Motorized Bicycles

From the past

Push-A-Bike

Left = unknown, center = Shaw, Right = Evenrude

Early Cycle-Motor at Davenport 2011

Nordap Hilfsmotor at the Akron Swap Meet 2012.  Owner said he bought it at a thrift store.  I especially liked the gas tank.  Engine cover is on the floor behind the bike.  Made by Velmo, a German company about 1951

by Dick DeBuse

Just finished  this 1952 Schwinn Panther with a 1954 Maw engine Kit from Germany. Technical data.  2 stoke 39.8 bore which makes it a 49 cc & about  1.3 HP, with  a 6 volt ac 3.1 watt  lighting system. This should be the only one in existence that is mounted on a USA Schwinn Bike. The Company, VEB Gauges & valves work KARL MARX / Magdeburg  Germany.

The bike was restored by the well known Evan Hatcher in Rockford, Minnesota

Thanks to Dave Bagne

I just purchased this nice 1949 Vintage Trojan Motorbike  from Bob Wardle in Canada. A little about  the  history of this Mini motor. After ww11, The factories in England  & the rest of Europe were pretty much bombed out or took some time to convert back to civilian production. Building new motorcycles was not a priority at the time. Everyone in the UK had a bike, so the Trojan Company in Croydon designed & marketed a motor you could put on your EXISTING bike, and then you had a motorbike! This motor is part of the early run in 1949. Bob  bought this bike at the age of 14 & now is in his 70s & thus the reason to sell. The bike is a CCM & used a Brass plate on all bikes prior to WW11. If you notice the high flare of the chain guard was to help prevent  the women's skirt from getting tangled in the chain. Engine also has its own 6 volt generator for lighting.

Dave Bagne

Earnshaw Road Arro bike motor 1947

at CA Cushman Club, Anderson, CA 2010

Thanks to Dick DeBuse

1960 Mohs motor bike with West Bend engine, 

Made by Mohs Seaplane Co

Travis Bike Motor

Thanks to Jim Miles, Warsaw, NY

Elgin

Rice Motor

Commando

Go-Byk

Atchison

Buzz-Bee

"Sears Free Spirit motor & Bicycle"

Beautiful 3 speed Schucks Kingston bicycle. The bike is about  

1965 vintage. The Sears motor is exactly like a "Bike Bug"

From the "What is it" page

This looks like a vintage Road-master bicycle which has been equipped with the engine from a 70's or 80's AMF Roadmaster moped. This engine wasn't sold in kit form but has apparently been adapted to an older bicycle by someone handy. The engine itself is a 50cc roller drive unit built by Mcculloch.
Hope this helps, Grey Luckett

On your " Wanted " information page, at the bottom you have listed a " Rice " motor. It is hard to tell exactly from the pix, but I believe that to be an " Ohlsson & Rice." It looks to have been a homemade adoption to the bike. Many of these engines were sold to power different items.  I had a 1 HP Kit, called an Orline, & there are kits called ," Chicken Power." The pix you have looks to possible be a 3/4 hp. Most of these were painted red.

Steve Esteban

Background Curtis P-40 Flying Tiger Squadron,

The Flying Tigers were credited with

Destroying nearly 300 enemy aircraft

while losing only 14 Pilots on combat missions.