{"id":177,"date":"2009-01-04T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2009-01-04T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T20:49:00","slug":"hail-the-auto-cycle-vintage-bike-with-motor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/hail-the-auto-cycle-vintage-bike-with-motor\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail the Auto Cycle! (vintage bike with motor)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were on Box Hill this weekend and there were some lovely, super-expensive, drool-inducing road bikes with state-of-the-art gearing and featherweight frames, but this was the one I *hearted* the most:<\/p>\n

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I got chatting to the fella and he said he’d got the 50 year old petrol-driven ‘Mini Motor Gearless Cycle Outboard’ engine from eBay, and it had successfully powered him to the top of the hill.<\/p>\n

In true Brit eccentric style, he was also building five other bikes at home (including one for his girlfriend who had arthritis and couldn’t pedal any more).<\/p>\n

He had to drive the bike over to the licensing place to get it registered (it has a 50cc engine running hand-mixed two stroke fuel), so it has a numberplate on the back and a tax disk on the front too.<\/p>\n

The bike’s motor runs against the rubber of the back tyre and apparently hits around 18mph max, notching up around 250 miles to the gallon.<\/p>\n

I love it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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