Reply To: Motorcycles at Auction

[Craig Castillo]

Looking closely at the pictures from the site, the Pierce 4 sure looks like a shaft drive to me.

It has pedals and a chain like most motorcycle of that era did to help with starting and to get it moving without the motor running on one side and a shaft drive setup on the other.

I could be wrong, but that is what it looks like to me.

If the shaft coming out of the rear of the motor drives the pedals then that is one really lightweight chain to move the bike at speed and that would also mean that the pedals would be moving the entire time the bike was in motion.