A steam powered E-Bike?

[mercalia]

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?

[PhilWhitehurst]

They are called mopeds if you can't find them.

[Mike Sales]

An S-Bike, surely?

[mercalia]

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?

[NATURAL ANKLING]

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.

[nez]

The French would be a motobecane

[nez]

Bécane being a slightly archaic wood for bike!

[nez]

Word not wood. I blame the keyboard

[Bmblbzzz]

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.

[cycleruk]

Sorry about being OT but the French ones are Velosolex:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeloSoleX
.

[mercalia]

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.

[NUKe]

try searching on autocycles
http://www.autocycle.org.uk/about.html

http://www.autocycles.co.uk/autocycle_catalogue_01.htm

[al_yrpal]

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

[NUKe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaOCNOsvJnQ

[Mark R]

The German/Dutch ones you are thinking of have a small 2-stroke (yuk - even more polluting than a diesel!) engine made by Sachs.