Was thinking the same thing.

Likewise. I wonder if he has anything out on how he built it exactly (precisely).

Can I have one please ?

You'll have to get behind me in the queue!

I've wanted one for a while. This one is beautiful.

I agree, the world seems upside down in places.

Absolutely ! 👍 😁

Oh no! This gentleman isn't filthy rich and he doesn't have a scandalous personal life. How could anyone possibly look up to him?

Sleepy steam,live steam, dead steam 🇺🇸🤠

Sweaty Salute from the ddg-22.

Well, it is an eccentric builder.

As soon as he said that' all these yrs i thought i was smart and a genious just flashed in my face saying' you are wrong" you dont know jack shit.

Robert Cook Ha Ha, nice one😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

It occurred to me that every man needs his pants set on fire. Most do that via marriage, but a steam bicycle...? Now that's different.

Well said, Mr Cook !

Best KZfaq comment ever!

Well, he definitely spent a fair time on the internet looking up part specifications and thinks like that, i guess :D

More depends how the internet is used Most of the stuff for working on cars was google and youtube.

How impressive, you've wrote a KZfaq comment on a steam engine.

Is it possible to learn this Power?

I bet he needs a license to operate it, lol.

It is

@@mybluebelly Electric bicycles are allowed 250W. Anything above 250W is classed as a motorcycle, and so subject to all the regulations and licensing issues. This machine is 130W - so it is well within the regulations.

@@paulstandeven8572 also, its speed caps off at around 15k/h. So neither the speed is a problem!

Don't forget the Nelson's hat (-:

I would prefer to listen to this chap on his own. Calm, interesting and knowledgeable. CF, brilliant too unquestionably but, too much noise and hype.

Blue murder.

They could build a fake steam powered quadcopter 👍

ditch the bike bell, give a good ole toot to warn pedestrians. Or pedestrian riders for that matter.

Yes Steamyfog, re: hybrid boiler, I can't understand why cramming a section of firetube boiler in there would help. Obviously it does, but why specifically? The price for doing it has to be very high- the time spent on it must have increased by 10x. The refinement of this machine produces an incredibly rideable bike. Just imagine if ICE engine development were delayed by 30 years. The world received a few beautifully refined steam engine vehicles just as consumers got attracted to ICE engines. Doble, White, Stanley, Sentinel Steam Trucks, the last Bessemer steam locomotives in the 1920's with multiple cylinders/drive wheels, the Bessemer Steam Biplane, etc. We might have had steam engines right into recent times.

@@someotherdude In my opinion it was the electric starter that killed the steam engine in cars or other road vehicles. Why wait a few minutes for steam when you could push the clutch in, press a button and go? Also, some people were scared of steam because they were worried about boiler explosions.

I think it was that and more- how would you operate the thing in the dead of winter with freezing? Boiler explosions were not too serious though, with small monotube boilers. The tube basically rips open and releases pressure, no 'bang'. But also, steam engines wold tend to have less range and to additionally demand water, and they are oil consumers too. Without computer monitoring and control, you have a more complex job as driver. But read about the 'cyclone steam engine', it now takes 30 seconds for steam pressure to be ready to drive- about the time it takes to settle in, put on your seatbelt, turn on the heat or AC, etc.

@@twistedyogert steam died because IC engines were a lot cheaper to make.

@@someotherdude I'm not sure I would dismiss a boiler mishap quite so lightly. In this case a small quantity of 100 psi super heated (500C) steam released close to a human would be no joke. I have every confidence Mr Drake knows what he's doing.

My glasses must have steamed up watching this and had to look again when I read your comment about the crash helmet as I had missed it first time!

That was the cyclist he met in the tunnel that got vaporised as he rocketed through.

I'm Irish and you're right. So glad it's someone I could relate to doing this personal experiment, we see so little of them by comparison to the Americans.

he needs to modify it to make tea as well

@@BILLY-px3hwGoes without saying it makes tea. Rather the whole point I should say. He missed pointing out the little Darjeeling hopper, it's on the right hand side.

Yes indeed, this is a marvel of engineering. But lets be honest. Very few people would buy this. And they would do it only for the looks of it. It would be also very expensive to maintain unless the user happened to be a mechanic that knows what he is doing. Also, there are much more practical mediums of transportation.

@@cia9315 Could come in handy in fascist states that ban internal combustion engines on bikes.

@jason9022 I recommend my book, "Recognising Whimsical Irony for Dummies". It will help you to avoid making a fool of yourself in future. (Available at all good book shops and indeed, at some mediocre book shops too).

@@ozzymandius666 Yeah because a pedal bike should always have an engine. How about just buying a damn motorcycle if you don't want to pedal

Are you serious or just stupid?

Jay who??

@@thegardensentinel - Jay Leno - watch the video. He's a famous American comedian that owns a huge automobile and motorcycle museum in California. www.shearcomfort.com/blog/jay-lenos-car-collection-cars-from-the-jay-leno-garage/

Yeah, it sounds like a single cylinder petrol engine... Which it kinda is

Steam train engines were so strong they were breaking shit two steam cylinders could best a lot of big Diesels

Supppsedly spitfires Rolls Royce V12 ran on steam. The cooling sealed superheated system rand through the leading edge of the wings. The German mssserschmidt speed record "the French men burnt there hands on the leading edge when they pushed it into the hanger" The closed dry steam pressure system runs at 850lb per □ inch. Superheated dry steam. I think steam is the best system avaiable the sealed dry steam system can run for 00s of miles before needing a top up of water. Would go along way to explaining the old world and how they could build these magnificent structures. Steam is the ultimate power. Less moving parts. More efficient and far more powerful than diesel. E.g.. 2 5/8 × 4 1/4 inch. Two cylinders at 125 lb per □ inch pressure can carry 74 passengers in one load with 2 carriges. The engine us 10 foot long. 2 1/2 foot high. 1 . Foot .7 nch wide. 4820 passengers in one day. Parramatta to domain Sydney 1890. Cheers.

Thanks for the info. When I was a kid about 60 years ago, I got a Christmas gift of a working kid version of a steam operated shop. With working drills, lathes ect. . A great learning tool. They cant sell those to kids now. Fire, boilers & saws. Wish I still had it.

@@jedsparks3868 yes. We can't get anything now a days. Not even a chemistry set. Nanny state. I don't feel safe. Ring the DhHs. Omg. Help. Haha

@@jedsparks3868 They do still sell them. Do an ebay search for Wilesco or Mamod.

Thanks

could make a steamer box and also recover heat to preheat the air while condensing

I think the steam generator is more inspired by the Doble

@@paulstandeven8572 hard to say without seeing it with the casing off. Doble didn't have a water level in their boilers. They were all monotubes/monocoil boilers with water in one end of the tube stack and steam out the other with superheater and de-superheater sections also. The Stanley's had firetube boilers (with an actual water level), and a superheater section running from the throttle to the engine. The one's I have worked on we have installed a pre-heater or economizer section to the feed water going into the boiler. Usually about 50' of 3/8" tubing under the smoke hood and above the firetubes. The vaporizing burner and tree for the jet looks very Stanley-esque also. Just one branch and jet, rather than two.

@@WesleyHarcourtSTEAMandMORE Agree.

That's not cobbled, it's engineering beyond a commercial professional level for personnal satisfaction. It would be intesting to see his workshop and personnal office.

You're so right! I detect that too..... and he's so meticulous and the attention to detail done so well.....

m... yeah, until not fired :D

Steampunk isn't about real steam, it's just pretend,dressups and sticking some burnished copper on to make it appear steam driven.

@@barana24 Yes your right but I'm still sure they'd love to take a look at this machine at a festival. Steam punk is science fiction set in the timeframe of the steam age. Some people go all out and the women look hot in leather and corsets. It looks like fun to me though I've never got involved. My costumes would involve boilers smoke and CO2. Alas that sounds like hard work.

In England, bikes with a cross bar are designed for men to ride, and have always been called "gent's" or "gentlemen's" bicycles. Women have a different design i.e. no crossbar. It's nothing to do with the class system.

wordsmith52 . I’m well aware. It was a comment on the steam bikes of yore. Clearly being a word-smithy for the education of the plebiscite does not endow one with historical knowledge and a pun on the times. Shame on you.

@@markgoddard2560 Oh dear - you are a sensitive soul! My comment was for general information for all, and not just you. (Incidentally, I'm proud of my comments and not from the snowflake generation who feel they have to apologize all the time like fools - so, if you are "offended": tough! )

wordsmith52 . No. I’m as cold as ice. And I’m not from the sensitive snow flake generation, so don’t feel bad about that. Incidentally, if you don’t want a reply, or are replying to all and sundry, may I advise that you just use the general reply box. I would have thought a non-sensitive, non-snowflake patronising wordsmith would have known that?

@@markgoddard2560 Ha ha! You like making assumptions don't you? Well, as I already said, I intended and wanted to comment to you personally, as well as anyone else generally! (But I won't descend to your level by making insulting and offensive remarks).