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Old 07-07-2010, 12:27 AM   #47 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NiHaoMike View Post
If it had pedals, it would be a hybrid, not pure electric. I think the problem with trying to add pedals is the drive connection, since it must fold up. Regular chains won't work because of that.
In German, a "bike" would be a fahrrad. Actually the Germans don't really have a word that corresponds directly to the concept of a two-wheeled cycle the way the French do (bicyclette or velo) from which we get our words bicycle and velocipede.

Well, if my grandmother had wheels, maybe she'd be a BUS, eh?.

Time for the Volkswagen Krauts to get out of their engineering lab and get on a real bike.
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