Return of the Solex

Tony Raven said:

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"The humble Solex, the bicycle with a motor, is set to make a comeback,
as a version is relaunched in France.

A factory in Lille believes the time is right to lauch a remake of the
bike. John Laurenson reports from northern France."

Cost about $1100

Too late for this one but many come up here
http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=87070&item=7979014007&rd=1
All the Best
Dan Gregory

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Quoted message said:

Video news link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4080000/newsid_40
84700/bb_rm_4084712.stm

"The humble Solex, the bicycle with a motor, is set to make a comeback,
as a version is relaunched in France.

A factory in Lille believes the time is right to lauch a remake of the
bike. John Laurenson reports from northern France."

Cost about $1100

A Solex shop opened about four years ago on the King's Road. It replaced
a little cafe that I quite liked. Then it started selling those kid's
scooters, before closing about a year or so ago.
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Quoted message said:

Video news link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4080000/newsid_4084700/bb_rm_4084712.stm

"The humble Solex, the bicycle with a motor, is set to make a comeback, as
a version is relaunched in France.

A factory in Lille believes the time is right to lauch a remake of the
bike. John Laurenson reports from northern France."

Cost about $1100

--
Tony

"Don't argue the matter, the difficulties will argue for themselves" -W.S.
Churchill

I saw an old one in use in Uzes in the Languedoc, last Wednesday, market
day. There was also an item on France 2 two weeks ago - very nostalgic for
the French.

Geoff Pearson wrote:

[VeloSolex]

Quoted message said:

I saw an old one in use in Uzes in the Languedoc, last Wednesday,
market day. There was also an item on France 2 two weeks ago - very
nostalgic for the French.

I saw an old one in use on Kingsland Road, Dalston last week...

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Dave Larrington said:

Geoff Pearson wrote:

[VeloSolex]

Quoted message said:

I saw an old one in use in Uzes in the Languedoc, last Wednesday,
market day. There was also an item on France 2 two weeks ago - very
nostalgic for the French.

I saw an old one in use on Kingsland Road, Dalston last week...

I've just had a scary thought..

[timid readers stop here]

[only the brave]

In my garage I have an old seagull outboard motor. This looks sort of
superficially like a Solex. I wonder if something could be done...

...d

David Martin said:

In my garage I have an old seagull outboard motor. This looks sort of
superficially like a Solex. I wonder if something could be done...

must be pretty hard to make your own moped these days with the SVA or
whatever it is; all home made vehicles have to pass a safety case AIUI.
IIRC one of the couriers DHL or suchlike was going to fit 30cc engines
to a fleet of MTB's; obviously did not realise the effort taken to get
them on the road as motor vehicles.
Does anyone know if those Raleigh motor wheels were ever legal to ride
without all the usual gumph that motor vehicles require?
Someone told me sjs still sell them.

MartinM said:

David Martin said:

In my garage I have an old seagull outboard motor. This looks sort of
superficially like a Solex. I wonder if something could be done...

must be pretty hard to make your own moped these days with the SVA or
whatever it is; all home made vehicles have to pass a safety case AIUI.

Only for road use.. Alternatively I could try to build a pedal powered
raft..

...d

MartinM said:

David Martin wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

In my garage I have an old seagull outboard motor. This looks sort of
superficially like a Solex. I wonder if something could be done...

Quoted message said:

must be pretty hard to make your own moped these days with the SVA or
whatever it is; all home made vehicles have to pass a safety case AIUI.
IIRC one of the couriers DHL or suchlike was going to fit 30cc engines
to a fleet of MTB's; obviously did not realise the effort taken to get
them on the road as motor vehicles.

A long time ago I recall some Japanese guy visiting the Isle of Man TT
motorcycle races. Had started out by fitting lawnmower engines to
pedal bikes, moved into making small commuter motorcycles, and wanted
to move upmarket. Bought a few big British bikes to take back to Japan
to study. How everyone laughed!

His name was Honda :-)
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Chris Malcolm said:

MartinM said:

David Martin wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

In my garage I have an old seagull outboard motor. This looks sort of
superficially like a Solex. I wonder if something could be done...

Quoted message said:

must be pretty hard to make your own moped these days with the SVA or
whatever it is; all home made vehicles have to pass a safety case AIUI.
IIRC one of the couriers DHL or suchlike was going to fit 30cc engines
to a fleet of MTB's; obviously did not realise the effort taken to get
them on the road as motor vehicles.

A long time ago I recall some Japanese guy visiting the Isle of Man TT
motorcycle races. Had started out by fitting lawnmower engines to
pedal bikes, moved into making small commuter motorcycles, and wanted
to move upmarket. Bought a few big British bikes to take back to Japan
to study. How everyone laughed!

His name was Honda :-)

IIRC Suzuki started by literally plucking an East German MZ rider (who
was actually winning the race) off the race track of the Luxembourg GP-
which caused and defecting with him and his bike; they copied the
design and the rest is history.

MartinM said:

IIRC Suzuki started by literally plucking an East German MZ rider (who
was actually winning the race) off the race track of the Luxembourg
GP- which caused and defecting with him and his bike; they copied the
design and the rest is history.

I think they already made motorcycles, but arranging the defection of Ernst
Degner and his bike gave them access to Walter Kaaden's two-stroke exhaust
SCIENCE.

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Whatever it is, I'd like it in mango & passion fruit, please.