European lightweight Motorized Bicycles

[Ludwig II]

Bike with Puch Maxi engine

German NSU with a Rex engine

 

[Intrepid Wheelwoman]

Very tidy and classic looking, - I like

 

[Ludwig II]

J.D. motor bicycle, 116cc, England

http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/engine...ngines/1923-jd-motor-bicycle-bowden-wire-ltd/

From Estonia, Minsk bike with KO D-6 engine

http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/60s-minsk-with-d6-engine.70107/

Riga 18, 1958-61, using D-4 motor. Note technical advance - front suspension

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=htt...-modeli-rizhskogo-motozavoda.html&h=hAQGVWux5

Hot snot racing version in Latvia

French, no info

 

[Ludwig II]

A nicely done old English delivery bike and a Chinese 4 stroke

A more "authentic" version

Italian. Looking at it, it could be a bit overgeared

 

[Ludwig II]

1903 Dalton & Wade, 235cc, Britain

 

[Intrepid Wheelwoman]

1903 Dalton & Wade, 235cc, Britain

& etc

That is just sooooo lovely. I've always liked the motor bicycles from this era

 

[curtisfox]

That sure looks like a 1903 Californian.............Curt

https://www.google.com/search?q=190....antiquemotorcycle.org%252Findex.php%253Fpage

 

[Ludwig II]

Everybody was either bouncing ideas at each other or copying, or just finding the limited number of ways to put things together in those days. It must have been an exciting time to be an engineer. I think it will have been joyous to be at the forefront of a technology that was still understandable to ordinary mortals.

 

[curtisfox]

The marks Company sold out to California-Yale about 1902. The mark did not utilize a carburetor. Lots of different bikes here if you go through the pictures

Yep they all kind of looked the same with just a few changes.........Curt

 

[Ludwig II]

97cc Dresch with Aubier-Dunne engine

1953 50cc Bianchi Aquilotto, Italy

1952 40cc Typhoon belt driver, Holland

1950s Danish Skylon ad

1950s Rabeneick belt driver, Germany

 

[Ludwig II]

Dutch Berini and proud owner

1900 Cyklon, Germany

Pre 1942 Presto bike, post 1945 MAW engine, Germany

http://www.oldbike.eu/wordpress/?page_id=614

 

[bluegoatwoods]

Here's an interesting bike.

A 1939 HEC. "Hepburn Engineering Company", London. 80 cc 2 Cycle made by a company called "Levis".

Introduced in 1939. Well received, according to oldbike.eu. The factory was bombed in early 1940. Production never resumed. Instead HEC and Levis merged and built air compressors.

A nice looking bike, all around. What I find most interesting, though, is the intense similarity between this engine and the Russian "D" series.

Makes you wonder if the D series also had a direct ancestor.

 

[Ludwig II]

Being British, the primary drive will have been by chain. I think the D motors were heavily influenced by Sachs and ILO myself.

The compressor factory was a 10 minutes car drive away from me, they ended up adding an extra S to stop people ringing up about Levi's products.

 

[Ludwig II]

Mobylette BG, friction driver; an odd and retrograde decision even by French standards

French Peugeot Bima friction driver

A Némausa with an Italian Itom friction driver

Belgian Flandria friction driver

1924 124cc Moser, Switzerland

 

[Ludwig II]

1920 200cc EBS, Germany

http://www.mvca.at/Museumsseiten/EBS200.htm

Presto 98cc Leichtmotorrad

http://www.ferienhaus-seeger.de/html/presto_204_leichtmotorrad_6.html

BSA paratroop bike and Cyclemaster, Britain

http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/1940s/...orne-folding-paratrooper-bicycle-cyclemaster/

1958 Talbot, Britain

http://www.centralcycle.co.uk/index.php?p=1_7_Talbot-Moped

 

[Ludwig II]

1954 44cc Gripen, Sweden

http://www.realclassic.co.uk/moped06021400.html

1949 Mk2 Tailwind 2 speed cyclemotor. Ratios were changed by sliding the unit across the front wheel to use differing roller diameters.

Randonnee tandem with Le Poulain motor, France

http://mes2roues.over-blog.com/2013/12/tandem-randonnée-avec-moteur-le-poulain.html

1924 125cc ASP single speeder, France

1925 125cc single speed Charles Gerard, France

 

[Ludwig II]

?1922 125cc Viratelle, France. The drive looks like a reduction gear to a sprocket running on a captive motorcycle chain on the back wheel. Most interesting.

Viratelle with friction drive only

 

[silverbear]

Boy, that Viratelle is interesting, isn't it? So many ways of doing things.
SB

 

[Ludwig II]

I am interested in the concept of a large ring gear in some suitable plastic with external teeth on the back wheel, and a driving gear in metal, or at least a harder material. Helical teeth would cut noise down, and a shoulder on one gear would eliminate side thrust.

I'm not going to try it, at least until my 2 builds are out of the way though.

 

[silverbear]

Was just thinking about that ring sprocket deal and was picturing somehow combining a roller chain with a sheave or something like one, where the sheave it is affixed to the spokes and the chain is affixed to the sheave. How? The chain would have to end up the same diameter as the sheave it lies against and what, perhaps be tack welded to the sheave (or bicycle rim acting as a sheave)? There is a way...
SB