Friday, July 30, 2021

Pavel Malaník, is a wedding photographer, and in his spare time, he built a magnificent replica of the 1909 Torpedo motorcycle, piece by piece, because the original, a prototype, was built as a one off promotional model and the whereabouts of the original, if it still exists, is unknown Thanks Kim!


the engine


is actually two conjoined V-Twins from Trojan & Nagl, the company that built the original.


 https://bikepost.ru/blog/retro/22088/Retro-mototsikl-Torpedo-V4-1909.html

https://thekneeslider.com/1909-torpedo-v4-replica-by-pavel-malanik/

If that's not impressive enough, he also built this:

the same way. By making it piece by piece

https://www.pavelmalanik.cz/jap-v8/

2 comments:

  1. WOW! Hats off to someone with that much skill. I am presently reading a book about the history of precision. One has to admire these craftsmen.

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    1. Is it that book I posted about? The Perfectionists? http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2021/04/jay-leno-wrote-article-about-this-book.html

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