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A Moterized Bike or My Baptism in Gasoline
I am the proud owner of a new moterized gas powered bicyle purchased at spookytoothcycles.com. Its called The Querve, its a Green Line mens Cruiser installed with a 48cc gas powered engine. So its esentially a motercycle crossed with a leaf blower. I bought it with great hopes of saving gas and therefore saving the world.
It gets aproximatly150 miles a gallon. It runs on a mixture of 7 ounces of 2-stroke motercycle sythetic oil which cost about $13 for a quart, and a gallon regular gas. I must mix them together then pour them in the little tank which holds 1/2 gallon.
To start the thing I must first climb on, (not an easy feat when I am a very short girl, 5'2, and the bike bar is up to my waist. Thank God I dont want more kids.) Then I have to reach down past my knees to pull out the choke, turn on the gas, hold in the clutch while peddling frantically trying to reach 10 mph when I can let out the clutch which engages the engine then it putts out, then I must hold in the clutch, break and stop, tilt the bike so I dont hurt myself, hop down off the seat, look down to turn off the choke, once again reaching down to my knees, then straighten up, get back on the seat and peddle with all my might then the engine engages and spews forth great clouds of gas fumes and sounds and smells just like a lawn mower. It takes great effort to start the engine initially when it is cold and if I accidentally flood the engine it must completly dry up the excess gas before it will restart. This make take an hour so I am very careful not to miss that only chance I have to start the thing, usually I drag it up a hill to start it initially. Once started it goes up to 35 miles per hour, and to stop it I hold in the cluth and apply the breaks while tilting the bike and trying to get one foot on the floor, but the brakeing mechanism is mostly controlled by God, or fate or whatever. Restarting from a stop isnt too difficult because the engine is warm already, it starts after I peddle to about 15 mph and the ease open the throttle.
The gas gets in my hair, on my face and in my clothes. It never washes off my hands. I could probably drip dry before a shower and get another quater tankfull.
For all the effort it takes me to ride and start and stop and restart this bike I could have easily ridden my mountain bike to my destination in half the time. Also there is the effort to drag the bike through my appartment to my back yard and lock it up several times a day. It weighs exactly twice as much as my beautiful Outlook Diamondback extra small woman's 21 speed mountain bike.
I just dont know about this bike. It is very pretty and the people at Spooky Tooth are cool. Very good purchase experience. I would highly recommend this bike for anyone who wants loves the sweet smell of (saving) gas.
I am the proud owner of a new moterized gas powered bicyle purchased at spookytoothcycles.com. Its called The Querve, its a Green Line mens Cruiser installed with a 48cc gas powered engine. So its esentially a motercycle crossed with a leaf blower. I bought it with great hopes of saving gas and therefore saving the world.
It gets aproximatly150 miles a gallon. It runs on a mixture of 7 ounces of 2-stroke motercycle sythetic oil which cost about $13 for a quart, and a gallon regular gas. I must mix them together then pour them in the little tank which holds 1/2 gallon.
To start the thing I must first climb on, (not an easy feat when I am a very short girl, 5'2, and the bike bar is up to my waist. Thank God I dont want more kids.) Then I have to reach down past my knees to pull out the choke, turn on the gas, hold in the clutch while peddling frantically trying to reach 10 mph when I can let out the clutch which engages the engine then it putts out, then I must hold in the clutch, break and stop, tilt the bike so I dont hurt myself, hop down off the seat, look down to turn off the choke, once again reaching down to my knees, then straighten up, get back on the seat and peddle with all my might then the engine engages and spews forth great clouds of gas fumes and sounds and smells just like a lawn mower. It takes great effort to start the engine initially when it is cold and if I accidentally flood the engine it must completly dry up the excess gas before it will restart. This make take an hour so I am very careful not to miss that only chance I have to start the thing, usually I drag it up a hill to start it initially. Once started it goes up to 35 miles per hour, and to stop it I hold in the cluth and apply the breaks while tilting the bike and trying to get one foot on the floor, but the brakeing mechanism is mostly controlled by God, or fate or whatever. Restarting from a stop isnt too difficult because the engine is warm already, it starts after I peddle to about 15 mph and the ease open the throttle.
The gas gets in my hair, on my face and in my clothes. It never washes off my hands. I could probably drip dry before a shower and get another quater tankfull.
For all the effort it takes me to ride and start and stop and restart this bike I could have easily ridden my mountain bike to my destination in half the time. Also there is the effort to drag the bike through my appartment to my back yard and lock it up several times a day. It weighs exactly twice as much as my beautiful Outlook Diamondback extra small woman's 21 speed mountain bike.
I just dont know about this bike. It is very pretty and the people at Spooky Tooth are cool. Very good purchase experience. I would highly recommend this bike for anyone who wants loves the sweet smell of (saving) gas.
