I've said for yrs theres good value in English antique mc

for reference the last Miami/merkel motor I saw for sale (in the flesh too) was $14000.00 but it was nicer, it had all the parts/mag/carb

 

[fordsnake]

The Miami Cycle Co.,promoted and hyped this as a mystery months before introducing it at the Fall 1914 New York Trade Show.

 

[thehugheseum]

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