Showing posts with label cycles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cycles. Show all posts

Thursday, 24 April 2014

Simple Machines.

Bicycles.

Human achievement has to summed up in this one machine, because it can almost go on any land surface and has also been adapted for the microlight.

There are some really clever concepts or takes, but what they lack is a seat as the bike has. Solar power, if the machine can be dual powered will be a great leap forward.  A machine for the people, easy to repare and maintain.

Two, three wheels, tandems, racing, and a few more versions now exist and that seems to be the end of the human capability with this simple machine?

It is strange that no one as yet has thought outside the box with the bicycle?

Friday, 11 May 2012

Motorbikes...

Cycles


When we put the engine on the bicycle man invented the motor bike and with it came the horse on two wheels.


This form of transport came into its own right from the day it was conceived, as a messenger service vehicle. But today it is used by courier services, the police and paramedics. 


In the so-called third world the Rickshaw has been motorised to great effect as a little road vehicle. Many businesses have stemmed from this conversion.


There have been additions apart from the trike, there is also the fitted side cars, which I am now told are luxury compared to the old days. 


Sport has seen these machines improve into super everything and why not.


Triumph, Honda, Suzuki, BMW, Harley-Davidson, Kawasaki, Laverda,  Neval, Yamaha, Piaggio, Norton.