New South Wales Australia.Thank you.Good bye.No more motorised bikes in NSW.

Stink Bike

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As of the 1st of October 2014 all petrol powered bicycles are banned in New South Wales Australia.
This makes me so sad.I have been riding my bikes since 2008 & now it all over.
It has been such fun & a fantastic mode of transport.
I am trying to figure out how to put a petrol powered generator on a bicycle & use that to power an electric bike but until that time I'm off the road.
Good bye & thank you for the fish.
 
Again the situation arises, whereby responsible citizens are being made responsible for someone else's idiotic actions; by slapping a ban on all those people who never caused anyone any harm with the use of their motorised bicycle.

Not f*#king fair.
 
I hope you don't just roll over, that's how things get too far with gov insanity.Sounds like a combo of a civil-disobedience and mother-of-invention open door.Come up with an intake and exhaust silencer fairing (rack mount only for stealth) to make/hide a RS-EH035 or multi geared 025.I believe headsmess stated they already thought of the generator powered by petrol, they mean no petrol ANYTHING on a bicycle.Moronic gov there, how hard is it to leave AU?
 
things get too far with gov insanity [they...] mean no petrol ANYTHING on a bicycle.Moronic gov there, how hard is it to leave AU?

That's been going over and over in my mind for the last 2 years, and it's not just me, for i spoke to a person (who is a permanent resident in Thailand) coming back to Australia to visit his family (usually twice a year).
It was an interesting conversation because he had a solid business in Australia and the government was just killing him with red tape and crushing; never ending bureaucracy. He looked for other investment/business options and pulled out of Australia to become a Thai national, and has subsequently has torn up his Australian citizenship.

Over there, so long as you are not hurting anyone else, you have significantly more personal freedom than in Australia, or America for that matter.

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i really like how theyll be raising the toll on one particular , privately owned motorway. not just a small, 10c increase.

a whopping 100% increase! doubled. just like that. and people pay to just ,literally, sit there. it doesnt flow. 100km/h? lucky to get 40...

thats 6.30 a car. and 18.80 for trucks!

plus the fees you get charged if you dont own a little electronic money burner ie, the "etag"...

how the freak can a road be "privately owned"? what the %$^ is with that?

we just sit back and take it.
 
Are electrics legal in NSW? You know some of those electrics you don't even know they're electric unless your up close to them. Motors in the hub and the batt is hidden in the frame or............... That might be the answer, just make sure you look like your pedaling.
 
oh, electrics legal . still the same nonsensical power limits.

still the same restricted range... at least with petrol you can fill up virtually anywhere, instantly!

takes all the fun of it, sounding like a cordless screwdriver :giggle:
 
Electric bikes are a useless alternative with the current state of battery technology/capacity, not to mention the expensive cost of decent lithium batteries, and then comes the biggest issue: stuck in the middle of nowhere and you run out of battery power. You manage to find a homestead but they only have a 12 volt car battery charger and 2-stroke fuel.

so

a battery powered bicycle is completely useless, unless battery technology equals the energy density of liquid fuel for the same volume size of a specific quantity of liquid fuel, and, the speed of recharging the battery in the same time it takes to fill a fuel tank that normally contains liquid hydrocarbon fuel.
 
Fear not HeadSmess, you don't have to stop riding your motorised bicycle, for this device will replicate the road riding experience, not to mention gearing the bike to do 70 mph !!!


 
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With electric no one can tell how powerful they are unless they're an engineer. If it was electric or nuttin I'd choose electric instead of pedaling. Some how carrying an extra batt for range might be the answer.
 
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