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Originally Posted by dcb
Virtually no bicycles are made serial because it is inefficient, and the consumers are sure to notice.
I think james is only defending the idea because he mistakenly thinks his insight is serial 
(see: thread of mass-confusion)
As you can see it is parallel, the engine is physically connected to the wheels:
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Opps I goofed. However the small engine was physically connected to the wheels, but I do not recall a battery.
All I did was take a moped motor that sat directly on the front tire and made it turn and put the engine on a large back tire of a 27 inch frame lightweight bike. The moped did 17mph before I jumped a ramp and broke it. My modified 27 inch ten speed went almost 40 MPH with the same motor on the rear tire, BUT after ten minutes it would always blow the rear tire out because they were so thin. - I was only 13. But it sure was fun cruising around at 40 mph on a bike without peddling and getting somewhere well over 200 MPG (the moped was said to got 212 MPG).