The Ruscombe Gentleman's Steam Bicycle
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Mark Drake's amazing 'Ruscombe Gentleman's Steam Bicycle' takes a trip through The Two Tunnels Greenway in Bath. This is the first time a steam powered vehicle has entered the tunnels since 1966, when the route fell victim to the now infamous Beeching cuts which closed large sections of the UK's rail system.
What a legend. Well done that man, gets my respect. The sort of bloke one should look upto rather than pop stars/footballers.
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?
This is what can happen to a man who doesn't spend enough time on the internet. A cautionary tale!
Best UA-cam 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 UA-cam comment on a steam engine.
Is it possible to learn this Power?
"It's called an eccentric drive"
Damn right, it is.
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 !
Truly MASTERPIECE of engineering.
Well done!
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!
Serious respect from me, Mr. Drake! As a model engineer myself, I appreciate the amount of work in that bike. You must get a whistle, though.
ditch the bike bell, give a good ole toot to warn pedestrians. Or pedestrian riders for that matter.
I didn't know I wanted a steam bike
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.
So, you, Bicycle Ship builder. You are one of our gifts. Thank you
Excellent. Just imagine what would happen if this chap and Colin Furze got together...
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 👍
Seen a number of attempts at producing a steam powered bicycle, but this is by far the best. It actually seems like an everyday use machine. ...It shows what can be done with informed and careful design. It would be nice to know a bit more detail of the hybrid boiler.
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.
I have NEVER seen such a compact steam engine!
An amazing achievement !
Cheers From California 😎
Top notch engineering in this build, many people have built simular ones but very bulky, heavy and cannot compete with yours ! ,I'm very happy to see this.
Excellent! Very motivating.
I want one ..and a monocle 😁
Don't forget the Nelson's hat (-:
Brilliant engineering well done!. Goes into the tunnel without a crash helmet and comes out with one on, Magical!
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.
Wow, certainly an impressive piece of engineering. Looks like it’s got plenty of torque, it definitely gets up and goes.
I love how clean and neat his bicycle looks!
This is the most British thing I've ever seen.
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.
After this demonstration nobody will be able to say "you go into such great detail"!
Mechanical engineers were responsible for discovering the world.
Thanks for the video!
The sound to an unsuspecting bystander is that of a small gas engine.
Yeah, it sounds like a single cylinder petrol engine... Which it kinda is
This brings a smile to my face. I love my four stroke bicycle but this is really a marvel. Well done!
Absolutely remarkable. James Watt would be impressed!
Wonderful! - Hats off to you Mark!!...
That is quite something else, understated excellence in design and modern approach with the engineering.
What an amazing form of transport and indeed concept - and those working parts run like a Swiss watch. (I suspect that many years of experience have come into play, including early forms of transport made from lawnmowers and bicycle tyres!)
What a bike! And that sound!
Very impressed by his friend's knowledge and very clear explanations. I found them necessary to understand the system.
All I can say, I am blown away by astonishment! This is by far the best steam-bike concept I have ever seen, well thought out in design and color! Its one of the nicest machines, I ever saw!
First time seeing a steam bicycle. Never even heard of it before.
Sensational design, truly inspirational for starting a steam bicycle project.
Absolutely fantastic, such dedication!
You are wonderful.
Such a genius as far as i can tell this is as close to perfect. I have always appreciated the two years i spent studying physics at the community, you must have a spent all sorts of time thinking about isaac newton. I feel humble watching this video. My whole 70 years on this planet perhaps the most stable thing has been my bicycle. it has been with me and a part of me every day. I
A splendid piece of engineering and you could even warm your greggs pasties on the side of the steam boiler .Well Done
could make a steamer box and also recover heat to preheat the air while condensing
Beautiful work of art from a true craftsman. Well done!
Your sharing of this wonderful machine and her steam-savvy builder is enhanced by the great production values and the intelligent questions of the interviewer.
it just looks right , so it is right . perfect
FANTASTIC what a legend
Love this would love to build,fantastic stuff great stuff a man that should right a book.
It's elegant practical. I absolutely love your work. People need to make their own power and get around, for cheap
Very cool idea, calling it a gentleman bicycle brings to mind expensive and complicated. Engineering masterpiece, like the small steam powered gadgets in the movie Wild, Wild, West. Which only Hollywood could do.
Beautiful work
Brilliant Man,,,, Actually worked on what he studied in college.
Brilliantly done.
So good to have an intelligent interviewer as well! I did wonder about the cut-off so I was pleased to hear it.
Brilliant engineering. Well done.
Wonderfully built. It seems the system is designed after Stanley, with the addition of an economizer. Beautiful machine.
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.
I've just bought a new ebike; efficient, quiet and works well. I'd love one of these as a fun compliment and a talking point. It's an amazing machine.
What an incredibly intelligent chap. Bravo sir, your creation is truely magnificent.
I bet Jay Leno would LOVE this bike. Great job!
Magnificent accomplishment on what is obviously a labour of love. Thanks for this video
I really like how he scrounged the bicycle and sot of cobbled the rest. This is very English.
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.....
Mark; very nice work, James Watt would be thrilled.
the best steam bike ive seen
Ive always loved the potentials of steam
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
Oh. My. God. I want one! So complicated though, total respect for making it.
That is absolutely marvelous. I am impressed beyond words at the engineering and how well the engine performs. It's a true work of art and vision. Thankyou for sharing.
Beautifully engineered, it all fits so neatly in the frame
Magnificent: beautiful engineering, a wealth of experience, attention to detail, and a genuine passion combine to conceive art in motion!
What a beautiful piece of engineering!
Soooooo cool!!!!! Great job!!!
Superb. Not much else to say really, I'd just be listing superlatives!
Dude you are my hero!
Good man....Good man..... Good man ...... excellent
Magnificent Workmanship
I would love this for a tricycle
Bloody brilliant!
How cool is this
Sir my hats off to you. That is the most awesome bicycle ever! I would like to see your shop. Thanks for sharing.
Looks so damn delicate
Absolutely delightful!
Amazingly engineered, well done.
Thanks for sharing, most interesting and an excellent job
"Those magnificent men in their cycle machines, they go up tiddly um dum, they go down tiddly um dum"........
Magnificent!
Very nice indeed!
Men, and the beuatiful things they are capable of
I'd be very much interested in seeing this thing go up the steep hill.
I need one for my grandma.
That’s the best thing I’ve seen in a very long time😀
Damn I don't know how but this bike really needs an old school far west wisthle!
I wish my brother was still alive - he would LOVE this!
74 dislikes to date! What's with people? On what grounds can you dislike a project like this?
you have also to be in a bit of a minority to look for the dislikes and comment on them.There's usually one like you among all the comments.
Ian Rutherford and an even smaller minority to look for the comments on the dislikes and comment on them. There's usually one like you among(st) all the comments on the comments...
@@bazerwazer6180 Hmm
Misclicking I think
Oh WOW! Simply fantastic. Ingenious and extremely well done! What an outstanding masterpiece (additionally it looks beautiful). Congrats. I bet that great Jay Leno (and Mustie1 for example) would love this steam bike.
Thanks a lot for making taping editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health.
To the dude giving the interview. Stop rushing and interrupting and with the “yea” and “mmhmm”’s .. he was giving it a personal touch and you keep interrupting and we can tell you knuw how a steam engine works, dont care, wanted to hear what he had to say..
Thanks for commenting, saved me
the trouble. I actually was interested
in hearing what the inventor had to
say. Too bad the host had so much
trouble with interrupting him. Quite
a shame. Thanks for the content, but
please learn to listen with your mouth
closed, stop being so concerned with
showing us how smart you are. בס״ד
If you really want to understand what he is saying, turn on CC. Reading is much better.
I really hope that the steam makes a come back!
Fantastic work Mark. Are you ever going to publish the drawings?
I wish they did that in the US..turn an old train track tunnel into a walk and ride so cool..here the not used is just Abandoned or blocked off.....cool Bicycle
Such an interesting machine! It looks like a goofy contraption from a distance, but close up it's clearly a well-engineered and artfully realized design. Well done!
Uber cool...well done...beautifully engineered....
That's so cool!
You need a top hat and tails to ride the Gentleman’s Velocipede! Brilliant work. Top hole!
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).
Absolutely brilliant well done sir
Most brilliant! Well done man. 👍🙂
I love steam engines, this is very impressive!
Impressive steam machine. About the exhaust steam, you could use it to run a small alternator to power lights and horn, then condense it back into the tank. You could also do a Mk2 engine with triple expansion and a gear change system to better take on hills and flats.
Amazing!
Nicely done! Both the video and the bike! I think your design is near perfect, any plans to make more or sell plans? This is by far one of the best steam projects I've ever seen.
Awesome 👌 👏 👍 ❤️
That is a pleasant sound.
Reminds me of when I have too much cheap beer and granola.
God, that is so beautiful.
Fantastic. Very well engineered.
that's just what i need....