Other way round

[BurnitBlue]

You see it every where.

Guy in a big rib with a 25 hp outboard roars ashore from his anchored boat. Then he assembles a collapsable bike with wheels smaller than the castors on my sofa and pedals off at about 2 mph puffing and blowing because the silly bike is a waste of energy.

I prefer it the other way round.

For the same all-up weight, row ashore then motor off on a lightweight moped. Much more efficient. A few years ago in Cyprus, many yachts had a pedal assisted Piaggio which were being sold off cheap in down town Larnaca. Circumnavigate the Island on one of them. Ok pedal up hill, but joy everywhere else.

At least use a full size bike.

Anybody know of a current lightweight moped please. Most of the new mopeds around here have been bigged up to a medium size motor-bike.

Memories from the past were a vellocette thingy, a BSA Bantom, etc. I say "etc" because I cannot remember any others.

Thanks

 

[zikzik]

He might be puffing and blowing, but better than the hernia he will get lifting that powered biked into and out of the rib!

I have a Brompton. 10kg and rides like a proper bike

 

[Searush]

Loads of 50cc scooters & mini bikes around, but the main market is 16 year olds & they want them to look "like" big bikes. Look at the Piaggio range, they seem to be popular.

 

[sighmoon]

 

[Talbot]

.............Anybody know of a current lightweight moped please. Most of the new mopeds around here have been bigged up to a medium size motor-bike............

DiBlasi make a folding moped, available with a 50cc engine or electric drive


See here

Probabbly the lightest available.

An alternative approach is the Goped.

Insurance and registration are always going to be the biggest problems.

 

[doug748]

Anybody know of a current lightweight moped please. Most of the new mopeds around here have been bigged up to a medium size motor-bike.
Thanks

Get yourself a Solex.

http://www.velosolex.co.uk/photographs.htm

If politicians were serious about dumping cars these things ought to be ownable like push bikes.

 

[tcm]

it may have been me with the 25horse rib and foldup bike. I used to have a goped but all such vehicles rust to bits on a boat soon enough if you actually sail places and the bike is fullsize and your boat not actually a ship.

Hence the alloy bike which i was using to cycle to the hire shops and rent a Harley, or on another island to hire a cheap runabout car, or at yet another place a large MPV etc and all without your own not-so-delightful prospect of having to try plough through the sea rowing an actually-rubbish slow dink and a definitely-quite-rubbish-and-rusting road vehicle of dubious local legality and insurance status....

 

[BurnitBlue]

it may have been me with the 25horse rib and foldup bike. ....

Hi, don't think it was you. The guy I am thinking of was ugly and owned a big catamaran.

Ooops. Just remembered that you own a catamaran.