Denver artist Jonathan Alberico has created two fully functional steam punk guns. Black Betty, a dual barrel pistol uses flash paper to shoot fire balls. Doris is a beastly air cannon that fires bouncey ball at high enough speeds to rip through boxes and even bounce back.

Doris the Blunderbuss

In a recent trawl of the Internet, these turned up. Steampunk and motorcycles, seems a good fit to me..

The Bobster Trike by Zeel Designs:

Or perhaps Baron Margo’s ‘Phantom”  – League of Extraordinary  Gentlemen, anyone?

 

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Or, one could take a Huffy bicycle, a 50cc Honda engine, and add lots of creativity:

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And finally, if you want real steam power.. The Hubbard Steamcycle:

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It should be noted to one and all that there are now six issues of Steampunk Tales for you to own, love and read. A list of internationaln award winning authors grace us with their talent for each and every issue, all for the sake of your entertainment. The likes of Jay Lake, Phil Brucato, Catherynne M. Valente, David Wellington, Jillian Venters, G. D. Falksen and many more. All have penned stories of steampunk and pulp just for you. Any electrical device that can download files can have this. So basically you now have something to read on the train, bus or wherever you are. No matter where, you can and will have your steampunk. If you have not been reading, now is your chance to catch up. All our back issues are always available for you any time you wish.

All here just for you www.steampunktales.com

While gears do not scream Steampunk to me, they do have an appeal for a lot of Steampunks.  Kinekt Design has come up with a ring design that incorporates working gears.

Cost? $165, according to the website .    Video Link  ->  Gear Ring

The Continentals” – murder, mystery, and steampunk .

Transfuzion Publishing has signed to bring the webcomic series, The Continentals, to print in the form of graphic novels.  The series, which is currently running on WebcomicsNation, will be collected in a series of trade paperbacks as each storyline finishes its run.
  Crisscrossing the literary genres of murder/mystery, action/adventure, historical drama, horror, science fiction, and  steampunk, “The Continentals” by writer/creator Darryl Hughes and artist Monique MacNaughton, — both nominated for the “Rising Star” category for the Glyph Comic Awards—is a modern re-imagining of the classic 19th century Sherlock Holmes “who done it” murder mystery created for the 21st century comic fan.
  The story begins in  1889. Barely a year after the mysterious Jack the Ripper’s murderous rampage and equally mysterious disappearance,  the city of Mansfordshire, England is shaken by a series of brutal “mangling” murders that plunge the city into an abyss of fear.
   Investigating the case, Continental Operatives Jeffrey Tiffen Smythe and his partner the gender bending adventuress, Lady Fiona Fiziwigg,  uncover the threads that bind the murderer, his victims, the highest echelons of society, it’s lowest dregs, and even the police officers investigating the case in a tangled web of mystery, adventure, intrigue, and murder.
  

Transfuzion Publisher Gary Reed said, “when Darryl sent me the pages of The Continentals, I was very interested.  I knew that I wanted to see more so to obviously, I thought that it was something other people would like to see more of.  We started talking and I’m excited about bringing out the hard copies of the story.”
“The exact date of the first trade paperback to be released will be announced as soon as a firm schedule can be structured,” Reed stated.  “We’ll let the first story arc complete its run online and the next story will continue online while the first trade comes out.”

The Continentals is currently running on webcomicsnation.com and is also featured on other sites including Transfuzion’s home page.   Writer/creator Darryl Hughes says response so far to the online strip has been fantastic.  “The main attraction of The Continentals is that its a really well told, well drawn, murder, mystery, adventure that draws you deeper and deeper into the story with each turn of the page as you follow characters that are both interesting and engaging unravel a tangled web of intrigue as you both try to figure out who done it and why. That’s what a good murder/mystery should do. And that’s what The Continentals is. It’s a damned good murder/mystery, with amazingly detailed black and white artwork by Monique (MacNaughton) that will just take your breath away, if I do say so myself. And I do!”

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