I gave up motorcycles 50 years ago after my third (3rd) accident, but with this bike I am willing to reconsider.
TMC DUMONT is equipped with a 300 hp Rolls-Royce Continental V6 engine from a 1960s aircraft and fully leaked 36 inch wheels. I have no idea if it can actually turn and riders should be cautious as that back wheel is frighteningly close! It’s impractical, it’s ambitious, and I think it’s awesome to see a crazy concept brought to life and actually ridden. TwistedSifter
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Looks like a Continental O6 to me. Common as crabgrass is light aircraft, mostly because Cessnas. Probably licensed to RR for European consumption.
It’s a wonder I made it out alive out of my 20s. I shite you not, I did some crazy hold my beer stuff but the one thing that increased my odds of reaching 30 was selling my Norton 850 Interstate in my early 20s. I loved that bike. I weighed in the low 130s and when I twisted that grip, she’d shoot from 60 to 80 in the blink of an eye.
I rode it up and down the CA coast in the 70s, Lord was it beautiful, smoking mind numbing Thai Stick. What a gas. Coming back home to CO, I had it in the 120s going across Utah with an Interstate straight as an arrow to the horizon. No windshield either and sipping Jack every once and a while.
When I slowed down to 55, it felt like I could get off and check the oil.
Note the clearance and the fact that he never turns. Final version can’t be that low.
I think I’ll stick with my horses. 4WD and much better ground clearance.
Yes. Horses. The ultimate “all terrain vehicle”. Gimmee 2 pleeze.
That TMC Dumont is a trailer queen at best.
Sit it in the corner of your living room and let your drinkin buddies drool all over it and talk their shit.
Artful expression of the American Right to Go.
The wheel and motorcycle have already been invented, boys. Horizontally opposed antique engine, snowmobile varidrive and no room to carry a billfold.
Nuts, nuts
MMinLamesa, you and my Dad could probably swap some stories! He had a 650 Matchless back in the 50’s and rode it from TX to WVA on AF leave. He used to wrench on B-47s. I bought a Sporster in the mid-80’s and Dad wasn’t real keen on that….until he borrowed it to ride around town. I’m still riding that same ’82 Sporster. I have some stories too, but they probably pale compare to yours!
Snake, your dad and mine may have shared shop rags. In the early 50’s he was stationed in Japan for half of his 4 year enlistment in the AF wrenching on C119’s, “Flying Boxcars” (the bigger cargo version of the P38 style with twin booms – look it up), then the balance at McAllen, TX. I have in my possession a telegram he sent to his dad in Gettysburg when he got out that he was on his way home on a brand new 1954 Harley he had purchased. Just one of many Harleys and other brands of 2 wheelers that littered our driveway and yard over the next 20+ years. He had a Cushman Eagle when he was a kid and in the late 60’s we dragged it out of my grand dad’s garage and overhauled and rebuilt it. Quite a primitive creation, half lawn mower 1/2 motorcycle. And the Honda’s, Kawasaki’s, Suzuki’s, dirt, street, drag, didn’t matter what it was if it had 2 wheels we tried to keep one of them up in the air while the other one laid black stripes on the road and I have the scars to prove it.
Kinda fun as a novelty item – the wheels do look cool – but it’s overpowered especially for something that doesn’t corner well. The manicure on his hands tells the story.
The lack of a back on the driver’s seat has got to be the stupidest feature of the design. Give it a little too much gas at the green, and you will be the answer to the question “How much of the human pelvis and spine can be stuffed into a 1″x4″ crack?”
It would make a great prop for a low-budget Batman movie.
Street legal? Where does he put the license plate?
That thing got a hemi?
I suppose having 2 wheels makes it a motorcycle, eh?