Bike in Cyprus » Motorize your Bicycle http://bikincyprus.com Lets make Body Health with bicycling in Cyprus Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:56:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Motorize your Bicycle http://bikincyprus.com/2009/09/motorize-your-bicycle/ http://bikincyprus.com/2009/09/motorize-your-bicycle/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:31:38 +0000 gfmstudio http://bikincyprus.com/?p=229 Ever try to pedal a moped?  You can do it, but it’s difficult and surely it isn’t any fun. The chain-driven, 50-cc moped is – make no mistake – a mini motorcycle meant to go with gas, and if that’s all you want, fine.  But if you enjoy bicycling pleasure too, the way to go is 10-speed with a helper motor.

There’s nothing new about motorized bicycles.  The first “moped” goes hack to 1904 (see Detachable Cycle Motor, page 1136, Nov. 1904, or check the photo of this machine shown in our 75th anniversary issue, page 73, Jan. ’77).

The idea of using an add-on motor seems to capture the imagination of each new generation of pedalers.  Indeed, this century has seen many types of bicycle motors come and go, and has seen the bicycle itself – the most ellicient form of transportation known – refined to the point that any normal, healthy rider can gobble up an unprecedented number of miles per calories.

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