Putting the "oh no" into obikes

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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby opik_bidin » Tue Nov 13, 2018 9:04 am

10speedsemiracer wrote:Image
fat tires? thats so ancient, it's time for caterpillar tracks

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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby RetroPilot » Tue Nov 13, 2018 9:05 am

10speedsemiracer wrote:Image

that's definitely a rip-off of the Kettenkrad idea..

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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby 10speedsemiracer » Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:05 am

Years and years ago I jokingly told my (german) father that I would build one of these for him (a half-track mobility scooter) for when he got ancient and/or decrepit, and it would be called the Feldwebel which is the german military equivalent of Sergeant although translates literally as 'field usher ....

Was never feasible as my welding skills are ...'inelegant'.
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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby PA » Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:01 pm

Friend told me he used to work with a person who lost his licence so he got a ride on mower, fitted a more powerful engine to it and drove that to work.
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Postby 10speedsemiracer » Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:40 pm

PA wrote:Friend told me he used to work with a person who lost his licence so he got a ride on mower, fitted a more powerful engine to it and drove that to work.
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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby find_bruce » Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:05 pm

PA wrote:Friend told me he used to work with a person who lost his licence so he got a ride on mower, fitted a more powerful engine to it and drove that to work.
Only 2 problems (1) the easy performance upgrade for a ride on mower is to remove both drive & blade belts & fit a larger drive belt that runs off the blade cog - I easily won a lawn mower race with this subtle mod (2) its still a motor vehicle, which means he can look forward to adding driving unregistered & unlicenced to his list of offences, both of which will extend the period of disqualification.

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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby RetroPilot » Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:29 pm

no, in no way did I believe that you could dodge much by just putting a ride-on mower on the road..and I think attempts to do so were actually already unoriginal before that example cited.

Think I've seen galahs caught doing it on vic/NSW police reality shows...they don't just wear that.

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ABC reports charges laid on boat-towing-mobility-scooter.

Postby Thoglette » Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:49 pm

human909 wrote:(I'm sure the police will try to pin something on him and probably succeed.
Charges for disqualified driver who allegedly used mobility scooter to tow boat
ABC News wrote: The 35-year-old now faces charges of driving whilst disqualified, using an unregistered vehicle on the road, using an uninsured vehicle on the road, and using an unregistered trailer on the road.

At the time of the incident the man told the media he had wanted to go fishing, but could not drive a car, because he had lost his licence
Should have registered that trailer. The rest sound "arguable" (read the rest of the article)
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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby Ivanerrol » Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:53 pm

RetroPilot wrote:I'd like to see what grade of hill it can manage 20kmh on..
If you care to go to the Melbourne CBD you can see plenty of those Asian delivery electric cycles zooming up hills in excess of 25kmh - without pedaling.

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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby 10speedsemiracer » Wed Nov 14, 2018 9:27 pm

Ivanerrol wrote:
RetroPilot wrote:I'd like to see what grade of hill it can manage 20kmh on..
If you care to go to the Melbourne CBD you can see plenty of those Asian delivery electric cycles zooming up hills in excess of 25kmh - without pedaling.
Yep, these are what I think of when people discuss e-bikes. Came out of 600 Bourke, almost got mowed down by a kamikaze pizza boy on his silent whatever it was..
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Postby AUbicycles » Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:06 am

Zu befehl Herr Feldzwiebel!
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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby 10speedsemiracer » Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:14 am

Wondering how long it will be until these get cannibalized and chopped up for their driveline...

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which seems to already be the case in some overseas locations.

Maybe not call it a Lime if you don't want it sliced up... :lol:
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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby Calvin27 » Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:47 am

10speedsemiracer wrote:Wondering how long it will be until these get cannibalized and chopped up for their driveline...
I'm going to do the legitimate thing and wait for them to come up for sale. What ever happened to the obikes? I really wanted to grab 4 and make a franken car bike for kicks.
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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby 10speedsemiracer » Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:50 am

Calvin27 wrote:
10speedsemiracer wrote:Wondering how long it will be until these get cannibalized and chopped up for their driveline...
I'm going to do the legitimate thing and wait for them to come up for sale. What ever happened to the obikes? I really wanted to grab 4 and make a franken car bike for kicks.
Think most of them are in various tips..
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Postby Cheesewheel » Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:09 pm

https://amp.brisbanetimes.com.au/politi ... 50g1f.html

Putting the "Blimey!" into Lime scooters?

Electric scooter share system due to be rolled out in Brisbane, to the accolade of state and local pollies ... only catch is that using them on the road or footpath could make you liable for a $250-$10 000 fine.
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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby Calvin27 » Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:17 pm

10speedsemiracer wrote: Think most of them are in various tips..
Aw man, if I knew they were just going to chuck them - I might as well have just nicked a few.
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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby Bunged Knee » Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:52 pm

Does they need Lime juicers to recharge the bikes/scooters???
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ID please? What ID? My seat tube ID is 27.2mm or 31.6mm depending on what bikes I ride today.thanks...

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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby 10speedsemiracer » Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:55 pm

Bunged Knee wrote:Does they need Lime juicers to recharge the bikes/scooters???
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Re: ABC reports charges laid on boat-towing-mobility-scooter.

Postby human909 » Thu Nov 15, 2018 2:04 pm

Thoglette wrote:Should have registered that trailer. The rest sound "arguable" (read the rest of the article)
Or completely homebuilt a trailer specifically for his mobility scooter!

I hadn't gone through NSW initially but here is the relevenet bit:

trailer means a vehicle that:
(a) is built to be towed, or is towed, by a motor vehicle, and
(b) is not capable of being propelled in the course of normal use on roads or road
related areas without being towed by a motor vehicle, whether or not its movement is aided by some other power source

So trailers purpose built for mobility scooters, or bicycles, or horses are fine....

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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby Bunged Knee » Thu Nov 15, 2018 2:20 pm

10speedsemiracer wrote:
Bunged Knee wrote:Does they need Lime juicers to recharge the bikes/scooters???
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:lol:
It`s not funny of too much work out of one arm........
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ID please? What ID? My seat tube ID is 27.2mm or 31.6mm depending on what bikes I ride today.thanks...

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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby mikesbytes » Thu Nov 15, 2018 5:27 pm

I've seen quite a few lime bikes being ridden, it seems to of picked up where the other have left off..... so far

And ebikes put less CO2 into the atmosphere than motor vehicles
If the R-1 rule is broken, what happens to N+1?

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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby mikesbytes » Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:10 pm

The scooters have been give the green light for Brisbane

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation ... 1542272775
If the R-1 rule is broken, what happens to N+1?

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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby Ivanerrol » Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:35 pm

10speedsemiracer wrote:
Calvin27 wrote:
10speedsemiracer wrote:Wondering how long it will be until these get cannibalized and chopped up for their driveline...
I'm going to do the legitimate thing and wait for them to come up for sale. What ever happened to the obikes? I really wanted to grab 4 and make a franken car bike for kicks.
Think most of them are in various tips..
There's a couple of O Bikes in the Moonee Ponds Creek downstream from Macaulay Road. I noticed someone had fished them out last week.
However someone else through them in again.

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Re: Putting the "oh no" into obikes

Postby 10speedsemiracer » Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:47 pm

Ivanerrol wrote:
10speedsemiracer wrote:
Calvin27 wrote:
I'm going to do the legitimate thing and wait for them to come up for sale. What ever happened to the obikes? I really wanted to grab 4 and make a franken car bike for kicks.
Think most of them are in various tips..
There's a couple of O Bikes in the Moonee Ponds Creek downstream from Macaulay Road. I noticed someone had fished them out last week.
However someone else through them in again.
true recycling :lol:
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