One Cylinder Bicycle Proves Nothing is Completely Green
Out in Australia they really have it figured out. You gear heads who are always complaining about sharing the road with bicyclist can now have the best of both worlds. Writer Jeroen van Bergeijk has been trekking & blogging down under, and recently came across what has been dubbed the “Mad Max Bicycle.” – a bike retrofitted with a small one-cylinder engine:
Saw this awesome – or I should say grouse – looking bicycle today when I went to Port Adelaide to pick up my stuff coming in from Rotterdam. It’s a Dunlop Bushranger mountain bike with a small, one cylinder engine fitted on to it. The great thing is that all the original bicycle gears still work. I suppose the owner starts the engine when going uphill or something. It has sprockets on both sides of the wheel. On the right side the original bicycle gears, on the left side a sprocket driven by the engine.
The fact that it still runs with gears and makeshift engine combined makes this a fine DIY bike find. Whoever the owner is, they should start selling conversion kids ASAP. So now you can have you fossil fuels and bicycle love too.
via boingboing
Who makes the one cylinder engine, and where can one be gotten?