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Motorised Bicycles.

  • 16-07-2014 6:48pm
    #1
    kneemos
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    Probably been done but what's the story regarding regulations on those motorised bikes?
    Saw a young fellow earlier must have been doing 45-50kph I'd estimate,whatever about falling off the stopping ability of these things must be severely hampered.
    Had the impression if it had an engine a helmet was compulsory but it seems not.


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  • #2
    HurtLocker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 655 ✭✭✭HurtLocker


    kneemos wrote: »
    Probably been done but what's the story regarding regulations on those motorised bikes?
    Saw a young fellow earlier must have been doing 45-50kph I'd estimate,whatever about falling off the stopping ability of these things must be severely hampered.
    Had the impression if it had an engine a helmet was compulsory but it seems not.

    I remember looking into one of these might do it next month. My belief last year was when I researched was that if the bike had peddles it was classified as a motor assisted bicycle


  • #3
    Zyzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    How do you know it was a motorised bicycle?

    Ive seen a bike around Dublin with a full blown scooter engine hooked up to it, as far as Im aware anything above 25kph (engine output) needs a licence!


  • #4
    kneemos
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    Zyzz wrote: »
    How do you know it was a motorised bicycle?

    Ive seen a bike around Dublin with a full blown scooter engine hooked up to it, as far as Im aware anything above 25kph (engine output) needs a licence!

    It was a bicycle with an engine.
    You can get conversion kits I think,though one or two of them I've seen looked factory made.


  • #5
    BadCharlie
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    Saw a guy this week on a mountain bike with some sort of engine on it. Looked like a guy in his 50's maybe older. No helmet .


  • #6
    murray.eoghan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭murray.eoghan


    do you mean electric or fossil fuel ?


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  • #7
    HurtLocker
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    murray.eoghan wrote: »
    do you mean electric or fossil fuel ?

    I presume petrol. You can buy little engines to attach to conventional bikes.


  • #8
    murray.eoghan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭murray.eoghan


    HurtLocker wrote: »
    I presume petrol. You can buy little engines to attach to conventional bikes.

    probably, i have seen a fellow on a hybrid bike and he is always gunning it down the road but the guards don't mind him


  • #9
    kneemos
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    murray.eoghan wrote: »
    do you mean electric or fossil fuel ?


    Scuttery sounding petrol engines,two stroke presumably.


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