The Super 73 Scout by Lithium Cycles is an electric bicycle designed for people who hate electric bicycles. It’s been developed to look nothing like other electric bikes on the market, whilst incorporating a 500 Watt hub motor (peak power output is 1050 Watts) and a 48 Volt 14.5 amp-hour lithium ion battery offering approximately…
Electric vehicles have existed alongside steam and internal combustion engines as a way of moving people for well over 150 years, in fact the first electric car (built by Robert Davidson) predated the first gasoline car (built by Karl Benz) by 49 years. The Super 73 is a unique take on the rapidly growing genre…
Oto Cycles is a Barcelona-based boutique electric bicycle builder that is quickly making a name for itself, thanks to a tastefully designed model range made up of the OtoK, the OtoR and the RaceR. The bike you see here is the OtoK, it uses a traditional looking fuel tank to hold the lithium-ion battery and electrical system. The power…
I don’t know about your childhood, but much of mine was spent in the saddle of a BMX bike riding around the neighbourhood and invariably getting into trouble. As I got older the bikes became more complicated but for those adults who miss the simplicity of the classic BMX, Mongoose makes the Chamber Bike. It…
The Nutter Cycle Multi Tool is an all-in-one solution to bicycle maintenance by the team at The Full Windsor Shop, it contains a nylon tyre lever, a 15mm box head spanner, a spoke key, 3/4/5/6/8mm hex tool bits, a Philips head screw driver, a flat head screw driver, a T25 torx bit, a magnetic tool bit extender and a…
The Classic E-Bike by Caterham Bikes is the 2nd in the series of 3 new designs just released by the still brand-spanking-new motorcycle marque last week. Obviously intended to evoke memories of the classic motorcycles of the 1910s and 1920s the Classic E-Bike has the lines of a board track racer – albeit one with…
I have a huge soft spot for motorised bicycles like this one – dubbed the “Pistone-Pedali” by its creator Chris Rindos. When motorcycles first appeared they looked far more like this than anything we’d consider a motorcycle in the modern day – in fact the first motorcycles were just bicycles with engines attached, much like the hand-built, 49cc machine you see here.
The father and son team over at Wolf Creative Customs have a habit of turning out some genuinely interesting motorised bicycles, we’ve featured their work before and it always seems to pick up a fair bit of interest from across the gasoline-scented parts of the internet.
We’ve featured the work of Derringer Cycles in the past, they build what are quite possibly the best production motorised bicycles in the world and their attention to aesthetics and detail is second to none.
Jeff Wolf, the proprietor of Wolf Creative Customs, started building race-specific motorised bicycles for his son a few years back, he decided that the standard frames and engines were unreliable and a little on the finicky side so he started building his own stripped back racers from the ground up.
Beater Bikes would fall into that first category, you can pick one up for $299.99 USD, they’re simple, solid and they get the job done.
This exceedingly old photograph shows a group of Russian Gendarmes in Moscow around 1890, the chap in the middle of the frame is sitting atop what is quite clearly a Penny-farthing designed for use on the railway lines.
