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1901-ish Singer Motor Wheel, England



1957 50cc Mercury Mercette, Britain. 2 speeds, neither marked Fast.


Undated Danish bike with BTC engine
 
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1950 Progress cycle and Irtysh engine. The Irtysh was a copy of the East German Steppke, which was the twin of the West German ILO friction driver, Russia


Unidentified bike on a Russian site with an MAW East German engine


Unidentified German


Mustafa Acar and a ?Peugeot engined homebuild, Turkey


Russian stealth prototype. The engine is in the bag, and belt drives a pulley the size of the wheel rim.
 
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A Polish homebrewed bike. 5l tank in the middle of the frame Edit: is it a converted refrigerator tank? It has that shape.



Unidentified engine, neat conversion, Poland



A neat package, Chinese minimoto engine, Poland



Seemingly for hire at a Czech hotel

 
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Can you tell what it is?



From a Spanish eBay type site, a Vagabundo



Scopio, Italy


"It was 20 December 2006 when Matteo Pozzi and Filippo Bollini, young students passionate about vintage motorcycles, decided to make a competition; not one of those that fight curve for curve in a sinuous circuit or in a strip of asphalt of 400 m. No. It was anything but ... Each of the 2 participants had to build a bike starting from 2 bikes to normal production; the winner would be chosen based on three characteristics of the moped speed, beauty and reliability. Was placed a time limit, two months; the bike should be ready for February 20th 2007 was the beginning of Officine Pozzi, a game between friends; an entertainment that led to the construction of a small moped in typical 40s style; the color was the 140 "race red" typical of classic Italian motorcycles. His name was type 27 A. An acronym that stands for: the model (type) of 2007 (27) 1 (A). Housed in a bike "Stelvio" black found in a shed, a reservoir Demm and a small power unit of a minimoto 2-stroke 49cc single-cylinder, has a maximum speed of 35 km / h and a non-negligible noise! The competition went fading as Bollini never built his motorcycle (designed with a chainsaw motor housed on the rear wheel of a mountain bike), but the Officine Pozzi motivated to continue ...
Posted by teo990 at 2:18 AM comments
Thursday, April 8, 2010 "
 
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Esse, Sweden



1951 Trojan Minimotor on a Raleigh bicycle, England


From France, a modern BMA tribute bike using a 50cc Mobylette engine
 
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Otero

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Say..., You might just have a point there. Still, I shan't be looking
forward to seeing an overweight plumber on the fore saddle.