Are these things amazing, or what? I built a motobike when I was a teen-ager, but it never occurred to me to kustomize the frame first. It also never occurred to me to use a tiny motor on it. Noooo! I used a Briggs and Stratton mounted to a big hunk of steel plate I got JoJo, down at the auto garage, to weld to the frame, badly. There is no comparison to most motobikes. People go absolutely nuts when they see these things. I got an E-mail from Ken, concerning a recent outing he and his sons took. I reprint it here, for your edification:
"We took a trip to Seaside, Oregon yesterday and were a big hit with three of our gas-powered bikes; SOLD FOUR BIKES!!!! All we did was ride down the boardwalk
and were inundated with people wanting info on our bikes. One of the guys was a bike mechanic for a rental firm there at the beach, he bought my bike right out from under me... His boss came along and saw the bikes, and that his mechanic had bought one and ordered two more for rentals!! Then the mechanic said to start another bike for him to give to his wife, Wow!
We had one hell of a day, and we were only there for about two hours. Every place we
drove the bikes, we drew a crowd that were asking questions about them, it was
FANTASTIC!! Everybody loved them.. I can't wait to go back in two weeks to deliver
the bikes we sold!"
And then the story gets strange...Within a few weeks,
I received another E-message from Ken Russell, even more joyous than this one. It seems
that they'd been contacted by
an Asian corporation wanting
to manufacture motos like these,
from the Russell's designs.
Crediting the exposure in BR&K
for their good fortune, Ken told
me I could expect a large box
around Christmas-time, when
production was due to be under way. That was the last I ever heard from ReeCycles. E-messages bounced back,
their business phone was disconnected, and they seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. Very strange, eh? I keep
hoping to hear something, but
it's been over a year, now. I hope they're somewhere in Asia, living like royalty. But would be nice to know for sure. If anyone knows anything, would you please let
us know?
Jim Wilson
10/10/2000
