ENV Bikes...

[roguegeek]

With everyone bickering in the Oil Production thread, I couldn't help but remember this article I read last week. You can find more information at the ENV main site and find more pics here.

[Cal Price]

Hey Man, that's not bickering, that's informed debate. Unless of course you disagree with someone, then they are a total prat and it's bickering.    :dunno:

[jake42]

i love the term prat.

i would also like one of those bikes to commute to work.
i could cut through the bike trails at the park.

jake

[ajgs500]

Cal, joe's responses are never informed............ unless you consider sticking your head up a monkey's butt informed.

[oppy00]

That little ENV bike is kick-ass!  That would be the perfect vehicle here in Statesboro (small college town).  As long as it will do 50 consitently and without too much trouble.  Not to mention I could park it like it is a bicycle and tell the campus parking nazis to piss-off!  

The only problem I see with it is where do I refuel it, not too many hydrogen stations here in south GA.

[yamahonkawazuki]

[Cal Price]

oppy00, yeh it looks a good "in-town, speed limit vehicle" until it becomes viable there are a million and one scooters or 125 cc "propper" motorbikes.

When I came back after a huge break in motorcycling I bought a Honda CG125, 100mpg, 100kph (63mph) and the lowest rate of vehicle tax. As "town" or plain cheap transport any of the mainstream 125s or their very cheap clones want some beating.

[jake42]

i totally agree.  I wonder if the smaller bikes and scooters will make a comeback as gas prices continue to rise.  It took me 7.50 to fill up the GS the other day and I'll get 105 miles to reserve on that.  It's tiime to get myself a moped.  I'd be so psyched if the motorcycle companies started producing smaller scale bikes that actually looked good, like this http://www.bikez.com/motorcycles/hyosung_gt_125_naked_2005.php


I would buy one of these to shoot around town on, especially if it got 70-80mpg.

Jake

[Cal Price]

Jake, the town where I live has bike parking bays all over, usually take 6/8 bikes very often I can't park in one because of 50cc & 125cc scotters and bikes just like the one you illustrated, there are probably 50 125 UK "learner-legal" bikes like that on the market, most will do 100mpg. (UK gallon) they tend to be great fun to ride as well.

[jake42]

Cal,

I love the little bikes.  A lot of my riding these days is simply commuting back and forth to work.  A little bike would be a blast. Before the GS I had a 1967 Yamaha CS1 (still have it actually) and that bike is blast to commute on.  It's on the Wall of Fame somewhere.

Jake

[Cal Price]

Yes me too Jake, my Honda CG125 was a fun bike and probably the cheapest transport around. There are a huge number available here because of our learner laws, 16-17 yrs olds 50cc only 17 upwards 125cc untill you pass the test. The only way around that is to go "direct acess" on a 500cc bike but you have to be "radio controlled" by an instructor all the time you are riding, it is possible to do it in a week, first day CBT, compulsory basic training that everyone has to do on a 125cc then two or three days instruction max two pupils per instructor then the dreaded test. This can be quite expensive especially spring-summer. (I did mine in December)
Alternativley you can do the CBT and ride around for two years on a 125cc then after two years if you have not passed your test back to CBT. You can see why the 125s are popular.

[jake42]

Cal,
I know and I think those laws are great.  I'd like to do a comparison study between injury and fatality rates in the UK and here in America.  I'm sure it wouldn't change anything here, but it'd be worth the try, plus GW just signed a huge $286 billion transportation bill so the grant money is out there right now.

Jake