European lightweight Motorized Bicycles

Cyclotracteur , France

http://www.yesterdays.nl/cyclotracteur-1920-p-2594.html?language=nl

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74cc Sachs engine bike, Hulsman forks, but the page it's from isn't certain it's completely a Hulsman assemblage.

http://members.home.nl/motor-fan/klassiek/Hulsmann1932/KlassiekHulsmann32.htm

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Back wheel and motor by a Dutch firm, Burgers. The engine was 38cc, designed by Richard Kuchen.

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1937 Rex Midget, 98cc Villiers, Sweden

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1929 82cc OWA (Österreichischen Werke Arsenal) on an Estonian bike

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Norman cyclemotor, using the 34cc Cyclemate badly at the time the NSU Quickly turned up and did it superbly, England

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?1930s Favor bicycle and Le Poulain friction driver, France

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Late 1940s/early 50s Cointot with Ducati Cucciolo engine

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Metropole bike and GFCM Pigmy motor,France

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PP Roussey set up on a Gnome Rhone, France

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Engine is a P P Roussey, bike unknown.

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A rare (?the only?) Annino, it sounds Italian

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1949 31cc German Rex and Belgian Flandria cycle

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Comet Hanrez motor, France

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Victoria FM38, Germany

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ABG Vap3, France, on a grocer's bike

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English made Power Pak and Raleigh bike, but in France

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Velovap, a competitor to Velosolex

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I tend to dismiss these as they are familiar to me, but then I think there's the rest of the world beynd these keys.

The engine and hub unit is a Cyclemaster, which was a licence made version of a German Rabeneick. They were among the most successful bicycle engine attachments in Britain in the late 1940s and early 50s, and are still comparatively plentiful.

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Le Poulain, France

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Micromotor, Italy

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1902 1.75hp Clement, France

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1901 NSU, Germany

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Motovelox 77, by Orbea of Spain

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Gaitan, Spain

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This is the Danish analogue of the British Norman Cyclemate, using a 33cc Rabeneick engine

HUNTER MASTER Fabrikant: Nelleman & Drewsen, København.

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1948 Brena 50, Italy. 4 stroke 2 speed.

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From a German site, an unbekannter himo. I think it's an MX-5 from about 20-30 years ago.

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1937 Jonghi & Prester, France

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Velosolex, French, what else is there to say?

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Erkkola invalid trike, Finand

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K1B Kyivlyanyn, the first Russian post 1945 lightweight. Produced in Kyiv (Kiev) and based on prewar German 98cc Sachs powered light motorcycles.

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Derny Entraineur

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1953 Derny Motopratique

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Old time European moped suspension. You can still get or make the bits.

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Sico, Valencia, Spain

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An ASB (Antonio Sanchez Bueno) 72cc

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