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1909 Royal Pioneer

close look at this 1909 Royal Pioneer and you would think there should be four hands to ride it. Or maybe five.

After all, there are four distinct twistgrips on the handlebars, two on each side. In addition, there is a hand pump on the tank for the supply of oil to the engine.

But the Royal Pioneer, for one year from the Royal Motor Works in Worcester, Massachusetts, was not designed for contortionists, says Bruce Linsday owner of Cleveland.

In fact, he says, "It 's been a gentleman's touring bike, built for reliability and smoothness."

's just that at the time, the familiar pattern we know for a motorcycle controls were not established. Thus individual producers experimented with a variety of devices.

The Pioneer, for example, that a large number of checks twistgrips four distinct functions. One regulates the supply of gasoline, mentre un altro regola la quantità di aria di arrivare al motore, in sostanza, che vi permette di cambiare carburatore proiezione mentre si guida. Un terzo twistgrip anticipi i tempi di accensione, mentre la quarta opera una compressione rilascio.

Nel frattempo, sul lato sinistro della combinazione di gas / olio serbatoio, si può trovare un impiego a mano, stile pistone pompa olio. Di tanto in tanto durante la guida, si dà un pò di pompe per mantenere il motore lubrificato.

Tutto sommato, si è dovuto tenere un pilota abbastanza occupato. Ma per quanto la sua insolita controlli spiccano, il Royal Pioneer è stata notevole per alcune interessanti tecnologie, troppo.

Ad esempio, il sovraccarico 600cc engine valves are set at 90 degrees to each cylinder. And that also means the inclusion of unusual pullrods which are operated by pushrods instead of the more familiar.

Even among real line of motorcycles, only Pioneer has pullrods, Linsday said. And he does not know why the company chose this approach.

Much, however, the Royal Pioneer is an example of elegance that marked high-end motorcycles in an early stage. Since its nickel tank to the leather belt fixed link, each piece reflects the quality hand built.

Royal Pioneers machines were rare even in their days. Now, more than 90 years later, they are real pieces museum. Linsday says that to the best of his knowledge, there are only three left Pioneers all over the world. You can see one of these three in these days of Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum at AMA headquarters in Pickerington, Ohio.