When I and my family hop over to visit Pulau Ketam, I was surprised to see a few modes of transport which never seen on our mainland
Namely:

i) Gas-Powered Bicycle, Be It Gasoline Powered (Powered by a small, grass-cutter engine) or Electrically Powered.


Source: Toyota Automobile Museum, Japan

The ones that I've seen it running around Pulau Ketam, is directly mounted onto rear wheels, and you can still opt to cycle. If only they installed gears,like a regular mountain bike, then it'll be cool, a engine with simple "CVT-like" gearings.

I wonder how is the Fuel Consumption like!
Price? I think around close to RM 2,000 since I see most advertised,gasoline bikes in US (and Ebays) are from US$400-500. No roadtax required and excellent fuel consumption!

ii) Motorized Motorbike, powered by Electric motors, it's very quiet (No sound at all) and smooth. I saw the brand name, and it sounds like a "Made-in-China" bikes. Not those NAZA or local bikes.



I wonder where these villagers get these bikes. I read once that a company tried to sell Motorbikes powered by Electric Motors, but sadly the motorbike is banned by our Ministry of Transport. Though I agree with them that it is slower than a regular 100CC motorbike, but its much more economical and enviromental friendly.

Articles I would like to share:
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This post has been edited by pcdoctor_my: Feb 13 2007, 02:36 PM

but i heard they going to banned any motorcycle even using electric motor... not sure will they banned the bicycle with engine or not..

all this just the APs issue....

AP Issues? Whats gotta do with them? It's just motorcycles and bicycles, not sports cars and performance cars.

This post has been edited by pcdoctor_my: Feb 13 2007, 04:39 PM

haih..
politicians never do anything according to our logic my fren..
who the heck knows
whats going on inside rafidah's head right now..

I think because it's too quiet. There was this Hydrogen powered motorcycle that was going to be put into production but they had to sort out the noise "problems" before they can put it into production. They have to put an artificial engine sound or something.