Is this a motorbike or a powered bicycle ?

Hi Everyone

My place of work will be moving closer to home such that it would be
hardly worth while powering up the CBR. The idea of cycling to work
sounds okay in principle, but given my current state of fitness, to
avoid a heart attack powered assistance really is a must ;-)

I could always go for a twist and go scoot but came across this which is
just so, well, American, that I'm finding it hard to resist.

http://revopower.com/the_wheel-specifications.html

http://revopower.com/the_wheel-design.html
(Adobe flash player required).

Appears to be a 25cc two stroke in the front wheel of a pedal cycle.

Wonder if it can be used in the UK ?

 

Working? well I never )

In the UK that needs to be registered and insured. Buy an electric bicycle
under 500W power and you will be fine.

 

It's internal combustion powered, so it's a motorcycle. Helmet, MOT,
registration, licence, insurance all needed.

It's like the 50s all over again - it's the bastard offsprog of a Winged
Wheel and a VeloSlowlex.

 

If said place of play I might have to take a pay cut

Aw, I'd miss out on all that hydrocarbon goodness. Besides, I'd want at
least a 600W, preferably a 1000W motor.

 

<idly musing>

Is a trailer considered to be a vehicle in its own right? If not, I
wonder what the law would make of a normal push bike that just happened
to have a small powered single-wheel trailer behind it?

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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

They'd probably do you for attempted suicide.

 

Afaik, cyclemotors are lumped in with 50cc (and under) mopeds, so look
that up.

 

I didn't even know rotorvators had a reverse gear.

 

Maximum power 200W !!!!!

3.2 miles each way, not very hilly. Currently overweight with a BMI of
27.5 [1]. I already have a pretty good mountain bike which is rarely
dragged out these days. I'm going to stop answering these questions now
because I might be forced to just get on the damned "pushbike already"
and we all know that's not very entertaining.

[1] This may be relevant, then again it may not.

 

Stick slick tyres on the mtb. 3.2 miles really is nothing, and fwiw
my BMI is higher than yours at 29.5 and I manage 100km per week on a
pushbike fine.

That commute will take you about 15-20 minutes without putting any
effort in or breaking a sweat.

Mind you, all this does is show how much bullshit BMI is.

 

How the **** does the throttle work?

 

No.

 

I once got nicked for "towing a trailer not being a broken down
motorcycle". I contested this prosecution on the grounds that my mate
who owned it, and who was sitting on it as I was towing, had just been
convicted for not having an MOT on it at the time I was towing. My
argument was "You've just convicted my friend for not having an MOT, at
which point it was a motorcycle, yet now you're trying to prosecute me
for towing a trailer because it hasn't got an engine so is no longer a
motorcycle. Is this thing classed as a motorcycle or a trailer, because
it has to be one or the other?".

Cunting fucking bastard magistrate decided it was a trailer, I got the
conviction and my mate's was dismissed - should have kept my mouth
shut. On the plus side, I only got one endorsement and a 30 quid fine
that he paid.

--
Lozzo
SV650S K5, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project SpazzCaffer
Ford Maverick 2.7 litre 4x4 Turbonutterbastard with VTOL.
and a shit load more 2-wheeled junk in the garage
I believe in free speech, but I still have to pay my phone bill

 

Don't see why not, else all those cyclomotor owners would be in trouble.

 

They're riding illegally, unless they're on a genuine vintage cyclomotor
like a Velosolex or Winged Wheel or whatnot.

Think Construction & Use.

There was some outfit that tried to flog bolt-on powered wheels for
bicycles years ago - they even took a stand at a bike show - until they
did the homework they should have done earlier.

 

Ok, non retro-active for the real oldies.

For the new ones; brakes, lights, steering, horn, tyres, etc. All
covered easily - what in particular? I think an SVA process would deal
with it anyway.

 

SVA might *if* you can sort out all the lighting requirements
(indicators, etc).

As this thing doesn't appear to have much (if any) generating system,
you'd have to do that on a total loss system with a battery.

Lights have to be a certain height from the ground, etc etc.....

 

What about this?

http://www.firebox.com/product/2166/Ego-Electric-Street-Scoota

 

Street legal, but you still have to do CBT and the rest of it.

The law's slightly different for electrically assisted bicycles: you
need to be aged 14, and (I think) have insurance, but apart from that
there are no licence requirements.

Electrically assisted bicycles have (I think, from memory) a max speed
of 14mph and don't need licence plates. Electric scooters with a 30mph
top whack are governed by the same rules as mopeds. Again, I think. I'm
99% sure they have to have a number plate.

 

True, but as the OP mentioned the option of a twist and go, this could
be a cheap alternative. When (if in the current market) we move to
Nottingham I'll need some kind transport to get to the train station
which will only be a few miles away. Scoota seems a very cheap option,
and also very convenient, no fuel stop - brilliant.

Of course it could all have been built by some kid in China, and fall
apart 2 days after delivery, but I think the general principal of an
electric scooter is sound, and I'm surprised one of the big
manufacturers hasn't picked it up.