The motorized bike inventer...?????

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mapbike

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I'd love to sell those Big Box Store Schwinns with a motor for $600.00, nothing against this guy at all but he's making out like a bandit if he is actually selling them for that.....more power to the fella I hope he did great before the gas started coming back down.

If you will notice on the news report they list him as motorized bike inventer....


YouTube - Motorized Bicycles http://texasmoondogmotorbikes.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSYsBwyVUes&feature=player_embedded

hummmmmmmmmmmmmm!
 
I can't remember, I know it was a fmaous car inventor too, Suzuki I think. They invented them around WWII or something for cheap transport. Can't remember exactly, something like that.
 
motorized bicycles were invented well before WW2. where do you think motorcycles came from?
 
I saw a great book once on the history of bicycles and I believe the first with motors were in the late 1880s and 1890's. By the early 1900s there were a lot of small companies moving into what we now think of as motorcycles. Some were awesome machines.
SB
 
bairdco said:
motorized bicycles were invented well before WW2. where do you think motorcycles came from?
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That's why I'm not 100% sure. I know for a fact that it was invented around the time of a war for cheap transportation, by a major car manufacturer (not sure if they were major then).
 
Yea thanks Suzuki :p

While still defo not the "first" they still beat Suzie by at least a decade lol;

1939 August
Breene-Taylor Engineering, a Los Angeles-based manufacturer of airplane parts, announced the availability of the Whizzer Model "D" Bicycle Motor. This kit sold for $54.95 and included an air-cooled, four-cycle engine that was capable of producing 1.375 horsepower as well as a 2/3 gallon fuel tank. Approximately 1000 Model "D" motors were made and sold.
http://www.whizzermotorbike.com/History.html
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Well I'll be damned.

I didn't actually really search it, I was at work, and some guy said he saw my bike, and gave me his life story, and how Suzuki invented it, so I Googled it and posted it here.
 
NP man - this is defo one of those things that there's no clear "inventor", that it was dreamt of by so many for so long it's lineage is unclear to say the least lol
 
Tanaka (bikebug) made bicycle motors in Japan well before WWII. And I believe that the French Solex also predates WWII.
 
I know this 1903 NSU as one of the earlist motorized bicycles, but they call it then motorcycle....
 

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I don't think anyone invented it, may have built the first one, but not invented it.

Why?

Well when I was 9 or 10 years old I had a little BMX bike and always wondered if I could stick the lawn mower engine on it lmao.

I think MANY people had this idea.
 
well ,,, looks like these motors are making the news now.... i may better order about eight motors and bikes they will fit before the prices go up .... the only thing is ,, more bikes on the road , to me ,, means that states will want money .... so they may want tags ect. ... i think that most of the hoop-la on laws .. are mostly about insurance and tags (money ) not epa iazz ...
 
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Both Mr harley and Mr davidson were bicycle makers.I bet they
were not the first one`s to put A motor on one.
 
I always say they were invented in 1879. Year first 4 stroke was patented. But really think we will never know. How many folks independently came up with the concept. Lots of steam bikes. If it didn't make the papers, gonna be no record.

This is a really great article on bikes. Bicycle History Those folks did some amazing stuff. All hand made.
 
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