New laws for road users?
The law will have to be changed in the light of recent events, were a man who killed a pedestrian on a bike with no breaks got off with it? Currently there many other forms of people powered transport on our roads and pavements, such as skate boards?
Collision meant or not will continue to be a problem, when people continue to give up on the right of way and yet expect to covered by Insurance and others laws that do not exist?
With the many new ideas of two wheel travel none of them are as safe, despite in some cases being viable in airports and factories for inspections?
The Bicycle still is up there as King!
Showing posts with label bicycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bicycle. Show all posts
Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
The Motorbike. One.
A passion on two wheels!
The Motorbike has an interesting history and has been around over 100 years, its first hey day was perhaps World War-I (1914-18), when it was devised for dispatch riding and went on twenty-five years later to be an invaluable tool in military intelligence.
The concept was to motorise the bicycle and many original ideas are actually being re-invented today as we move into battery power over that of petrol. Racing bikes did develop better motorbikes between 1919-1939, but there was a plethora of makers, who took up their tooling after 1945.
Apart from the famous names of today Britain was one of the worlds leading producers and much of the 1950's technology went out to India, while the United States is most famous for the Harley. The motorbike of rockers and Hells Angel's chapters, or the road riders of many great motion movies.
The Motorbike has an interesting history and has been around over 100 years, its first hey day was perhaps World War-I (1914-18), when it was devised for dispatch riding and went on twenty-five years later to be an invaluable tool in military intelligence.
The concept was to motorise the bicycle and many original ideas are actually being re-invented today as we move into battery power over that of petrol. Racing bikes did develop better motorbikes between 1919-1939, but there was a plethora of makers, who took up their tooling after 1945.
Apart from the famous names of today Britain was one of the worlds leading producers and much of the 1950's technology went out to India, while the United States is most famous for the Harley. The motorbike of rockers and Hells Angel's chapters, or the road riders of many great motion movies.
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
The Motorbike. Part-One.
The engined Bicycle.
With the advent of the petrol engine, some bright spark was able to combine the two. It is kind of ironic when you think it was two bicycle makers, the Wright brothers who flew the first aeroplane in 1908.
Gottlieb Daimler was the first to try in 1880 and by 1895 he was in production with the Einspur 265cc. Prior to the petrol engine were steam powered bikes by a Frenchman Michaux-Perreaux Velocipede from 1869, but by now this concept was abandoned.
The powered cycle format that we toady know for both the bicycle and motorbike was adopted in 1869, but the bicycle funny enough continues to change shapes, until the 20th century.
With the advent of the petrol engine, some bright spark was able to combine the two. It is kind of ironic when you think it was two bicycle makers, the Wright brothers who flew the first aeroplane in 1908.
Gottlieb Daimler was the first to try in 1880 and by 1895 he was in production with the Einspur 265cc. Prior to the petrol engine were steam powered bikes by a Frenchman Michaux-Perreaux Velocipede from 1869, but by now this concept was abandoned.
The powered cycle format that we toady know for both the bicycle and motorbike was adopted in 1869, but the bicycle funny enough continues to change shapes, until the 20th century.
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