European lightweight Motorized Bicycles

[Ludwig II]

Presto! Germany, pre 1939

 

[bluegoatwoods]

Thanks, Ludwig. A bit of background info is always nice.

Something I noticed on the flyer at the top. The price of those bikes was 330 to 340 Reichsmarks (Reichsmarken, I suppose, to the Deutsch).

I don't know how to compare Reichsmarks to Dollars. But, if I remember right, the old Deutschmark, just before the Euro, was worth about a half a Dollar.

If so, and if the Marks are comparable, then that Torpedo cost about 2/3 of what a Model T of a few years before would have cost. In America, anyway.

I'm not at all certain of my accuracy there. But I do get the feeling that those bikes were not inexpensive at all for the folks of that place and time.

 

[Ludwig II]

Exchange rates of pre 1939 currencies are available, I'm not hunting them down. Price of a fair example of the type now is somewhere about£600/$1000-ish.

http://goo.gl/kkQ2dB

 

[Ludwig II]

The Farnley-Wazzock, England.

Italian Atala moped with Rizzato engine

Italian Santamaria with German Zundapp engine

 

[Ludwig II]

Italian 1948 Alpino

Swiss Motosacoche engine, sold in France

Late 1940s Italy, Ducati Cucciolo racer with ?Caproni sprung frame

 

[Ludwig II]

""Assmann - Saxonette - Bj. 1938
Ps/kW: 1,25/0,9 1Zylinder Zweitakt Sachsmotor, 74ccm,

Bauzeit: 1938 - 1939""

Velosolex engine repositioned, France

Velosolex racer

 

[Ludwig II]

98cc Gillet Herstal, Belgium

This bicycle, I promise you this is not a joke, is propelled by a 1945-7 Grim engine, Italy

http://www.bicidepoca.com/index.php?option=com_adsmanager&page=show_ad&catid=0&adid=12563&Itemid=1

Italian homebrew

http://twostrokeengines.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/bici-moto-artigianale.html

 

[Ludwig II]

Variations on the Garelli Mosquito, Italy

 

[Otero]

Liked the folder back there; bet that's one baddass Raleigh 20. The one with
the Grimm engine & skinny latex tires. The front friction drive Meant one had
two-wheel drive on hills, but the handling was probably a tad dodgy.

 

[Ludwig II]

The tank on the Grim has me wondering whether or not to abandon the chrome box tank I was going to put on my Genuine Fake. I can get steel domed end caps in various sizes.

 

[Ludwig II]

Zanetti, Italy, folding frame

1966 Atala with Cesare Rizzato engine, Italy

1952 Derby, Denmark

1950s Diesella, Denmark

 

[Ludwig II]

English made boardie

 

[curtisfox]

Kool bike looks like, Briggs flaty with fake magneto, belt drive also ......Curt

 

[Ludwig II]

Correct, you have won today's Virtual Golden Coconut Award

It's a display piece more than anything, registration here would compromise it too much.

 

[Ludwig II]

Click on this link for more pics & details

http://databikes.com/infophoto/peugeot/p101-1927.html

Taake a note of this French bike'sback end.

Velosolex

 

[Ludwig II]

Trojan Mini Motor, made in Croydon and designed by Vincent Piatti

 

[Ludwig II]

Late 40s/early 50s Scoto, France

1932Sparta, Holland

1950 Batavus, Holland. Click on the link for many goodies.

http://www.batavusbromfietsclub.nl/Batavusmotorfietsen.htm

 

[Ludwig II]

From the following link:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pattle/nacc/arc0650.htm

Mine! Work in progress, June 2016

 

[Ludwig II]

1956 Derny Solo, France

http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/engines/post-ww2/1956-cyclomoteur-derny/

1939 Husqvarna 301.

I have a vague notion I posted this German concoction before, but I'm not going looking for it.

1950, 32cc Nordapp in the front, 32cc Rabeneick in the back.

MkIII Trojan Mini-Motor on a James Arrow Ace 'convertible' tandem

Trojans as far as the eye can see. http://www.icenicam.ukfsn.org/gallery/pmin.html

 

[Ludwig II]

Early 1930s German Rex

Phantom, Germany

Germany, Rüb & Haab

Puch Styriette, Austria

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

Bree, Austria

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