Any Info On Cannon Mounted on Bicycle

[RicM]

I've only found one photo and Im guessing its maybe early late 1890's -1900s . Man would I love to own one but I figure it might be a custom made bike used to transport this cannon. So Im throwing it out here for any info about it. It is pretty unique.

 

[SOLANCO]

The recoil would give you a boost on the uphill stretches.

 

[senseisugarbear]

Looks like one of those things that start out with.....( YA'LL WATCH THIS).......Wally

 

[tjarcher]

Well I don’t know anything about it,
But I want one.

 

[Nameless Hunter]

I've only found one photo and Im guessing its maybe early late 1890's -1900s . Man would I love to own one but I figure it might be a custom made bike used to transport this cannon. So Im throwing it out here for any info about it. It is pretty unique.

Spanish American War mobile artillery? ​

 

[hawkeye2]

Tricycles were common place in factories to transport their riders and anything else that needed to move from place to place so it probably wasn't custom built. The seat and spoon brake date it as early 1900s (roughly).

This may have been an early racing velocipede with the cannon discouraging passing and also providing a final burst of speed just before the finish line.

 

[Dude]

Wheelies should be a snap.

 

[russellshaffer]

I think it's a wooden mockup. An iron cannon that size would be mighty heavy. I don't think those wheels would carry it at all.

 

[Treestalker]

Obviously a unique defense mechanism designed to remove the threat of snapping, biting, barking distractions of canis obnoxicus by by turning velocipede dragassicus into roadrunnerii damnus fastus, lol!

 

[Rifleman1776]

Great old photo. But, that has to be for transport only. Otherwise

 

[appalichian hunter]

No worry about tail gaters there.

 

[RicM]

Thats what Im figuring Rifleman. The rear tires are about squashed flat yet the front isnt so it must be a real cannon with the weight. But heck I doubt to would shoot off of the trike. Transporting makes all the sense but its damn cool though. I cant find any info about it searching the net

 

[fire bear]

I thought I heard that you wern't allowed to own a cannon back then.

 

[Captndan]

But how do you drive the bike and light the fuse all at the same time?

 

[Horse]

Be the first in your neighborhood.
Discourage tailgaters with a Ron Popeels bike cannon. limited supplies. no shipping to NJ.

 

[SOLANCO]

Where is the bike with the caisson?

 

[tenngun]

I think it's a wooden mockup. An iron cannon that size would be mighty heavy. I don't think those wheels would carry it at all.

That bike design is about a century after the last of that cannon type.
Howsomever I’m betting that ends tailgaters

 

[2 shots]

turbo boost?

 

[Felonious]

That's only a nozzle away from a rocket engine.

 

[Colonial Boy]

I only see a friction brake on the front wheel; hope it was flat country