A steam powered E-Bike?
A steam powered E-Bike?
I was looking up details for petrol based e-bikes like the cyclemaster and came across this oddity?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dampf-Fahrrad_2.jpg
atleast you could have a cuppa at any time?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dampf-Fahrrad_2.jpg
atleast you could have a cuppa at any time?
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Re: A steam powered E-Bike?
They are called mopeds if you can't find them.
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Re: A steam powered E-Bike?
An S-Bike, surely?
It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
Re: A steam powered E-Bike?
PhilWhitehurst wrote:They are called mopeds if you can't find them.
I was trying to remember the name of the ones you can still get in Belgium/Netherlands - NOT the French ones with engine over front wheel. Any ideas?
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Re: A steam powered E-Bike?
Hi,
Ah, the French one I used to race daily, caught me on the hills but lost on the flat, and I would win overall over 3 miles with ease.
No idea what they or the other is called. 40 years ago.
Ah, the French one I used to race daily, caught me on the hills but lost on the flat, and I would win overall over 3 miles with ease.
No idea what they or the other is called. 40 years ago.
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You'll Still Find Me At The Top Of A Hill
Please forgive the poor Grammar I blame it on my mobile and phat thinkers.
You'll Still Find Me At The Top Of A Hill
Please forgive the poor Grammar I blame it on my mobile and phat thinkers.
Re: A steam powered E-Bike?
The French would be a motobecane
Re: A steam powered E-Bike?
Bécane being a slightly archaic wood for bike!
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Word not wood. I blame the keyboard
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Would the Dutch ones be Batavus?
Though the pedals on this one are clearly just there for the law's sake, and maybe for starting.
Though the pedals on this one are clearly just there for the law's sake, and maybe for starting.
Re: A steam powered E-Bike?
You'll never know if you don't try it.
Re: A steam powered E-Bike?
Bmblbzzz wrote:Would the Dutch ones be Batavus?
Though the pedals on this one are clearly just there for the law's sake, and maybe for starting.
no they dont look like mopeds, like bikes with the engine i think near the bottom bracket and wheel.
Re: A steam powered E-Bike?
try searching on autocycles
http://www.autocycle.org.uk/about.html
http://www.autocycles.co.uk/autocycle_catalogue_01.htm
http://www.autocycle.org.uk/about.html
http://www.autocycles.co.uk/autocycle_catalogue_01.htm
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I was in Huelgoat in Brittany on tour a couple of years ago. Its very nice there with a lake and nearby woods with spectacular rocks. I was sitting outside the hotel having a nice quiet beer when about 50 people turned up on those Velosolex things.
http://boutique.arte.tv/f5590-design_velosolex
They buzz like hornets emmitting clouds of two stroke fumes. It shattered a peaceful scene. The Frogs like old quirky things just like us. I fitted right in
Al
http://boutique.arte.tv/f5590-design_velosolex
They buzz like hornets emmitting clouds of two stroke fumes. It shattered a peaceful scene. The Frogs like old quirky things just like us. I fitted right in
Al
Reuse, recycle, thus do your bit to save the planet.... Get stuff at auctions, Dump, Charity Shops, Facebook Marketplace, Ebay, Car Boots. Choose an Old House, and a Banger ..... And cycle as often as you can......
Re: A steam powered E-Bike?
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Re: A steam powered E-Bike?
The German/Dutch ones you are thinking of have a small 2-stroke (yuk - even more polluting than a diesel!) engine made by Sachs.