old school motorised bikes

[snfargle]

again from Beaulieu (http://www.beaulieu.co.uk/beaulieu/index)
got some pictures of some motorised bikes, just thought you guys may want to see some of the weirder ones

this has a 222cc engine mounted inside the rear wheel, or front wheel (depends which end you put it in)

i thought id throw this murder machine in too

yep motorised roller-skates that you had to reach down and pull on the tiny little clutch lever if you wanted to stop (by stop i mean coast in a strange crouching position to a calm and controlled halt and by calm and controlled i mean screaming)

 

[sojudave]

Are you sure those aren't the Acme rocket skates that the coyote used to catch the roadrunner? That bicycle engine looks mean. Does it run?

 

[Philphine]

i love that motor in the wheel. i wonder if that could be updated using a schwinn chopper type wheel/rim. it might be wide enough.

 

[bikebuilder]

That wheel is nuts! I love it. It would be really cool to have two wheels like that and make a two wheel drive bike.

 

[snfargle]

i reckon the engine in the wheel does run, pretty much everything else in the museum does
id love a go, they have a few other moterised bikes but i didnt take photos because i thought they were a bit tame

 

[sojudave]

The hub engine reminds me of a similar kit that was being, or supposed to be produced and sold from this company in Canada. The difference is that the newer one was only 25cc and went on the front wheel.

 

[ifitsfreeitsforme]

LOL about the death skates. hey, thanks for posting those, they are both great to look at.