{"id":1293,"date":"2008-09-08T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2008-09-08T23:30:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T13:30:11","slug":"hudspith-steam-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Hudspith steam bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.users.globalnet.co.uk\/~pattle\/nacc\/arc0373.htm\"><strong>Geoff Hudspith<\/strong><\/a> has been developing this bike since the 1970s, and has been riding it at shows for years. But it is also a practical workhorse as well as a beautiful piece of home engineering<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com.au\/videoplay?docid=3827010748282453057&#038;ei=iSDFSML2C4rMwgOUtJC8BQ&#038;q=hudspith+steam+bike\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1292\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/hudspith.jpg\" alt=\"Hudspith steam bike\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seen here on Google video, the bike is seen being fired up and run  &#8211; even taken on a ferry. This is no museum piece, but everyday transport. And it runs on steam. <\/p>\n<p>The bike runs on 125 psi and burns kerosene. Performance is about 8mph sustained speed, 6 &#8211; 8mpg of water and about 60 &#8211; 70mpg of paraffin. The engine has run for 11 years  &#8211; five years on the bike, and shows no sign of wearing out!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Hudspith has been developing this bike since the 1970s, and has been riding it at shows for years. But it is also a practical workhorse as well as a beautiful piece of home engineering Seen here on Google video, the bike is seen being fired up and run &#8211; even taken on a ferry. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-steam","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}