Motorised Bicycles

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Are they adapted somewhere or can you buy them like that somewhere? I've seen two of those around my area. You can paddle or just ride on power - I wonder if paddling charges up something or what, but they do seem to have a fuel tank on.

Anyone know what the adaptation or sale cost of these things?
 
There has been 2 threads with one of the users converting his bike.
His latest one did 80km/h I think.
 
It's all good and well, but it's illegal for road use, seeing as it doesn't qualify as a bicycle [aka pedal cycle] since it's not 100% human powered.
 
It's all good and well, but it's illegal for road use, seeing as it doesn't qualify as a bicycle [aka pedal cycle] since it's not 100% human powered.

I think if you stay off the main highways you should be ok. It's nice because you don't arrive at work all sweaty and in need of a shower.
 
I know City Cycles in Canal Walk Cape Town had them for sale, no idea what the price was. These were complete bikes and not a conversion kit.
 
those would be peddles, not paddles (or oars as they are otherwise known)...

Listen, peddles are the things on flowers. Paddles or oars make you go frontwards on a bike or a boat.
 
peddle (third-person singular simple present peddles, present participle peddling, simple past and past participle peddled)
To sell things, especially door to door.
To sell illegal narcotics.
(derogatory, figuratively) To spread or cause to spread

petal (plural petals)
(botany) one of the component parts of the corolla of a flower, when this consists of separate parts, that is it is not fused. Petals are often brightly colored.
Term of endearment

paddle (plural paddles)
A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
Time spent on paddling.
We had a nice paddle this morning.
A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
A paddlewheel.
A blade of a waterwheel.
(video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
(UK) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
A bat-shaped spanking implement
The paddle practically ousted the British cane as the spanker's attribute in the independent US
A ping-pong bat.
A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
A sea turtle's paddles make it swim almost as fast as land tortoises are slow
In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
A group of inerts

pedal (plural pedals)
A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano
There are three pedals on manual cars, two on automatics.
A piano usually has two or three pedals.
the pedal of a loom
(medicine) a foot or footlike part.

The winner goes to pedal ;)
 
Even if you fit something to your bicycle that will make it self propellant its still not going to be the most comfortable ride there is. I commute to work on my bike (12km / 30mins) and you still get to deal with all the weather and road elements plus you need an bum that is used to a bicycle saddle. If you love cycling the way I do then that's part of the joy, but I'm guessing you want something different.

If you really want a scooter why not buy one? They cost the same as a decent bicycle anyway so why go through the trouble of trying to convert a bike into a scooter.
 
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