A motorized bike is, as the name suggests, a bike with a motor attached to it. The features and the benefits of a motorized bike can be stated as follows:
- The first motorized bike was invented in the year 1868 and was known as the Michaux-Perreaux Steam Velocipede. The name of the bike came from two French inventors known as Pierre Michaux and Louis-Guillaume Perreaux.
- There are both pedals as well as motorized engines placed on the bike. This ensures that the user can use both these facilities and use the bike to its optimum.
- The motor of the bike can be easily charged when the bike is not being used by the user. The motor is quite small which makes it portable to carry around and charge it as and when required.
- Electricity is only one aspect of the source of power supply for the bike's motor.
- The motorized bike was in fact the foundation on which the modern motorbikes have emerged.
- A motorized bike does not require any special classification, but owing to the purposes of licensing it is categorized as being a Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) or as a motorcycle or moped.
- HEVs are those types of vehicles that have more than one source of power supply. In the case of motorized bikes, the power supply to run the gadget comes from both - the pedals as well as the motor fixed to the front of the bike.
There are various companies that build motorized bikes. One famous name that stands out is that of the Electric Bicycle Co. based in Australia. The company was set-up in 1995 and in the years following has established itself as the largest manufacturer and distributor of cycles in the nation.
The company's designs are unique and are created in factories based in two Chinese cities -Nanjing and Tianjin and they are then imported back to be sold to the final customers. This long and lengthy channel of the building process shows the amount of time invested by the company into planning and actualizing its products into a complete client success.
The Electric Bicycle Co. is just one name when it comes to Motorized bikes, but there are many others that are spread all across the world just to provide users with their own unique two-in-one, two wheeler.