Certainly not much builder upside minded like Eddie Meeks. The man who was once the guitar maker, accidentally flipping the steering of his custom motorcycle into the rear wheel and the transfer of power through the front wheels!
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| Quantum Leap, a custom HD motorcycle with front-wheel drive. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1oILl4J) |
Fortunately Eddie Meeks makes a futuristic body design. With the long arch of the tank deliberately created to cover the front tire is too wide. Overall design was featuring like the future motorcycle.
So how, a motorcycle with Harley-Davidson engine-based can move propulsion to the front. Though the gear box on Harley-Davidson motorcycles in the back. Apparently Eddie Meeks using Baker Five-Speed Right-Side Drive transmission. From the gearbox position at the behind engine. So he made an axle such as drive-shaft that rotate the front wheel.
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| Left side view of Quantum Leap. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1nR4e5r) |
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| Front wheel and engine view of Quantum Leap. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1oILl4J) |
As for the steering wheel in the rear wheel, it used the hydraulic system to move the wheel to the right and left. There are two dual action cylinder hydrolic pistons which to direct orders from the handlebars to the rear wheels.
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| Rear three quarter of Quantum Leap. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1oILl4J) |
So it is more practical because it's no need to create a mechanism for connecting directly from the handlebars to the rear wheel axle. Even so, the handling believed to be different and need adaptation to be able to drive it.
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